This can be a great idea, if it’s done well. For example, the Street­Complete app has achievements to encourage contributions to the OpenStreetMaps project:

Sounds like instance C might have federation turned off. I know there’s a server setting for that, anyhow.

How would using NixOS have made OP’s system immune to the critical hardware issues that they discovered were the root cause making their computer fail to boot?

I don’t see this one mentioned often, but Frogatto & Friends is a lot of fun if you like platformers with an old-school aesthetic. I keep it on my Steamdeck to play a few levels every now and then, it’s a smooth game with a nice feeling to the controls.

The source is here.

What has this to do with degoogling?

FWIW, if you self-host Adguard, you can do those things without needing to bother with touching individual hosts files. It’ll also then just work for every device on your network. Create your own domain and expose adguard via a subdomain and you can just point your phone at your DNS server while you are on external networks too.

I despise tow operators (unless they exclusively work for repair shops) and their lesser cousins, car booters.

I’m also a “fuck cars” adherent, but tow operators are cop collaborators, and car booters are assisting them both to steal and ransom people’s personal property at the behest of capital.

Nothing is too on-the-nose for capitalists. Look at Palantir.

I can’t tell if there’s a way to deal with this from the screenshot, but that looks like an accessibility nightmare. How is a blind person supposed to accomplish that task?

What if I don’t have a mobile phone? What if I do, but the camera is broken? What if… eh, fuck Google.

Like you, I am excited about it for the sake of the community, though I’m hard pressed to find any reason to play games on my Android phone as it is. Android games are either ad infested junk that isn’t interesting to me, or open source and playable on Linux already.

I’ve messed around with Waydroid because it sounds cool in theory, but every time I get it installed, I’m like “now what?” I can’t think of anything to actually do with it, so I imagine it’ll be the same for Lepton.

Still, very cool to have the options, and I’m happy that Linux is getting more attention as a preferred platform such that gaming companies recognize the value in supporting translation layers for it.

I’m not even sure how you’d figure that out anyway. At this point, the “non AI” content by influencers is likely stuff they or their production team wrote using AI. Everything I accidentally end up seeing that was posted on the big social media platforms feels to me like regurgitated algorithmic AI influenced slop, regardless of whether a meat sack is the performance puppet or not.

You might be right about this software, but regardless of this specific use-case, I was responding to your overall sentiment towards containerization in general. It’s worth looking more into, that’s all!

I just want to encourage you to reconsider. Docker (or podman) is worth taking the time to figure out. It’s not particularly difficult to learn the basics of, and is extremely powerful.

Your life as a self-hoster will be massively simplified by spending a weekend learning to use docker or podman. Not using containerization is like opting in to hard mode with dependency and configuration hell.

There are a few:

• https://f-droid.org/packages/com.drip
• https://f-droid.org/packages/ch.nilsgrob.android.bluemoon
• https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mensinator.app

I’m not a user of any of those, but from descriptions and screenshots alone they look decent.

I guess it depends how tech illiterate they are and where their confusion stems from, but as long as they know what email is, then I like to explain anything in the fediverse by using email as an analogy:

You know how, with email, you don’t have to care about whether the person you email is using Gmail or Apple or Yahoo or whatever? Email is the kind of message you send, and whoever gets it can use any email app to look at it and reply to you.

(Insert federated platform name here) works the same as email. You want to post or reply on (Insert federated platform name here)? Use whatever client you like, and it doesn’t matter if the people you’re communicating with use the same client.

It’s not strictly a perfect analogy, but it’s close enough to get over the usual confusion where people have been conditioned by corporate social networks to expect services to have one and only one blessed app.

How would that work? How would you distinguish the “pedos” visiting from anyone else? Whatever these “children specific sites” you’re referring to, are children going to create, host, and manage them all on their own without any adults ever to help them at any level?

Sounds like you might want to read about splashback:

it would not be unlikely for urine droplets to travel a distance of 5 feet to the side of the urinator,” Dr. Truscott tells us in an email. “And if someone were standing next to him, they would most definitely get small droplets OF THE OTHER MAN’S URINE on their pants and shoes

Your hands are almost certainly getting covered in your own pee unless you’re a sitter. If you’re a sitter, then you’re probably still touching something in the bathroom that someone else peed or splashed on. Either way, wash your hands!

I think OP is referring to Fog Panther, I just saw this yesterday in Flathub: https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/com.fogpanther.FogPanther. It definitely appears to be some jackass selling a blatant GIMP clone.

you can’t beat them, join them

Saruman was not supposed to be a role model.

Do people expect the price to go down?

Actually yeah that would be great. After all, Netflix is raking in more profit than ever (this chart represents earnings after expenses are removed):

That’s billions. Billions of dollars every year that’s just… extra. Where the fuck are they wasting all this money that requires them to raise prices instead of lowering them?

I mean, we all know it goes to funding the Epstein class and making the world a worse place for everyone else, but it should go towards making their service better and cheaper.

Let’s stop normalizing the predatory nature of capitalism, and instead be surprised when people don’t expect better.