Dariusmiles2123 @ Dariusmiles2123 @sh.itjust.works

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Exactly. Let us choose if we want to interact with WhatsApp or not.

I’d be ready to sacrifice some security in order to not have WhatsApp installed on my phone.

Of course it would be cool to just get rid of WhatsApp but I can’t force my whole basketball team to go on Threema..

I’ve bought Threema for my whole family on iOS and Androids. Never paid in crypto but always with my normal credit card.

It works perfectly fine and I love it👍

Yes it would be nice to have more people on Lemmy to have more activity in the smaller communities, but otherwise I don’t think it’s so important.

Well I can but my instance doesn’t accept money for now.

I guess all the steps you have to go through to accept donations are disuading some maintainers.

Wouldn’t it be possible to create a Lemmy instance on Peertube (linked to our Lemmy accounts) just for this reason?

I know the videos would take a large space, but as peertube is a video platform, it wouldn’t be such a problem I guess.

That number seems a bit low, but it’s really important to support Lemmy and your instance.

I’d love to support my instance, but it ain’t doable for now (at least it wasn’t when I looked into it around Christmas).

I also think accepting donations demand some organization with taxes and everything. That’s why some instances don’t accept them.

We should never produce any plastic for throwable products, but such a product could be a good start for people who aren’t actively trying to avoid plastic packaging.

Still, we also have to change our wasteful mentality and way of life.

You can never know and it’s better to be careful, but he’s really careful with his sponsors from what I know.

He talks a lot about his sponsor selection in his Patreoncast and he seems picky about it. But again, it could just be marketing lies.

Still, I’d want to be able to trust his choices😅

Looking forward to updating and trying it.

What I wish for in the future: -ability to have your Thunderbird calendar displayed in the Gnome shell calendar without going through Evolution -a better guided tour for newcomers as it’s easy to miss a lot of the features offered -automount easily my kDrive cloud via WebDAV

Otherwise I love Gnome even if I’m looking forward to customizing a Plasma 6 VM.

How much more expensive would a dumb TV compared to a Smart TV for the same quality?

That’s a serious question as I had never thought about all these privacy issues before buying a TV.

Yeah I agree that a nice SSD, a good display, etc are also really important.

For me, my Surface Go 1 with a 128Gb SSD is the minimum in 2024.

I bought it in 2019 and I can clearly see myself using it for at least 5 more years if Linux doesn’t become way more resource hungry.

And don’t forget that someone running Linux might need to have a Windows VM for some situations. So you need to have at least 8Gb of RAM to be able to allocate 4Gb to this Virtual Machine.

Otherwise if you just use Linux 4 might be enough but really limiting.

I don’t agree with this as it sounds a bit elitist.

Some people just don’t want to buy another device and use more electricity to watch a movie.

But I know what you mean.

And it should stay that way. I don’t want another product with planned obsolescence.

They could only try to end your TV by not supporting its apps because of its age, but luckily you can just plug a computer or a console on it to get all the apps you need.

Still, for now, I enjoy using my TV apps with an alternate launcher like Flauncher instead of the normal Android one.

If you do that, depending on the TV, you might have some system messages and stuff on startup..

But yeah it’s a good start.

Finally, after trying Voyager, I guess I’ll move to that one.

I have a Surface Go 1 and I’m perfectly happy except for some mouse/bluetooth issues.

It’s not powerful but it works perfectly for the browsing or writing that I’m doing.

I don’t think that’s true. Old people are struggling with every phone OS. My mom has an Android phone and nothing really seems more difficult on it than on the iPhone I have to use for work.

It’s just that there are differences, but saying that iOS is so much easier doesn’t seem true to me.

Just look at how difficult it is to move an app from one app to another file on iOS. I might be stupid but I’m always struggling with that😅

I’m also using Memmy and I’m enjoying it so far.

The only problems I’m having is when someone replies directly to one of my messages. I don’t know why but I’m often not able to reply unless I load all the comments.

Also deleting the unread replies is complicated.

I might switch in the future but I’d just prefer if these issues were solved 😅

As everyone is saying, Linux can be perfectly stable, depending on your distribution.

The only thing I’d think about is that you could have to tweak a few things to get everything working at the beginning.

For instance, I had nothing to change to make everything work in Fedora on my Surface Go, but I gad to enable rom fusion in the terminal to get the wifi working on my wife’s MacBook Pro.

Otherwise, you can just enjoy your Linux distribution as long as you don’t want to do crazy stuff out of the beaten paths.