Head of the Italian Senate Ignazio Benito La Russa

Bitcoin is often used to buy gender affirming hormones from online clinics in areas where it’s illegal

Why don’t you try?

If it’s an old enough game, archive.org could have what you’re looking for

Why did you make your entire post bold

If your phone supports Lineage, the default installation comes with only the apps you would typically expect on a dumbphone (except the web browser). You can just never install any stores, never download apks from the web, and chill with it

God declares bankrupt, millions of investors in shambles

I’d say it’s fine in a personal context, e.g. to use as your wallpaper or a in a private RPG campaign with friends.

No one would would give you shit for downloading other people’s art off Pinterest for your D&D character, but if you reposted it online as your own, it would be plagiarism. Since AI art takes copyrighted material from all over the internet, the principle is the same

I don’t like these one-liners that try to extrapolate a simple general rule from a much more nuanced reality

I personally don’t see the benefit over regular Mint since it removes snaps anyways. And the newer software from Ubuntu is nice

By definition, we don’t know

Yes those are the ones we should strive to emulate!

Morality, in general, is a set of criteria used to determine when it is acceptable to do “wrong” things to people. If someone is an asshole, those around them will usually be assholes to them in return, to show them that being an asshole is wrong. The point is where you draw the line

The guy who first came up with abolishing capital punishment had an idea: what if, instead of killing convicts (which makes us seem barbaric and instigates rebellion), we imprison them for life and make them work as slaves? Dying can be noble, but wasting away doing prison work takes away all dignity, so other criminals will not be tempted to emulate them.

This was one little step in the long progress that lead to the fine-tuned fascism machine the USA is today.

What I’m trying to say is, capital punishment is bad, and it looks especially bad because it’s flashy. It distracts us from other forms of punishment, which are just as inhumane (if not worse), but go unnoticed.

So capital punishment absolutely needs to be abolished, but that is only the first step of many.

You may have some luck with ADB

Then “reinstall without Google” isn’t a solution you can suggest universally to everyone even if you don’t know their phone model

No I was referring to the line about users needing google play services

Can you do that even if the bootloader is locked (as it is on many phones nowadays)?

Android is open source (and also Linux), so there are many custom OSs that aren’t “fancy linux”, but just Android without Google apps. See: LineageOS, GrapheneOS, e/OS. You might be able to install one of them on your phone if it’s compatible!

I don’t know, I’m not hopeful.

Stallman played a BIG role in the insurgence of Linux (and FOSS in general), but he famously disregards smartphones as he thinks people should just not use them.

Plus, phones are built different: many have a locked bootloader, and there is no standard like BIOS/UEFI, meaning you must compile a slightly different OS for each model.

What I’m saying is the mobile ecosystem is built in a way that makes it very difficult for a serious AOSP ecosystem to build up, let alone a different kind of Linux