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lemmyreader ,

😁 Nice meme, great job!

lemmyreader ,

How do you like Jami so far ?

lemmyreader ,

Let me just say I am happy with the R-exodus.

lemmyreader OP ,

I thought I'd put some image here for fun (where sign at a car parking place is taken over) , after all the comments about bigger and smaller cars (I thought I would see bikers and bike friendly people here but there's all kind of car owners!). No problem to remove my post if more people dislike it.

lemmyreader OP ,

😀

lemmyreader OP ,

Oh, I see, t y!

lemmyreader ,

Is that your old retro flip phone ? Nice colors. /j

lemmyreader ,

Before you throw the pi5 out, buy a USB Ethernet adapter ? I have a few of them and they work fine for me with Linux and BSD.

lemmyreader ,

At this point, I’m not sure why someone would buy a Pi. I used my Pi 3 for years and got it super cheap on release.

You mean why anyone would buy a new Pi that is not a Pi3 ?
Pi4 can boot from USB meaning that the usage of a SD card can be omitted completely. Not sure a Pi3 can do that or do that easily ?

lemmyreader ,

At the ever increasing cost of the pi and how limiting it is, the n100 is a no brainer.

Depends on the use case I guess.I prefer to have an ARM based SBC to play with (rather than an Intel based box) to test different Linux distributions and BSD without GUI.

lemmyreader ,

Perhaps you are thinking in best and better and what most people want. For me there is something like curiosity (Not very uncommon in the open source world) and learning new things.Besides that I am not very amused about Intel and their Spectre and Meltdown failures which is still not a closed book with new attacks being reported in the news.For hobby and work, computer security and privacy is something that I cannot neglect.

lemmyreader ,

I’m guessing the power implications here are minimal as well?

That's an interesting point I didn't think about.I don't know and I have no gadget to test that.

Actually once I've left the USB Ethernet adapter in a smart phone and forgot to take it out (but I did take the Ethernet cable out). The next day I saw that the phone had used a lot of battery power.I guess the phone kept talking to the adapter and the build in small light.I have one adapter without a light so I can test how much battery that would roughly consume, just out of curiosity.

lemmyreader ,

No problem at all. I can try to measure this with a socket wattmeter I have lying around.

The power implications aren’t likely to he a deal breaker, but I do love the idea of operating an application server at approx 7W (that said, the same power envelope is also achievable on certain x86-64 home server platforms now).

Right.Meanwhile the on-board Ethernet port could become more reliable with newer software or some tweaks ?

lemmyreader OP ,

Thank you. iceshrimp looks good.

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lemmyreader OP ,

Fully agree! I've read that devices that run on electricity are not so loud.It's the mobile ones running on fossil fuel that are so loud.Even with ear-plugs in it is distracting me to be productive or to relax.I've talked with people I know, and told them about the unbearable noise.Their response : "Yeah, but think about elderly people that could slip because of all the leaves".Well, how did people cope with this decades ago when these loud devices were not super popular ?

lemmyreader OP ,

When I wrote my comment I was thinking of the municipality workers with these gadgets in my area, sometimes using no ear protection! Hardly anyone at home, where there's mostly just small gardens, uses these super noisy things.The city council probably thinks that they are saving a lot of money and time and giving their workers a much easier time. And like I wrote : I've read that devices running on electricity are quite silent. If there can be electricity poles for E.V. why not for this ?

lemmyreader OP ,

Mowing lawns is killing pollinators.

People put so much energy into growing grass. Seeding, liming, fertilising, watering… so they can create endless, mindless busywork and destroy biodiversity.

Lawns were originally a status symbol. A “hey lol look at me I have enough land I don’t have to grow food.” Shameful that it took off as a defacto standard.

Good point. As a matter of fact a friend of mine living in another country in Europe told me that in his country it is forbidden for people to have a garden and put only stones and tiles (sp?) in it so it cannot breath. In my country there has been a trend for many years that people turned from a garden with plants and flowers to a garden with just stones and zero green. This week I saw in an on-line newspaper that lots of people in my country are now getting rid of the stones and buying plants. The "help-the-bees" cry of help which some people have been talking about seems to finally take off with larger numbers! Fingers crossed.

lemmyreader ,

PieFed’s sure had some great updates this month.

Can you share more details ? (The web link goes in some endless loop here and the Mastodon post does not show anything about PieFed).

lemmyreader ,

t y !

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    lemmyreader , (edited )

    Yes, lemmy.world is the exception of the top ones.

    https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/cfd2337c-a222-466f-b0ef-7a41a4fa6d36.png

    https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/57f28cbe-fd04-4b39-992e-4a9f4b0802c7.png

    lemmyreader ,

    https://fedipact.online/

    What are your thoughts on Invizible pro ? (f-droid.org)

    The app seems fairly small in size compared to orbot which is really old and also invizible pro seems to do a ton of things that including firewall vpn etc . So does it connect to tor network properly and pass all your traffic through it as good as orbot and completely block internet acces to not whitelisted services as good...

    lemmyreader ,
    • Go to the settings of your F-Droid app
    • Enable the Guardian Project repository
    • Wait till it has updated the repo info
    • Install OrBot

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    lemmyreader ,

    👏

    lemmyreader ,

    Snikket launched their XMPP hosting in March this year. From the looks of it you can pay for one account where you'd be admin for a group of friends, family and give them accounts.

