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You’ll have to trust an additional party when getting your apps, and updates are often a couple days behind.

I know how it works, and in this case, that's fine with me.

F-Droid has an excellent track record; better than many developers have. And I'm not addicted to having the latest versions of everything on the day they're released. In fact, not immediately jumping on the latest versions has saved me from nasty bugs more than once.

Part of what I value in F-Droid is the additional layer in the build/release process, because it makes tampering more likely to be detected.

It's still nice to know a tool like obtanium exists, though. Thanks for the link.

If new versions don't make it to F-Droid, they might as well not exist for me. There are only a couple of apps that I find important enough that I'll spend time manually building/pulling/installing, and a Lemmy reader isn't one of them. Thanks for the tip, though.

I start with whatever is on F-Droid, and narrow it down from there.

Jerboa was the only option there until recently. I see Voyager and Eternity are there now. I'll have to give them a try.

In most places, there's money in enforcement, and power in disenfranchisement.

I don't know what Thailand-specific motives might be in play here, if any.

Well, yes, that's why I asked. Some newcomers to linux find Plasma more familiar than GNOME et al. Having it preinstalled can help them get comfortable faster, with less effort.

Do Pop!_OS AND Linux Mint have KDE Plasma variants, for newcomers who don't know how to swap desktop environments?

I’m completely for shutting down the affordable connectivity program

The ISPs should have to provide the service at a minimal rate to same said families and also offer 100/100 minimum service to anyone

Maybe reverse the order of those ideas, so as not to make the lives of people who are already struggling even harder.

in the regions they operate.

ISPs would then have an incentive to avoid operating in poor neighborhoods. Mitigating that could be tough, given that internet service deployments are already patchy in many places.

Another approach might be municipal broadband, which big ISPs have been lobbying against for ages, often successfully.

we have no real way of knowing where the spyware is. It may may be baked into the main OS, the added apps or other.

Or in the hardware, like the baseband processor or even something more obscure. Replacing the OS won't help with that.

Just wait until you learn about the Benevolent Dictator For Life.

Your current approach of talking raw SMTP is likely to be more hassle than is worthwhile, and since the days of permissive SMTP servers are long gone, might not work at all.

Since you appear to be using an Debian-based Linux distro, I suggest this approach:

• If you don't specifically need exim, consider replacing it with the lightweight dma package (DragonFly Mail Agent): apt install dma
• Configure dma (or exim) to use your ISP's SMTP server as a smart host. (Or the Gmail SMTP server if your ISP doesn't provide one.)
• Use the /usr/sbin/sendmail command (which comes with dma or exim) to send messages from your scripting language of choice.

If you prefer to receive messages as SMS, note that most major mobile carriers maintain an email-to-sms gateway for this purpose. Some web searches will probably lead you to the one for your carrier. They usually accept email at an address like 123456789@sms-gateway.example.com

I bought one during the clearance sale for the price of shipping, assuming that it would be abandoned but maybe still useful as a low-power linux server. I guess I ought to set it up and take advantage of it.

Thanks, Valve, for not letting these things become instant e-waste.

mileage may vary if you’re looking at cutting edge games, as driver updates can significantly boost performance in that case.

If you're playing games in Steam, Flatpak, or any other tool that provides its own runtime, the graphics driver updates that tend to affect performance (e.g. Mesa) don't come from your base distro.

(Unless maybe you have an Nvidia GPU and a distro that packages its proprietary drivers? I'm not sure in that case, since I quit Nvidia years ago.)

Any reason why I shouldn’t just go with Debian + KDE and install Steam?

No reason to avoid Debian unless you have hardware so very new that it requires the very latest kernel to operate.

If you go with Debian Stable, you can enable Backports for a fairly recent kernel, currently 6.5.10. You could go with Testing or even Unstable if you're addicted to upgrading as often as possible, but chances are you won't need to.

I'm gaming on Debian Stable with Steam in a flatpak. It works great, and is blissfully low maintenance.

At some point, you'll probably run into people claiming that Debian is bad for gaming performance because of "outdated" packages. In most cases, those people don't know what they're talking about. I suggest ignoring them unless they identify a specific performance issue that actually affects you.

"Systems that break email already exist, so let's add more to the world."

Please, no.

My (least) favorite in this category is email addresses. It's astonishing how many developers screw this up by trying to validate an email address by some means other than sending a message to it.

Seems like someone with foreknowledge of the reversal could have made some money there, doesn't it?

if other people aren’t posting it seems silly to penalize the ones who are

I suppose that's an easy statement to agree with. However, a sensible rate limit is not a penalty.

Joke's on them. Google locked me out of my account when I refused to give them my phone number.

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