pineyboi

I'm in support of things like this, but I also feel like maximizing durability is too simplistic.

When I'm looking to purchase something, the concerns are usually something like.

1. Minimizing the shared cost of throwing the thing away.

2. Maximizing durability.

3. Maximizing the actual efficacy of the thing.

4. Maximizing worker benefit - economical and political.

5. Minimizing animal suffering.

Not everyone is going to have the same mix of goals or order of goals and many have just one overriding goal: Minimizing up-front consumer cost.

So, for example, a "smart-fiber" shirt might be far more durable than a 100% cotton shirt, the throw-away cost is much higher so I'll pass. I'm not saying your site should account for this, but things are complicated, especially among conscious consumers which is an increasingly niche market anyway due to both preference and circumstance.

Edit: Oh I should also add somewhere in there

#. Maximizing ease of repair/cleaning.

eg. MacBook vs. Pinebook or Carpet vs. Hardwood etc.

I've worn a watch all my life, but going from a battery that lasts a year to one that lasts a few days is a giant leap of inconvenience for me. Also, watch platforms seem to me even tinier walled gardens than those of mobile phones. If I could see myself using anything, it would be more akin to the Pine Time[0] than the Apple Watch. I realize the Pine is still in it's infancy.

[0]: https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/

Looks like $599

uMatrix is awesome. I wish there were more tools like this -- just advanced enough to do some real heavy lifting yet still quick and intuitive after even a little investment. The browsers brought SSL awareness with the padlock, but most users are still woefully unaware of just how many websites they hit when they load any page. It's insanity.

I hope this isn't due to browser vendors making things difficult, but it wouldn't surprise me. Since the concerns are similar, it would be great if there was a way to marry the two. uBlock - advanced interface mode or something. Just a thought, not a feature request.

Thank you Gorhill for all your work. Sad to see it go, I actually can't fathom how I'll surf the web without it.

Razer has done something similar with their peripherals. I remember buying a Razer keyboard that I later realized required an online account and some Synapse software to configure in any meaningful way. Quickest return I ever made. Razer's privacy policy is dicey and then there's this[0] which inspires loads of confidence.

[0]: https://www.pcmag.com/news/razer-accidentally-exposed-custom...

Thanks for all your work!

There's some work being done to make Signal work more natively on Linux (though not from Moxie directly)

This is a daemon that provides an API for signal

https://git.callpipe.com/finn/signald

This is a libpurple plugin for it (Pidgin messenger, or even irssi, Weechat etc)

https://github.com/hoehermann/libpurple-signald

Chatty, the SMS messenger that works in Phosh also supports libpurple plugins, so presumably Signal could work alongside SMS (The SMS feature itself is a libpurple plugin IIRC)

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty

I've used libpurple-signald with irssi and it works alright. It's not feature complete yet by a long shot, but much nicer to interact with than the Electron bloat.