No matter who gets elected President in 2020, we are in for Big Government.
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If you have trouble remembering what you ate for supper last night, it wasn’t epic.
Sorting Out the Democrats for President
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e Foundation to Release OS on Refurbished Phones
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Fixing the turn signals on my 2010 Ford Transit Connect is going to cost US $1200.00 because Ford does not make sub-parts for the entire headlight turn signal assembly must be replaced. Good enginnering Ford.
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At current count, it’s going to take 20 minutes just to read the list of Democrats running for President on the 2020 primary ballot.
Darling lets you run macOS apps on a Linux computer. (Just like Wine lets you run Windows apps on Linux.)
I signed up for the [Librem One] privacy apps suite. Mainly I wanted a VPN, the Social and Chat apps don’t really interest me. My remarks are about the iOS apps.
- “Tunnel” the VPN works just fine. Simple to use.
- Email - for iOS there is no app like for Android. You just set up the email address in iOS Mail like you would any other email account.
- Social - works well with my Mastodon account. Looks like you can use it on more than one instance.
- Chat - frankly I have not looked at it and I doubt I will use it. I couldn’t get my friends to try Telegram so I have no chance of getting them to try Librem One. SMS is good enough for me.
What I’d like to see is a cloud file storage app, contacts, etc.
My rule for setting up new phones: keep apps to an absolute minimum of what I actually use. And substiute browser based web apps wherever possible (ie Twitter, Youtube etc.)
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IPhone face recognition does not like me wearing a hat. This is going to be a problem.
Gmail’s automated spam-filtering is making it much harder to run an independent mail-server Boing Boing
e Foundation's Eco-System to De-Google Your Life
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