I totally understand the desire to own physical media and agree that WB is doing the right thing here, but optical media is terrible means of preserving media. If your discs are suffering from disc rot, you really shouldn’t lose sleep over making or “sourcing” your own local digital copies.

In the same boat. It’s been very freeing

Yeah man the radical left’s crazy violent agenda like… Free healthcare, and decent standards of living? No wait I mean the erosion of systems of inequality fuck wait no I mean uh labor rights and empowree workers wait shit no

I’m starting to think the radical let’s crazy agenda is actually far less violent than the status quo

It’s already pretty shitty to be fair

I’ve gone all-in on (properly) federated social media and I’ve got to say it’s been a great experience. After what’s happened to Twitter, with Zuck’s recently stated plans for Meta, and TikTok’s immediate Trump cocksucking, I realized that all privately-owned platforms are as good as compromised, no matter the utility they otherwise provide.

Instagram was more difficult as it was how I found out about a lot of local events, and was my primary connection to a lot of old friends, but it was worth it. I actually reach out and talk to those friends who I previously just followed. It’s restored some actually connection that social media had stripped away, and I find myself avoiding the endless scroll I used to get caught in.

I’m still working on evacuating YouTube, but using RSS feeds to be more deliberate about whose uploads I’m notified about has helped a ton.

I use fedilab, in part because it’s the best app for peertube that I’ve found. But it’s got great support for Mastodon and Pixelfed as well.

Why the hell does my HTML renderer need a baked-in frontend for a privacy nightmare that requires I sign over rights for every keystroke even if I don’t use it? If Mozilla really wants to roll it out themselves, make it an extension available for download and tie your abysmal terms of use to that, don’t upend your entire reputation for the latest big tech trend.

And the sentiment against AI on lemmy absolutely sucks dick. I’m tempted to go back to Reddit because this place is luddite.ml at this point. People who’ve never spun up a local model on their GPU talk like they have trifecta PhD creds in comp sci

Oh poor you, how dare people appropriately respond to foil-plated shit being advertised to us as platinum decor. Stay away from glue on days you use your computer

I mean, I fault Mozilla for that, and a lot of other things especially in light of recent developments. But Brave still fosters user dependency on a google project, ceding browser engine market dominance toward google. I might be bale to give Brave a pass for its faults if it was making strong moves in creating a truly free and open internet, but as-is they’ve basically taken an open-source project, applied their own branding, and baked in functionality that on a better engine can be replicated with more granular control by extensions.

In theory that’s fair reasoning. Unfortunately the dev made it clear that his reasoning was based on politics

You’re right, words are meaningless and language has no bearing on society at large. after all, fuiebt eidiowb rhe efifo quifopim.

Fascism, just like Communism or even a Dictatorships are not inherently bad

No offense but what the fuck are you even saying

Fascism is absolutely inherently bad, there is no removal of its evil, oppressive, and authoritarian traits after which anything is left.

Yeah but i don’t want to recommend a browser to someone just for them to have some cryptocurrency, AI chatbot, and Ad reward program shoved in their face.

And then telling them that they Can get rid of it, they just have to go make some file they don’t understand in a location on their hard drive they’ve never been to.

Because being real, if Brave’s bloat was bundled into an antivirus software, it would rightfully raise red flags for anyone with standard computer literacy.

A number of them have written about their reasons- I can’t speak for the maintainer this article is about but the general sentiment I’ve seen from the ones I’ve been hearing about is that the culture around kernel development is dogwater. Lots of it surrounding refusal to make any space for R4L and shitting on devs working on it, but then also spinning out of that are maintainers likening their quality control responsibilities to being “the thin blue line”.

Wow that ‘etc’ is doing a ton of legwork

Man too bad all I’ve got to eat is this cyanide. Those cookies over there? Don’t you know how unhealthy those are?

That’s just when they let the mask slip. It’s not like they were saints up til that point.

If you made the mistake of buying an M-series Mac before migrating to Linux, Asahi is a great way to continue using that machine if you’re fine with no external displays. Since I only ever use my M1 air on the go, it doesn’t bother me.

However, you cannot wipe the existing MacOS install nor stub partitions as they’re needed for firmware updates and booting non-mac operating systems. I think I managed to squeeze my macos partition down to something like 40gb, which is a ton of unusable space on my 128GB laptop.

If you’re in the market for a new machine, there are better options in terms of affordability and usability, even if you’re specifically looking for an ARM device

Something something all you have is a hammer

I think those are called hands