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1 day agoTumblr is is such a goldmine sometimes, thanks for that.
jlow (he/him)
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Cake day: July 13th, 2023
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Well, they’re going on my big list of “throw money at orgs to make this hellhole a bit less shite” I’ll check in January when I know my earnings for 2024:
Oohh, I’ll try to remember thqt, thanks!
It’s rreeccoommeenndd and so many others for me …
21·7 days agoEsp the left one looks like they’re punching a fascist, I want a Good Night, White Pride sticker with that now …
82·8 days agoAnother reason to hate AI!
So someone better than me at maths could probably figure out how many cats I’d need to heat my with them room (and if the catfood etc needed would be cheaper than heating) …
21·10 days agoI think it’s about time FOSS points out the fact that making software is a lot of work and while it’s cool if some want to do it for free / as a hobby we need projects to be financially sustainable. Sure its nice if government orgs or companies sponsor open source projects but I feel it would be better if the community™ could pay most of the costs. I know thats utopian but I think most people don’t realise how much work goes into all of these projects and (as evident by that graph) a lot of them seem to be up for paying for a good product that doesn’t spy on you.
It’s only second prize so can’t be scam
Yeah, what about the waste, gonna eat that with your Turkey?
Wth, it’s real? That’s so cool!
What … is this picture … A movie screenshot?
I was also immediately thinking of tides as a time measurent. Relying on moon cycles gets you out of sync with solar years pretty quickly (os thqt important underwater? You probably do get seasonal changes?), I wonder if you could detect sunlight intensity changes or something and then do the whole solar / lunar calendar leap-day shebang we do …
Mmmh, no idea about that, sorry …
Im petty sure you don’t need to root a phone to install a custom ROM nowadays (unlocking bootloader, yes. And it is obviously more work installing a custom ROM than buying one that comes with it preinstalled).
I’ve always had a bad feeling about them since I read a pretty damning critique years and years ago (I can’t really recall what it was about now but I think it was privacy fuckups, devs not communicating very well and they included apps from rather shady sources from then internet that could potentially to not very tech-savy people installing malware through their official apps store).
That they somehow managed to fuck up their own cloud infrastructure recently (as others have hinted had) doesn’t really make me hopefull that they changed much from back then. Mind you I now next to nothing about this incedent but if you have a service that potentially thousands of people rely on with their data you should have working backups and rollbacks in place.
(Personally I also just can’t deal with the fucking branding, it just looks pretentious, unsearchable and weird.)
I would (and have) just always gone for Lineage and MicroG with F-Droid/Optanium for FOSS apps and Aurora for the few Google Play Store apps I need. Plus Netguard as a firewall.
Here’s a very in-depth German review of a pretty well-respected security researcher on the not-so-stellar privacy aspects of that ROM:
I’m pretty that Lineage does not fare much better, though. If you’re into privacy the only real option seems to be GrapheneOS which only runs on Pixel Devices 👌
Jitsi, Nextcloud Talk and Signal are all very good options (if you don’t need screenshare with desktop sound (e.g. a watching a tutorial video with sound), I haven’t found a FOSS solution that can do that - though tbh it’s been a while since I tried it with something other than Signal)
I think the changes of that happening are statistically neglible, though (comfortable maaaaybe if you’re really lucky but becoming rich is probably a one digit change, if that).
I use Joplin with a selfhosted sync server but tbh I almost never use it on Android because it’s just so cumbersome. Would be up for reccs as well. There’s Nextcloud Notes (no desktop, only browser afaik) and a lot of people seem to be using rabdom Markdown note editors and syncing that with Syncthing but I’ve had bad experiences with that kn the past (stuff not being synced, constant conflicts etc).
German here, did Erasmus exchange in Istanbul, Turkey while at art / design school. While the university there was to, uh … practical? advertisement focussed? capitalist? for my liking it still was one of the best things I’ve done in my life so far. Met so many cool people from different backgrounds, learned a lot about social skills / relationships, the music, the food, it is (was? It was like 15 years ago, before Erdogan) an amazing city. Can def recommend.