Repeal and outlaw drm. It was a mistake that violates everyone's constitutional rights.

“constitutional rights”

Words written on toilet paper. Only thing that exists today are “billionaire rights”.

Exactly. DRM isn’t going anywhere so long as copyrights exist.

Not even that. Companies are already lobbying massively for selective enforcement of copyright as to not harm the AI boom (immediate jail terms for individuals torrenting a movie, "it's a complex issue" for AI companies scraping the entire internet)

But even the DRM that is already there often only uses copyright laws as suggestions. E.g. YouTube's takedown guidelines are defined through their TOS, not through the DMCA.

Agreed. I was surprised of how bad it was compared to their other apps (their calendar app). The recordings are faint/muted and it seems to have reliability issues.

Luckily there are quality options to choose from on fdroid.

Any recommendations?

I need opus at low bitrates that works in the background and haven't foud anything that really works for me on fdroid.

That is more or less what i did with my parents, but this approach is still susceptible to active mitm attacks.

2 factor authentication through a secure app or a trusted family member is probably also needed though i haven't tackled this part with them yet.

> 2 factor authentication through a secure app

the problem is that the sort of emergency scenario in which family member would need the help is not often done or possible via a secured app. It's often just a telephone, with a number that you cannot recognize - imagine getting that phone call from a police station in the middle of nowhere when arrested, then you dont have access to any of your personal belongings as they're confiscated. The phone is a landline from the police station!

Therefore, a verbal password is needed, as this scenario is exactly how a scammer would present as the emergency that they need help (usually, wire some dollars to this account to bail out).

For me it's the R1 fiasco and their dishonesty. How anyone can continue to trust a project that brazenly mislead their users to such an extent just to cash in on the hype is beyond me.

I guess ill just connect my phone to a charger and record the screen then. What is the threat model that Microsoft hopes to thwart with this nonsense?

I'm surprised that they're doing this now, with how strained international relations are. I'm sure their timing will help motivate serious non-us customers to look at linux for desktop use.

I really doubt that if it was, say, the early 90s (with millions of people yet unfamiliar to computing) and MS and Linux was in its current state of development, that the masses wouldn't have found it much more frictionless just to use linux. MS is literally running on hot air, hubris, and lock-in the likes of which I don't think many others cant match, devil incarnate not withstanding.

Google is not a company I would want to work for.

The analog hole. As long as human eyes can perceive the video, there will always be a way to preserve it, even if we need to fall back to analog (we wont, probably).

I assume not since i never agreed to such a terms and only learned about them yesterday. How on earth did we get to a point of hidden privacy policies on desktop open source software...

That's nice and all, but most people are worried about the other "rights" this would grant them and their partners. (What they can vs what they say they will)