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Peace is not a static state. Our society is not static, hence opinions and schools of thought change and flow.

It's not hard to find countries at peace where intolerance speach has been on the rise, often replacing tolerant and peace leaning and peace loving regimes.

It was a passive tolerance that allowed for such intolerant currents to rise, currents that are now doing their best to drown the previous.

I'm remembering the need to repel intolerance by pulling its ideas out in the open, pull it apart and dismantle it, in a context of peace. I am not advocating for violence. What I am advocating for is the need to use the necessary force to snuff out intolerance.

A broken clock can be right twice a day. Unless someone keeps playing with the dials.

As a former user, and an hardcore fanboy, I loved MS and Windows. They made computers accessible for the general public. The OS and the office suite were great. The sheer amount of available software for it was phenomenal. They even decided to publish games, which meant quality!

Until they decided to break things.

XP was a great OS, Vista wasn't. Then 7 was back to being good just for 8 to be not as good. Then Cortana and Edge and the push for cloud computing.

What worked, worked well and was actually useful was changed, removed, phased out...

GNU/Linux is not without its dramas and difficulties but we can expect a good degree of continuity between each version of a software (I'm looking a you, Gnome!). And if we're that hell bent on having that specific specific piece of software or OS setup, well, we can.

MS by contrast just chucks the good things out and doesn't even let them floating around as something users may add to their system.

Does someone remembers the PowerToys collection?

It's intriguing how everyone that views themselves as moderates/liberals forget (or are unacquainted with it) about the paradox of tolerance.

Tolerance implies everyone has a right to express their ideas and you want that. You want everything out in the open, so you can pick at it, dismantle it and render it pitiful, ridiculous and useless.

You want the intolerant crying out loud that you are intolerant as that means you are doing the right thing. The intolerant want silence, forced, while the tolerant want noise, anger, tension.

Remember that anything worthwhile needs to be fought for. Don't regret being vocal and harsh towards intolerance.

Yet it refuses to die.

If you search the web you're bound to find what I'm about to broach over but humans are pretty much the real life orcs, if we think about it.

We tolerate serious injuries - even losing limbs - heal at a crazy speed and still remain functional, tolerate foods that other animals consider toxic and as predators we don't get tired and because of that we evolved an entirely new form of predation called stalking strategy, where we can just give chase to prey until they just fall from exhaustion, as our walking is incredibly low on energy consumption and our complex brain allows us to learn patterns on how and where prey are and behave.

As a species we're pretty scary.

Works fine for me.

My brain imagined someone taking pot shots at an old, abandoned, empty building while shouting obsceneties.

Oukitel WP8 Pro

It has an MT6762D CPU, with 4GB RAM.

And now I'm doubting for how long I've had it, has the last update for the Android 10 it runs is from 2020 and I can remember updating it, for sure.

I doubt I can get that to run on my phone. Being a minor brand, it is as if it doesn't exist.

I've used so called entry level phones my entire life; I can't motivate myself to spend the amount a Fair Phone costs, although the concept is appealing and regardless the geek in me going nuts with the idea of tinkering with my phone as I do with my computer. I also prefer rugged phones, which is something most brands don't cater to.

My current phone is an Oukitel and has already passed the three year mark, still more than enough for my needs, in great part thanks to my option to run FOSS whenever possible.

Not really.

Fdroid is a secure repositorie and the applications are reviewed before being made available for end users.

The repository is also highly focused on privacy and security and will warn if applications have security flaws or depend on non free services.

As an example, I use NewPipe instead of the standard YT app and it has a warning it depends on non-free services.

One other example I can give is Librera. It's a very feature rich ebook/pdf/etc reader. At some point, a security flaw was discovered and the app was instantly flagged has having such problems and users were advised to not install it.