please remove the AI sentence before the questions in your post

nope, Pixel supports it for example

“privacy friendly” and “free cloud storage” are oxymorons. If you aren’t paying for a product, you ARE the product

it’s quite modular. I would argue that each individual component does follow that ethos

if you’ve ever used one then you know that that is indeed it

it is unusable

nice comparison but hilarious to call AOSP not FOSS but the other ones somehow FOSS. do they know where the other ones come from?

I’m glad it works for you, but this would not work at my company. We have much stricter network controls

Yeah, go ahead and install your own Linux distro. Now you can’t authenticate to the internal network or use any of the services.

At the end of the day, corporate being able to manage Linux is what makes it possible to be used in an enterprise environment. There are regulatory and auditing requirements that would otherwise make Linux not an option.

Many of us find ourselves to be more effective on Linux. There is some business requirement in terms of the service runs on Linux, but they didn’t have to let people have it on their personal workstations

that’s not true if it’s company managed

I would say service based

yeah this isn’t necessarily true. I work at a large company and run Linux full time.

they are not all the same.

we even have dedicated Linux IT

no! there is GSConnect which is a gnome extension that provides the protocol as well

Second Valetudo. I’ve used it for years now on a Dreame L10 Pro. Thinking about upgrading to something with mopping capabilities but Valetudo support is a requirement for me from now on!

it’s not hard, I’ve done it

We might have to agree to disagree here. I’m not even sure politicians are paid unreasonably well imo.

But I guess my main thing is that I don’t believe perfection is attainable. All we can do is get close enough. We’re definitely not there yet, but I think we gotta keep taking steps in the right direction

I know you mean this well, but the solution for “bad” is not usually “worse”

This is how you get intense corruption

that would literally defeat the entire purpose of the AUR

You can still use the lemmy-ui frontend on lemdro.id, it’s just at l.lemdro.id and not the default. You’ve got all the choice in the world still.

I’m a big fan of people being opinionated about things. If you want something a certain way, do it! That’s the beauty of the fediverse and open source in general. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to use my instance!

In-general, we work closely with the photon dev to maintain feature parity with the default frontend, and we also get some neat and useful moderation features too.