I deleted nur Facebook Account sometime ago. I cleanly left all groups, “unfriended” all accounts (most of those were inactive anyways) and removed all my comments and media from over a decade.

I don’t think I lost anything.

My timeline was full of advertising or bot post or mirrored content already available on other platforms. The only real interactions were in the comments and ever there it was soulless.

That’s great about the Fediverse, the different bubbles are much smaller but much, mich more personal and connected.

I wasn’t active there before that. To me Reddit just got more and more and more annoying over the last few years.

“Recreational” communities were banned, technical communities were flooded with only slightly related nonsense, meme and fun communities felt just dumb. A lot of communities als felt unfriendly and unwelcoming. Not within two days, but it eroded over the years.

At one point it felt like a burden to go through my subscribed communities feed. So I stopped using Reddit entirely during the protests and disabled my account (and it wasn’t re-enabled by Reddit to prevent loss of users) and I do not miss it one single second.

During web research I sometimes get a Reddit result. I change to old.reddit.com URL (I have a strict ruleset regarding cookies and JS and the normal Reddit is just shows an error message and I am not willing to change my configuration) to get the information, but that’s it. Neither do I interact with anything nor do I use any type of account.

Choose whatever fits you

And stick to it! Also make sure other participants also adhere to that. Optionally configure a linter for doing that.

I never looked into flatseal and I don’t have any issues with Steam. But I wonder if flatseal can allow a Flatpak Java application to run systemctl poweroff.

Why the French, ONY-chan?

Maybe let go of this ancient hardware? Seriously: Get a Raspberry Pi (or whatever SOC computer is the latest trend) and install whatever distribution you want. You get 100x the performance for 100x less power consumption. It’s great to reuse old hardware and all, but THAT old?

Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively.

Because whenever AI is mentioned it usually isn’t even close to what AI meant.

If you’re on a small budget, look for older ThinkPad laptops, you can get them for good prices and in good condition and Linux works very well on them.

For mid-range try to find an older Dell XPS 13, they sold those as certified Linux devices nicknamed “Developer Edition” and with an Ubuntu LTS version preinstalled. I have one of those and I run Arch on it. It runs perfectly fine. Also: superb build quality! It’s a very great device.

Came here to say NetGuard, too.

I did the allowlist approach and first blocked all and everything and then fiddled with the permissions and now have a good set of settings for stock Android. It’s doable within a few days while regularly using the devices and then allowing things as soon as you notice something does not work as expected.

Most common/relevant/larger distros do that at least for the install/live ISO.

Artificial Idiocy

I’m happy with the distribution I use. But I now need something new to suggest to interested users.

Yes. And now Flatpaks the don’t like, too.

They derived from Ubuntu to provide a better experience - what they did.

But they now go down the Ubuntu way with dumbing down the interface and holding back and/or hiding software they disagree with.

What Debian did with KeePassX is on a whole other level. They maliciously and intentionally harmed the reputation of upstream.

Too bad they go the Ubuntu route now.

TIL

*sigh* not this nonsense again.

GIMP was named after “GNU Image Manipulation Program”

Also this.

And two networks and a reverse proxy and four more volumes …

It’s absurdly complex and annoying and lacks proper documentation.

There currently is no sane way to deploy it via docker since it needs half a dozen of different containers and volumes and networks to barely work at all - overwriting/ruining your already existing setup while doing so.

The cleanest would likely be setting up a VM where you set up docker in and let Lemmy do whatever it wants.