utopiah @ utopiah @lemmy.ml

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What does that have to do with a phone?

Edit: FWIW you can say no (ideally explaining why, even providing an alternative while doing so, e.g. NextCloud with CollaboraOffice, for email... well you can clarify in a footer that this email thread is not private and suggest creating Tuta or ProtonMail account, even if one time use) to people who use Google Docs and GMail. You can also have a one time use account.

It is not. It is hard only if you are lazy, sorry to be so blunt.

Amazon works because they are :

• the top links on search engine for a lot of stuff
• very popular and thus misconstrued as trusted
• relatively cheap by either abusing its monopoly position and/or selling shitty products that are even cheaper where they come originally from, e.g. AliExpress

So... as others said here, nearly anything else is better. I left Amazon years ago and basically now my preference is :

• local specialized shops next door, e.g. butcher, fruit monger, florist, farmer market, bike shop, repair shop, etc
• local generic shops, e.g. small supermarket
• city level shops, e.g. sportswear shops
• nation wide shops with delivery, here in Belgium it would be Bol.com for ... anything, for IT it'd be CoolBlue, for sports Decathlon, etc
• international shops directly from producers, lastly it was NitroKey from Germany (as I'm based in the EU I look for EU alternative first)

So... this is actually both easy and convenient because each time it becomes easier. You get to know the owners of the local shop, you get to have accounts on the different online websites. You get to actually talk to actual humans, even from online shops. Last example being buying RollerBlades from a Danish shop and nearly 1 year later, a screw went loose so they shipped me for free a replacement just because I explain the problem via email directly to them.

In the end I'm happier since. I felt like I'm contributing to a better neighborhood and I'm more mindful about my choices. This is even more the case since Trumps tariffs.

You can replace the generated image by searching for images of "Goggle wool ski mask" IMHO.

On the 5th layer I'd add NitroKey or YubiKey to remind people that in addition to software you can have physical tokens too.

On browsers, as you put Chromium then also put Firefox or deMozillaed Firefox e.g. WaterFox.

I'd put Brave back to the 2nd layer due to relying on Chromium and being heavily marketed while gathering data for its crypto scheme. I'd also put Firefox on the 2nd or 3rd layer.

I'd put OpenVPN and WireGuard on the 5th layer.

I'd put Android/iOS on top layer then AOSP on the 2nd layer then deGoogled Androids on 3rd layer then PostMarketOS on 4th or 5th layer.

Your productivity will tank

Will it though? It's not like paying with cash or even a credit/debit card takes radically longer than paying with a phone. It's not like reading a book vs mindlessly scrolling Reddit or Lemmy makes productivity drop.

We get used to instantaneous tasks and convenience but in fine it's like speeding up while driving from work to home, it's not really the seconds or even minutes daily that count, it's where you are going.

So... a "dumb" phone will probably for most not make productivity "tank" IMHO.

I just switched from iOS to deGoogled Android (e/OS setup by Murena) and as discussing with a friend yesterday, the biggest trade off is arguably security, namely than iOS and AOSP are relatively secure (even though far form perfect) and applications have both permissions to explicitly request and also containerized (e.g. limited file system access) ... yet you do not need a security flaw to exist if your data are being exfiltrated periodically by the OS or apps. So arguably depending on your thread model (e.g. voluntarily offering your data vs spam/scam vs private malicious actors like NSO vs state level espionage) and your needs (banking apps vs Web equivalent) then one can be more appropriate than the other.

So... I understand OP asked for FOSS games, so here is 1 suggestion : HyperRogue, an SDL roguelike in non Euclidian space https://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/

... but I mostly come to argue that in this specific case, namely short lived entertainment, FOSSness is IMHO not as important as elsewhere. I am NOT promoting closed source software here but I want to highlight the fact that unlike an OS or a DE or any software recurrently used within that setup, e.g. a video editor or a script, a game is typically not combined with other tools and is supposed (most games at least, not all!) to be used "as-is". Namely that one typically (counter example, Minecraft, with its countless FOSS alternatives) play the game, finishes it and moves on. One does not have a game being a building block or a workflow nor do they finish it and... keep on playing it (counter examples here being online games, due to competition and collaboration, user generated content).

