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4·2 days agoMint is a repo with a few packages (including a config file that removes snap, based) for Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s KDE packaging sucks. Source: installed Plasma on Mint once. Surprisingly usable, though. Also, some dependency brings in a fontconfig file that makes all fonts made by google ugly as fuck. Forgot filename but it had a ChromiumOS copyright header, go figure yourself.
jokes on you, I also use MUSL/centre-left and BSD/anarchism
EDIT: The BSDs aren’t anarchist since someone de facto decides what gets in and what doesn’t. The closest “anarchist” software project I can think of is TCC as of recently, they allow contributions like a wiki.
13·3 days agoDon’t accidentally use the term without definition in a group that doesn’t know it yet lol
As if that’s ever going to happen…
It… sort of exists. Different ones exist with slightly different goals, but they are all paid for by companies to promote their stuff. Like forcing everyone to use GitHub because they are the main sponsor. Not like OOP (Original Original Poster) where it’s speculated, I mean usually it’s just public and people don’t care. Shameless self plug (apart from that one there’s “Code Club” and also a few a dozen initiatives that die out quickly).
Was. Also, the chans were satire. The people who can’t read satire came in after.
The maintainer for ALARM literally went on vacation and never came back. All commits are automations on the GitHub account. That’s why Asahi switched to Fedora.
Ok? not even remotely impressive
1·4 days agoRight… Those none of these are made anymore. Except some EXTREMELY overpriced “gaming” and/or Intel Atom devices straight from foxconn. Saw a listing for a Libretto 50ct with a broken backlight in Kyiv the other day, by the time I figured I actually want to commit to buying it the listing was gone. Reduced to atoms. Shouldn’t have been so indecisive… The seller also included a picture of it running Win95 with a VGA monitor, was funny to see a shortcut named “Kiev map” (old name) right next to an Internet Explorer icon shortcut that says “anime”.
Oh, I am not in Germany. Sorry for calling it that. I’m in Ukraine. Chose this instance in Germany for various reasons, including the fact that it allows IPv6-only networks (like when my ISP fucks up again, or I fuck up again, and IPv4 gets unroutable). I was also looking for an 8inch laptop but they don’t make Librettos or those “internet appliance” ARM ewaste pieces anymore.
I mean, your current phone is the best one possible right now as a phone… The alternative is killing the gap between “don’t bring anything” and “bring a laptop”.
Also, apps for Wi-Fi? What the hell… Can you not just look up a Wi-Fi map for whatever authoritarian regime you live in?
Yes, a few times. I have exactly 60 “.kdenlive” files in my “videos” dir. That editor itself sucks, but seems your does harder.
Can’t demo much as most of these are aimed at very niche communities (ranging from 1k people to 4 person groupchat with only 1 person who cares), and some are also a bit problematic in content. As you could have guessed, it’s meme stuff, so quite image heavy.
some examples that I am comfortable with sharing
license (please note that they are basically collages of de minimis and transformative content, sometimes needed for parody)
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, December 2004 Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <[email protected]> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed. DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.Now, what are you defining as “functionality”?
Translation: your video editor sucks.
leave it at home when you are out of the house.
This would bring up the question: What do i need a phone for? for me it’s just a mobile computer for surfing to kill some time when i’m out somewhere having to wait
Same! That advice is for people using a phone for calls and SMS and such. I don’t. No SIM card. Airplane mode. It’s just a mobile computer. I can choose to bring and not bring it freely with zero consequences. I can scroll Lemmy from public Wi-Fi. Also, Gemini is designed to be “offline-able” just like the early web (scrape a bunch of logs and read them later) but the only implementation of that idea I could find is “offpunk” (I have a copy in Termux), BUT it is in Python, which means it brings in 2 gigs of dependencies with it… Maybe I will write my own solution one day. One day. Among other "my own solution"s that are piled up at the back of my head while I do nothing productive.
anonymously purchased SIM card
That thing has been killed here (germany) a while ago.
