haui_lemmy

haui_lemmy , 1 day ago

I disagree very strongly.

Owning any stock has nothing to do with your content being held hostage. When you and I made the posts on there (I have to assume) we made this for the benefit of everyone. We didnt know that LLMs would come to pass and gobble up our stuff but you can technically make your own LLM and gobble it up yourself. The only problem I have with this one and all other „reddit sells your data to…“ is that its not reddit‘s to sell (legal bla bla, I mean I never agreed to it being sold) and if its reddits to sell, its also mine to sell.

I know thats not how the corporate owned legal shitshow works but it is why I dont mind anyone scraping lemmy or mastodon. Everyone can do it which makes it worthless for one party. The control to access is what creates worth, which is why we need to abandon all proprietary media asap.

haui_lemmy , 1 day ago

That was pretty epic, ngl.

haui_lemmy , 2 days ago

That yours @db0 ? :D

haui_lemmy , 3 days ago

Just gonna jump in and say that those are conflicting goals. „Just work“ means stick to big tech or pay someone to make it work. Nobody else has a motivation to make it work for you.

If you want to know what works best I say for laypeople its something ubuntu based like mint, ubuntu, pop_os.

You can absolutely go nuts with security and privacy but you will have to learn tons of shot before you‘re able to get this to work so dont bother for now.

Good luck though. :)

haui_lemmy , 3 days ago

well if you take the people on lemmy at face value I‘m not sure I can help you.

Of course, linux works great and for most intends and purposes, you can run it like you can run windows.

But that doesnt mean that it’s never gonna freak out on you. Games run mostly the same, except rootkit-shitware. So yes, in a very small „standard“ configuration-lane, it works flawless.

But if you start tinkering - to go all privacy nut for example - expect to see breakage. Its still community built stuff and not for profit proprietary shit that gets designed to make you use it.

haui_lemmy , 3 days ago

My point wasn’t only games but glad you’re happy

haui_lemmy , 3 days ago

Thats pretty cool! Thanks for mentioning it.

haui_lemmy , 3 days ago

You‘re so right. Google hasnt got anything to do near this. We all know what they’re gonna use this for, right? They’re gonna find pathways that make looking away from ads impossible or hardwire the ads into our brains.

KEEP THEM FROM PURSUING THIS!

haui_lemmy , 2 days ago

In your particular case: yes, lemmy is absolutely the answer.

It isnt for a lot of other folks. Lemmy has a lot less moderators/moderation and a lot more alternative communities and multiple instances.

This has a ton of implications. You can still get banned for petty reasons but usually not from the instance but just from a community. In that case you join or make another one which doesnt ban people for {particular_reason}.

It also means that you dont get the tons of posts and comments. Imo as a reddit refugee, people from reddit are going cold turkey on drinking from a firehose or more accurately, being showered in content. There is a million dollar business and many years of experience, social circles and code behind that. Lemmy is like reddit in the early days, just much later.

So if you ever feel there is a lack of content, consider hunting for it on lemmyverse.net for example. You can add non-banned instances to your instance by searching for a community‘s handle.

There will still be people here you dont agree with and the people here are a little different but all in all I‘d say its a pretty good thing. :)

Have fun.

haui_lemmy , 2 days ago

Not like I havent seen that happen but I immediately block communities for doing this once so I‘m not seeing this much lately.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Pretty straightforward. You need to host your stuff on your own hardware, ideally. You need good backups. You obviously can pay someone to do it for you but it does add complexity. In any case, streaming services are dead men walking by this point I think.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

I remember that time. I rented a couple of apple movies when netflix wasnt a thing.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Its happening for quite some time now. Recently sony did that on the playstation. Thats why we need to go back to self hosting the files (without drm).

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

I dont think streams have a future either. Look at the amount of abuse potential by companies and how far enshittification already progressed. If you have prime, you now get ads in prime video. Its disgusting.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Understandable thought process imo. I‘m in the opposite boat.

For years I didnt care about data privacy and the amount of phishing attacks and spam mails skyrocketed.

