Huh. There is a worrying lack of license information, yes. I didn’t even notice.
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Huh. There is a worrying lack of license information, yes. I didn’t even notice.
This reads like a whole lot of research was boiled down to fit the “barely an article” constraints of a casual news outlet. The outline is all over the place but seems well-intended; it’s just not clear what information we’re supposed to take away from this.
Kudos for mentioning GNU Social, Zot and Diaspora, but I’m not really sure any of them are relevant anymore?
No, of course not. I thought the movie sharing was your primary concern, sorry if I misunderstood. Hope this solves at least part of your problem.
I’ve never done this myself but if you want to keep it simple and be able to play all video formats, why not just stream from VLC?
I’m happy to be corrected on this, but it seems the simplest solution to a potentially complex problem. Everybody uses VLC, right?
I just made the move to another computer, using the same distro and DE setup as the old one. So far I managed by backing up ~/
and /usr/
so I could drop in system and programming settings.
I don’t know how that will work if you’re going for a new distro but it’s always good to have your old configs for reference!
Thanks, and also good morning. I thought my bleary eyes had scanned for the international angle but apparently my brain is still asleep.
Soz OP!
America
Welcome to the internet 🙄
Everybody else not from the US raise a hand.
Posted before first morning coffee, lesson learned.
That’s literally what MicroG is for, though. Spoof the Play store and GSF, no data in or out. I think a good part of that “90%” you mention knows about that solution?
Oh? I’ve been completely off Google services and apps for a decade but I still find that MicroG is nice to have for spoofing a few apps that checks for GSF to run. I’m curious how you managed to disentangle yourself to the point of not even needing MicroG.
Banking (and some digital ID) apps are notoriously difficult to run on degoogled custom ROMs because they will often check for Google services and bootloader lock/root status at startup. I’ve jumped through so many hoops to hide root, spoof GSF etc. In the end I resorted to just using my bank’s website…
Same argument stands though. It’s not like LOS is a company with a ton of venture capital. Maintainers are the same randos from the same forums, they just banded together under a common flag. Some of the “official” LOS devs even release unofficial prereleases on other sites. And sometimes support drops because the maintainers may or may not have the physical device to test on.
If you are running an unofficial rom made by some random on a forum, that’s on you.
LOL you haven’t lived until you flashed a weird ROM off XDA-dev to realise it was developed for some regional variation of your device, the UI is all in a language you don’t read, and the developer customised the OS to their own niche use case that you’re not partial to.
Mind, it used to be easier to casually flash ROMs (for me at least) back in the Jellybean/KitKat days. Fun times!
I’m fairly happy with LineageOS myself
but there is so much false information about this OS, namely compatible phones that simply don’t work with this OS and no support.
I think you’re overreacting a bit calling it “false information”. LOS is a FLOSS project that many individuals have ported to their device — and either at some point they buy a new phone and drop that development, or they realise what a massive project it is to maintain it. That’s just a general bummer with open source, especially when people volunteer their free time.
Completely agree and I’ll do you one better:
What is being sold as AI doesn’t hold a candle to actual artificial intelligence, they’re error prone statistical engines incapable of delivering more than the illusion of intelligence. The only reason they were launched to the public is that corporations were anxious not to be the last on the market — whether their product was ready or not.
I’m happy to be a Luddite if it means having the capacity for critical thought to Just Not Use Imperfect Crapware™.
Right? Those terrible low-spec, off-the-shelf laptops can really cook with Openbox on a Linux distro.
I’m still nostalgic for CrunchBang, and I continue to use OpenBox with any distro I try… Keep your DEs, I’m good 😄
Oh, the single, shared built-in search function in mastodon, pixelfed, misskey, lemmy, friendica, peertube, diaspora, castopod, writefreely, &c?
Please, the fediverse is more than [platform you’re currently using].
There’s another reason I don’t share “It’s FOSS” links anywhere: this should have been a github issue but it’s turned into a clickbaity headline. Every othe article coming out of “It’s FOSS” is either low effort, sensationalist, or both.
I’ve been eyeing it for a while, it looks quite mature for an alpha project, and it’s really charmingly presented.
I think the open data projects have a fair potential for innovation. They need some kind of backbone for permanence which would need widespread federation, but they’re a conceptually interesting addition to the Fediverse.
Edit: spelling (“to”, not “YO!”)
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