Outrageous, and unfortunately not surprising given who we’re dealing with here.

I have a question. When we talk about how big tech colludes with Trump, we naturally tend to focus on leadership. But someone is writing the code for all the surveillance tracking, and I don’t think I’ve seen anyone focus on the moral responsibilites that comes with being a developer.

I don’t mean naming and shaming, I mean instilling hope that they have power to make a difference.

The teacher’s protest in Norway during WW2 made Quisling say “you teachers have destroyed everything for me”.

Newest post from Cory Doctorow is about exactly this https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

my old laptop😅 and a bluetooth keyboard/touchpad. If it is not too noisy and performs well enough, I might make that a dedicated tv device (but then I will have to buy a new laptop lol, I’ve been drooling on framework for a while).

Alternatively one of the n150 options, like you say. In which case I can update this post

Great tip, thanks!

Cool, using this setup now.

Thinking of ways to make it more friendly for my SO and guests coming to visit or babysit etc, who are not used to linux (gnome). Any tips there?

Top of mind is auto open browser on startup with fixed tabs for relevant streaming services. But could also be a simple wrapper of some kind, with UI similar to kodi, plex, jellyfin etc - but for accessing content on web.

Thx for the tip!

Thanks for the tip! I actually have an old intel celeron running as a server in the basement, so the bare minimum for this is playing media from the network. But, being able to play simple games could also be fun, so have to think about that one for a bit!

Thx for the tip!

Never heard of the brand/model, thanks! Will definately consider the latter

Thx, will try with an old dell xps13 in the meantime!

They’re not a multi-billion dollar company. If you don’t like it, then don’t use it. That’s your choice.

But please stop talking nonsense about them not addressing real problems. Because they are. And they deserve credit for that. Not whining about the imperfections of a work in progress.

They’re actively trying to solve:

• e-waste and making devices last longer (contributing upstream)
• escaping data harvesting and surveillance
• offer an alternative to the mobile duopoly

I’m baffled that they even bother, given how much people complain about it not being good enough. But I’m glad they do, and I think it’s awesome.

Great article, thx

Seems we are talking about different things here. By “perfect” I assumed you meant “complete”, as opposed to an IM-log, e-mail, letters or other async communications.

For people with medical conditions such as dementia, of course, this could solve real problems. I’m not saying we should pull the brakes in every case. My only point is that more data doesn’t equal “better” in every case.

Forgetting things are an underappreciated part of being human. Of course accumulating knowledge with science etc is what drives humanity forward. But when living our day to day lives, forgetting stuff is not just a bug, it’s a feature. It enables us to move on, letting go, and revisit memories more organically and qualitatively. For example the rush of nostalgia that hits you when you randomly hear a song from your childhood. Compare this to prompting your local AI with “give me a perfect list of songs from my childhood”.

For example it’s interesting to listen to accounts from savants with near perfect memories who talk about the struggles of remembering everything.

Would it?

A chatlog of what everyone has ever said to you? Every misspeak, miscommunication, he-said-she-said, emotional comment? What problem would it solve?

It might solve some problems, and introduce a shit ton of new ones. As technology always does.

Don’t remember whose quote it was, maybe Hannah Arendt, that the real tragedy of tyranny is not when people self-censor what they say out loud, but when this leads them to filter out those thoughts from arising at all

I get that people who sell AI-services wants to promote it. That part is obvious.

What I don’t get is how gullible the rest of society at large is. Take the norwegian digitalization minister, who says that 80% of the public sector shall use AI. Whatever that means.

Or building a gigantic fuckoff openai data centre, instead of new industry https://openai.com/nb-NO/index/introducing-stargate-norway/

Jared Diamond had a great take on this in “Collapse”. That there a countless examples of societies making awful decisions - because the decisionmakers are insulated from the consequences. On the contrary, they get short term gains.

Got this response from one of the developers:

Looks like a routing issue, it works when navigated to from the index page without a full reload.

https://docs.pears.com/

If I was China, I would be thrilled to hear that the west are building data centres for LLMs, sucking power from the grid, and using all their attention and money on AI, rather than building better universities and industry. Just sit back and enjoy, while I can get ahead in these areas.