+1 for Bazzite but be aware that they have a different install image for “older / legacy” (🤷‍♀️) GPUs that you need to select when downloading (before 16xx, I didn’t realize this when installing at one sysyem of mine).

Yeah, I love how the French got to weird up English as well. Whenever you ask youself “Wth is it written/pronounced this way?” The answer is always “Word adopted from French.” 😸

Love it in theory but when I tried it out a few weeks ago calls weren’t working with it. I could still receive calls on desktop but it would never ring on my mobile. So tread carefully.

If this happens again (which is very likely, I fear):

I’ve been downloading videos with

https://flathub.org/apps/org.nickvision.tubeconverter (yt-dlp gui)

and watching them with mpv. Still looking for a Tube-Archivist/Pinchflat stlye app that doesn’t download the whole channel (or makes me paste single URLs) but has a nice Freetube-like interface for downloading and watching offline …

You probably know about it but just in case you don’t:

https://keyboard.futo.org/

I use this for English and German (not for voice input or anything fancy) and it’s perfect for me.

https://bazzite.gg/ has a (confusingly named) option for older GPUs, you can select the older series when going through the downloader selection options on the website. I’ve succesfully used that on a system where the “regular” image for newer GPUs didn’t work.

Also LocalSend

Wow, the comments on that Reddit post. Ok.

Yeah, they’re very nice, was pleasently surprised that they come with a Bazzite install.

I think the 98% of people not in nerdy privacy communities like ours would be shocked about this so it is something to write hone about.

PoE2 came out in early access on Friday and with a bit of tinkering (had to switch to Proton 7, for others it runs with DX12 not Vulkan) I can play on Linux woth no problems. What a time to be alive! 🤭

Well, they’re going on my big list of “throw money at orgs to make this hellhole a bit less shite” I’ll check in January when I know my earnings for 2024:

https://spenden.piratenpartei.de/

It’s only second prize so can’t be scam

Jitsi, Nextcloud Talk and Signal are all very good options (if you don’t need screenshare with desktop sound (e.g. a watching a tutorial video with sound), I haven’t found a FOSS solution that can do that - though tbh it’s been a while since I tried it with something other than Signal)

I’m running two servers in two different locations on two i5 NUCs with USB-attached HDDs (blasphemy, I know) for storage and lots of Docker services. Its not super fast (e.g. Jellyfin) but good enough for me.

Yeah, but is that an option realistically, if the parents want Netflix and Iplayer or whatever?

I think just with electric cars all the options are a complete privacy nightmare …

Aaahh, I want out of this dystopian timeline, I did not sign up for this!

Why do I think of Marilyn Manson when looking at the right panel … 🫠

Thank you all for these comments, they have made another horrible piece of news a bit less horrible (by knowing people are apaled by this shit).

I bought a key yesterday, I’ll see how long 5€ will last me and then decide if I’ll look elsewhere.

Classic WtfDidIJustRead" material, nice.

The credit card company and everybody buying that data from them still does though, probably, which for me is the bigger concern.

How so?

https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone

I would say Alexa is a big one:

https://time.com/5568815/amazon-workers-listen-to-alexa/

Cycling is amazing if there are good roads that aren’t much traveled around your area and check your local arthouse cinema, they even still might have paper tickets 😸

Or during some soccer/football event …

Yeah, that’ll be hard. I’m trying to use Peertube but network effect is big on YT (not sure if that’s the right expression here, noone is using Peertube, everyone is on YT).

Would sponsorblock be a solution for this?

Like facebookmail.com 🙃

I was wondering about that (but thought that that what you said would probably be true), this would have been very interesting if it just restored nudes …

The lamps 👍

Yeah, the two tails (one going through the seat the other lying on the floor 🫠) are a giveaway but I also like how the flowers she is holding (not super gracefully) are already kind of in a glass vase …

Those two apparently don’t allow law enforcement access to their databses (yet?) even though I seem to remember they do. But others do:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/science/dna-police-laws.html

I’ve heard that the one Home Assistant is making is also pretty good

Overkill for this but just wanted to mention

stirlingtools.com/ (self-hosted PDF magic)

Yeah, you can export multiple-page PDFs and https://floss.social/@doctormo is working on revamping how it’s handling colour so we will eventually get propper CMYK support and other cool stuff

PublicMoneyPublicCode!

Right! I always forget it’s made woth @Godot! So cool!

Yeah, the icons are really cool, I like the chunky, 3d-look.

Noyb doing the good work again, unstoppable!