I had all the social media accounts, connected to each other for convenience. Bit tech cloud managed my pictures and everything else. Stuff started vanishing off of my favorite streaming services.

Then I started to migrate away from big tech and started my own home server. Ripped all my old dvds on there so I dont have to put them in the player. I disabled my facebook account, twitter, instagram, you name it.

Now I can chat with people on my Linux phone (postmarketOS), watch videos on my peertube instance, write this comment over my lemmy instance, etc. Is it easy? No. But its doable.

I do still have whatsapp but i dont use the app and have bridged the 2.5 people that dont have matrix to it. Same for signal and discord. I only use matrix and a couple people switched because matrix can help them use one app only.

Now comes the hard part: is this end user ready? No, not at all. Stuff can break like every half a year and some people are just tech illiterate and will have constant problems because they have no patience.

I cant promise you that it works for everyone. But it should work for the 80% or so who are able to follow a basic video tutorial on how to cross sync new devices in matrix for example.

Oh and the whiners will also have a bad time. If you need „perfect“ and „polished“, apps wont always be up to your standards and you should embrace big tech. They make it perfect for you you give them your data. Thats their way of saying thanks /s

Addition: The general idea for those who can tinker should also be to not only use but contribute. Either financially or otherwise. The software is dependent on it.

haui_lemmy , 3 days ago

One plus 6. works very well so far. Have you tried fixing your pinephone? Its open source hardware so you should be able to, generally.

haui_lemmy , 3 days ago

I‘m somewhat early in the whole linux phone game.

The OP6 works decent enough for my needs atm. I use it for matrix chats on fluffychat, browsing with firefox works well. I can use it as terminal client which was important to me since I have some servers that I need to work on remotely sometimes.

So far I havent realized my idea to use it with a usb/hdmi or DP adapter as a mobile computer but thats something I‘ll try.

So far I havent managed to put a sim card in it since I dont have a spare and my old phone still works so I‘ll get to that at some point.

To your problem:

The pinephone is open source. You can look in the schematics and check if the motherboard gets enough juice and what if anything is broken afaik. The pinephone is not an end user device imo, the OP6 very much was but postmarket isnt. The documentation of the pinephone should also be somewhat extensive.

So I‘d suggest you either stick with graphene or start embracing the tinker mentality. :)

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

LibreOffice Calc is pretty good. Your company can invest in a fork and it should do what you need.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Then you‘re definitely in the wrong circle. Join a local computer club if that exists. Changes things dramatically.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Thats interesting! Thanks for elaborating.

I have never heard of it so I cant say if there is an alternative but I‘m pretty sure being vendor locked like this is MUCH more expensive than using a more complicated bit open solution in the long term.

haui_lemmy , 4 days ago

Feel free to show a usecase where that is the case. the actual cost and opportunity cost of a vendor lock in is quite severe.

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

PostmarketOS to actually own your phone.

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

Not any phone to be totally honest but many and growing.

Check here to see the devices that are supported.

But disclaimer: its a foss project so it wont ever be perfect and if you like the project, consider contributing and help solving issues instead of judging because that doesnt help anyone.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Lineage and Graphene are based on android and bear the danger of support loss when google drops support.

PostmarketOS is actual Linux (alpine is the base to be exact).

Graphene definitely is a lot more advanced since it uses all the proprietary blobs of android. There is no use in comparing the two. Its like comparing lemmy and reddit in terms of technical finesse.

It works very well for some apps already but it is highly dependent on people supporting either financially or through contributions (code, issues, translations, documentation, tutorials).

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Not really. Pmos works increasingly well and keeps you away from being dependent on vendor specific android updates because it is actual linux.

You can check the devices page for compatibility. Most community supported phones can do phone things. Cameras are an issue though since they are highly complex and obviously proprietary crap.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Yeah, people should not judge things without testing them first. Pmos works well on supported devices. Its not for the end user at this point imo though.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Technically, every smartphone is a computer. Sorry if you thought you bought a phone. :)

The difference is that this is a full fledged linux operating system instead of the proprietary crap that comes with ios and android.

