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Re:Keep Android Open by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @06:11PM (#45753754)
Counterpoint: vast majority is not making those choices, and if you insist on defying the mainstream, you gradually become separated from human society.

This isn't solvable through individual choice. It's a coordination problem - and coordination problems are what underlies every actually hard problem that humanity is struggling with. War, poverty, authoritarian regimes, corporate overreach, environmental destruction, climate change - all could be solvable though choices like you describe, but in practice are not, because humans can't coordinate at scale.

Relevant search term: "meditations on Moloch".

Re:Keep Android Open by txrx0000 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @06:17PM (#45753815)
The direction of society is the aggregate of our individual choices. I'm no expert on coordination, but I think we ought to start with ourselves and not spread misery like "your voice doesn't matter" or "humans can't coordinate at scale".
Re:Keep Android Open by bluebarbet on Thursday October 30, 2025 @03:49PM (#45764486)
Interesting exchange! IMO you're both right.
Re:Keep Android Open by fsflover on Sunday November 02, 2025 @10:53AM (#45791202)