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[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Clarissa-Jan Lim wrote a great article which called it 'Panopticontent'. That phrase lives in my head forever now.

[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

And not for the better. I think people are actually much less kind to each other when they are aware of being observed. Or worse, deliberately performing for content.

[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No one's burying their head in the sand. They're reacting to the fact that it sounds here like you are resenting women for talking about their own oppression. It's not zero sum my friend. We know patriarchy hates men too. This specific article just wasn't really about that. There are other places on Lemmy that are talking more specifically about the issues you raise here, though.

[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

Your last paragraph here is very important. There are massive political implications to these kinds of family and group dynamics.

[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Gotcha. This is a valuable clarification. Thanks!!

[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have a moto g 5g 2023 which is apparently different than the moto 5g, and an A9+ tablet. I found a thread talking about the difference and some regional reasons why my phone and others like it don't always have support. It looks like versions of these OSes often just don't exist for a lot of devices, because fewer people use them. The lineage website did have a lot of samsung devices listed though and might have yours, so there definitely are some options. But it's not every phone, which sucks, but i think the warnings about bricking are real and not just discouragement.

Honestly opening up software on consumer devices should be the law and mayyybe one day it will be in the us (eu allowed some semblance of alternative app stores recently and that's something? ) but I think those of us with the less common and budget mobile devices might just have to wait for now. Or continue living inside the matrix, as someone else here said.

[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Alas, it looks like none of the devices I own right now are actually compatible with Calyx, graphene or lineage right now. :( I own less popular models of devices, but I erroneously thought any android device would be interchangeable here when I first made this post.

[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I think a lot of people deep in linux and computer science communities might not realize that tons of people outside that subculture feel exactly the same way they do and want the same things, we just didn't go to school for it. No one is trying to water down the niche spaces that are important to people or deny the hard work that was done by people in decades past. We just want to understand and do what's been recommended to us, and information should be for everyone because the goal is increased adoption and digital freedom in society, right? Anyway this kinda means a lot coming from a person with your background so thank you.

[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Thanks for all this detail, I appreciate it!

[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

We need an ecosystem of nontechnical tech forums for the rest of us. Real 'define every term' hours. I would start this if I knew enough.

[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Good to know. Thanks.

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by sentientity@lemm.ee to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
 

**Wanted to update this post with a website I found that has info about this topic for regular people, in case anybody finds this later. ** Privacy Focused OS For Everyone It has info about the different os options as well as apps for phones using regular android.

Pretend I am five and please be nice.

Say I want to free my phone and tablet from samsung/google/skynet but I neeeeeed to be able to use my printer and external cd drives and their silly proprietary apps, as well as flash drives, cds, and normal apps without alternatives like bandcamp and libby and and all that. I also need to be able to use government websites and use my wifi and pay bills and just generally do everything that I do now on samsung's/motorola's software.

(Most of these things were issues for me when I tried to use linux years ago which is why I'm listing them. I do not possess the technical ability to solve these problems on my own when they come up. I also do not possess any other devices to use if my main ones can't do these things anymore.)

Is this realistic in 2024 for Graphene or any other free open source os? And if it is, how do I install it safely and properly?

Are there any known issues with it like slowness or not being able to use the camera, etc? Most of the places with information about this stuff are not written in a langauge I speak.

Edit: does anyone want to work on creating or collecting some simplified tutorials with me? I'm thinking of installing one of these on my phone and it it goes well I will probably write the details down. It might be good to have a place for other people who have done so, or want to, to do the same for their respective devices.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sentientity@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

I’m trying to get perspective on this particular beauty standard and how I want to approach it. Do people whiten their teeth where you live? Is it seen as expected to do so? Do you live in a city?

I have healthy teeth that have nevertheless seen a lot of tea and coffee. I have generally thought of this as similar to wrinkles, i.e. a natural thing bodies do that I don’t want to pay money to fix since it isn’t broken. I still think this. But I have been feeling lately like there might be more actual social stigma to my teeth being discolored. I am wondering if this is at all real? Has whitening teeth become an expected thing for all adults to do now? I thought I’d ask how other people feel and think about this and what the general norm is in your social circle.

Edit: thanks for the responses everybody.

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