I agree with you that it would be foolish to believe that any company would support a cheap device perpetually but I think it should be common practice (or mandatory) to open the software so that people can extend the life of these devices. Generally speaking, as a species we cannot afford to waste electronic devices simply because the software is not up to date.

Well, the article says: “Google says it will continue to push software and security updates to its newer devices without specifying which ones.”.

So only newer devices (and we don’t know which ones), and if you are a bit familiar with technology, you would very well know that they will just quit updating the software anyways after some time as they stopped making the whole Chromecast line.

That’s still a lot of devices that would be perfectly usable and will eventually go to waste. So imo my remark about the fact that we should have laws forcing manufacturers to make their software open source as soon as they’re no longer updated is still valid!

And? Do they plan to put all the software open source so that the millions of hardware they sold would not go to waste in some years? We should force them to by law.

Before switching you should maybe read this and wait for the native app : https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1b32bbz/going_native_the_future_of_the_bitwarden_mobile/

Ploopy the headphones, recommanded by Ploppy the Jailer

I would go for Zorin! It’s based on ubuntu and quite close to the windows experience so easy for beginners!

They had Tchap that may not be perfect but is open source (based on matrix/element), hosted in France and already used by 400 000 ppl from the public services… Why pay for a new app? Don’t get it…

My non-pro question is : if it was a peer-to-peer service like element, using a decentralized protocol like matrix, wouldn’t it be a huge cost saver because of less data bandwidth and server costs?

I wish, but it’s unfortunately only a preconceived idea…

To be honest, the only reasonable question is: what are these people still doing on this crappy thing?

What a clown

is excellent news! But, to be fair, why shouldn’t everything be in the public domain? AI makes objects ‘inspired’ by everything it has ‘ingested’, but so do human creators on a smaller scale. Copyright almost always only benefits big profits and corporations. I think people should be able to make a decent living from their work and their ideas, but I’m not convinced that copyright really helps to achieve that.