It wasn’t okay. To cure the illness, you need to know why you feel wrong.

I guess barely anyone does:
https://wiki.lineageos.org/faq#canshould-i-relock-my-bootloader 

Few devices allow for it and even less work properly after that. Relocking can result in actual unusable devices, so be warned!

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/relock-fp5-keeping-lineageos/108723

If you plan on installing LOS and want to lock your bootloader you’ll have to build your own images, that’s not supported by default.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/n7yo7u/a_discussion_about_bootloader_lockingunlocking/

https://xdaforums.com/t/solved-can-i-re-oem-lock-my-bootloader-after-installing-lineageos.4692135/#post-89707810

With /e/OS (based on LineageOS), the bootloader can be relocked on Fairphone, Shiftphone, Teracube, and Google Pixel, and they are sold locked by Murena (main developer of /e/OS).
https://community.e.foundation/t/list-devices-where-bootloader-can-be-relocked/48424

This means a pickpocket or airport security control can’t take a copy of your system image via USB and brute force your few-digit passcode in a virtual machine without guess rate limiting - they’d have to extract the flash memory chip from the phone to copy it. If they crack the passcode, they can start using your user accounts and whatever information is on the phone.
To be precise, the pickpockets don’t crack the phones, they sell to exporters, who sell to China:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20vlpwrzwdo

On the other hand, I’m appalled by the indifference when users point out failures of e/OS’s core feature, privacy protection, on the forum:

Fake location doesn’t work on HERE WeGo maps, therefore probably many other apps:
https://community.e.foundation/t/real-location-leaked-through-advanced-privacy/78155

Limited file access doesn’t work on PLAY’A VR Cardboard, therefore probably many other apps:
https://community.e.foundation/t/app-permissions-failure-can-see-all-files-despite-limited-access/69483

Tests failed again a few days ago on my phone with the newest /e/OS 3.4 A15.

Isn’t that how inheritance works? Everything including the long copyright get inherited immediately.

Once again, a careless inventor put out something not designed to counteract obvious misuses. Shoud have designed a complete system with sensibly aligned incentives.

Not a chore to look into when I adjust my (bright) computer screen to maximum brightness and read something with a white background. The dawn lamp is next to it.

Those were the most fitting ones. Here are some that were a bit off the mark.

Repressed emotions explode as reactions.

https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html

Banning time-spent rewarding (ad-funded, pay-to-play) business models would remove the incentive to cause addiction.

Full-size cars, yes, but I wish we the people now stopped the fossil-lobbied lawfare against microcars.

Renault Twizy, top speed 80km/h

Kyburz Plus, top speed 30km/h

• Gross weight ~10% of a typical electric car, so probably ~10% tyre dust too.
• For bikeways. If the plastic surface were designed to yield in a crash, a pedestrian could be safer hit by this than by a bare biker on a bare metal bike.
• Takes less space than a biker because a 4-wheeler can be steered more accurately than a naturally unstable bike needing wobble margins.
• Banned in many places through lawfare: https://xfwnofqagsnmdxuf.quora.com/Lawfare-against-tiny-cars-velomobiles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile_(transportation)

1. Make normal life illegal.
2. Attack political opponents breaking the laws.
3. Fascism.

WWW was crap right from the start - it works like a paper pile, chaotic, needs search engines to work. It was made for publishing only. It doesn’t work for anything else except through ugly hacks added on top of it.

The much earlier invention, Memex, was designed for crowd work on all human knowledge. It remembers knowledge and its creation process to be immediately learned from and built upon. It self-organises, integrating added information to the common knowledge tree.

Other earlier inventions superior to WWW are Xanadu Web by Ted Nelson, and Dynabook/Smalltalk by Alan Kay.

The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

He says “co-dependent”, not “interdependent”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codependency

… imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person’s self-destructive behavior, such as addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achievement.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interdependent

Mutually dependent; reliant on one another.

That’s Quora now, after 2018.

Quora 2013:
https://www.quora.com/How-does-monoamine-oxidase-MAO-cleave-monoamines/answer/Alex-Siegel

2016:
https://www.quora.com/Which-theory-best-explains-why-humanity-screws-up/answer/Rob-Ennals

Quora used to have a fantastic crowd-edited question topic ontology/taxonomy for precise feed shaping with thousands of disambiguated topics interlinked in a graph/tree structure, but they enshittified the system away 2023, and now it’s all LLM misunderstandings of what the question topics should be. The bot thinks a question is about apples when the question is a mathematics word puzzle; “How many apples…”. The excuse for AI tagging was “tags can be abused” when in reality the crowd corrected the abuses quickly and reported the offenders. With the new AI tagger, my feed turned from a valuable place for learning into viral trash from Quora-celebrities, mostly about current news.

They never made the obviously needed features of:

• being able to topic tag answers, not just questions (for when the question is general and the answer is specific, like “What do you think everyone needs to know in 2026?”).
• the ability to follow a topic from a user, because most people write about many topics, so a follow-a-user brings uninteresting topics to my feed, but not all people write well about that topic I want to follow, so I’d need to follow that topic from good writers only.

I wish the downvoters commented to explain why.

My (upvoter’s) problem with this is the structurelessness, “prose-pizza” where the meat is sprinkled all over the story, so you have to read it all to get it all. I would appreciate a simple, skimmable “problems, solutions” structure with clear hierarchy under short subtitles. The first line or two should be a summary for non-followers for deciding whether to click on this when previewed in a feed.

This post didn’t need to include an ad for x-dot-com.

Artificial scarcity is a crime against humanity that should be banned. Trade secrets, forbidding others from producing an invention, and patent trolling should be illegal, not built into law. All information should be public (anonymised). Every computer should have everything digital ever made.

Capitalism is a problem that should be replaced by a retroactively-estimating value-production reward system. The system should pay for the value produced anywhere in society, including to the drug inventor when a patient is healed, or to the producer when a copy of something is used to have fun, or when a product or service that was made with the help of it, produces value. Movie makers would get paid more if they received good ratings from consumers. Software makers would get paid more when their applications are used, but causing addiction would be fined. News Corp and cigarette makers would be fined for destroying value.

The expected result of commercial dating sites not showing the best matches to keep the paying customers hooked forever.

When I try to swipe on OkCupid (now destroyed by Match Group), it says “This Stack is currently empty. Come back later for more people or update your preferences”, but when I open a browser bookmark of a person I superliked and messaged before, the person is still there, and my superlike and message have been deleted. I don’t know if the person ever saw my profile.

That title tells nothing about the content. Please edit so that feed scrollers can decide whether to click or not.