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It’s good to stay vigilant. Trust, but verify

You can download the installer from GOG and then use it to instal as ypu wish, without the need to use GOG from that point forward. It’s the same concept, just without the piracy.

/e/ OS is just a degoogled Android (similar to Graphene, but not so security oriented). You can install the same apps - though some might not work properly.

Sailfish OS is Linux, but if I understand it correctly they have a compatibility layer enabling you to seamlessly install Android apps on it.

At this point it is a waiting game. My next phone might be Android, but I sure hope the mobile Linux ecosystem is in a good place for the one after that. Preferably I’d switch on nearest opportunity though. I still have some time left in terms of support for my current phone so I have time to think and test the waters.

Not having my mom around.

I don’t hate her, but our relationship improved drastically once we didn’t live together. We are different personalities and while I love and respect her as a mother, I don’t really need her around. Especially considerinv her “while you are under my roof…” and “please do [thing], it’d make me happy” going on.

Not /e/OS user, but it is Android - just degoogled. Uses microG as a replacement for Google services if I’m not mistaken.

As for apps, I recommend checking out an app called Plexus on Fdroid - it’s an app where people report how apps work on alternative ROMs with either microG or fully degoogled. It’s pretty neat.

I enjoyed it myself, but I remember people thought the Cibola Burn weak. It really picks up after that though. The next two books are peak.

I want to believe they will finish the Expanse.

At least they ended up on a fairly logical point if not. But I still wonder why they included the Strange Dogs novella if they knew that’s the last season.

Fairphone focuses on sustainability and modularity, with degoogled OS options.

Graphene focuses on security and privacy. Degoogled out of the box.

Likely because Discord is not as widely known - and it’d make the title longer.

The way I understand it, you need a non-stock Android that wouldn’t enforce the cert requirements

Long story short, they are supporting and apologetic to various dictatorships, be it past or present. And anybody that disagrees is a Nazi.

You can check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for some examples

For me I jumped the ship because ever since I got introduced to Lemmy, the knowledge of who the main Lemmy devs are left a really sour aftertaste to everything.

Piefed doesn’t have this baggage and as you say - Lemmy and Piefed can federate so I can still keep connected in the communities. And you can export your Lemmy profile and import to Piefed so the switch is really easy (though saved posts don’t get imported, but oh well).

Don’t threaten us with a good time

It mostly works for me.

Now asking “where would my wife put it?” has lower effectiveness because it can be fucking anywhere at that point.

Why even have Windows at this point? Just have Copilot as the OS and be done with it.

The great Reddit APIcallypse exodus - but not for the reason you’d think. I actually used official app, didn’t care much for the 3rd party stuff. Though I understood why people might care about it.

No, what did it for me was how Reddit handled it. The arogance. The hostile takeover of the subreddits that went down. I didn’t like that one bit. Plus, every day Reddit felt less like how it used to and more like your typical social media. But what can you do, eh? I liked the format. But there is nohing other like it… right?

Well I said something like that in some thread where the discussion went off-topic to discuss the situation (pretty sure it was a Harry Potter sub). “If only there was an alternative!” Well there was, and it’s called Lemmy, one user said. Intrigued, I checked it out - and was utterly confused. Instances? Federation? Makes no sense. So I figured I would ask. The guy (or gal) was super nice - answered all my questions, gave me pointers… and here I’m.

It was like you don’t know something was broken but suddenly it’s fixed and you don’t know how you could’ve functioned like that before. It certainly helped that at the time I came here for the first time, the activity was booming so it was easier to switch. Died out a little after a while, but I feel like it is in a very good place now, activity wise. There aren’t ultra specific communities for everything, but usually there is a general one at least. And it feels more like the Reddit I first joined than what it ended up being.

Infinitely grateful to the guy (or gal) tbh. Inevitably, being here taught me there are alternatives to more than Reddit. That open source apps are great, actually. That there is something like degoogling. That Linux might not be as scary and foreign, or for programmers only.

I don’t know who you are, kind lemming - but hope somehow you read this.

Search engine replacement is probably the only use case of AI for me - for the times when I don’t know exactly what I’m searching for so the conversation style is helpful.