So yes I understand the desire to want to keep a system "pure", namely rely entirely on FOSS software but I for example enjoyed Baldur's Gate 3 last year or Elden Ring at the moment despite them NOT being FOSS precisely because... they are not central to my workflow, or the way I think. Do I wish they were FOSS? Yes, absolutely! Do I wish all the content I consume, from music to books, would be DRM-free at least? Totally and that's why I typically look for this kind of content first. Yet... if there is one place where I'm more leniant than elsewhere, it'd be games.

My 2 cents, anyway HyperRogue is cool! ;)

TL;DR: FOSS games are near but arguably when it's for a short period of time, in some cases depending on your worldview, maybe non FOSS games can be acceptable.

So... I've done that May 2023 for a holiday trip.

I left with my RPi4 and few gadgets but no Internet.

There I built https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/offline-octopus/ and my main take away is

• you can build what is missing

and more importantly the meta take away is

• you need to iterate preparations

because just like first aid you need to be actually ready when needed and knowledge change over time. You need to actually try though, test your setup and yourself genuinely otherwise it is intellectual masturbation.

Have fun!

There are Spanish equivalents yes

If an unencrypted computer is now unacceptable on Android, then it should be on Linux too. No excuses.

When is the last time you carried your desktop outside? Forgot it somewhere?

Reddit, which hosts the r/linux subreddit, is a for-profit company driven by growth and engagement, like other numerous other platforms in the corporate members. I imagine this is precisely the kind of tension that prompted OP to ask the question (but I'd happily let them clarify).

I'm arguing that discussion on r/linux if you are working for one of those corporations and want to discuss technical questions is not incoherent.

If you are though interested in Linux for the moral and ethical aspect then it is in direct conflict with the moral and ethical decisions that such platform took and keep to this day. Consequently using r/linux is a problem in one case, not in the other.

Does it make sense?

Trivial on Debian, see https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

Source : been gaming nearly daily on Debian with 2080ti for years now. Sometimes also tinkering with local AI via containers.

I'm not sure where you get the "corporate conspiracy" part. Is anybody in 2025 still not understanding that platforms do everything they can for their users to consume any content available there constantly in order to sell more advertising because that's one of the most profitable business model? Isn't that public knowledge? If it's not public knowledge are you implying it is "secret" despite those very corporations precisely publicly (at least during shareholders meetings) claiming that their strategy is simultaneously user base growth AND user engagement? If so wouldn't that be more ignorance that conspiracy?

Anyway, that's not even my point, rather I was trying to say that it seems OP is interested in Linux for the ethical aspect whereas the corporations listed there are, by definition and by their legal mandate of being for-profit companies, participating in order to improve their bottom line.

Please let me know if I misunderstood your point and/or if I'm still unclear.

Ah nice, I was aware of the remote ML instance option but I didn't know it was optional, i.e. if it's there rely on it, if not still work. I thought it was either do ML locally ALL the time or do ML remotely all the time.

Is it just an optional ML endpoint on the NAS instance pointing to the ML only container on the more powerful machine on the same LAN?

Reminds me that now that all my data is processed (in particular the heavy ML part) I should move the resulting container data to my (much less powerful but always on) NAS.

Look at corporate members at https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

There is a difference between Linux, the kernel, as a tool and free software the ideology. A lot of contributors to Linux are there for the money. They contribute resources, including money but also usually staff, without caring for abstract concepts like "freedom", or they might even actively (arguably) work against it when they are strategically establishing walled gardens and exclusive stores.

So... I'm not saying that's OK but I believe by confusing the ideology with the tool used for profit by gigantic corporations we are being unrealistic.