Sad.
And also Google for making an OS so bloated.
Oh yes, but not only google. Everything gets bloated as fuck AND devs become lazier and lazier. Done and gone are the days of optimizing software
Yeah! Although I would put that “gone” line a lot further back than most people. Some say C++ was a conspiracy, yet everything GUI nowadays is either C++ or faked C++ with C macros. That’s another thing in the back of my head that I would have “my own solution” for.
Wi-Fi MAC randomization
Maybe it helps: i dunno which android-version, they had a bug with OFF=ON and vice versa. So “random mac=fixed”. Made me so effing angry.
Yup. That’s the old behavior when broken AFAIK, the new behavior is that you literally no longer have a checkbox for MAC randomization per network. There’s still a checkbox for “randomize per connection” in developer settings in that case, and it does a grand total of nothing.
and since I don’t have Google services AND it’s in airplane mode constantly, it has no events to wake up for and literally doesn’t connect to Wi-Fi until I press a side button.
superfucking annoying.
Right. But in my case it (mostly) mitigates the lack of MAC randomization, so like, whatever. Also, battery lasts forever this way. If you want the “Googled” + cell towered behavior of constantly doing stuff, I think there are workarounds somewhere, same for the “Googled” behavior of having GPS ready at all times… Well, you would need root, and I won’t get into details this time but that breaks some of Graphene’s architectural assumptions. It will work but it requires fucking up some of the security down. Still much higher than Lineage for example.
So far I’m fine with graphene
Amazing for you! I am (mostly) fine with the Lineage (with the no-SIM part of course) despite being much less secure than Graphene. Graphene is like the “eat TailsOS MicroSD card to shit out weekly” of the phone world.
i kinda feel like a traitor with a pixel
Wait until you hear how many silicon fabs there are in the world, how many of them are doing microprocessors (not a lot), and how many aren’t owned by oligarchs (zero). Free software still leverages all of that. That’s why I am against bloat and webapps, software should run on as many existing chips as feasible.
Honestly, I would rather still have my 2gig RAM phone so that I can be in the minority to complain about stuff like the F-Droid v3 alpha being the only version that I have to wait around to load.
what’s your alternative?
I don’t bring a phone with me, usually. “Open phone” is an oxymoron, modem firmware is a black box. “Secure telephony” is an oxymoron, it’s unencrypted and SS7 access is being sold which lets people even impersonate phones on the network.
You could use some VoIP provider (jmp.chat?) or get a landline installed for times when you ABSOLUTELY NEED a phone number, like for a hospital that mandates it for a reason or another. You could also ask relatives if they have some keypad phone lying around (unless your country no longer has the infra for them, ahem, the US, ahem) or buy an MT62xxx (microcontroller levels of power) MAUI based nugget (my personal favorite is Sigma Mobile) for ~10 to 4 USD depending on where. In some locations, you can buy a phone with a prepaid plan that you can just not bring home afterwards (return / give away). For work, ask for a work phone/SIM or just get a pair that you only turn on at work. I will quote some more intelligent people here (CC-BY-NC-4.0, “anarsec”):
To prevent your movements from being tracked, treat the smartphone like a landline and leave it at home when you are out of the house. Even if you use an anonymously purchased SIM card, if it is linked to your identity in the future, the service provider can be retroactively queried for geolocation data. If you use the phone as we recommend (as a Wi-Fi only device that is kept in airplane mode at all times), it won’t connect to cell towers. It’s not sufficient to only leave the phone at home when you’re going to a meeting, demo or action because that will be an outlier from your normal pattern of behaviour and serve as an indication that criminal activity is taking place in that time window.
That advice is clearly for people protesting, but even if not, some govt official could think you were at some illegal event.