The downside at this point is that it’s not in end user stadium but a lot of folks are working on making that a reality. If you consider yourself a tinkerer, chances are you might be able to test it, maybe on a non daily driver phone if you have an old one, especially if its out of support.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Sad face. What phone do you have?

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

I agree but then you shouldnt be talking about operating systems because what you need is an old nokia phone.

Obviously postmarketOS can do that too. But it can also do what a computer does.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Jeeeez. Thats interesting! Why is iz the best phone ever made in your opinion? Maybe I need it too?

Edit: I checked. A large quantity of motorola phones seems not to be unlockable and it has android installed. So is it out of support then or how are you managing to not run around with your data for grabs?

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Thats pretty imprewsive. Thanks for elaborating. :)

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

This is market manipulation at its best. The whole board should be jailed for it.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

no

Yes

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

Important addition: the majority of people isnt equipped for this kind of game. Patience and ability to grasp this kind of thing is what makes the computer nerds the computer nerds.

Programming and sysadmin stuff isnt really popular either for that express reason.

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

Dark patterns go brrrrr

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

Its far more advanced by now. I use fluffychat for matrix communication, landscape mode works very well, I‘m working on porting bitwarden to pmos rn but its gonna take more time or someone else to help.

A litany of apps is already working on pmos and they’re becoming more numerous every day. Still, it is a community effort so feel obligated to contribute (as you should with every program not selling your data).

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

Good you say it out loud. That way you and others can be shown that this is a false assumption.

Ways to contribute but not limited to:

• Donate money so people can produce foss instead of for profit/proprietary crap
• Help translate
• write wikis or documentation
• follow discussions on the project forum/website
• spread articles/news about the project

Obviously, telling others about it is still helping and valid. But saying you cant contribute any other way seems unlikely.

Thanks for bringing it up.

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

I‘m autistic as well so please feel relate to on that front.

1. thats rough.
2. you dont need to understand translation software. Your assumption (again) is that you do. I dont understand translation software either. Translating for foss often means reading a sentence and writing it down in your mother tongue
3. you are writing it in pretty flawless fashion so whatever you‘re talking about is another false assumption. Even if you use a translation app it doesnt show at all
4. thats what throwaway email accounts are for. Nobody is saying sign up and forget it. I‘m saying help others who use the software and report your own bugs.
5. cant comment on sedatives since I dont use any but I get the notion that people are hard to deal with.

In conclusion, we autistic people tend to get stuck in our ways more often and need to rethink our approach to things so we can live without self imposed, unnecessary restrictions.

Have a good one.

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

Whatever you think mate. I stand by my initial statement. I can relate to the inflexibility of your thoughts because its a thing I often struggle with as well. I wont refrain from anything though as you can probably imagine. Have a good one.

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

Honestly, it think thats a really good idea. Proprietary consoles are a relict and its great if they go away and get replaced by open platforms like the steamdeck and steam machines (not necessarily affiliated with valve though).

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

Fully agree. I would even outlaw the walled garden concept completely. I would necessitate interconnecting APIs for everything. So that I can call apples app store over their api from any machine for example.

If someone comes up with an example that overburdens a company, they need to allow others to make such tools for free.

Also, i would outlaw any fee on things that cant be explained logically. Like apple tax for example.

Same obviously goes for consoles.

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

Amen

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

Kicked out before legal age. Before that it was mostly physical and emotional abuse.

Its not easy but I manage. Christmas and other typical family days I spend with people that dont celebrate them or by working. If you let it get to you, it hurts like a motherfucker.

I found a spouse that loves me and vice versa. We have a couple of animals, some distant relatives of my spouse and a select few friends we all consider our family.

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

No. Thats exactly the reason why folks get frustrated with linux. Because folks cant fathom how much handholding a user needs in the beginning.

apt and systemd based distro is great for beginners, so is gnome. They‘re very popular and a lot of folks know how to troubleshoot if possible.

I suggest you make your own suggestions instead of trying to „correct“ others‘.

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

You really have issues mate. I couldnt give a damn if you think that gnome‘s ux is bad. Thats your opinion and neither did I ask you for it nor is it helpful to others. But good luck with that attitude.