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Always eat your greens!

  • Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

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  • Pay for your FOSS! I've paid far more for my FOSS than for any proprietary software.

    If you believe in subscriptions, then subscribe only to FOSS software like Bitwarden, Tailscale/Netbird, etc.

    Find your favorite FOSS projects on Open Collective and support them there.

    And above all else, treat FOSS devs and maintainers with the utmost respect! They are the unsung heros who are building the only alternatives to the corpo-dystopian hellscape of proprietary, enshitified, slop software.

    Send a message to a dev today, just saying thank you to them for everything, and asking if you can send them a tip if possible.

    Folks, let's treat each other lovingly please, FOSS has freed us, give back what you can, and never take it for granted.

    To all the devs, maintainers, tinkerers, supporters, FOSS educators, and helpful community members across the FOSS world, thank you so much, and much love. ♥️

  • Saved my parents 2015 MBA

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  • Love to see it! I got my parents onto Linux Mint about a year ago and it's been great for them.

    Their home PC is way too old to upgrade to Windows 11, plus I didn't want them subjected to Microsoft's trash software and spying, so Linux it was.

    Themed it similar to Windows 10, even changed the "Start" menu icon to the Windows 10 logo so my parents felt safe using it lol.

  • Could a “Discord-like” client be built on top of Matrix or XMPP, or perhaps even both?

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  • The problem with replacing Discord isn't the tech or features. Discord doesn't do anything special that hasn't existed in other software for 15-20 years.

    The key difficulty is overcoming the network effect. All the big streamers use Discord, which means their millions of viewers are going to use Discord also, which means that most of their friends will too, and thus, you have a default app that almost everybody uses.

    It took a massive amount of effort for me to just get three of my friends to sign up with Matrix and join a group server for gaming, and two of them stopped using it after just a month or two. I only have a single friend who is still using it, and they only use it when the two of us are gaming.

  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • Buying my copy soon!

  • How large would a pool have to be for you to swim in it if there is also a corpse in the pool?

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  • I'm going to assume worst case scenario, rotting bloated corpse that stinks, is covered in flies, and is floating high and very visibly on the surface of the water.

    In that case, I would need the pool to be probably Olympic sized and be on the long end away from the corpse.

    My instinct says that would be enough for me to not be too horrified beyond the initial horror of seeing it in the pool.

  • Somehow this is what's going to convince me to distro hop.

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  • I hate that this is me...

  • What youtuber do you think had the biggest downfall?

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  • I love how she starts off by saying her legal team recommended she not do that...then proceeds to do it anyways lol.

  • What youtuber do you think had the biggest downfall?

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  • Onision had a pretty spectacular implosion, but he was always a pretty wild and controversial figure. Shane Dawson was another pretty massive one. Miranda Sings was also huge, then all the weird and creepy chats and stage moments came out, sank her whole brand.

  • What are your biggest annoyances with the Lemmy client you use?

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  • Voyager user here, just some general bugginess. It's not bad, but sometimes weird stuff happens, like when I minimize the app on my phone and then switch back, the main toolbar is misaligned.

  • What are some bare minimum concepts beginner Linux users should understand?

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  • True, it still does vary even chipset to chipset. Some Nvidia and Intel cards do just work depending on the distro, others require more work.

    It also depends on how "techie" the user is. My parents are 0% techie, so I have to do anything and everything for them if they have questions or issues.

    But a Windows power user can handle some terminal use and other basic system modifications. And honestly now days, most of that stuff is super easy. Like Linux mint has a dedicated driver app that allows you to use a simple GUI to install Nvidia drivers, it's super easy.

  • What are some bare minimum concepts beginner Linux users should understand?

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  • Hard to summarize, because it differs so much from person to person.

    I installed Linux on my parent's computer. They don't need to know anything about Linux, because everything they use is identical to their old Windows PC. They click the icon for Chrome to open the browser. They Click the icon for LibreOffice to type up a "Word" doc and print it by clicking "file > print"

    As far as they're concerned, they are still using Windows.

    For a gamer, they will need to know a little about Proton, possibly Lutris and the Hero launcher. They might need to know about installing nVidia drivers or tweaking a few things in the Steam launch options to get games to run better.

    It's tough to know exactly what a new Linux user will "need" to know in order to use Linux.

  • What's a Tankie?

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  • Typically it refers to leftists who strongly defend/advocate for authoritarian statist approaches to socialism/communism.

  • What are you all using for a 2FA token manager?

