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I don’t like Flatpak, so that makes it an easy choice for me. Flatpak apps never quite integrate properly

I like having Flatpaks as a fallback option, but if something is available in the arch repos, aur or chaotic-aur, I’ll always go there first

At least it’s not too grubby

That’s exactly why I used them!

I’m running a rolling distro on my main desktop, when I first moved over to linux (a couple of years ago now), I kept breaking things without having the knowledge to fix them. And then I discovered snapshots!

The one thing I would say to be aware of, is to make sure you have a bootloader hook as well, that will let you actually boot in to the previous snapshots from the boot menu.

I use CachyOS and it has this stuff as out of the box options during the installer.

I like not using government and mega-corporation mandated systems designed for privacy invasion and control of what people can access.

It’s most likely where I’ll be hopping if unavoidable age gating comes to systemd

The only shift now is Microsoft shitting the bed so hard that people don’t want to deal with them.

That’s a pretty important difference…

It’s all down to the way the brain works. Our brains use up something like 20% of our calories when standing still doing nothing.

Grass does not supply the amount of calories and micronutrients needed to keep the human brain running, simply because it is low on both of those things.

Grass eaters have multiple stomachs, slow digestion and graze pretty much the whole time they’re awake, and because their brains use a lot less energy than human brains, the balance works out.

Corporate control

It’s not more useful than hashtags.

It’s a hashtag relay.

On the fediverse, there is no central “fire hose”, no central source of “every post from everyone”. Rather, when someone makes a post, the instance the post was created on looks at the list of people following the person making the post, and sends a copy of the content to all of those instances.

When someone boosts a post, the original post is sent to all instances that have people following the person doing the boosting.

And that’s basically it.

So if you’re on a single person instance, the only content you will see is the content created by or boosted by people you follow. No other content makes it to your instance, so your “global feed” and your “home feed” look the same.

On a big instance with lots of users, the global feed is just a master list of all of the public content that makes up all of the home feeds of the users on the instance. So the more users, the more content in the global feed.

And when you follow a hashtag, the only content you see is hashtag content that made it to the global feed. So if no one on your server follows a particular person, none of their hashtag content will make it to your instance.

Relays are a fire hose. Every instance that adds a relay sends all of its public content to the relay. And in turn, the relay sends back all public content it receives from every instance subscribed to the relay. So if you’re a single user instance, and you subscribe to a relay, your global feed will look very different to your home feed, because the relay will be sending you content from all of the instances subscribed to that relay!

tags.pub is a garden hose instead of a fire hose. It’s a way of getting filtered content from a relay, so that only content that matches the hashtags you or your admin have subscribed to make it to your instance. The other main difference between tags.pub and a typical relay is that individual users can subscribe to a tag on the tags.pub relay, and get content from it even if their instance admin hasn’t added it as a relay.

Brave is a less than ideal choice…

I feel like I’m missing something in this article. If he was taking the music but also faking the play counts with bots, how were other artists missing out?

I want the opposite! I currently use a fold phone because phones are too small :P

I don’t care whether it’s technically android or not, I care that it’s not a tool to let google in to my life.

At this stage, I’m thinking one of the Motorola phones that will run Graphene out of the box.

And again, confirming that my current phone will be the last android device I own.

Because I missed the niche that reddit filled and I wasn’t willing to return to reddit or any other corporate, centralised social media/community platform.

The rise of fascism

I grew up in Australia. My cultural heritage (3 to 4 generations back) is mostly Irish and English. It’s safe to say I don’t particularly relate to either of then, until I did my family tree, I couldn’t have told you which sides of my family come from which part of the UK.

And that leaves Australia. But I don’t particularly feel drawn to an Australian identity either, because mainstream Australian culture mostly feels like a generic “Western” culture, with the edges rubbed off. I’m also well aware that the country as it stands today was founded on invasion and genocide, and to this day, is unable to let go of the racism that lead to those events.

So yeah, I’m Australian, but I don’t feel emotionally attached to that identity.

This is widely documented in hundred of articles?

A reasonable article would acknowledge that this

Cool. Now tell the story about similar technologies used by the nations invading Iran