    For Android Conversations is really nice I think.
    Conversations is available for free on F-Droid but you can support the developer by buying the app on Google PlayStore. Does OMEMO by default.Video calls with Conversations always worked very well for me (but this depends on which XMPP provider the other person uses), better than Signal. There are some Conversation forks on F-Droid as well with different features.

    lemmyreader ,

    Indeed! https://conversations.im has a Donations section.

    lemmyreader ,

    They say there’s no good apps for iPhone with OMEMO support

    Have you looked at https://siskin.im ?

    lemmyreader ,

    With XMPP you can self-host a server or you can have your own custom domain hosted with XMPP via the Conversations developer. Signal is a centralized service in the USA, hosted on Google servers. And yes, one more app on the phone will cost more battery life.

    lemmyreader ,

    😁

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    lemmyreader ,

    https://ramcq.net/2024/04/26/update-from-the-gnome-board/

    Update 2024-04-27: It was suggested in the Discourse thread that I clarify the interaction between the break-even budget and the 1M EUR committed by the STF project. This money is received in the form of a contract for services rather than a grant to the Foundation, and must be spent on the development areas agreed during the planning and application process. It’s included within this year’s budget (October 23 – September 24) and is all expected to be spent during this fiscal year, so it doesn’t have an impact on the Foundation’s reserves position. The Foundation retains a small % fee to support its costs in connection with the project, including the new requirement to have our accounts externally audited at the end of the financial year. We are putting this money towards recruitment of an administrative assistant to improve financial and other operational support for the Foundation and community, including the STF project and future development initiatives.

    (also posted to GNOME Discourse, please head there if you have any questions or comments)

    lemmyreader ,

    I understand that many people love Gnome today, but Gnome almost caused me to switch away from Linux because of all the problems they caused.

    For all the people upset about the GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 change the MATE desktop environment was started (Launched in Debian in 2013) and it is still alive and kicking :

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(desktop_environment)#History

    lemmyreader ,

    Gnome is great, and I commend the devs for having the bollocks to come out and say “No, we don’t think Microsoft perfected OS UX in the early 90s”, and do something different that works well, despite knowing the amount of hatred and even death threats they’d get for the change.

    Good to read your take on that bit of history, thanks. On one computer where I have GNOME, it is really nice and comfortable for what I use it for.

    lemmyreader ,

    Dear OP, this whole conversation makes me think of the bullying towards open source developers, which can be seen on and off since years.
    Let me also share what I have seen on Mastodon : Unlike on Lemmy, Mastodon has had support for ALT text descriptions for uploaded images for some time. Several people have been complaining when people do not add such ALT text, and even bots were made, that you could choose to follow, for people to have themselves reminded that they forgot to add ALT to an image. What I have seen several times is that people were helpful by responding and giving an ALT suggestion to the OP. That would be complaining and helping in one.
    Here in this post conversation several people have asked OP for descriptions and then some tension came up. None of the people complaining took some time to add a description themselves and appear to want to make the OP do extra work.And I understand that the OP is not obliged to do that extra work. Regardless of all this I think that a nice solution here would be if OP or someone else creates a new Lemmy community with a name like e.g. selfhosted_software_releases (For open source software releases there is a Lemmy community like that. Can't be bothered to search for the name now) which is only for software releases for self hosting. Then this and other selfhosted Lemmy community can have the announcement of that new selfhosted_software_releases Lemmy community as a pinned post or in the sidebar. The advantages of that :

    • OP and others will not need to add descriptions
    • Interested people can quickly see when there's been new releases
    • Others can have a peek at software names they never heard of before and dive into the details
    • Selfhosted communities will go back to peace mode ;-)
    lemmyreader , 
    On Reddit: “Windows is being enshitified. How can we cope with it?”
On Lemmy: “Windows is being enshitified. Good thing we’ve moved to Linux”

    I think I see a pattern here.

    Interesting. I guess it has to do with what you are used to and what feels comfortable.

    Linus Torvalds once made this remark :

    When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you
    blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

    If I think back of the days that I was using Linux and I saw friends and family using Windows95 that had just launched (with a massive hype, and using a Rolling Stones song to promote it) the Blue Screen of Death was fairly normal for folks. And they lived with it, and they continued to live with it because they thought that they had no choice, and they were incredibly happy to not having to use DOS anymore.
    Later some of the folks I knew after having their Windows computer flocked with Windows viruses they bought a Mac, and as a matter of saying, lived happily ever after.
    Not everyone can afford Macs though.And not every "normie" is ready to use Linux.

    lemmyreader ,

    The Amazon story is really old and Ubuntu did hear the critical voices and reverted the change. The terminal ads can be annoying on servers but you can turn them off.

    https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Disable_dynamic_motd_and_motd_news_spam_on_Ubuntu_18.04.html

    If you want to throw dirt on Ubuntu, let's talk about Snaps and the messy Snap Store and how the current Ubuntu site looks like (not desktop user friendly really), and what they did to LXD

    lemmyreader ,

    Okay.I'm not going to argue about this but here's a description : https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/lxd

    lemmyreader ,

    If you only access your local domain name inside your LAN and via VPN you can also use Caddy to have local SSL certificates https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https#local-https
    Have not tried this myself yet but I like the idea of not getting any warnings in browser, and this is safe as long as the Caddy CA root certificate is safe.

    lemmyreader ,

    I hope you too learned alot :) but if I may, I would switch from AdguardHome to Pi-hole.

    +1

    • pi-hole rocks! :)
    lemmyreader OP ,

    Yes, agreed. But read the other post and this comment : https://lemmy.ml/comment/10590333 I fear that big tech giant products usage is too strong and only increasing. More and more Google and Microsoft data centers and offices are build in Europe lately. More jobs, less nature, more pollution, less digital sovereignty, more dependency on big tech :(

    lemmyreader OP ,

    I like the idea! But from what I've read USA will be able to access EU citizens data even on EU servers maintained by USA big tech companies.That's how USA law works :(

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