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Snapcast on a RasPi will handle that great

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a great time killer. There’s a Lemmy community over at !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world

Manyverse might be good for that. It’s P2P social networking that syncs whenever you’ve got internet.

The entire suite of simple mobile apps is also really good, the Notes app in particular seems useful.

Organic Maps or OsmAnd will let you download maps offline and navigate with just GPS.

Aard 2 will let you browse an entire dump of Wikipedia and Wiktionary.

You should check out !worldnews@lemmy.world. Lot fewer tankies being useful idiots there. The magic of the fediverse 🪄

I’ll be honest, I have no idea. Sometimes, I get nagged that a package is insecure, and it seems reasonable like an old version of Electron, and then I just sigh and add it to my list of packages to ignore that warning on.

And yet countries, given free choice, came running to NATO. Curious 🤔

Trust is a broad term. If you’re paranoid, find the package you care about here, and read every line:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

If you’re slightly less paranoid, check the git blame logs for anyone that’s touched a package you care about. If you trust all of them, then you’re good.

If you’re less paranoid than that, assume that someone reasonable is in charge of that repo. You’ll get warnings about insecure packages. I’ve had to Ok a few insecure packages in my configuration.nix, because I assume the packagers are reasonable people. I may yet find out I’ve made a mistake.

Broadly speaking, I think it’s the same model as any other distro. Debian for example has volunteers that package stuff. You can go through the same process above and decide how paranoid you want to be for that as well.

The founders don’t like each other on a personal level, and I haven’t heard about any updates since then, so until there’s new life breathed onto the project somehow, I’m assuming that it’s on the back burner at best.

I’m bearish on Elementary. Their recent-ish drama where the founders split up doesn’t seem good for long-term stability:

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/elementary-os-is-imploding