I used proxmox and have played a little with nix and guix, but simplest is just use debian, put /home on a separate logical partition from the system partition so you can reinstall the system without clobbering user files, and as people keep saying, backup early and often.

This seems to be different and is geared towards directly looking after other humans. Hactivism as I’m used to the term, can often be technocratic.

scrutinize the protocol beforehand.

Sorry but that buys into the data miners’ self serving myths. It implies the protocol is ok unless some failure makes it leak more information than was intended. In fact it’s invasive even if it works exactly as hoped. “Tracking” is a misnomer too. It’s hostile surveillance even if it’s at population level. (Any nonconsensual surveillance that produces info to be used by people you don’t like is hostile by definition. And it’s near guaranteed that some of the buyers-advertisers, political campaigns and funders, govt agencies, whatever-will be people you don’t like). So shut it down.

Simplest is use /etc/hosts to set up names, if there are just a few.

I mostly notice it in the feed, not sure about other places. I’ve just give back to jerboa from Voyager now that I have a new enough phone to use jerboa again.

Yes, remove the thumbnail and expand the text into that space. Sorry for the confusion.

The options I see there are card, small card, and list. All of these show the thumbnail. This is in 0.0.65 currently on f-droid. Is that not expected?

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I’d say run a local imap server rather than dealing with the weirdness of storage shares across multiple OS’s.

If we told just anyone, it wouldn’t be private!!!

Srsly any phone app is inherently insecure because the phone itself is insecure. And there’s lots of metadata leakage, like the phone broadcasting its location. There is no “go to app”. It all depends on what you are trying to do and who you are trying to communicate with.

I get Fennec updates through F-droid all the time.

Propeller beanies as formal and business attire.

I do, see https://www.covidisairborne.org/ for tons of info on why we all should.

There’s tons of memes and stuff, but I was never into that, so meh. My thing was specialized nerd groups and they are mostly not here yet. With time, maybe they will come.

Find some interesting blogs and subscribe to those. The ones that don’t try to churn out content every day are the best. They only post when they have something interesting.

You weren’t around for Usenet. It was great, then social media took over.

1. Lemmy under firefox uses a ton of mobile bandwidth separately from images, maybe because of javascript bloat.

2. I’m unable to login to Lemmy from mobile firefox (the spinner just keeps spinning), though I can browse without logging in.

I do like the idea of keeping track of read and unread posts on the client side, so maybe that capability can make it into the app. I.e. I’d like the communities screen to show me for each community, how many posts I haven’t looked at yet. I’d similarly like the community view to show me threads with unread comments. Usenet readers have had this feature since forever and it made Reddit a regression by comparison.

That is pretty frightening. Lots of perfectly good phones must have gone in the trash. Maybe I will look for a used Pixel 4A.

Thanks, it’s hard to tell how many users are still on Android 7 but it seems to be fewer than I had expected. Still, if supporting the old versions isn’t difficult, I hope that upstream will accept it. Meanwhile I will try to be a little more open to getting another phone.

Thanks. Unfortunately I’m unable to login to either lemmy.world or lemmy.ml from a mobile browser (Fennic). The spinner thingie just spins forever. The only way I can post from mobile right now is with Jerboa.

Yeah that makes sense about Jerboa 0.34 vs Lemmy 0.18. I guess I will wait for lemmy.world to update to 0.18, then update my Jerboa installation. Eventually I think I want to write my own client (it will have a web interface that looks like news.ycombinator.com) and maybe run my own Lemmy instance so my reading is not tracked.

Also, Lemmy on a mobile browser uses a completely ridiculous amount of bandwidth. I haven’t checked how much it uses with Jerboa. But it is way more bloaty than the Reddit app I used to use was.