I am sorry, I have to be that kind of person:

Enchanting Table

Gonna Re-Share this resource… PLEASE forward to individuals who may need it! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/digital-security-and-privacy-tips-those-involved-abortion-access

Windows issues?

Manjaro Users: I could never be bothered to follow the steps for installing on the arch wiki.

Manjaro Users When Something Breaks: Gotta go check the arch wiki & forums.

Also, Far Right Support In Ukraine Isn’t New.

[DISCLAIMER: PUTIN STILL BAD] VICE: How a Far-Right Battalion Became a Part of Ukraine’s National Guard

NYT: Far-right militias in Europe plan to confront Russian forces, a research group says.

Stanford: Azov Movement The Azov Movement is a far-right nationalist network of military, paramilitary, and political organizations based in Ukraine.

If a noob doesn’t want to get into the weeds but still is interested in say the arch community, I would aim them at Manjaro or a more friendly arch distro… If they want to get into the weeds, any distro + customization.

Heavy disagree… why pick between distros when you can build an environment unlike others, that fits your personal needs/wants.

One of the best parts about Linux is this freedom. If you don’t care about this freedom you should probably just be on windows. If you want something different in your Linux, alter it, don’t distro hop.

And Jellyfin has third party music player apps for android and IOS.

Jellyfin’s the way to go IMO, screw Plex and their constant BS.

You give that up that strategy and lean into fixing shit when you put the time in to customize the OS and desktop/window manager experience… at that point you should understand your system well enough to make fixing it easier, and you are also afraid of having to redo some of your customization. That being said, you still should make regular system backups, especially if you are tinkering with the OS experience a lot.

MIT≠FOS

GNU is Free and forever free software… MIT not so much.

https://fossbytes.com/open-sources-license-type/

Point being, any forks of GNU will have a free version available, MIT carries no such limitation… making it a corpo favorite.

You can call it open source, but Free and Open source is questionable.

Any “Decentralized” Solution that is not F.O.S. free and opensource was never “Decentralized” at all.

When your platform advertises itself as decentralized, and a simple “host bluesky instance” search results in articles telling you to join the main instance’s waiting list… that sounds too stupid for me to give them the time of day.

I am surprised anyone uses or takes them seriously.

To borrow a phrase from Roberts, the best way to stop criticism that the court is “going beyond the proper role of the judiciary”

For Mac Problems,

Lick Boot

Fuck Spez, Lemmy is doing alright. (I like community ran solutions better anyway)

This is very true, I have hosted my own email before and if you are doing it yourself and not going through a big player like google to host it then your stuff sometimes gets treated as suspect by filters. Used to beg people with Gmail accounts to flag my emails as “not spam” whenever it showed up in the spam folder.

Alternatively, imagine a world where the US government passed a “privacy bill of rights” and also required online platforms to be freely interchangeable via open protocols like ActivityPub.

Won’t happen any time soon, and if you ask why, go read [email protected] for a little bit and come back.

I think among other issues would be the Gmail-ification and iMessage-ification of the fediverse. What I mean by that is open standards like email are dominated today by many people using Gmail accounts as it is popular, “free”, and comes with a ton of features. Then google started “walling off their garden” by adding features that only work between gmail accounts. Similarly, apple also took the open standard SMS and started adding on features only available between other iPhones.

What we might see is some of the coolest features the fediverse has ever seen, but it will come at the cost of most users ignoring or dealing less with “irrelevant” things not on meta ran instances.

Hope we can resist such a change, but that is what I am concerned about.

Here is a crazy idea, Pay Workers A Livable Wage and price goods accordingly… that is the easiest step forward as I would be tempted to ask for more because profits are unpaid wages.