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haui_lemmy

@haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com

Gifted Autistic Sysadmin, Anti-Corporate activist

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haui_lemmy,

That yours @db0 ? :D

haui_lemmy,

Its so simple yet most people dont get it. Thanks for posting this.

Linux mint or zorin OS for layman beginners who just want everything to work and focuses on stability , privacy , security ? Also what to do if I switched to mint and WiFi stopped working ?

Hey, so I just put this part up first because this is the one I urgently and importantly need answered even tho I wrote that hideous text block first (sorry English isn’t my first language )....

haui_lemmy,

Just gonna jump in and say that those are conflicting goals. „Just work“ means stick to big tech or pay someone to make it work. Nobody else has a motivation to make it work for you.

If you want to know what works best I say for laypeople its something ubuntu based like mint, ubuntu, pop_os.

You can absolutely go nuts with security and privacy but you will have to learn tons of shot before you‘re able to get this to work so dont bother for now.

Good luck though. :)

haui_lemmy,

well if you take the people on lemmy at face value I‘m not sure I can help you.

Of course, linux works great and for most intends and purposes, you can run it like you can run windows.

But that doesnt mean that it’s never gonna freak out on you. Games run mostly the same, except rootkit-shitware. So yes, in a very small „standard“ configuration-lane, it works flawless.

But if you start tinkering - to go all privacy nut for example - expect to see breakage. Its still community built stuff and not for profit proprietary shit that gets designed to make you use it.

haui_lemmy,

My point wasn’t only games but glad you’re happy

haui_lemmy,

Thats pretty cool! Thanks for mentioning it.

haui_lemmy,

You‘re so right. Google hasnt got anything to do near this. We all know what they’re gonna use this for, right? They’re gonna find pathways that make looking away from ads impossible or hardwire the ads into our brains.

KEEP THEM FROM PURSUING THIS!

haui_lemmy,

In your particular case: yes, lemmy is absolutely the answer.

It isnt for a lot of other folks. Lemmy has a lot less moderators/moderation and a lot more alternative communities and multiple instances.

This has a ton of implications. You can still get banned for petty reasons but usually not from the instance but just from a community. In that case you join or make another one which doesnt ban people for {particular_reason}.

It also means that you dont get the tons of posts and comments. Imo as a reddit refugee, people from reddit are going cold turkey on drinking from a firehose or more accurately, being showered in content. There is a million dollar business and many years of experience, social circles and code behind that. Lemmy is like reddit in the early days, just much later.

So if you ever feel there is a lack of content, consider hunting for it on lemmyverse.net for example. You can add non-banned instances to your instance by searching for a community‘s handle.

There will still be people here you dont agree with and the people here are a little different but all in all I‘d say its a pretty good thing. :)

Have fun.

haui_lemmy,

Not like I havent seen that happen but I immediately block communities for doing this once so I‘m not seeing this much lately.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

haui_lemmy,

Pretty straightforward. You need to host your stuff on your own hardware, ideally. You need good backups. You obviously can pay someone to do it for you but it does add complexity. In any case, streaming services are dead men walking by this point I think.

haui_lemmy,

I remember that time. I rented a couple of apple movies when netflix wasnt a thing.

haui_lemmy,

Its happening for quite some time now. Recently sony did that on the playstation. Thats why we need to go back to self hosting the files (without drm).

haui_lemmy,

I dont think streams have a future either. Look at the amount of abuse potential by companies and how far enshittification already progressed. If you have prime, you now get ads in prime video. Its disgusting.

haui_lemmy,

LibreOffice Calc is pretty good. Your company can invest in a fork and it should do what you need.

haui_lemmy,

Then you‘re definitely in the wrong circle. Join a local computer club if that exists. Changes things dramatically.

haui_lemmy,

Thats interesting! Thanks for elaborating.

I have never heard of it so I cant say if there is an alternative but I‘m pretty sure being vendor locked like this is MUCH more expensive than using a more complicated bit open solution in the long term.

haui_lemmy,

Feel free to show a usecase where that is the case. the actual cost and opportunity cost of a vendor lock in is quite severe.

haui_lemmy,

Awesome! Glad to see folks actually giving a shit.

haui_lemmy,

Another awesome person! People working overtime to restore my faith in humanity today! :)

haui_lemmy,

Sad face. What phone do you have?

haui_lemmy,

I agree but then you shouldnt be talking about operating systems because what you need is an old nokia phone.

Obviously postmarketOS can do that too. But it can also do what a computer does.

haui_lemmy, (edited )

Jeeeez. Thats interesting! Why is iz the best phone ever made in your opinion? Maybe I need it too?

Edit: I checked. A large quantity of motorola phones seems not to be unlockable and it has android installed. So is it out of support then or how are you managing to not run around with your data for grabs?

haui_lemmy,

Thats pretty imprewsive. Thanks for elaborating. :)

maegul, (edited ) to stackoverflow
@maegul@hachyderm.io avatar

The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a substitute and that’s a problem?

Just an impression: All the pieces seem to be there. But what’s required is a team, with devs, PMs and coordinators, dedicated to making a particular place in the .

That’s resources and decently sized financial and organisational demands, especially to get a critical mass of users.

Is the fediverse up to that challenge? If not, is it an issue worth addressing?

@fediverse

haui_lemmy,

Amen. Same problem here. But feel free to hit me up if you find someone who wants to do it. I wouldnt mind helping with design stuff since that meeds different skills than coding.

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