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One of these is not like the others

Some people have started calling this fallacy the “Goomba Fallacy” after this meme:

Just FYI, you accidentally typed “l” instead of “)”.

Maybe [email protected] could work.

Also in South Asia and the Middle East.

… Are you shitposting?

and you don’t live in a third world country 🙃

They were undoubtedly cheaper before, but with a low-budget airline like airblue, at least, a round-trip ticket between Lahore and Dubai, for a single adult, economy class, can cost 85,216 PKR or 306.23 USD.

Choosing a more expensive airline like Emirates bumps it up to 138,028 PKR or 496.01 USD.

(Source: Google Flights)

To be fair, my father at least would often buy stuff while he had another reason to be there (i.e. for business).

A bit of an unwarranted answer, but many richer Pakistanis go there to buy stuff that isn’t easily available back home. Hence, they become cash cows for the ginormous malls over there (seriously. If you think American malls are big, you haven’t been to Dubai). It’s basically the closest foreign city we have direct flights to, due to our sanctions and all with India. For example, I got my Nintendo 3DS, and later the phone that I’m currently using (Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra), from malls in Dubai.

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We Pakistanis don’t have much of a choice… We often have to stop at Dubai or Doha if we want to fly to Europe or the Americas. (Although occasionally, you can choose Turkish Airlines and stop at Istanbul instead.) Though to be fair, Pakistan can’t be much more friendly than Dubai to a lotta people…

lemmy.ml is technically the most official instance, because it’s run by the developers themselves.

I’m pretty happy using GNOME on my laptop. Never tried KDE in my ~6 years of using Linux, maybe if I install it onto another device I will.

Oh, I see now :)

Never heard of Zen, I’m just using vanilla Firefox on my Linux laptop. Will check it out later :)

On my laptop:

• Void Linux
• GNOME (desktop environment)
• gThumb (image viewer that can do simple edits)
• Firefox (the famous web browser)
  • uBlock Origin (content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, etc. out of the box)
  • SponsorBlock (automatically skips sponsor segments in YouTube videos)
• Betterbird (fork of the Thunderbird email client, with various QoL tweaks)
• GIMP (image editor)
• Kdenlive (video editor)
• virt-manager (manage QEMU virtual machines)
• Celluloid (media player)
• yt-dlp (command-line utility for downloading YouTube videos, and the basis of some graphical apps as well)
• Bottles (if you want to use Wine to run Windows apps, without too many headaches)
• Foliate (.epub ebook reader)
• OBS (for screen recording and livestreaming)
• Code - OSS (code editor, “clean” version of Visual Studio Code without “Microsoft-specific customizations”)
• Tenacity (fork of the Audacity audio editor without opt-out telemetry)

On my Android phone:

• F-Droid (app store with FOSS apps only)
• Obtainium (auto-updater for apps hosted on GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
• Heliboard (simple keyboard app)
• Material Files (file manager)
• Metro (local music library player)
• Iceraven (Firefox fork with a few tweaks)
• Voyager (mobile client for Lemmy, similar to the obsolete Reddit clients Apollo and Slide)
• Fedilab (client for Mastodon and similar Fediverse services)
• Termux (run Linux CLI applications on Android)
• Thunderbird for Android (simple email client for Android and the successor to K-9 Mail)
• MJ PDF Reader
• Binary Eye (simple QR code scanner)

Cross-platform:

• LocalSend (simple file transfer between devices on the same network)
• Bitwarden client apps (to manage passwords. I use the Vaultwarden instance @ tchncs.de)
• Mullvad VPN client

If we can count FOSS modifications of proprietary apps:

• YouTube Revanced (the official YouTube app, but you don’t get ads, you can play videos in the background, you get SponsorBlock, etc.) (follow this guide for auto-updates)
• Vesktop (desktop client for Discord, has Vencord preinstalled and supports Linux screen sharing)
• Prism Launcher (Minecraft: Java Edition launcher that allows you to easily manage different “instances” of the game. Good for playing with different mods and/or versions)
• Fabulously Optimized (modpack for Minecraft: Java Edition, that improves performance and adds some minor QoL features)

addendum: I’d like to use Matrix (via the Element client) and Signal more, but most of the people I know are on Discord and WhatsApp instead.

Resprite doesn’t seem to be open-source when I look it up.

Damn, I didn’t know Screenbox exisited. I’ll start using it on my Windows desktop