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  • tabular@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlFedora OBS Drama Resolved
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    20 days ago

    Has a software update ever changed something in a way you dislike? When it’s proprietary software your choices are to:

    • tolerate the anti-feature
    • downgrade and keep using an older version instead (if feasible also has demerits)
    • hope someone reverse engineers a work-around
    • stop using the software

    When the software is free (libre) then a communities can change it (e.g. removing an anti-feature) via the source code.

    Sadly it’s not enough to simply “then don’t use it” - proprietary software proliferates society (interacting socially, with the government, with banks, etc). Since it’s better to be in control of your own computing anyway then might as well promote the values of software freedom.







  • I came from a ~10 year old phone so FF5 was a big upgrade. Battery lasts the work day (may go from 80% to ~50% or ~30% mostly playing bluetooth audio for like 4 hours on and off). Fairphone uses some industrial chip instead of a mobile one - so it uses more power but they say it can get much longer updates than other phones. I usually have the screen set to 60Hz to save power, but a cheeky 120Hz session feels great. One bug is I can’t charge it in power save mode.

    I got standard Android but replaced the proprietary store/apps (updates still requires Google Pain Store). I planned to try out an Android fork later but that’s was not as easy as I had naively thought. [Requires an SDK binary that come with non-free license and 3rd party guides to build it myself were rather dead].

    I not aware it could run non-android OS - do you have exp installing a Linux phone OS? How did you find that? I’ll have to look into FF5 compatibility.