Also available on fdroid (until July 1st, of course)

As much as I understand beehaw admin has every right to defedorate with any instance, and I respect and appreciate beehaw admins looking after the community.

However, it seems this instance is no longer for me. I want to see more content by more people. There needs to be a balance of content quantity vs content quality. I personally think that beehaw is leaning too much towards quality for my personal liking.

I am surprised they don’t advertise their laptops as “handmade”, because it seems like they are.

cough, cough, lightening port.

As much as I share your centiment about tech. I don’t quite realize how is TPM scary? It physically separates security-critical operation from the main CPU.

Cookieautodelete is sooo underrated.

WHAT?! That is a new low, even for steve

Huffman said 97% of Reddit users do not use any third-party apps to browse the site.

“And the opportunity cost of not having those users on our platform, on our advertising platform, is really significant,”

By “significant”, he means 3%??? That is not factoring how much profit these 3% of people’s content can provide.

So all of these fuzz just to have a one time increase of less than 3% of the profit, even at the cost of more than a million (57 million * 3%) user’s privacy, that is freaking ridiculous.

Besides /e/ os, I would also recommend graphene and calyxos.

Calyxos works similar to /e/os in that it uses microg to get things working, but calyxos is more up-to-date and secure.

Graphene os uses sandboxed Google play, which sounds bad, but the play services is confined to its sandbox, basically graphene os will simply feed it garbage telemetry unless it is absolutely necessary for the system to function.

/e/ os supports more devices (not just pixel like the other two), have their own SSO cloud service based on Nextcloud, and they support device that is outside of the support period of manufacturer (this also hurts security, as firmware cannot be updated without the OEM supporting the phone). But there is always a trade-off between security and longevity, given that most OEM only support a phone for couple of years now.

I think the proton he refers to is the proton compatibility layer developed by valve.

But I personally haven’t switched to protonmail because they require Google to work on Android, which is surprising for a privacy company. On the other hand, Megasync also requires Google to work.

Tutanota don’t, but I cannot use them in thunderbird.

If you want to switch anyway, why not graphene/calyxos with Ubuntu/mint/pop/fedora? They work on your current device, and much more private than iOS + macOS

I think graphene should be relatively painless, especially with sandboxed Google play. The only thing don’t work is probably auto and pay. Calyxos is kind of the same story.

Linux distro has been working really well for me (I switched to windows from Linux at the end of college, and switch back to Linux again last year). The only thing that doesn’t work is office and other industrial software. If you don’t use Microsoft office extensively, then liberal office is a okay replacement. Only office is also very solid, but it is Russian software with few outside developers, so many people don’t really trust it.

I am not surprised from the quality of text they are generating. In my class, at least half of the class are using clearly generated text to fill the discussion form (repeated use of word, slow development, extremely organized style, nonexistent reference etc.). It is really hilarious to read them.

One of the reasons I want a colored eink is that I can finally starting to draw my slides instead of writing it.

Although I have never tried a Wacom tablet connecting to my PC. I heard they have pretty good Linux support. Maybe that would suffice.

Doesn’t Izzy typically pull release directly from GitHub?

I think colored eink is a great idea, unfortunately I will never buy a boox device at this point. Their business model is similar to phone model, pushing out new model is much more important than maintaining old model.

IMO this practice is very wasteful, extremely bad for the environment (electronics are in general very toxic), and ultimately just anti consumer.

That being said, different people have different needs, and have to face different trade-offs. Absolutely no judgement if anyone decided to get one. I am just saying personally I would much prefer the supernote’s business model than boox.

Reddit needs to be replaced sooner or later. Unless they stay true to their goal and never have capital screwing the community.

A federated and community-based services is the better way to keep useful conversation on the internet to help everyone.

Lemmy and kbin communicate using activity hub protocol, that doesn’t mean they communicate with app using the same protocol.

So it is not necessarily trivial to let a Lemmy app support kbin.

I think e os is running on very outdated Android version. So it might be because older version do not handle transparent icon well.

Also e/os has some modification on icon. It is possible they set the background to the boarder color of the icon, hence hiding the tail.

I would suggest to try a different launcher/icon pack see if the issue persist.

I don’t think that is a good strategy to convince people to leave. Also it adds strains to the Lemmy instances.

Political jargon is confusing. But I think this case they refer to economical right-wing, who typically support deregulation of market.

I think calling “modern left” “liberal” is kind of confusing, since most modern left support social freedom and economical control, which is not really “liberal”. But that is the terms we stuck with.