One of the best things I ever did for my mental health, and I mean this with all sincerity: I installed GrapheneOS and have absolutely no mainstream app store.
My phone is bare and my mind wanders. It's awesome.
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One of the best things I ever did for my mental health, and I mean this with all sincerity: I installed GrapheneOS and have absolutely no mainstream app store. My phone is bare and my mind wanders. It's awesome. Seriously folks. Have you seen modern HTML and CSS? It rules and HTML/CSS programmers are awesome. I still use Firefox. It's still fine, uBlock still works on it. I know Mozilla isn't perfect, but I still feel they're better than the alternatives on the whole. I've also been playing with LibreWolf (a fork of Firefox) and it's got some strong defaults, but it's not packaged for all distros yet so it's hard to recommend it. For me, the important part is *not* using a Chromium based browser. I'm basically a "single issue browser user" in this regard. Firefox still feels like the simplest way to do that. So that's what I'll keep using. "My freedom of expression!" the replydude cried, as he was swiftly banished from the instance. I know I don't have to say it, but I will anyway: Your freedom of expression does not grant you the right to my attention. That's *exactly* why I think it's logical that Mastodon should implement "do not let my server collect replies to this toot", and introduce a simple flag for other instances to honor.
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Learn to host your own services now. Because in the future you might not be able to discover how.
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@vkc I mostly use nowadays I find nowadays little to no useful information straight from google search) and I'm surprised that somebody tries to do so @vkc KDE Plasma is great. GNOME is awesome. Window managers are wonderful. Everything has quirks but I love all these options we have. I can't wait to see where we take them.
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@vkc I want to love KDE Plasma... But the level of quirks often ends up with me just giving up on it. Maybe I'm just "doing it wrong". For myself, I use Openbox, for others I tend to use XFCE4.
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I am not a security researcher, and I don't want to sound authoritative on stuff I'm *not* an authority on. If you run Debian like I do, this page might be useful. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-6387 You open up a Commodore 64, and the box says "welcome to the world of friendly computing." You turn on a modern PC, and it immediately threatens your data unless you agree to save your data to *their* cloud service. That right there is why we talk about vintage computers. Folks need to be reminded of what's possible.
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@vkc it’s kind of nostalgic, computers used to be made so they would serve us! Now they look like a tool made to squeeze the last drop of information from us, if they have to “perform” some tasks for us to do it, that’s the price they pay… @vkc This. Exactly this. We're no longer in control of many machines we own. Instead of solving genuine technical challenges, we have to work around anti-features – artificial problems that should not exist in the first place. Many systems today are outright user-hostile. @vkc Friendly computing also revolves around Linux as well. Jellyfin is awesome. I pay $0/mo in streaming fees, which never ever increase. Storage is cheap and can also back up my family photos. And I've never lost a show or album due to licensing issues. I acquire as much new media as I want to, and pay nothing if I'm disinterested. Jellyfin is exactly the media future I expected as a kid, and it's glorious.
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@vkc What are you running the backend on? I've considered Jellyfin before because it has vastly more front ends than Kodi, but Kodi doing client/server in the same app has been super convenient for my streaming boxes. In non #WWDC news, KDE Connect continues to do basically everything I ever wanted out of the Apple ecosystem.
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@vkc I’ve tried it. KDE is massively slower and needs more resources than macOS on my quite old 2014 MacBook Pro. So yeah, good that it works for you but it’s not a real alternative for most non-nerds. Plus, there’s effectively zero professional media software available on platforms KDE runs on. @vkc I liked the idea of forwarding phone calls to PC via Bluetooth from Windows though |