What do you think about Pinephones? I’m thinking about buying one as my next phone.

I have to agree. I used to play Rainbow 6 with my friends. I enjoyed it, because I was addicted to gaming and they were the only friends I had. After I switched to Linux, I couldn’t play R6 online, which led to them… well… not being friends with me anymore. I’m glad I got out, because if the only thing keeping them being friends with me were the all-nighters of Rainbow, there was no friendship to speak of (I knew these people offline, not just online). After this I eventually stopped gaming completely, not because of a few very minor compatibility issues, but because I realised how much time I was wasting gaming.

So essentially, not only did Linux help me get back control of my computing, but it also completely eradicated my gaming addiction and helped realise what functioning relationships look like, since I even started socialising more. An absolute bargain!

Yakuza branch? I want to know more, I hate Nintendo.

Please. For the love of god, NEVER use a proprietary app to use a piece of FOSS software. I think it’s kind of sad that we have this amazing FOSS social network and people use fucking proprietary software to use it.

100% IF IT’S PROPRIETARY. If the thing is FOSS, you can verify if that’s the case.

In my opinion, the Framework laptop is great for people who want the newest and fastest CPUs, whule also getting the customizability and repairability. I mean yeah, I’d buy an older Thinkpad, but programming in C doesn’t require much compute power or RAM. However, my graphic design and video editor friends won’t make a living using the same machine as I do. For them, the Framework is miles better than any other brand new machine with the same specs (if they want repairability, etc.).

I’ve had this idea for a long time now, but I don’t know shit about LLMs. GPT can be run locally though, so I guess only the API part is needed.

Apparently you can configure KWin (the WM for KDE) to act like a tiling WM. It’s very customizable. Also, you can replace KWin with a TWM, such as i3. I remember doing this a long time ago, can’t remember how, though.

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Dreams are very important. It’s how big changes start. However, this bullshit is getting worse every year, unfortunately :(

Pwease pwease pwease buy an EV, reduce your carbon footprint pls ;)

Also the government: let’s send thousands of units of fossil fuel guzzling machinery to kill people.

I recommend putting public-facing devices on a separate VLAN, and run as much as possible through a reverse proxy, to only have a single port open. Network monitoring is important too.

Yeah, I don’t know what’s happening, but Invidious was always more reliable, at least for me. Which is very ironic, since Piped was created to fix many issues with Invidious.

I think part of this issue is the use of shiny new Javascript frameworks™️ and while I’m not on the “javascript framework bad” hype train, it’s not normal for parts of the UI to simply not load after 3 refreshes of the webpage, while the rest loads fine.

For all the people saying that privacy-oriented Youtube channels are a contradiction.

The point of these channels is to make more people privacy conscious. And where do you find people that aren’t very privacy conscious? That’s right, YouTube. I actually think what these creators are doing is a great sacrifice in terms of their own, personal privacy, but making people aware.

Meh, I just use piped/invidious. I don’t know these channels, but I imagine they’re on LBRY or peertube, too

Wow, that’s really shitty. Maybe tutanota over Tor?

I agree. I was also confused back then. Because of this, I tried creating an account yesterday and found out, that verification is in fact needed. But I simply used one of the disposable email services and it was done. No need for a phone number.

Oops, I guess all my math problems infringe a trademark. There are simply way too many things named X. Also, the X.org foundation don’t have as much money as Twitter, which makes any fight a lost cause.

Many people have asked me this (I’m the certified neighborhood tech guy :P), I always recommend Linux Mint, with the Cinnamon desktop environment, or KDE. Ubuntu used to be the best one and it’s still very good, but pretty heavy on hardware and they keep adding frustrating features nobody asked for.

Please please please, at the start, stay away from Arch and it’s derivatives. I daily Gentoo, but you need a decent knowledge of Linux to use both. If you need help, post to the Linux community or DM me :)

With the verification thing on Proton, there is a button which allows you to bypass it.

Edit: at least there was when I created mine