It’s also illegal in my country

you don’t have to follow a wiki anymore; there are distro’s out there that specialize in repairing broken bootloaders using a point-and-click interface and they’re great if you’re as lazy as i am. lol

my xiaomi is clearly far superior than the other phones i’ve had at this price point and i want to stick with that brand for as long as i can now that i know what to do to get them to work in this country.

The rabbit hole I went into to get my smartphone to work in this country has taught me that Google silently placed controls that American carriers wanted into all Android builds since at least version 12 so it’s not hard to imagine that the likes of Netgear or Linksys doing something similar to the stock firmware of thier home routers in the near future, when Uncle Sam inevitably tells them to.

In at&t’s & signia’s case: Uncle Sam hasn’t said anything yet, they decided to pre-comply out of their own accord; so it doesn’t even have to be a law.

even if you got them; you’re going to encounter some stupid rules:

i bought at xiaomi phone and i can’t use it on most cell phone carriers in the united states because they’re banned based on their imea to please uncle sam; so it doesn’t matter that it’s capable of working, it’s just not allowed.

same is true for hearing aids: when i connect them using ordinary bluetooth, they work fine on both my xiaomi and samsung phones; but when i use the recommended software, they only work on the samsung and their tech support told me that they don’t work on “banned” hardware like xiaomi or huawei.

i bet, in the near future, huawei’s hardware will be banned from connecting to wifi networks based on thier mac address and american smart phones will refuse to share data w then via hotspot for the same reason.

Glusterfs?

It’ll let you turn the storage on each server into a single volume and you can set raid-like mirroring/striping.

I’m glad to learn that this is a thing; I’ve been doing my own cloud like service, VPN and backups using my own home built router/server and the consensus on both Reddit and Lemmy is that I’m foolish for doing so.

Thank you for making me aware that there are others like me so feel about relying on profit seeing parties the same way.

prepper… as in doomsday prepping?

warfare state

this feels very on the nose when describing the united states as it is now compared to the “welfare state” that saved it during the last it started a decline during the great depression; so i’m stealing it. lol

depending on your perspective; we’ve been obese since the 80’s and we’re only now starting to notice since not even our elastic stretchy pants are fitting anymore and long after labeling our belts as tankies and antifa.

like how the profit seeking stewards forced people to leave reddit and twitter (and bluesky in the future); the liberal bubble stewards have pushed lemmings away and onto the few minority instances that still remain federated and once lemmy’s code base is forked those minority instances will become a digital cuba or venezuela; ostracized and obscured leftist islands, but without a china or brics that could ever change this status quo.

I find Mastodon is avoiding this problem at least so far…

so too has bluesky… so far

my view is that social media platform enshitification is spurred on for multitudes of reasons and most of them have been around profit motives so far.

reddit began to enshitify as it grew more centralized out of a need to maintain its sizeable userbase and before their profit motive became central to their strategy; as evidenced by their multiple userbase diasporas in the last decade+ before the reddit blackout protest over api fees.

twitter, facebook, et al. have gone through similar diasporas and their expat users are centralizing around other platforms, including fediverse instances, that use their new found leverage from their equally new found majorities to take actions, like defederations, that remind us that there’s always new ways to enshitify.

the fediverse’s design handles well the form of enshitification that comes from profit motives; but the last 30 years proves that there’s multiple forms of enshitification and i think we’re going to learn new forms of enshitification from centralizing examples like mastodon or .world or .ee who will use the leverage given to them by thier relatively gargantuan userbase sizes to dictate the future trajectory of both the fediverse and the lemmyverse.

The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time.

it’s been happening for longer than 20 years and; OH BOY; HOW I WISH that people could see that how this type of convincing permeates everything we see and do.

We’ve all seen what happens when social media platforms treat users as a commodity rather than a community.

Creators who built entire careers on centralized platforms, only to see their reach strangled and manipulated by “bonus” programs and algorithms.

Friends and networks erased overnight by corporate priorities and billionaire egos.

Whole communities forced into digital exile because they didn’t fit the new monetization strategy.

this has been happening since the days of bbs and icq; the only thing that has changed is the increased granularity of the scope of the wrecking balls that they unleash on their users in search of profit and the people flocking to other centralizing hubs like bluesky or even mastodon will have to repeat this history.

distrowatch used to have this thing where you would recommend similar distro with similar themes; but i guess it disappeared for the last decade or 2; nevertheless, i would start my search there.

reading your post reminded me of myself 25 years long ago; searching google, or articles, or forums with well done informations like yours and my comment was intended for someone like the old version of me tearing his hear out trying to get something like vmware to work, when someone could have just told me that the names of a lazier version that works just as well… so i’m paying it forward. lol

Alternatively: you could just use what’s already preconfigured for your system by using kvm & qemu using nothing but simple “dnf install” commands and I recommend using virt-manager if you want a GUI like VMware

i hope that this mussolini ends up meeting the same fate

i paused the video to checkout librewolf and didnt see the dei stuff until just now; i don’t know about any hype, i’m de-mozillaing because i don’t want to get stuck in a walled garden and his anti-dei tirade is a waste of oxygen.

i tried librewolf because of this and now i can see how stuck i am in google’s wallgarden as i am in mozilla’s.

i’m going to have to start de-mozillaing in addition to de-googling.

i took it for a spin also since i hadn’t touched it in 20 years; the colors are indeed odd, as well as the scaling.