So, this is the place where I’m going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts.

I’m also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I’m making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I’ll link the other socials I’m varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I’m demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

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Cake day: August 8th, 2025
  • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtftoLinux@lemmy.ml•Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?English
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    5 days ago

    So far Google services aren’t being mandated on the desktop like they increasingly are on phones, yet, at least.

    WEI threatened to push that once already, plus Google trying, again, this time with an actual chance of success given the Win10 EOL combined with the dumpster fire that Win11 is for the SKUs that normal people can legally access, to push Android to desktops in addition to mobile devices, certainly doesn’t help matters either, and if Google gets away with locking down Android successfully, that’ll probably embolden them to try to lock down the web at large with WEI again too.

  • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtftoLinux@lemmy.ml•Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?English
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    6 days ago

    Do you think IBM wouldn’t make Red Hat completely proprietary if they had the chance?

    Adding to this, Google would make Android fully proprietary in a heartbeat if they could, given they’re already closing down more and more portions of the AOSP and trying to lock down app development and distribution as well.

    And conceivably all it would take to turn Android fully proprietary ala Windows, is to hard-fork AOSP to keep the Lineage/Graphene/etc. users happy, and then rewrite main Android as closed-source.

    Although, it’s kinda ironic that Windows, a fully closed environment, is less restrictive in terms of app dev and distribution, than Android, a supposedly semi-open environment, is. Like, MS isn’t mandating signed exes or trying to fully lock Windows into the MS Store, yet, while Google is trying to mandate signed APKs and also trying to lock Android into the Play Store.

    And before anyone says, ‘But SmartScreen,’ unless that option is specifically disabled, you can just run unsigned exes by clicking ‘Run anyway’ still, Android doesn’t have a ‘Run anyway’ equivalent option AFAIK.