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Not to mention the fact that there’s still Android devices that have bootloaders that can’t “just be unlocked”. Looks like this is now changing but the Canadian model of the LG G6 couldn’t be rooted for a long time, and while I wouldn’t have bought it if it was up to me because of that, it wasn’t up to me because it was just a hand-me-down to replace a phone I had that was way older.

In fairness though that’s just a UI for git in the same vein as things like GitKraken or GitCola atm if I’m not mistaken

• BlueSky (if you can get an invite and want to see Twitter with less Nazis and more sex workers).

It sounds like Twitter with more Nazis (and other adjacent groups) from what I’ve heard to be totally honest

Notepad++ doesn’t have any form of formatting though, so it’s like underkill for the few narrow things I’d use WordPad for

Honestly, even as someone who’s big on only ever using Linux and never having to use Windows as my actual operating system ever again, I’ve spun up VMs running Windows so I can run Photoshop or something, because the Linux alternatives like GIMP really pale in comparison. Like, I actually hate using GIMP for some stuff at all.

At least in the case of Windows I can understand it, since its stranglehold on the OS market makes it so it’s legitimately very, very difficult for people to switch since they’ll often rely on Windows-only software that might also work poorly in Wine on Linux, if it works at all. My mom uses many such pieces of software for her job. Chrome though, it feels like there really is no real reason to keep using it other than plainly being stubborn and/or afraid of change. Chrome doesn’t even barely have any real killer features other than Google having intentionally made using some of their services slightly worse to use on Firefox, which I would hardly call a “feature” either.

I think for verification I needed to send them photos of my provincial ID card (driver’s license would be fine if you had one) and that was about it, but it’s been long enough now that I don’t quite remember clearly

I use a Hetzner VPS and as it stands right now I’m on their plan CX31 which costs me 9.20 EUR a month, plus additional 50 GB of storage which itself costs me an extra 2.20 EUR a month. Most of what I run on there instead of off my home computer are services I allow people other than me to use, some examples being an Akkoma instance, FreshRSS, email (using iRedMail), and a variety of game servers that come and go as me and my friends need them. Their cheapest plan has the ID CX11 and costs only 3.29 EUR a month and was actually perfect for my needs up until I started running some game servers that were a bit more heavy on CPU and RAM requirements like heavily modded Minecraft. The additional storage I mainly only started needing because of the Akkoma instance in particular, as the databases for fedi software can get very large very fast (and I’m not even caching media, it’s just text that was requiring all that storage space).

Truth be told the main reason I self-host on a VPS instead of using hardware at home is because my home internet is just not reliable enough considering I’m running services I allow other people to use. I do run some things like Plex and Jackett off my own PC where it’s just me using it (literally in the case of Jackett, more just functionally in the case of Plex since I have a small handful of close friends who I’ve given library access but who only watch stuff from my library on occasion), but that’s about it.

That kinda blows. I won’t pretend I was making heavy use of it when I used to use Windows or anything, but definitely I’d bust it open on occasion when I wanted something with mild enough rich text formatting, but felt LibreOffice Writer felt overkill for whatever I was doing.

I use a VPS for the vast majority of my stuff to be clear, but from my experiences with PC building in particular, there’s not a PSU manufacturer I’d ever want to use anymore other than EVGA. The PSU in my PC randomly started dying some months back, randomly completely cutting power when it’d go over a certain voltage draw it was rated for and could previously handle without breaking a sweat, to the point that it severely disrupted both work AND play for me, when it came to heavier work tasks or heavy games. They replaced it for me while only requiring minimal information (I think the serial numbers, information about how it was behaving, and what tasks I do with my computer so they’d know I didn’t kill it by doing insane Bitcoin mining 24/7 or other cryptocurrency stuff, which they do not cover under warranty), and not only that, but since they did not have any more of my old model available (a 750 G3), they instead gave me a newer and better one (a 750 G5).

I recently switched to Porkbun from Namecheap specifically because I found Namecheap’s “advanced DNS” settings to be somewhat excruciating to use, plus I also (finally, after doing it manually for a good few years) got around to setting up Certbot autorenewal, and there’s not really a good way to do DNS challenges for autorenewal with Namecheap. Just generally I find Porkbun’s UI to be very simple and streamlined without actually hiding anything from me. I also found that my domain renewal prices went down with the switch, something I didn’t even consider when switching.

