CrocodilloBombardino @ the_abecedarian @piefed.social

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@Aurora: I think most Pixelfed instances/apps have a way to block NSFW content. You'll have to make sure your sister has NSFW content blocking on (and keeps it on) and you'll want to check in with her every now and then about her experience there. I think marking images as NSFW is optional for the person posting the content, so not every single NSFW image will necessarily be blocked. It's hard to give someone a completely clean social media experience.

One other thing you can try: look for instances that are focused on a topic your sister enjoys that is not likely to have NSFW content in it, like ppl who are interested in trains or playing a musical instrument. There are some here: https://fediverse.party/en/portal/servers/ (but you should check the server before she joins)

to all the commenters saying the fediverse is not a good place: these kids are going to be on social media, one way or another. It could be tiktok, bluesky, snapchat, or whatever else they can get onto. Some (but not all) parts of the fediverse should be accessible to them. Ofc that means someone has to do the hard work of hosting those instances, which is not easy. Just saying "this isn't for you" isn't doing teens or the fediverse or parents any favors.

Evolution has made us a lot of things, but mostly it made us cooperative beings. We have the ability to do all kinds of good, bad, and gray-area stuff, it's more a matter of which of those behaviors our society pushes us towards.

Get the most basic version with a metal interior. I haven't tried many brands but my whirlpool is ok

A community in which everyone has equal power and acts in solidarity with one another

Big shout to Tablestory

For most relatively-nontechnical users, UX is among the most important parts of any OS. As long as it "feels snappy" and doesn't run out of memory too quickly, marginal differences in resource usage won't even register. Ideological considerations about being in control have been there since the beginning of Linux -- it's only the absolute horror of Windows 11 that has brought that to a crisis point that has more people switching.

I make these points out of frustration with some linux software devs who seem to hold UX in contempt. Darktable, for example, is powerful enough to pull tons of market share from the ever-more-expensive-and-resource-hungry Lightroom/Photoshop, but the mediocre UX is a powerful disincentive. "Fork it!" is... an answer. But, despite using Linux, I've never written a line of code. Neither have most of photographers in the world currently using Adobe products. UX is extremely valuable and shouldn't be a second-order consideration.

grapheneOS isn't security through obscurity, they make efforts to harden the phone's privacy. You're right that, if it was mainstream, Meta would target it directly though.

The solution is to remove the profit motive from acquiring, selling, and monetizing our data. Laws alone don't stop big corps from doing things.

Doomscrolling is scrolling through your phone wallowing in depression/anxiety about these things. Moderate your news intake, spend some time doing mutual aid, ice watch, whatever appeals to you, and get more sleep.

Joplin

Alternative OSes for phones use the same carriers as everyone else. You can choose to use your phone on wifi only, without a carrier, to avoid using a carrier. You can also choose to use a VPN to make your data inaccessible to the carrier (although they'd be able to tell what cell towers you connect to).

In order to switch over, check the compatibility information for each of the OSes you're looking at. If you don't have a compatible phone, you'll need to get one. Then you follow the install instructions for the chosen OS. GrapheneOS was very easy to install for me -- I switched to it when my old phone broke.

So doge is doing that work. Why get rid of it if it does what they want?

DOGE is not just a Musk thing. Privatizing government has been a long term goal of the republicans and capitalists for a very long time

Linux is super configurable! You'll just need to try out a bunch of different window managers, taskbars, etc to see which one you like best, but maybe look for some videos to preview a couple first.

The unixporn Lemmy community also has examples

Don't pick a whole distro based on the UI. The distro choice is about stability vs bleeding edge packages, package manager, minimal/maximal installs, security hardening vs convenience, use or avoidance of particular systems (e.g. systemd), and things like that.

The UI will come from your choice of desktop environment, window manager, compositor, etc. Those can be installed on most distros. You can also look at dotfiles for more theming. Ofc it's silly to install a different UI on a particular flavor/version/spin of a distro built for a given desktop environment (like Kubuntu), though it's still possible.

I'm enjoying Niri rn. It's a scrolling & tiling window manager. I have it running on opensuse.

Try searxng

Check for new terms about ai use of your data

$10 says the cops got a budget increase though

If you buy "digital signage" or "commercial display" monitors, they won't have built-in ad-tracking; some models have a recent version of Android built-in that makes it easy to load Jellyfin, Kodi, and other such apps; and they'll be built to commercial specifications, meaning they'll last longer. They can also have better screencasting features.

On the downside: they are more expensive, you'll need to check their specs for things like bluetooth, wifi, HDMI, and other things you need; the built-in speakers are not good. The TV of course doesn't stop any particular app from serving you ads on its own, unless you load in another app to block them.

I have a setup like this, connected to a seedbox with transcoding, and it works great.

Use a seedbox and the arrr suite instead of streaming services