ajyotirmay

If not, Apple users deserve this kind of behaviour where the user willingly signs off on their freedom

You are just telling the whole world about the average IQ of an Indian and how they believe in foolish things like "digital arrest".

And an app doesn't solve that. Digital literacy is a need for today, but the entire country is getting the latest smartphone, with dirt cheap data and zero knowledge of how to operate and own that technology.

To praise Indian government is the most unlikely thing one should be doing for their mediocrity at developing things.

Same is the case with Aadhar, Digiyatra, etc. My government is hella incompetent at safeguarding data and privacy (unless it's their own data). And this app is 100% going to be a huge security hole on every device.

For me, ADB to the resuce.

It works. For E2EE, I have GPG setup on all of my devices. It costs me a little over €1/month for paid account as I use my own domain.

The experience has been good, and something I absolutely advocate for and promote.

I started with Linux Mint, then Ubuntu. I don't remember which Ubuntu it was, but it had Gnome 2 and then later had fun with the Unity Desktop versions. When they started being the bully, I started distro hopping and then finally settled with Debian (because of my personal values as well). I can't trust a for-profit company to care about its users. Today I try to use as many FOSS alternatives and projects supported by community.

Ubuntu is no better than Windows 11 at this point. It's just lesser evil of two. Try something else, Pop_OS!, Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux, Fedora, etc. Plenty of good options out there. Debian too, if you don't want a solid stable long term OS.

Found this KML email from Linus. Damn! That was a good read though haha

It can be a bit of hassle sometime, like having to pay for shipping or the delay in receiving it compared to amazon prime, or the option for return.

But apart from covering the shipping (which sometimes is okay for a product with higher value), I prefer to use the original website instead of Amazon. Few reasons being:

1. Genuine product 2. I don't want to help Amazon grow its huge empire 3. I want to support independent companies

So, hearing your comment, I'm glad I'm doing the right thing

And as you mentioned, power will be abused. Unchecked power will be abused unchecked. This is ethically, morally and humanely wrong.

There's so much wrong with this bill and the thought behind it. It should never see the day of light.

Oh, and Macs have a hide and minimise feature, wow! Just a cluster fuck entirely. Gazillion different ways of installing applications and then managing all those updates separately (a lot like Windows in that regard). These are all issues I face on a regular basis, haven't even dived into developer experience.

I have the same idea. But I'm not very sure about it, specially because our divide has been the main cause of Britishers colonizing us. An united single state gives us much more resources to function properly and defend our interest against neighbors like Pakistan & China.

I could be wrong though, as EU seems to be a good example of governance

"school meals" allowed families to be able to send kids to school for education instead of getting their help at work to feed families. That means, more people were inclined towards getting education and literacy. Which was a huge deal for our country at that time.

>The Non-Aligned movement? India would have been much richer, much more quickly, if they were to have aligned themselves with the West.

India "might" have been richer without NAM but did you not notice what our close relationship with west did to us? Also, that richness would have made us into a failed state like USA (yes, I know about US' homelessness, lack of social security, and the greedy capitalism). We needed to stand on our own feet before we could make alliances. Heck, the west is still opposed to India till now. As much as I dislike Russian politics, our partnership with Russia has actually helped us develop much quicker (and yes, it was a partnership in every sense)

Indian constitution was needed, specifically because our country is so much more diverse. Are you seriously comparing a tiny piece of land (HK) to a huge landmass like India, which has hundreds of different cultures, identities, religions, languages. We absolutely needed a code to unify our country. We are still very diverse, but our unified under a single identity of Indian.

And since you folks actually acknowledge the atrocities of Nazi Germany, you should definitely look into India's colonial history. You'll understand the storm we had to endure, and what we were left with once we kicked those colonizers out of our land.

It is wrong, and there has to be better ways. I don't remember the exact procedure, but NSA didn't need much clearance to spy on any American citizen.

Sadly, the people I report to don't care enough about it. All they want is to push through the visible changes as fast as possible. And every single time these performance bugs come to bite us.

Our solution? Scale the system resources.

I'm not particularly satisfied with the work. But as an engineer I don't get to call the shots.

That single fact makes me reluctant to pay for Firefox. Unless I'm sure that all the money I donate goes to the right cause and not to a CEO's bank.

Well, how did it go for you to try and run MacOS on non-Apple hardware?

Maybe, sure you get a better experience with hardware supported by Linux. But that's a lot of bias in your opinion.

I work in web development, and all our products are built with 100% compatibility with Firefox and it being the priority browser. The rest are secondary including Chromium based ones.

If it works on FF, it works elsewhere (except that steaming pile of crap that Safari is)

And how many devs who are from black communities offended by the use of these terms, at least before it was made to be an issue in mainstream.

Because right now I feel like this is a "woke feminist" issue.

And I'm not a white person. I've never thought otherwise of these words, but maybe that can be because of the mixed society I grew up in.