Lewd

Getting around firmware is a bitch though.

edit: wow, this guy actually got more critical than most

Honestly, I'm pretty impressed at how he manages with only free software - I suppose it's an entirely different way of digital life.

I did pick up on one thing as well, though. That is, he mentioned how he discourages people from using non-free software like Skype, but seemed fine with using other people's mobile phones after saying how they're an invasion of privacy.

I mean, at some point you have to make compromise to live. Even if you pay anonymously in cash, that pizza restaurant is still funtioning on non-free POS systems. >tfw the botnet wants me to starve!

You know, I was at an airport recently, and had to order my food through an iPad. I wonder if Stallman would be okay using this device if a service worker was operating it for him.

Xen wrote:

You know, I was at an airport recently, and had to order my food through an iPad. I wonder if Stallman would be okay using this device if a service worker was operating it for him.

I'd be surprised if he got someone to operate it for him tbh. While it may be proprietary software and hardware, it still pretty much just performs the same task a waiter does. Unless the payment has to be done with the iPad, which even I would struggle to trust, tbh.

malmon wrote:

Xen wrote:

You know, I was at an airport recently, and had to order my food through an iPad. I wonder if Stallman would be okay using this device if a service worker was operating it for him.

I'd be surprised if he got someone to operate it for him tbh. While it may be proprietary software and hardware, it still pretty much just performs the same task a waiter does. Unless the payment has to be done with the iPad, which even I would struggle to trust, tbh.

I'm sure you could use cash, but if you were paying by card there were swipers attached to the table that processed the payment through the iPad program. I didn't like it at all. The device was slow from being on 24/7, the screen was greasy from people touching it all day, and I couldn't make a small modification to a burger without telling the waitress(which would be fine, if I was ordering the burger from her in the first place).

Xen wrote:

I mean, at some point you have to make compromise to live. Even if you pay anonymously in cash, that pizza restaurant is still funtioning on non-free POS systems. >tfw the botnet wants me to starve!

You know, I was at an airport recently, and had to order my food through an iPad. I wonder if Stallman would be okay using this device if a service worker was operating it for him.

Tbh, you messed up on the iPad part already, it would be better to use your own device.

https://stallman.org/apple.html

The iPad was used for ordering food.

s a d l i f e wrote:

Xen wrote:

I mean, at some point you have to make compromise to live. Even if you pay anonymously in cash, that pizza restaurant is still funtioning on non-free POS systems. >tfw the botnet wants me to starve!

You know, I was at an airport recently, and had to order my food through an iPad. I wonder if Stallman would be okay using this device if a service worker was operating it for him.

Tbh, you messed up on the iPad part already, it would be better to use your own device.

https://stallman.org/apple.html

I'm assuming it was an integrated part of the restaurant's ordering system. Kinda like a wall terminal, only mobile.

Anyhow, Stallman has always been a saint in the worlds of FOSS and privacy, but as @[deleted] said, most of us normal folk need to make compromises to live. Yeah, I use Google and Bing to save me a minute's worth of refining a query on DuckDuckGo; yeah, I prefer Windows because Wireshark can't properly capture packets on my Linux machine; and, yeah, I use proprietary services like Discord and Gmail on the daily. Though I'm sure he'd condemn me for it, my university's preference and busy schedule makes these things a necessity.