brenno @ brenno @lemmy.brennoflavio.com.br

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So can you explain for this specific case how other factors influenced in a way that the deregulation was still bad for the end user?

I mean, you said that deregulation has no benefits, I just gave you an example that disagrees with your idea. It does not matter other Brazilian problems in this context, I could take any example of any place to prove my point.

In Brazil, during 1990 - 2000, telecommunications were a highly regulated market. Due to difficulties to enter the market, there was not that many companies around, and outside big cities, phones are mostly inexistent or too expensive for the average customer.

I remember that in my city (100k people) there was only one option, and in my mother's city (5k people) there was no option.

After ~2000, the government did a big deregulation, making easier to other companies to enter in the market and do investments. A few years later, we got coverage across the entire country. For example, in 2005 my city had 5 options and my mom's city had its first option. At this time my family finally could afford paying for a phone plan.

So yeah, excess regulation can harm markets, and deregulation can be good. Finding balance is key here.

Nowadays I don't even bother with upgrades anymore. Snaps and Flatpaks auto updates automatically, and for system updates Ubuntu notifies once a week.

For me the experience nowadays is better than before, where app updates are tied to system updates, meaning that older bases (like Ubuntu LTS) got behind on some softwares.

Most distro maintainers disagree as they also ship Gnome with extensions pre loaded. Gnome with some extensions is an awesome DE.

Anyone know a good Google Chrome replacement on Android that is chromium based? Wanna a basic browser that I'll use when Firefox does not work correctly

Snaps have a similar deduplication mechanism, and snaps allows calling apps from their names like you would do with regular packages.

I think the reason for the second one is that while snaps are also meant to be used in servers/cli flatpak is built only with desktop GUI apps in mind.

That would be the same of hating docker because it creates networks. It's just how it's sandbox works.

This seems like free hate as you can use certbot without snap without any problems. Imagine stopping using Firefox because of the same reason for example

That's correct, I have done it before.

Do you have sources on this? I did a quick research and the only thing that I found was this article that argues that Neoliberalism definition changed over time and it would be an anachronism to take how the therm is used today (for example in this post) to define what they mean at the time, and the closest definition for them would be liberals, not neoliberals anymore. Which is totally fine given the time that has passed, and specially how political definitions are hard to define without context (example on how we consider left and right nowadays and 200 years ago for example, its not the same ideas)

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/history-of-neoliberal-meaning/528276/

Important to mention that Neoliberalism is a therm not really used by people by people who defend liberty, capitalism and free market policies. It's not something academic for example. Basically you won't find liberals calling themselves neoliberals.

It is often used by people that does not agree with liberalism, sometimes in a pejorative way, other times to aggregate a group of heterogeneous people, and sometimes mixing different policies and aspects of modern western societies.

Citing the Wikipedia article that explains and has sources on this:

The term has multiple, competing definitions, and is often used pejoratively.[21][22] English speakers have used the term since the start of the 20th century with different meanings.[23] However, it became more prevalent in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s; it is used by scholars in a wide variety of social sciences,[24][25][26] as well as by critics,[27][28][29] to describe the transformation of society in recent decades due to market-based reforms.[30] The term is rarely used by proponents of free-market policies.[31] Some scholars reject the idea that neoliberalism is a monolithic ideology and have described the term as meaning different things to different people as neoliberalism has mutated into multiple, geopolitically distinct hybrids as it propagated around the world.[32][33][34] Neoliberalism shares many attributes with other concepts that have contested meanings, including representative democracy.[35]

In Brazil I pay 20 USD for 500mb. There are plans in my area that sells 1gb for 30 USD. Thay can't put data caps due to legislation, only on mobile data (which I pay 6usd for 20gb cap, 5g)

Don't be like them and generalize everything. Browsers are complex piece of software with many use cases. For mine for example Firefox works great without major issues. It might not be the case for you and that's fine!

I'm not defending canonical decisions, but definably when they started working on this there was no other alternative available for them to collaborate at the time

You know that snaps existed before Flatpaks right?

That's what I do nowadays with Protonmail

That should not happen if I'm using AWS SES SMTP endpoint to send emails right? So receiving in my VM but using Amazon to deliver emails.

If I send emails using AWS SES SMTP endpoint that should not happen correct? Receiving email is not affected by bad reputation I suppose

Last time I tried (1 year ago), waydroid on UT used a Lineageos image, which means that you'll get the same level of degoogling as a stock LineageOS system. Some internals still uses Google, but it comes with no Google apps for example.

From there it's up to you to install or not Google apps and services. It does not bundle play services for example.