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Nextcloud.

It depends, but probably. I use 5-10yo laptops running Debian.

Google’s device, not yours. You don’t own it unless you have sole root privileges.

If only it worked on current generation hardware other than pixel and, iirc, fairphone.

I use it, as both a reader and a publisher, but rss (in particular) could do with an update.

Also way harder to propagate mis/disinformation to push an agenda. I personally see that as a benefit and not something I want to see changed.

Because Mastodon proved to be too hard for them to figure out. They couldn’t work out which instance to use. Then they couldn’t work out who to follow. Some people need to be spoon fed.

Perhaps I’m too tired to understand your meaning here (it’s late), but blockchain isn’t crypto currency. It’s a distributed ledger, and was around long before crypto. It’s not completely immutable either as the hard fork of Ethereum proved.

Blockchain could be used to record energy transactions, but the question is why would you want to? What benefit does it add?

Btw homeowners in parts of Australia are already receiving credits for the excess solar power they generate. There’s no need to manufacture a new system to enable that functionality.

Once again, I’m tired. Perhaps I’ve misunderstood your reasoning.

Yes, there’s a decent (albeit bare bones) Android client. The web interface is about to have a major update, but at the moment is pants.

I’m bridging my main Mastodon account with bluesky, but I’m fully expecting this service to disappear soon enough. I remember when Twitter, Facebook, and a bunch of other sites allowed crossposting until someone realised they were driving traffic away from their own site and shut it down. I think it was Facebook. I can’t remember. Same is likely to happen here, or they’ll charge an exorbitant fee for API access like Reddit. For now though, it kinda works.

A15 + 5g both have a headphone jack and can be unlocked apparently. Probably the A25 versions too.

And how many are current? Apart from the pixels, there’s nothing available where I live unless you buy second-hand (which has issues of its own).

Apart from the pixels, which current range of phones is supported?

That’s great if you have one of the handful of phones supported, but for the rest of us, not so much.

Commodore going bankrupt.

Chargeback time.

Last time I checked the documentation (more than a year ago) the ‘-’ flag was supposed to work, but in practice the results can be unpredictable. Google honours the flag, but DDG is a bit of a mixed bag.

My chief complaint about DDG is excluding a term from a query rarely works. The “-” tag is not reliable.