it will be up to opinion in the end.

no, it will not.

open data format is a format that has publicly available specification and anyone can use it, as opposed to formats whose specification is not publicly available, the only way to use them is to reverse engineer them, which is something their author (for example, but not only, microsoft) actively tries to prevent by constantly making undocumented changes, in an attempt to lock the users into some private software ecosystem.

purpose of open data format is that anyone can share and exchange data, no matter what apps they decide to use, so trying to prevent anyone to use it would be directly counterproductive.

so for example i use libreoffice, you use ms word, and we can exchange the data files and they look as intended on the other person’s computer, because microsoft is free to read and write odt files, their documentation is publicly available and no one asks microsoft to start giving out ms word for free or sod off.

and microsoft can do that, because odt is open data format. that is the whole points of open format, that microsoft and anyone else can do that and we can freely exchange data no matter what specific application we use to create them. you know what is not open data format? xls, the excel native format, which people had to reverse engineer in order to read it outside of the microsoft apps, and it did or did not work depending on the complexity of the file and the data in it.

Again, that would really beat the purpose of open data format.

That would be the opposite of open.

mint is based on ubuntu (except for the mint debian edition) which is probably why it is there

Star trek would not make it through first season if they wore ev suit every time they beam down…

more work for her, i assume. how easy it would be of you only had to optimize for internet explorer at 640x480…

that is cool, but primary purpose of a phone is to make and receive phone calls. there are better tools for watching netflix.

yes.

well, the primary purpose of a PHONE is to be able to make and receive PHONE CALLS. anything else is just a matter of convenience.you can use maps, make photos and take notes without a phone, the same can’t be said for phone calls.

you can’t really disconnect yourself from the cell network, that would beat the purpose of having the mobile phone ;)

did not know that. but from the image, that seems like something that is inside of the phone? not really something you casually flip on the street.

my idea is that anytime you would flip the switch and lock the screen to put the phone in the pocket, its spying capabilities would be physically disabled.

Let’s assume it can read wireless network even with wifi turned off, it still needs to find a network and a password to connect to it.

rather than hacking wifi, it connect to mobile internet even without sim card. that is much simpler, the mobile internet is basically anywhere and it is free as part of some spying cartel with the mobile network operators.

any new car also spy on you and you don’t need to provide sim card for that.

i dream about a phone with hw switch, which would be used to lock the screen and at the same moment it would physically disconnect microphone, camera, and gps module.

not saying it is complete solution to the privacy problem, but it would be good start.

objectively

I don’t think you understand meaning of that word

We are not pretending. Debugged and working reliably is better than new. Being new is not automatically useful attribute.

they put that money into some kind of Klarna Wallet or whatever, by default, instead of in my bank account where the money originally came from.

all you had to do was reach second sentence of their comment and you wouldn’t have to assume.

wtf, how is that legal? if someone is obligated to pay you some refund, how can they send it to some other private business instead?

no. when you try to engage in public discussion that is the opposite of fine.