Personally, when I do bring a phone, it’s usually to feed the addiction :/ . I have a phone from like 2016 with LineageOS which I basically only use for 2FA when mandated (not often at all) and to scroll Lemmy from public Wi-Fi. Native(-ish) apps run really fast to me (my Lemmy client is Jerboa), but a modern browser is extremely slow and often crashes background stuff (and itself) due to RAM. Thanks, the W3C. And also Google for making an OS so bloated. I have a copy of Chawan in Termux for a special occasion. Apart from that, I may also (very rarely) bring a PostMarketOS phone (SXMO-de-sway/SWMO) just to write code or something else (although touch keyboards suck and I often find myself waiting until I am home and have a proper keyboard). Too bad the Nokia N900 is so rare and expensive… Anyways, if I really wanted to, I could buy a SIM card from a grocery store, shove it up one of the phones, then do my thing and throw it away before getting airplane mode again and arriving home. If I were to do that multiple times, it would absolutely blow privacy due to radio fingerprint and IMEI, though.
Annoyingly, my specific device port of LineageOS doesn’t have Wi-Fi MAC randomization support enabled at build time for whatever reason, and building Android is a complete pain requiring insane amounts of RAM and storage, managed to just barely advance in the build scripts to get it to compile a boot image with the kernel (itself needs much less resources lmao, it’s the fucking build script). Sooooooo there’s that. And even if I fixed it for everyone with a patch, LineageOS maintainers will just let it sit on the platform (that is ironically Google account only) forever and ever with a -1 score. BUT normally Android is set up to wake up the phone every .03 picoseconds and put itself back to sleep which is how it connects to Wi-Fi, and since I don’t have Google services AND it’s in airplane mode constantly, it has no events to wake up for and literally doesn’t connect to Wi-Fi until I press a side button. That with the hostname being set to a single space character, good enough.
Ubuntu touch is “open-washed” just like Android. I mean, technically you could do everything, like on Android. But you are basically limited to the one app store.
I know because a friend tried it. I recalled it having Snapcraft but I guess not, it came with “open store”. It is bloated as fuck. Well, at least it has some sort of server source, so “open” is technically correct, but nobody is using it because nobody cares about Ubuntu Touch seriously. No idea how it works but I am guessing it’s the same “install whole userspace with program” thing. Most of the “apps” are web wrappers and automated repackagings from elsewhere. A lot less actually touchscreen-only usable programs than like the Alpine repos, mostly full of stuff like “An appointment calendar, a clock, a terminal, a control panel, an MS-DOS executive AND, can you believe it, reversi!”.
There’s a “terminal” app but the root filesystem is read only by default, only slightly less useless than a terminal emulator on unrooted Android.
Haven’t read into Jolla and such but I am guessing it’s all the same shit. Corporate mobile OSes that just happen to be running unixy kernel/user spaces aren’t new at all. A keypad phone I have from 2009 lists “FreeBSD kernel” under “License and legal info”. Amazing! But useless.
Looks like a dystopia to me, can’t get anywhere by foot and all the cars look like the same general design
“GMail takeout files” aren’t a thing. mbox is a standard file format from Unix. Some Unix-likes provide the
mailcommand and on others you have to installs-nail, after which you can domail -f {path to mbox}to view all mail inside. If there are multiple files, you can literally just concatenate them like so:cat /somedirectory/*.mbox > theultimate.mbox.Apart from that, most GUI mail clients allow viewing mbox. When the mbox file updates, the client says you have new mail. For example, in Claws Mail, skip setup, then go to plugins and enable the mbox plugin (while you are there, may as well enable pgp, s/mime, calendar, dillo to handle all formats). Then, go to create new account, and in the “Basics” tab, select “local mbox file” for "Receive protocol ". It will then ask for a file path.
Also, if your Google account settings allow, you can literally just login to Google from Claws mail. Set protocol to IMAP, then set Authentication method to Oauth2 in both Receive and Send tabs. Proceed with setup as usual and it will open your default web browser to login. After that, it will download your entire history of mail.