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• Linux
• GrapheneOS
• OpenWRT
• webservers / the internet (nginx, databases, storage, networking, ...)
• Mull / Librewolf
• Nextcloud (contacts / calendar sync ...)
• an email server and client
• Matrix chat
• LG WebOS on my TV
• Home Assistant
• lots of user applications

There isn't much important proprietary software in this apartment except maybe for the firmware of the dishwasher / microwave, washing machine and additionally whatever software runs in an old car.

Yeah, the maintainers of F-Droid will probably appreciate you did the work for them.

And I think it's a sound approach. I mean the Linux ecosystem works the same way. We have upstream developers, and distributions and maintainers who adapt the packages for the user. We can have all the diversity, modern tools and also distributions like Debian that swich everything to privacy per default because their users like that. I think the same approach works for android and I really appreciate I get to choose between F-Droid, Obtanium and the Google Play store.

Nah, I disagree. I think it's a general place to hang out and talk. And the community name and description don't include the word 'news'. There are other communities for that.

We'd have 1 post every two weeks and little to no engagement if this was about news only. Use a different community or a RSS feedreader for news.

Many people who deliberately choose open source, are also into privacy. I'm not sure what people like. But you'll definitely face some rejection by people like me. I like to file bugreports myself. I get my apps from F-Droid and they usually strip those telemetry libraries from the source. But for people who use Obtanium or Google Play, it'll work. I think there is a good share of users who are fine with crashreports. Maybe the majority. You could make the app ask for confirmation before sending the report. Or offer two variants of the app, one normal and one without. Or let people like F-Droid offer the latter.

If it's more than crash reports, I think it should be opt-in rather than opt-out.

I like the old fashioned way of doing free software. Have a community around the project, a bugtracker and engage people in a discussion about future developments. I'm happy if that's baked into an app if it's opt-in and it's an open backend or something simple, meaning you don't include the whole Firebase, Crashlytics, ... stuff. But it's up to the developer. If you like it, and your audience isn't privacy nerds, include it and see if people complain.

Maybe AI? I mean there wasn't anything of substance in the replies.

Sure. I meant you have to pay attention and do it right. In theory you can do all kinds of things. Drive super dirty vehicles to none at all and use your bicycle and the train. But the actual CO2 emissions depend on what we all actually decide to do. A solar panel would be a excellent. Especially if you live in the south where you get plenty of sun.

Ah, Thanks. I found an old Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/is-your-electric-car-eco-friendly-you-thought-2021-11-10/

It's for the EU. The USA is probably somewhere amongst the not so good countries. Wikipedia says 61% of natural gas and coal, 20% nuclear and just 18% renewable.

Seems complicated. But generally true if you have some clean energy in the mix. I think we should go competely for renewable, the sooner the better. I mean in the end neither coal nor gasoline is sustainable. We're going to run out of both eventually. And there is the CO2. I mean the prediction is that well known oil deposits will run out in 30 years. And coal lasts us for 150 years. So we have to dig and find some more oil, but EVs and renewables are the future.

There are studies after what kind of mileage an EV outperforms a regular car.

But the question is: Where do you get your electricity from? Is it regenerative energy?

Hehe, pretty sure it's that. With Microsoft's history of letting loose racist and unhinged chatbots... I'm eager to get to know Clippy v2.

I mean three days before you asked a very similar question on how to develop a thicker skin and you got lots of answers, some very long and detailed. I think I didn't reply because I've answered that question several times before, pointed to the ancient greek philosophers, stoicism and how to pay attention to the small things around you and focus on positivity and not waste your energy on negativity. That's generally good advice, but not tailored to your individual situation.

I'm not sure why you ask the same question again. Maybe the answers didn't help you. Or it's just me who thinks it's the same question again but for you this is a different take on a similar topic.

Since you didn't engage in the previous discussion, I thought I'd ask you a direct question. I mean you could just be venting and running through the 5 stages of grief or something. Anyways, I think it's a valid question and you should be able to live a happy life.

How did the thing with the failed appointment turn out? Did you get an apology?

Just out of curiosity: Why do you ask that quesion every few days?

Anyone an idea or a link what kind of AI they want to run on people's machines? Will it add something for the user or just annoy you and add more targeted advertising?

I don't think it works.

Forgejo is a fork of Gitea. As of now I don't think they have diverged much. So they're (still) about the same. It was mainly created because of the takeover of the domain and trademark by a for profit company. Not because of different functionality.

https://forgejo.org/compare/#why-was-forgejo-created

I think it's just a larger undertaking. Like mentioned in the last comments. People either need to address that as the main focus for some new major release and work on it. Or subdivide it and find people to work on the individual components to make it happen (gradually).

Also there is always the thing with hobby / free software projects. Sometimes people focus on functionality and features and not so much on asthetics and the first impression. I agree the welcome screen is somewhat important as it's the first thing a new player sees. But I also like the developers to work on features which enhance the actual gameplay because I just see that screen for 10 seconds and it's kind of a waste of time to improve it for someone like me. The current screen works alright. There are several dynamics affecting projects: "Perfect is the enemy of good" (don't make it too complicated) but also sometimes a makeshift solution or something that works "okay" stays inplace indefinitely because "it works" and people concentrate on other stuff. That's just how things work. It takes deliberate effort to work against those dynamics.

So I'd say the cause is, their focus is somewhere else.

Hehe, this is about MineTEST, a "clone" of Minecraft. So it's probably understandable you've not heard of the issue. 😏

Concerning your edit: I've read that, too. That your connection drops, once a new SIM card gets activated. That might take a while, though, or not happen with some carriers or under certain circumstances. As far as i know a cell network is a crazy mix of technology. And from his description it's not even clear to me when he talks about SMS and when he talks about notification emails or push notifications.

And in other youtubers' videos I've heard they usually seperate their accounts so that it's not the same account for private stuff on their phone and the important youtube stuff all mixed in the same account.

Sure, customer reps shouldn't help with account recovery unless they get proper verification. I'm sure many companies have learned from past mistakes. I think that's the only way to solve it. I'm not sure though if this is what has happened here... These crypto people seem to have hacked many accounts last year.

Maybe related video from Linus Tech Tips incident last march: https://piped.video/watch?v=yGXaAWbzl5A

Adam Koralik talks a bit fast and some details aren't clear to me. For example if he got recovery mails and sms from his own actions or if this was the scammer. Also I'm not sure how 2fa works with YouTube. I certainly hope changing the account password makes it ask for the second factor or it's next to useless. If this is the case he must have gotten phished or there is another unknown security issue in the process. Or his password didn't get changed in the first place. But that also can't be it since he clearly tells he got the notification mails for a password change and changed recovery methods.

Difficult to tell what happened without knowing the full context.

It has happened that scammers call support, say they're XYZ and lost their 2fa device. 2fa gets disabled and they can overtake the account in some old fashioned way.

Also there is SIM splitting and other techniques. Also the youtuber could be wrong. These attacks are very subtle until it's too late.

Give us a link (with timestamp if it's long), maybe someone can find out more. [Edit: Thx for the link.]

A => B is not the same as B <=> A