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  • Aegis for time codes, Nitrokey for physical 2FA tokens.

  • Do you like systemd?

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  • In all seriousness, I've yet to encounter a situation where Systemd made any meaningful negative difference in my Linux experience.

    I've never had problems with any init system, Systemd or otherwise.

  • Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone

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  • Fair point, I thought Proton went back farther than that.

    I think my overall point is right still though, Linux gaming (native or otherwise) has become not just viable, but in some cases objectively superior to gaming on Windows in terms of raw performance. Pretty amazing, and in even less time than I originally thought lol.

  • Do you like systemd?

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  • Systemd is great! The best thing about it is how efficient and minimal it is!

  • Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone

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  • Linux mobile phones are the fusion power of the FOSS world, always "right around the corner."

    All the pieces are there, but none of them work together smoothly enough to be functional for anybody except the most hardcore FOSS enthusiasts.

    When Proton started, it was kind of a joke, killed the Steam Machine idea in large part because the game compatibility was so limited. A decade later, we have a multi billion dollar handheld PC market lead by the Steam Deck, a Linux handheld that can play tens of thousands of Windows games without issue, in some cases with better performance than their native platform.

    So it's certainly possible for things to completely change, but we need a big player or consortium of players to unite with a shared goal of getting a Linux Phone to the state where it's genuinely able to replace a traditional Android or Apple phone.

    I'm very cautiously optimistic, I think it would come together much faster than Proton did for Linux gaming, but again, there needs to be a really heavy push into a singular device to start off. Like how the Steam Deck was, it allowed devs to have a singular platform to target for compatibility. Then, as the platform matures, competitors & innovators can enter the market and expand options, like how now there are multiple distros with builds for handhelds, like Bazzite, Nobara, and CachyOS.

  • What do you think about the concept of lesser evil? (i.e. when faced with selecting from two immoral options, the less immoral one should be chosen.)

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  • Depends on your meta-ethical framework. If you're a consequentialist, then you should always choose the option that leads to less evil being done. Same if you're a utilitarian.

    If you hold to a Kantian value-based framework, like the action itself holds the primary moral goodness or evil in its own nature, then choose the action that itself is less evil.

    There are many other frameworks. It also depends on what you think happens in the case of something like voting. Some people see participation in any sense as a sort of tacit agreement or endorsement of the system as a whole. So by casting any vote, even one of protest, you are legitimizing the system as a whole.

    Others see voting as a mere means to an end, and thus, is justified if the outcome is better than not voting would be. Some see it as purely neutral, like a tool that can be used for good or bad.

    Still, others see it as an inherently good thing, and view abstaining from the act of voting as a moral wrong, because it is a willing act of self-sabotage of the moral interests of the greater good, or sometimes as a violation of the social contract.

    There are many other positions and considerations. Basically...it's complicated.

  • Why is it so hard to get friends to leave Discord, WhatsApp, Instagram, and others? Anyone else feel this?

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  • Discord for me. A bunch of my family and friends are avid gamers. Discord is the universal standard app they all use for general communication.

    Not only do they use it for all their gaming related stuff, they have additional servers and channels for just chilling, chatting, off topic stuff, memes, politics, etc etc.

    It's the network effect. Even if there was an open source app that perfectly replicated all the functionality of Discord and was just as simple to install and run as Discord, most of them still wouldn't switch to it, because all of their friends and family are still on Discord.

    So they would have to have two completely separate apps with totally separate social groups to maintain, and nobody but hardcore advocates for FOSS and privacy are willing to do that.

    Sure, I have Discord, Matrix, IRC, Signal, XMPP clients, and a Private Mumble server, all on my systems, but I'm hardcore about FOSS. None of my friends and family are willing to do that. It took all my energy to convince two of my most techie friends just to get Signal on their phones. And only One has been willing to install a Matrix client to chat just with me.

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    Being Forced to Say Goodbye

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    Kiosk Mode and Linux

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    Timeshift On Production Servers?

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    How Long Should Hardware/Software Support Last?

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    RegreSSHion Mitigation Debian Stable?

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    Heliboard 1.2 Released, Fixes Haptic Feedback Bug

    github.com /Helium314/HeliBoard/releases/tag/v1.2
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    Suggestions for Short Rack Mount Case

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    Switched my Parents to Linux

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    FOSS Friendly Printing Services?

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    Copyleft Equivalent for Trademarks?

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    What Cars do You Swear By?

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    Sanity Check Setup

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    Anysoft Keyboard Private?