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what’s a snapshot, new kernel? lets roll!! almost 2k packages in

never really broke my arch tbh, its been serving flawlessly for 7 years now. its a decently recent thinkpad tho so stuff tends to just work and i have no gpu to bother about

just joining in on the misery. arr-s overpromise and underdeliver, tried for a month and gave up with just jellyfin and qbittorrent web. jellyfin is ok at masking the atrocious file names and directory structure, bless its soul

i think my point kind of missed: i dont have specific recommendations unless an use case or a set of requirements is provided. most services from big providers are “catch all” because of budget and desire to capture market, privacy alternatives aren’t

i also misunderstood this as a recommendation for others rather than sharing own’s choices, so I’m sorry if I was annoyed for what I felt to be poor choices (and i feel these are for generic users trying to get free from big providers)

but really, drop brave

this is not good. stuff like google calendar and photos are cloud service, a local app isn’t a replacement and there’s so many good ones. brave stuff just injects their affiliates and ads and has paid models, plus is led by someone with very questionable views. arch linux as windows replacement is objectively a bad choice as first linux distro. keepass is great but again offline.

yeah, if you want privacy, de-cloud. even google photos is private if you never connect to the internet. we should recommend less bad alternatives with comparable features, talk about compromises and use cases, and generally avoid making such eye catchy “privacy packs” which don’t work for most and are honestly a circle jerk for who already solved their privacy needs

also there’s no private AI. your local model is built on stolen data, so if you care about our privacy and not just your own stop using ai crap or kindly fuck off back to your favorite techbro

it absolutely is! honestly all matrix homeservers are impressive, the protocol is not for the faint of heart

while i don’t want to throw shade on the developers’ intentions, nor have any real proof of what data is being kept, a fetch request bears by minimum the source ip (which can be geolocated) and the fact that the homeserver exists and runs continuwuity.

i’d suggest a matrix channel as alternative, so hosters can opt-in by joining. plus, by leveraging the matrix protocol, such announcements become federated push notifications, meaning they could come from any homeserver (limiting ip logging) and don’t imply the continued existence of such deployment, or the software which is being run

even converting such mechanism to an opt-out “auto-join announcements channel” would be more privacy respecting

be warned that continuwuity phones home by default to fetch its news and feed it to the admin, you may want to turn that off before booting first time

why wouldn’t it be? you can send emails from web uis too. you can share diffs however you desire. you can have a remote for each developer, and push/pull changes to each other. the github mindset kind of ruined the resilience and distributedness of git: one central remote, one account authority, one central place where discussing MRs… ever forgejo is not as good as decentralized git: what’s a forgejo identity?

meanwhile git has been decentralized and distributed since day one, linux is still developed in a decentralized and distributed way and forgepub is just not ready and not even close.

sending emails with an attached diff to many ppl is too hard? make a nice offline gui doing that and we’re distributed. github was a psyop to make us un-learn git, making it better is silly, like wasting decades searching for “good cigarettes”

what os are you going to use on your smartphone if you remove software from google and apple?

aosp, fdroid, no gservices

what VR headset

not into vr so can’t say

what telecom

sadly, not a good one. i wish i had a choice, but this isn’t software

are you only shopping in local food markets?

sort of? i get fresh stuff from actual markets when i can and when i go for groceries i avoid ultra processed stuff from big multinationals, making sure of the provenance and the maker of the stuff i get, supermarkets also sell stuff from local producers

lemmy creators are bigots

eh, im still leeching off some other person hosting, im not going to host lemmy and im slowly making my own thing

also can you provide examples? i heard it multiple times, I’m not contesting it, just kinda want to see myself, like with vaxry, and not only trust second hand accusations

i don’t want to be a cop and background check

no absolutely fine i don’t check all my software too, but when i hear a callout i dont hide behind “art and artist” mentality and move off the bigot’s stuff

preference is s weak motivation honestly. i prefer google maps yet i still don’t want google and make do with OSM

I’m simply interested in having control over my PC

but you don’t, you still depend on vaxry. can you maintain, update, fix and recompile hyprland yourself? if so, fork it and start boycotting vaxry. if not, what control are you talking about? it’s just preference

this whole argument to me sounds like “i prefer a WM with smooth animations and an active discord so im going to overlook the problematic maintainer im going to give clout to and start depending on”

i’m not on wayland so i can’t try any of these, but there are lists you can browse from (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Compositors for example)

you are setting quite restrictive and arbitrary limits

well supported

what do you mean?

with smooth animations

what counts as “smooth animations”?

if your message boils down to “something which looks really good to me and that has a discord i can go into and ask for help”, you may have set the requirements tight enough to only include hyprland, but that’s not a valid excuse in my opinion to avoid boycotting problematic developers

your argument is a bit extreme, it doesn’t need to only be software from nice folks, it just needs to not be software made by not nice folks

apart from sqlite, i think everything is replaceable with a bit of compromise

what things made by not nice folks are you locked into?

lemmy is not a great comparison, there’s like 3 alternatives, there are tens if not more hyprland alternatives.

i don’t think software is just software, why would this tech be exempt? pilot-less aircrafts is just tech, just like software, but we do remember that drones bomb people. supporting problematic developers is not “as bad” as building killing machines, but it’s the same principle: looking the other way when it’s convenient. we should aim to ostracize and isolate problematic devs, and it starts by not using their software, because doing so gives them clout and relevance

“us/them” mentality doesn’t help much. this is surely a great fuss for a 3 year old pr but you’re misrepresenting the situation:

• serenityOS (and consequently ladybird) has rather strict rules about wording documentation: they enforce language style and even date formats
• that wasn’t a report, but a PR: rather than pressing ~50 keys on your keyboard and then a “lock” button he could have just pressed the “merge” button and integrated those ~10 total characters changes
• github issues are routinely used to fix wording: documentation often lives on git and it’s useful to have it version controlled, even plain documents without attached source are kept on git so that their edit history is accessible and manageable

folks are making a big fuss but Andreas really set himself up: just say sorry and change 4 words, such a weird horse to die on