Ah, another Captain Planet villain added to the roster.

I mean… Same for Fediverse, and Federation?

You may be better off asking the question here yourself, as the redditors of yore once did.

The whole chart is apparently a reference to an E. B. White quote, and there may be some truth to the pie part.

If you go deep enough, there’s still windows 3.11 dialog boxes in Windows 11 for some core functionality.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240102024352/https://ntdev.blog/2023/01/01/state-of-the-windows-how-many-layers-of-ui-inconsistencies-are-in-windows-11/

this is disallowing platforms to choose whether to allow them on a platform

The block list is editable by any admin, and the sysadmin can delete the block list entirely.

based on the opinions of a guy that has endorsed genocide and child rape.

Uhh, gonna need a source for that one, Chief.

Free Speech means the government shouldn’t prosecute people for their speech, that’s all its ever meant. It doesn’t mean non-government places must allow Nazis to say their piece on your platform. That just turns places into Nazi bars.

Piefed.social is federated with Lemmy.ml, AFAIK.

As someone who was exceptionally shy growing up, what helped me was acknowledging that I really would rather not try to meet new people or join some social setting because it would induce an anxiety response, jitters and all, but, then forcing myself to do it anyway.

It was very uncomfortable, just as I knew it would be, but slowly, as I forced myself to keep doing it; the jitters weren’t as bad, I didn’t have to take so many deep breaths before getting involved to calm myself, and I started joining into conversations more, cracking jokes, and feeling more relaxed as I began to realize that people didn’t seem to mind it if I made mistakes or stumbled over my words from nervousness, and didn’t look at me weird for being a bit silly (though this depends on the group you find, I fell in with some pretty odd/silly folk, so my own sillyness didn’t stick out too much).

It’s essentially exposure therapy, and it took me a while, but eventually I was able to build up some confidence in my ability to talk to others, and realized most other people are just winging things too. I think what helped me the most was really internalizing the idea that it’s genuinely okay to embarrass yourself, and that it can even be a great well of humor to draw from, which for me removed the fear of it potentially happening. That let me me more present and relaxed, which in turn made being social begin to feel fun, instead of a stressful thing I had to force myself to do.

I think a DnD group in particular is a good place to start, since that tends to attract oddballs that let you be silly, and weirdly it can be easier to be social if you act out a more confident character, which can almost trick your brain into not being so nervous, or at least it did for me :p

If there isn’t a DnD group you can reach locally, an online group would be good too, there’s a number of discord ones, including west-marches styles that can make scheduling sessions easier.

Sorry if this comes off as someone throwing unrequested advice at you, just thought I’d share some tips from one shy dude to another :)

Honestly can’t disagree, it’s unbelievably polished and high quality for being free.

I finally got around to watching that a couple years ago, and I personally found it to be painfully boring since there’s no likeable characters. I know it’s considered a classic, and I generally like slow movies, but this one really didn’t do it for me, despite understanding what it was going for with alienation, loneliness, and paranoia.

Like for anyone else give it a try, sure, but don’t force yourself to stick with it to the end like I did if you’re not getting much from it.

I’d consider it a genuine cyberpunk dystopia society at this point.

It suffers from that less now since Canonical abandoned the project. UBPorts is AFAIK just a community project to keep it alive. I would’ve assumed they would drop the CLA stuff, but I guess they didn’t want to or couldn’t for whatever reason?

PostmarketOS has a similar ability thanks to Waydroid, though I’ve never used it myself.

I guess from this merge request, they wanted the app to not connect to Sentry by default?

Thanks for looking into it ^^

Long-term, yes. It isn’t ready as a daily driver for the average person (hence why I used the term ‘build up’), but there is realistically no other option that can truly be called community owned like PostmarketOS can. It’s our best shot at a permanent non-enshittified platform, it just needs our support so it can become polished and support more phones :)

The issue with Ubuntu Touch is that unfortunately it uses an outdated Android kernel (which is also usually not receiving security updates) and a Halium abstraction layer to access the closed source binary blob Android drivers for the phone’s hardware. It also requires that it be installed on top of an existing Android install, so in all it’s more of Linuxified layer on top of Android, which means it’s not truly escaping the control of the Android/Google ecosystem.

UBPorts also appears to inherit the use of CLA’s from Canonical:

I’m very much not a fan of CLA’s., which SailfishOS also employs.

The advantage of PostmarketOS (even though it is not ready as a daily driver for the average person), is that it uses the upstream Linux kernel with open-source GPU/hardware drivers, not an Android kernel to access the outdated proprietary GPU/Hardware blobs.

Graphene is currently the best daily driver for the average person, but as they are a hardened Android fork, they are still somewhat reliant on Google playing ball.

PostmarketOS is not ready for the average person, but it is our best long-term option since it is not based on Android at all.

Legend! :D

Please consider donating to PostmarketOS to build up a pure mobile Linux alternative that is completely free of Google’s influence. It’s the best option we have.