Capitalism is an egotistic not an idealistic movement. Capitalists don’t become capitalists because they think it benefits everyone, but because they think it benefits them. That’s why someone like Elon Musk is only against government subsidies if he’s not the recipient.

though usually stupid and fucky copyright laws have one advantage - if someone bigger than you steals your idea you can take them to court. without copyright laws we’d have giant corporations just taking shit and using their platform to sell stolen ideas without a single cent going to the original creator…

It’s very difficult for some small independent creator to take a big corporation successfully to court. Imagine going up against The Mouse or someone similar with a lawyer paid for by your legal insurance. You might as well just not do it at all.

The same thing is even worse with patents. I made a few things that I could patent. But for that I’d have to cough up a few thousands per year, roughly 100k over the life-time of the patent, and in turn I only get the right to sue someone violating my patent. I don’t even get the guarantee that my patent is valid.

Patents are designed exactly so that big corporations can use them excessively to suppress smaller competitors while they are too expensive and too uncertain for small inventors to use them.

Try it out. Take a mirror, put it very close to your eye but angled sideways, since you can obviously not look through your head.

You will have no issues at all focussing on what you are looking at, since you aren’t looking at the mirror at all.

You can also try that while looking at yourself through a dirty mirror. You can either focus on the dirt on the mirror or on your face. You can’t see both the dirt and your face in focus at the same time.

Nah, doesn’t have to be. Just try putting a mirror very close to your eye, but angled sideways. You will be able to focus onto anything you want without issue. Because you aren’t focussing at the mirror, but at the thing you look at.

Yeah, they don’t know how to make door rebates. They don’t even have that in their actual house doors leading to the road. And we over here even have them on toilet doors.

Toilets shouldn’t be high humidity environments (that’s what ventilation is there for) and gap-less doors don’t need to rub at all.

That’s what this European high tech that seems to be virtually unknown in the US is for: door rebates.

Really? That’s what I’d expect even in a run-down public toilet in a train station over here in Austria.

Talking about it, which arch flavour is “btw”? /s

GNOME is horrible. Looks pretty, but it’s opinionated approach means that nothing works as expected and you have to relearn how to use a stupid window manager.

I prefer Ook! Ook! over Ooga.

Are you using Arch btw?

In that case, nothing is stopping you from saying the month only.

I get what you are saying, but unless you buy a specific linux phone with some semblance of professional support (e.g. Pinephone) this won’t really get better. The best time to buy a Linux phone was a bit over 10 years ago when Canonical still actually supported Ubuntu Touch. That was pretty much the last time there was any serious effort in that regard. Since then it’s just been hobbyists doing hobby things in hobby quality.

At least ss:mm:hh and DD-MM-YYYY are internally consistent, even if they aren’t consistent with each other.

MM-DD-YYYY isn’t even internally consistent.

Tbh, unless you want to suffer A LOT, the best option is to get any Android phone, install Termux and on top install any Linux distro you like (if you want easy mode, pay for Andronix which helps with installation).

Then you just run your Linux distro in a container on Android and view its virtual screen using a VNC viewer app.

That way you get a fully-working Android phone that can run most Linux apps without breaking your main phone use case. The only thing you are really lacking is low-level access because it’s running in a root-less proot container. So no hardware acceleration or other fancy hardware stuff.

I’m very open to being an early adopter of mobile Linux phones.

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the rest of your post

What you are trying to say is you are very open to be a late adopter of mobile Linux phones, adopting a Linux phone when it actually works.

Early adopters are those who tough out the crap. The issue with Linux phones is they’ve been stuck in early adopter land for the last 20 years.

For consistency, Americans should adopt mm:ss.hh MM-DD-YYYY.

Nope, it clearly should be mmsshhMMDDYYYY

So first, the context is everything, then the context doesn’t matter, then the context is something else.

So what now? Is it a joke about bullying some creator for stuff he made half a life ago, or does the context not matter when the context is put like that?