You sweet summer child. That market is less than 0.1% of the total smartphone market and its continued existence is against the wishes of the oligopoly. Where there’s money, there is a way, but the money is working against us.

This is only relevant as long as someone is selling hardware with an unlockable bootloader. The scenario where that isn’t the case in a few years is unfortunately realistic.

The reason is simple: all the main symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder involve behavior which is harmful to others.

In this, it is different from most forms of neurodivergence. Like psychopathy, it is a kind of antisocial personality disorder, in the sense that people who have it are harmful to society. Autism, ADHD, bipolar, BPD and even schizophrenia do not necessarily cause the sufferer to become harmful to others - in fact, the person afflicted with these conditions often harms themselves on an attempt not to inconvenience others, and only harms others unintentionally, while the narcissist does so intentionally and deliberately. People don’t demonize narcissists. Narcissism demonizes narcissists, and people recognize that.

If you follow the official guide, you can install base Arch in 20 minutes tops. Pulling the metapackage for a DE like KDE, Xfce or GNOME is just a single command after that, and at that point you’ve got a perfectly functional desktop. Everything after that is customization. It does not take “several hours” to set up.

Serious answer? It’s a meme distro seemingly maintained by a single person, so the odds of the project being abandoned and you having to migrate in the very near future are extremely large. Better to stick to one of the bigger distros unless you have good reasons to choose a smaller one specifically.

Plus, if you had two-day battery life, when the battery inevitably degrades, you’ll still have solid battery life.

But the companies want you to buy a new phone when the battery degrades.

Didn’t think so.

Do you know the difference between “says” and “asks”?

Are you having a seizure?

Now you’re just repeating your idiocy. Are you a politician?

There you go again, not thinking before commenting. It just makes you say stupid things.

You should consider thinking about what people say before responding. It will probably lead to improved understanding and more relevant replies on your part.

And several of them are here ITT saying that the browser is sketchy.

The company was founded and is headed by a homophobic anti-vaxxer. Plus, the browser is not secure and has been involved in several controversies in the oast for things like selling user data and running a crypto scam.

The sea is not “a salt brine in itself”. You need a much higher salt concentration to pickle anything than what you find at any point in the ocean. Enough to prevent microbial life forms from surviving and consuming whatever it is you’re trying to pickle, which is why it doesn’t rot while pickling.

uBlock Origin works in Firefox for me. No ads on YT.

You talk as though closed-source developers reviewed all the upstream code. The exact same problem exists with closed-source, except there isn’t even the possibility of reviewing all the code if you want to. At worst, the lack of review in FOSS projects is on par with closed-source projects. At best, it’s a much smaller problem .

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Correct. When there isn’t enough bread to go around, it doesn’t really matter if everyone has money.

These are all valid points but they don’t preclude the existence of an open-source alternative to MBFC, which is what the commenter you replied to was asking.