These drawings have a special place in my heart, they enchanted me as a kid and I love coming back to them as an adult

Newest post from Cory Doctorow is about exactly this pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#grace…

Very interesting read on tatemae and honne, thanks for the link. Always love it when I discover that some culture has a word for a familiar concept/thing

The greeks called it catharsis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharsis

Just bought a Jolla C2, as you can see it is in high demand right now commerce.jolla.com/…/jolla-community-phone

First impressions:

• UI in Sailfish OS is okay. Takes a bit getting used to, but it is clear that they want this to be noob-friendly - you don’t get lost in endless settings menus and advanced options, for example. The navigation itself is neat and tidy.
• A weird UX-decision is to rely on gestures even when there are acres of available real estate on the screen for a simple button. The Clock/timer-app for example.
• Keet (my main messaging app) works! Messages, file sharing, calls, etc, works as expected. Only thing missing is notifications. Trying to fiddle w microg, but it’s a lot of steps.
• All in all, looking promising so far

I canceled spotify 2 yrs ago and switched to qobuz, music collection of 1500 songs. Some bought digitally, most ripped from cds. Happy as a clam!

Cool, using this setup now.

Thinking of ways to make it more friendly for my SO and guests coming to visit or babysit etc, who are not used to linux (gnome). Any tips there?

Top of mind is auto open browser on startup with fixed tabs for relevant streaming services. But could also be a simple wrapper of some kind, with UI similar to kodi, plex, jellyfin etc - but for accessing content on web.

Oh absolutely. I like the qualitative way they interact with their users. Instead of lots of static pages with lists of issues to vote on, roadmaps, FAQs and that kind of thing, feedback and updates all happen in the chats, interacting with the actual developers. When I make requests or report bugs, ppl chime in and those things actually get addressed, and sometimes fixed really fast. Feels like a digital village!

yea🤘 the tech is really fascinating. Like yea, the p2p-approach introduces some new challenges, but it solves so many existing ones:

For example costs. The more popular an app gets, the more traffic it gets, the more it costs to run it. I’ve heard telegram spends hundreds of millions of dollars on servers, with hundreds of developers.

P2P is the complete opposite. Keet is made by a small team, and the more people use it, the better it runs (because more peers can relay data). It can scale with no such restrictions.

someone should do the math of what would be the environmental impact if all communication went p2p instead of datacentres.