csolisr

Time to compile a new version of OpenWhisper then!

While I understand why are they unwilling to allow commercial usage of the final product, it also makes it difficult to actually put in the hands of people. I agree, hopefully they can reconsider for a later iteration.

Slight open-washing involved though - the license is CC-By-NC-SA, which sadly makes it incompatible with open hardware projects, and restricted from being available as a pre-assembled kit.

Not directly, but if you configure them via Home Assistant, you can download the camera footage (depending on the brand, I use Tapo) and then sync that to your server of choice via FTP or WebDAV.

Even then, DRM-free formats like EPUB and PDF still exist, and places like Kobo still sell them.

True that, physical books are one of the last forms of physical media still not laden with DRM (along with the rare collector vinyls, cassettes, and videotapes). Even then - I also boycott most writers anyway, but that’s for other ethical reasons.

At this point, I expect somebody to leak the PC version before the console exclusivity expires

That is indeed my philosophy - “even pirated consumption is still support” in the form of giving a platform, publicity, or space in your brain. Even further so considering the many, many problematic artists out there, and the many other artists that have collaborated with them, making entire genres nearly unconscionable as a result.

Media conglomerates insist that if people can’t afford their prices, then they should go without their product. I’m doing exactly that to show a point - namely, that they’re not as necessary for a good living as they think they are.

I have the blessing and the curse of never having had the chance of having a social life. No peer pressure in exchange for no support network. Not quite the fair deal, but I must do with what I have.

More like the feeling of not contributing to the problem, if anything I’m worse-placed for not knowing “general culture” references

Option C is to just go without, but apparently I’m the only fool doing that

I’m more of a self-hosted Matrix server myself, but understandable

The concept of Unix-based distributions predates GNU/Linux by the way - BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution.

They’re trying to make their own distro fully BSD-licensed, so that it can be distributed without end users having to deal with copyleft restrictions.

I understand why are they trying to do so, but it still feels odd to see a project removing GPL’d code

This is the reason why I went out of my way to use Molly (a fork of Signal), since it supports delivering the push notifications through a self-hosted server instead. Unfortunately the process is complex: it requires both a method to deliver the notifications to your phone via UnifiedPush (an alternative to Google’s push system that generally suffices on its own) and a compatibility service called MollySocket (that bridges Signal’s notifications with the UnifiedPush provider). Both typically need a self-hosted server and specific configuration to talk to each other though. And I don’t even have any contacts that use Signal anymore, so, well…!