17 year old Tech enthusiast and Cat lover from Germany.
I’m almost positive I’m autistic and/or have ADHD.
Lemm.ee account of @Rush@mstdn.social
I agree! It’s actually it’s own protocol, being built on top of the IP (internet protocol) ofc
The webpages are essentially pure text. No JS, and everything is designed to be super privacy-friendly. Gemini is like the pinnacle of the SmallWeb
Well yeah, LibAdwaita is the flagship implementation of GNOME’s design guidelines.
It recommends new users to just install everything with it, instead of looking for native alternatives.
There’s actually the “Zorin-exec-guard”, which runs when you wanna use an AppImage (for integration) or windows app and tries to match the filename to a known list of either native versions of the program or native alternatives. It then prompts you if you wanna use those instead.
They’ve also released a migration tool for a future Z16 > Z17 migration and migration between Core & Pro.
Another thing, the extensions and everything needed for pro layouts is all in the repos but disabled by default. You can all enable it manually.
Make sure you really only selected YouTube subs, otherwise they’ll give you like 6 50gb ZIP Files (depending on how much they know about you 😉)
I would wager a guess and say that many joined long before they got this bad, probably because back then their visions and values were a lot more aligned
Nowadays I rarely see more than hectic startups and Big Tech, both of which have massive downsides which affect people outside of their field too.
Additionally, especially at the HQs of Google and others, many SWEs live in vans on the street because rent is too high, they cannot just work somewhere else as that won’t actually change the situation
I have no idea, I think its kinda merged with Duo and Meet?
because obtainium gets many apps directly from F-Droid.org too, not just github
And for those downloads, it does no verification
Not on GitHub either, where signatures are often attached together with the APK.
somehow, it still exists.
Judging from how many SWEs are in the US, its basically this or loose your job. And that’d be a bit bad because of how many different pricing crisis there are at the moment.
there could be a patchset made with ReVanced-CLI. It’s an easy bypass if you know a bit of Java/Kotlin, even with release APKs
newpipe does YouTube, SoundCloud, Peertube, and Bandcamp. NewPipe isn’t YouTube-Only.
Cool, a new way to troll AI
If OSTree suits you better, that’s fine!
The A/B Partition method and OSTree are both great, but have different strengths
VanillaOS described it in their FAQ once:
Vanilla OS uses an A/B structure (ABRoot), which transacts updates atomically between two root micro partitions. The benefits of this system are the guarantee that the system is altered only when the entire transaction is successful (concept of atomicity), furthermore, the double root partition structure allows you to roll back to the previous state, directly from your boot, you will always have a home to come back to.
This structure, unlike others, is compatible with already existing distributions and does not require a complex setup and allows easy re-initialization of the system without data loss.
The 40gb total are both already reserved, and a normal user isn’t supposed to modify it so it shouldn’t fill up.
For desktop apps, Vanilla will primarily stick to Flatpaks, so Firefox will also be a Flatpak.
VanillaOS already has a custom boot menu that can be used to switch slots in case an update went wrong, so that you can go back to your older, but working system.
The partitions are also not synced.
If you install something using abroot (e.g an update) it will only be installed to the unused slot.
So if you run abroot --update or use the included updater, and you’re in Slot A, it’ll modify Slot B, and vice versa.
It doesn’t sign it locally, it verifies the file you downloaded is already signed properly as it should be. This ensures the download isn’t broken but also that the app is from who they claim it is.
When you’re on A, updates go to B. When you’re on B, updates go to A.
After an update, a reboot will switch slots.
If I recall right, the settings have an option to proxy videos too.
For the web, there is Piped (github.com/teampiped/piped) and Invidious (invidious.io)
NOTE: Only Piped proxies your videos, which means invidious allows connections directly to Google to load the video.
On Android, there’s NewPipe and LibreTube which are well known by now.
NOTE: LibreTube uses Piped to preserve privacy and (somewhat) anonymity when watching, thus you’ll need to select some piped instance with it.
On iOS, there’s the web frontends and Yattee (github.com/yattee/yattee).
NOTE: Yattee is on the AppStore, but without any sources/instances by default. Look for “instances” in the settings and add a Piped API URL, like
https://pipedapi.kavin.rocksto watch videos from YouTube with Piped+Yattee.
On Desktop, there is all the web clients as well as FreeTube (freetubeapp.io).
NOTE: FreeTube has an option to proxy everything or just the videos through Invidious to preserve privacy. It is recommended to enable this.
Eh, the devs probably don’t want this either, only because it means they’ll keep their job are they doing this
I vote for making the executives’ lives hell instead
lol that sounds like an existing old-YouTube bug that ReVanced also suffered of a while ago.
You’d wanna use an up-to-date version, but that’s hard on such an old android version
I’d suggest - even tho it isn’t 1:1 the same - that you export your subscriptions from Google and import them either into LibreTube (closer to the official YT app) or NewPipe.
Because LibreTube uses the (awesome) Piped Project to load videos and info, you can also sync data using it and your favourite piped instance. (piped.video, piped.smnz.de, piped.adminforge.de are personal recommendations)