Melpomene

I just disconnected mine and set up a Kodi server to manage content, will set up a removable device if I ever need native streaming. The privacy issues with my LG and the ads they added after purchase were irritating enough to push me over the edge.

Yeah, I was messing with it the other day, trying to get it running on a Galaxy Tab. Process was… not really working well. Contrast with GrapheneOS, which is surprisingly easy to install, even on Linux.

Sort of. On GrapheneOS a fair number of banking apps fail because GrapheneOS sandboxes Aurora, but on a regular Android install I think they work? That is, assuming that you can get Aurora to load in the first place.

There are. But are the banking apps people use to manage their money on F-Droid? Can I download PayPal on F-Droid? Are there any cash transfer apps that have enough users and enough support to be useful?

I have keys on my keyring, but if those keys don’t open the doors you need to open… how useful are they to you?

That fine; now tell the companies you work with that to work with you that they have to retrain their tens of thousands of employees to use those other applications, apps that lack critical functionality they rely on. Whether you like it or not, there are business critical applications that the apps on F-Droid cannot currently replace. Pretending that F-Droid offers everything everyone needs is not helpful to moving toward a better way; it’s akin to those guys who scream “USE LINUX” every time someone has an issue with a Windows application. Me, I love Linux… but I also realize that for the businesses I work with, Linux as a desktop solution isn’t going to sell.

My apps are around 5% Google Play (paid apps from indie developers unavailable on other platforms, using a throwaway account) 25% F-Droid, 25% direct APK, and 45% Aurora. As apps I need join F-Droid, I switch… but many just don’t see the value.

I have Lineage installed on an older phone. I think it gets less attention than it might otherwise because for the average user, the install process is a pain in the memory space.

It still works for me intermittently, but yes. Google is going to Google.

Limited as in, lacks a fair number of apps that many people (myself included) need to be able to function as professionals. I’m not sure how much safer F-Droid is in theory, as the vetting process for apps seems to be pretty nonexistent. For each app, I have to either research or trust. That’s fine for me, but trying to explain how to handle that to tech-unsavvy people is a bridge too far.

“Just research the publisher or programmer and review the code, mom!” Yeah, not going to work.

Can only answer for myself but F-Droid is limited, Aurora is still the Play Store, and Amazon is… depending on your view… worse than the Play Store itself. A shame the Play Store is the default.

Is it wrong that I want him to so ruin Twitter than when / if I get moderately rich, I can buy it for a couple of million, Tumblr style and shut it down?

Him and his Minecraft looking head were at least half fooling some people until his more recent shenanigans though!

In this case, the exact spot where Musk"s transformation from supposed tech genius to batshit crazy bigot was completed.

Why does this feel like one of those “the villain invites all of their rivals to a meeting to end them” situation?

Where’s the fun in that?! Every service needs a silly and relatively useless term to designate its posts. Like… maybe Misskey could have… I dunno… uWus? (I kid, I kid.)

I’m trying to figure out what posts will be. Blubs? Fins?

EDIT: My partner said “bubbles.” She’s much smarter than I am it seems.

Not making fun; I think the name is fine… and the new features look promising too!

I swapped to Linux back before COVID after I realized that the few Windows specific tasks I still ran were running in VMs anyway. Since then, I’ve been fully Linux and I’ve rarely needed Windows for anything but installing custom Android ROMS and reading Adobe DRMed files.

Microsoft actually made the process easier by making Office 365 useful. If I need MS Office specifically I can just run it well enough from a browser.

Linux user here, also once upon a time a Windows admin. I think the most difficult thing for most users is not that Linux is difficult, but that it is different.

Take Pop_OS for example. For the average “I check email and surf the web” user, it works wonderfully. But most people grew on Windows or Mac so its just not what they’re used to. Linux is kind of the stick shift to Windows and Mac’s automatic transmission… its not hard to learn, but most folk don’t choose to make the effort because they don’t need to.

This should be named the “Attempting to Kill Open Source Software by Imposing Impossible Burdens on the Same Act.” I’m not sure that they intended this to destroy open source projects but… it may have that effect regardless.

Concur on the edit history feature / log. I’d also support an optional “rollback and lock edits” feature for mods so bad actors couldn’t just edit to seed discord.

I’d support a delete feature for posts, but people do need to understand that content released into the fediverse is out there for good, more or less.

Would I prefer that 5 people free half of their slaves versus no one freeing any slaves? Of course, why would I want everyone to stay enslaved if I could free some and continue to work to free others? Would you prefer that everyone who is currently a slave remain enslaved until we convince the entire world to free their slaves?

I think they more prefer to focus on the issue (the state of Twitter) in a post about Twitter, versus going off on tangents that would otherwise make for interesting conversation.