That being said, Porkbun and Namecheap are literally the only domain registrars I’ve used. For all I know there could be something out there I’d prefer way more.

Even without considering laptops, I can already imagine quite a few circumstances where someone might want monitors of differing DPIs. I’ve actually thought sometimes of getting a smaller monitor I can have off to the side that I display a browser window containing mostly text on when I’m playing videogames or working in something like Blender or Aseprite; yknow, for referencing a guide, wiki, or manual or something. I don’t even have a super high desire for a multi-monitor setup outside of that.

I honestly just stick with X11 because of the high degree of compatibility, and I often already rely on X11-only software anyways like Redshift (I know there’s Wayland-supporting alternatives, but I’m picky and don’t like switching if I don’t feel I need to), also my DE/WM of choice is currently awesomewm and I think I’ve heard mixed things about using awesomewm on Wayland (or it might not even be compatible at all. I just woke up and I’m struggling to remember lol)

Wow what the hell, this is the first I’m hearing of this change. I use Rocky Linux for my server atm and I was thinking I liked it for server use quite a lot more than Fedora, but if they’re going to do this then I’m going to have to jump ship unfortunately. Maybe I’ll go back to Debian. Or even better, maybe I’ll try using Devuan in a prod server setup for once?

I’m super not happy to have to jump ship again though when I JUST settled into something I’m comfortable with that works near perfectly well for my usecases, after multiple years of jumping around undecided.

E: Although I did just read that statement from the Rocky Linux team, and maybe it’ll be fine? But I’m still gonna prepare to move just in case this fucks over the Rocky Linux ecosystem anyways

this is tech gore

I unironically really like Comic Mono despite not super being a fan of Comic Sans (not cos it looks bad, I think it’s actually really nice looking, just overused)

I keep thinking about switching to this font. I use Fira Code atm, and I’d miss the ligatures, but this genuinely looks a a lot more readable

The Reddit thing thus far seems many times more fervent than anything that happened to Twitter (I’ve been on and off fedi since 2017 and saw tons of migration waves from Twitter and other corpo sites), so hopefully it’ll be different? Definitely seems to at least in part be because of the stark cultural difference between Twitter and Reddit at least in terms of how people directly interact with the service itself, like the whole thing with it being common to delete your old Reddit acc and start again every so often, or having multiple Reddit accounts to segment things off also being more common than on Twitter (I think I have/had like 4 Reddit accounts I hop onto every so often, personally?), but on Twitter your account is treated as more of a “permanent” and unmoving thing instead.

Time to further pester my friends who “can’t leave” because they, in essence, can’t be assed to try anything else

It’s like this whole nasty ass self-perpetuating cycle with social media, people will complain about not liking Twitter/etc, you show them tons of alternatives, and then they back up and go “no, no. I like Twitter just fine” or will refuse to even attempt anything else because it’s not 1:1 the perfect image of their ideal service they pictured in their mind. So things get worse because they don’t leave, but their refusal to try, to even merely attempt using something else alongside Twitter and reminding their followers that they’re there too, it entrenches them further

I think I remember Elon saying he wanted to turn Twitter into “the everything website”, but frankly that’s just putting words to what Twitter already has been for years now. It’s been pushed to be the “everything website” for so long now that people convinced themselves and thus others that there’s little use to using something else. I remember on multiple occasions being told directly that if I want to post my art online but don’t want to use Twitter, that I should just not even bother because nobody uses anything else, at least not for the initial content discovery, which genuinely discouraged me initially and I think that cloud is still hanging over my head somewhat.

I don’t use the big generalistic Matrix channel so I can’t say, but I’m in a smattering of groups for programming topics I’m interested in like Godot and they’re really nice.

There’s Matrix, which is federated (diff protocol than ActivityPub, though). It seems decentlly active but atm maybe one of those things where you need to already know people who use it to be able to find the good stuff, because I’m struggling to find much of anything I like (but I’ve also been dodging the larger groups because I’m nervous lmao)

There’s also XMPP or Jabber as it used to be called, which is better for 1-on-1 type conversations, but group chats are also a thing there.