shapis @ shapis @lemmy.ml

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I welcome physical proof as well. But this isn’t Bigfoot or Loch Ness or anything like that. There’s a mountain of testimony spanning decades. Too much smoke for there to be no fire.

That's not how it works. Evidence isn't a "nice to have" on top of everything else, it's the bare minimum. Everything else is hearsay.

When something is real it doesn't beg for your trust, it begs for your eyes.

Removable battery and LED notification lights.

More of the software I use is in the repos/aur compared to debian. Which makes everything easier.

Syncthing is absolutely amazing, but it doesn't serve the same purpose as google drive, drive is more of a backup solution. syncthing is not that.

With your current setup if you get some ransomware that encrypts your files in any of your devices you'll lose access to your files in all of them.

Syncthing is S tier software, but it's explicitly not a backup solution.

Got in yesterday. iMessage is working fine through it. I wonder for how long if this gets traction.

I love the idea of osmand. But it's not a substitute for maps at all ATM sadly. Im fairly confident that if I tried to use it to navigate somewhere in my city I'd die.

I'll check immich tho.

Just checked it out. It's self hosted stuff. Most of the suggestions I had up there were low barrier of entry and high privacy gains.

Self hosting is amazing. I have a server myself. But it's not something worth suggesting to people just starting to degoogle.

Edit trying the map some more and might be worth an actual fair try. Thank you

Good painless alternatives:

• Chrome -> Firefox
• Gmail/Calendar> Proton
• Google Search -> Feels like all search engines got SEO'd into uselessness these days, but duckduckgo maybe.

Good but somewhat painful to switch alternatives:

• Google Drive -> Proton
• Office -> LaTeX/LibreOffice
• ChromeOS -> Linux, yeah technically ChromeOS is also linux but come on, you know what I mean.

Less than ideal alternatives:

• Maps -> Idk, not really many good options, apple maps is good too, but not sure if that's what you're looking for.
• Android -> Idk, lol iOS, or de-googled android roms. Not many great alternatives there.

Is there anything else you need an alternative to?

I've tried it, doesn't seem to work, thank you though.

Using it because it's the least buggy DE i've tried so far. With a few extensions the workflow isn't too bad either.

I love the design of the applications in general tho, in the sense that they do one thing and one thing only and there aren't a billion options trying to cover every use case without doing any of them well.

What part of my argument do you think that counters?

This part:

You're doing something wrong. Linux doesn't blow up by itself...

Your first line.

Literally linked ya debian stable being broken out of the box. No user input required. Not sure how else to show ya that even stable Linux distros break on their own.

Got a pixel 7 for 400 on swappa. Has been serving me well.

People say it overheats. I have not personally felt it overheat ever. And the battery definitely lasts through a day for my medium use.

I'm usually out for between 8 to 12 hours a day. And in either case if I leave the house with over 50% battery I feel safe.

Very happy with it. My plan is to hold on to it til removable batteries make a comeback in 2027

The Time Traveler's Wife is a good movie.

It's currently rated 38 for critics and 59 for audience.

sudo makemehappy

Pls?

You seem upset.

I really like thunderbird so far, thank you for the suggestion, is there a way to get email notifications even while the client is closed tho? seems like I only get notifications if I keep it perma open.

Sgu was great once it found its footing. I'll die on this hill.

Do regular apps like Uber/maps/banks work flawlessly in this without jumping through hoops or randomly breaking ?

I'm interested in trying it but im a bit concerned about switching a device I rely on so much to it.

Your’e right people are not lying, they just don’t realize what they have done to break it.

I'm running a fresh Debian stable build for the past 2-3 days, with NO apt package installed(other than flatpak), no other modifications, vanilla as vanilla gets, only flatpaks installed.

So far: On first install, apt upgrade was broken... lol.. yeah.

Other than that, it freezes on suspend, and I'm getting weird screen flickering that it's really hard to troubleshoot so far, specially because when I turn on OBS it mysteriously just doesnt happen. Also steam doesnt open up sometimes, sometimes it does, depends on if you're feeling lucky or not, it also doesnt respect the DE settings, so when it does open the scale is wrong, and everything is tiny.

And this is with a distro known to be stable.

I personally dont understand why mass adoption is a goal.

Oh this one is easy. The higher market share the better software support they get.

And as a secondary bonus, the more people use it the more people contribute to it and make it even better. But mostly this one is just an extension of the first point.