They did a lot of good for the FOSS community for many years. Unfortunately, those days are long gone.

That is one nice thing about F-Droid. They compile the binary like Linux distros do.

XFCE is seriously underrated.

Broadband ISPs also had protected monopoly or duopoly status for a really long time. It’s been fucking hilarious watching the cable company freak out because T-Mobile 5G is a viable option in my area now.

Wipr does both too, and the lack of configurability isn’t as bad as you think it is. But if that’s a dealbreaker for you, then stay away from it.

Just tried Ghostery, and it misses a lot of ads.

AMP was honestly one of the main reasons I quit using Google.

Wipr (Ad blocker). Set it and forget it! It’s not a resource hog either.

What VM software would you recommend? The issue I always run into is GPU acceleration whenever I use the usual virt-manager or VirtualBox.

Well, I’ve been giving Mammoth and Ice Cubes a try instead of the official app, and I don’t think I’m going back to official. They can both see way more posts, and translation actually works.

The lack of discovery features are why I never really got into Mastodon, but it seems like the third party apps got that right.

I avoid HP at all costs because they’re a scumbag company that disables their printers if you don’t use them the way they want you to.

You should be fine if you just wipe the drive and install the OS of your choice. That’ll get rid of whatever they may have installed on it.

System76 and other Linux-oriented hardware “manufacturers” basically take Clevo laptops and rebadge and mark them up. I got one from System76 and have been less than impressed with it considering what they charged for it. The screen is awful (purple tint to it) and the hardware didn’t fully work with any distro for a while. I wished I’d just bought a refurbished Thinkpad.

I honestly never had an issue with the default desktop site, but damn, when you have an open ecosystem, we get cool things like Alexandrite, Photon, and mlmym!

Alexandrite seems like what New Reddit was going for but failed miserably at. I like it.

This video has nothing to do with battery replacements.

Pop doesnt have snap installed in my recent install.

That’s good.

I don’t like gnome in particular but I am too lazy to setup a proper WM on my work laptop for fear of braeking and losing work. Have tried fedora gnome with their pop-shell it worked fine otker than a few differences. Some odd behaviors like move next workspace would move it to first or last.

I used Fedora for a long time because they’ve officially supported KDE, XFCE, and MATE for a long time despite being known as a GNOME distro. Unfortunately, the enshittification that came with IBM buying RedHat was too much for me.

Nvidia is a pita. It prevents my machine from waking from sleep and I can’t even close the lid because I cant turn off sleep on lid close.

I’ve owned two computers (secondhand) that had nvidia and it was a constant thorn in my side… when it worked, it was still glitchy because nvidia likes to use their own libs for GPU rendering, which may or may not be compatible with the rest of the system. And of course the sleep issues and the driver not working half the time. I have no fucking idea why System76 is still selling laptops with that garbage built in. Mine just has the integrated Intel graphics, and while the performance isn’t always that great, the video actually works 100% of the time.

Interesting. It’s great that Fairphone is actually living up to their promises!

Samsung epoxies the batteries in their phones, not Apple. Apple uses Command pull tabs. But, you know, Samsung is always innocent on the Internet.

No kidding. I’m in my late 30s and regularly have to help 18-24 year old coworkers with connecting their phones to the bluetooth speakers or help with stuff on the computer. I never thought that would happen when I was growing up. I always thought they’d be much better than me!

Yeah, not what I’d expect either. The lack of an algorithm is one of the things I’m not crazy about on there. It took me months to get into Mastodon at first because I got tired of the complaints about Elon. I only know one person on the platform too. But I do like the cat pictures.