Maha-pudma

I couldnt agree more, I use ublock in advanced mode (even on mobile) and I was expecting to have to enable multiple scripts, which nearly always consist or analitics and ads, to be able to use this thing. Nope, all first party scripts, brilliant.

Better folder descriptions maybe but other than that perfect!

Not everyone lives in America which is what most of this thread seems to be about.

No idea why you're mentioning Catholics in the UK Parliament. Unless its an attempt at discrediting the previous commenters statement.

We certainly refer to them as the civi-police in the military. Though we don't have the gun issues the US has, but that seems based on an antiquated amendment even older the Peels analysis.

OK I have to admit on reading the title and a few comments my first thoughts were 'why would you bother'.

Now I've read the article it makes sense if you're a struggling magazine and need money. Also if you got something to sell and need a cheap worldwide platform to advertise on.

So is Vim

Is that American pants or British pants?

When I do that it does open in fdriid but to the "Armenian for AnysoftKeyboard".

Edit: thought I would install it and it turns out its English. Using to type this.

I'd have no issue telling you to mind your own if you tried telling me how to manage my kids.

My dream tool would be a mobile version of zim-wiki. They started work on it years ago but it never got far.

I'm replying to myself in an effort to reply generally to everyone who replied to me, thanks for your use cases.

I can see some of the reasons and benefits and to me, no offence meant, the seem pretty trivial, especially when you take into account the privacy issues.

I have dumb timers for lights I want on at certain times, dumb movement sensors for outside lights that only turn on at night, my boiler has a timer which I manually set if needed, and I've yet to see any actual benefit to a smart meter. I can read and calculate my usage.

My point is everything I need can be accomplished without network connectivity or providing multi-national tech companies with all my data. I don't need a digital assistant and don't want to talk to my lightbulbs.

As one of the other commenters said, you get all the problems of IT infrastructure for light bulbs and sensors. Hell if I wanted some automated stuff I'd look at a raspberry pi or Arduino and roll my own version (half joking, I'd definitely attempt it).

I don't get it. What's the point in these systems? Genuinely. Why would I ever need this? Just like a "smart" doorbell, fridge, meter. I would love for someone to be able to explain the benefits to me over the normal, cheap, completely working "dump" version. The only "smart" device I own is a TV and it is crap, worse thing I've ever bought.

I don't do notes on my phone. I manage all my notes with zim-wiki. It's cross platform and portable on Windows so no installation. Plain text and folders for organisation, search is fast. Has tagging and dating built-in.

This is really 3 problems for the EU or whatever government wants to bring this in.

The way I see it is the government/EU, whatever, needs to first force this encryption backdoor into use, then force everyone to only use chat apps with the backdoor, and finally force everybody not to go looking for this backdoor.

They are listed in order of difficulty. And they are totalitarian in their level of force.

Is it for the same reasons health care is so expensive in the US?

Yeah you're absolutely correct its pretty much fake but I still like the story, just like I like the toothpaste factory story. Essentially keep it simple stupid, don't over engineer, and do your research.

What's the difference between the two? I can't really tell.