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Veronica Explains

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.

Veronica Explains

Seriously folks. Have you seen modern HTML and CSS? It rules and HTML/CSS programmers are awesome.

Veronica Explains

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.

Veronica Explains

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.

Veronica Explains

My self-hosted git repo inside my own network is still working. How about yours?

Veronica Explains

"My freedom of expression!" the replydude cried, as he was swiftly banished from the instance.

Veronica Explains

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.

Veronica Explains

Learn to host your own services now. Because in the future you might not be able to discover how.

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End Of Line

@vkc I mostly use nowadays
news.ycombinator.com/
lobste.rs/
dev.to/ (I find it more useful than reddit.com/ for dev informations) and mastodon (following users and specific tags)

I find nowadays little to no useful information straight from google search) and I'm surprised that somebody tries to do so

Kenneth Freeman

@vkc
I concur. Internet corporations make for walled gardens, gate-keeping, and rent-seeking. Which are are among the reasons why I’m so keen on #Wikipedia & #Tor. (Hosting my own server or instance is another project for another day.)

bel

@vkc god I'm so thankful I found you out here in the internet wild, been quietly despairing of learning things fast enough before they make internet learning impossible

Veronica Explains

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.

#Linux

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Larry Smith

@vkc
I tend to go lite, with icewm, or jwm, or fluxbox.

Jigme Datse

@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.

-glen-

@vkc ended up costing Mint a couple years ago and thus I’m a fan of Cinammon!

It’s pretty great to have so many options!

Veronica Explains

Happy "quickly updating all of the servers" day to those who celebrate.

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Peter Mount

@vkc I've got that fun to do later when I get home

Veronica Explains

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. security-tracker.debian.org/tr

baahemian

@vkc your posts are a blessing, just kicked off updates now.

Veronica Explains

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.

#Commodore64 #VintageComputing

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Juankprada

@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…

Stefan Gast

@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.

JocelynAyodele

@vkc Friendly computing also revolves around Linux as well.
Windows and macOS aren't the only options THANK GOD!

Veronica Explains

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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requiem 🏴

@vkc I’ll have to check it out, thanks for the tip

Steve Zakulec

@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.

Veronica Explains

In non #WWDC news, KDE Connect continues to do basically everything I ever wanted out of the Apple ecosystem.

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Marcel Bischoff

@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.

JP

@vkc ooh I'm not familiar with this. I've been on the Gnome side of things so long I completely forget there's all these KDE things that can actually work fine on Ubuntu these days. I'll have to check it out.

What's your favourite part of KDE Connect?

WerySkok :verified_think:

@vkc I liked the idea of forwarding phone calls to PC via Bluetooth from Windows though

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