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GNU founder Stallman has a big page with many other reasons against using Facebook. You should read it too.. https://stallman.org/facebook.html


This is exactly what I wanted to write. But some people can't be helped... Our school also forced us MS Office and I had to learn LibreOffice myself. I have been using OO/LibreOffice since I finished school and I am not looking back. It's sad that some people don't know about alternatives and are paying for Office360 regularly, they are like drug addicts.


People are used to say Yes in a standard confirmation dialog. It would be helpful to implement something more complicated like pressing two buttons, typing "yes" to a clear question or solving a simple puzzle (ideally visualizing the outcome while solving it).


A common pattern, e.g. used by github when deleting repos, is to type something (e.g. the name of said github repo); not necessarily a puzzle, just spelling out the thing you want done.


typing “send sms alert” vs testing “do not send sms alert”. that way you’d have muscle memory for the latter, but you’d know what to do if you really wanted to do it


They will get paid probably plus it gives them free marketing for Signal. It's a win win situation. :)


I appreciate the effort but I have a feeling that there is not enough developers for existing free OSes and I am not sure it is very wise to fragment the community even more.


Host your own email server (like me) or use email services of your webhosting or ISP. Email is a simple service originally developed to be decentralized but modern Idiocracy makes people use only a handful of corprations for IT services. :(


And THAT'S WHY it's good for corporations to have closed non-libre drivers :) They can make an easy buck by selling 'more expensive' licenses. You are the buyer, you decided for a closed solution, so pay more for it!


Yes, one of the reason I switched to Android years ago (which has its own issues). But Apple makes people pay lot of money for "premium device" which has worse long-time usability than Android ones.


Can't it be a problem with the fuel gauge inacurately measuring the battery capacity? I have seen it only on one "cheap" Android device and I have been using Androids for a long time. Anyway, easily removable batteries are the way to go.


My "friend" started to be aggresive and supporting this Apple explanation. It feels to me they behave like addicted. They need a new iPhone dose for xmass this year.


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