pumpkin 12mo ago • 100%
I actually have really fond memories of Sabayon, the community was really nice. It also served as a good gateway into Gentoo by giving you a pre-configured usable system, including its binary package manager, but also gentoo's emerge (not that you should use both at the same time).
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
Yep, I'm in Sweden, 30 and both know how to and do drive a manual car.
Hello everyone, As the title says, I need to use Google Classroom for a class I'm taking with my local school. I didn't get a choice in tooling unfortunately. I have in my private life cut google out, not having used Gmail in over a decade, using Youtube through invidious, OSM instead of Google Maps, etc. I'm already planning on using either Firefox multiple account containers or a different dedicated browser for school stuff entirely. Is there any other advice you have to protect my privacy as much as possible? I'm in the EU and I know Google is more limited in the data they can collect from educational uses, but obviously I don't trust Google.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
My last phone I kept for about 5 years. I had two issues:
- software support had ended
- the battery was severely degraded
fortunately there was a local shop who'd replace the battery (it wasn't a fairphone so I couldn't do it myself). If it wasn't for the software support I'd have gone that route and would be still using it now. It worked perfectly well for my use case. Unfortunately, I ended up retiring the phone and getting a new one.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
I've found this too. Generally if I'm okay waiting for the answer I'll try and find the relevant lemmy community and ask that question there instead of clicking the reddit links. There are times though I simply need the answer and so of course I do click the reddit link.
Even so, if we all try and ask the questions we have here Lemmy will eventually be the place you find this information
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
KDE plasma
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
I used it a lot, not through Google's gchat stuff, I ran my own XMPP server. It worked really well, I used the OTR encryption plugin in pidgeon. My work also used to use xmpp for internal chat within the company, however they switched to matrix like 5-6 years ago. Something I've since done personally too.
I like XMPP a lot, it worked well, including it being federated.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
I've just used Itinerary for a few flights I needed to take and it worked really well. I love these really high quality mobile apps KDE are making!
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
Reddit is nothing without users posting and upvoting posts and comments. If all, or a large proportion of the users stopped using the site, reddit would have to listen or they'd stop being useful. I think there are two problems:
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As you said, users don't realize the power they have. It's a bit more nuanced than that, they do realize the power of the collective, but don't think the collective will exercise that power, and thus won't act individually. It's the same as "my vote doesn't matter, it's just one vote". This is obviously a self-fulfilling prophecy because they are making it happen, they simply need to follow what they think is right.
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A lot of users don't care. Again, a bit more nuanced than that, most users probably have a preference reddit listens to their users, keeps the 3rd party app access, etc. But they don't care enough to do anything about it, which in effect means in any practical way, they don't care. I'm guessing that to them this feels a bit of a "niche" problem and will use the official app. There are a small amount of users, like me and probably you reading this who've left reddit and won't go back.
The protests have worked. They've moved a motivated minority over to lemmy and we're creating communities, posts and comments, contributing to apps and running instances. We'll spend our time and effort improving the tools and communities for the fediverse ready. Hopefully, with enough of reddit being reddit causing more waves of people in the future to seek another platform, the fediverse will grow and reddit will dwindle. That's my hope anyway.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
I don't really read news in English anymore, but when I did, I subscribed to the economist. I found most other news sites were too biased and ignored most of the world.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
Kmail on desktop and the native sailfish email client on my phone.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
I just want to say that I really love this app, thank you for you're great work.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
Yeah, I use ublock origin. I don't like the ad model and many ads on the web are privacy invasive. I'm not averse paying for content (something I'm doing for some of it) but I won't watch ads to fund creators.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
I live in Sweden. Yeah, the tap water is clean and can be drank straight from the tap without boiling, filtering, or treatment in the whole country.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
I use Sailfish OS on the Sony Xperia 10 III.
I choose the OS because I wanted a phone OS which would get updates for a long time, which sailfish has a good track record of and I wanted one which ran linux so that I had the normal things I'm used to on the desktop like systemd, pulseaudio, bash, rpm, etc. I did need it to run android for a couple of banking apps and sailfish provide a pretty decent android support layer. It's worked really well, the biggest drawback I'd say is that parts of it are not open source and they're kind of doing their own stuff so while some things do work like KDE apps, other apps would take a lot more effort to get working (gtk apps for example).> Fairphone
KDE Itinerary gained the option to share locations via the Matrix protocol, so making sure NeoChat can actually properly handle this as well.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
I use SMS and Matrix. I'd love to see something like Briar become more popular, or maybe XMPP make a resurgence as it's been a great federated chat protocol for a long while.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
I think I disagree. I have heard this a lot on Reddit and I've heard it about Twitter, Google Plus and a bunch of other social networks and I've been on small ones and huge ones alike. Honestly, to me, when a social network is large it includes both nuanced discussion and there more casual posting. I don't see why both can't exist on the same site and I feel like it often does exist on the same site.
I also think people have a huge range of interests, some of which might be quite niche and having a large user base means these niche communities can thrive. When I've used smaller social networks, this typically has been the problem. They often have their tech communities covered and they often have other large common hobbies and interests covered, but if you take for example learning welsh or theremin music or something else, then you typically only get communities about those things on larger networks.
pumpkin 1y ago • 100%
I've signed, this is really important. Trains are vital for domestic travel, but also really important for international travel, about once a year I'll need to go to another EU country and look for a rail option, often it's not feasible. I really hope this succeeds, flying is unsustainable.
I have noticed that over the last few years more and more soda makers are putting sweeteners in their drinks, originally it used it just be in their "diet" or "zero" offerings, but I've noticed they are making their way into their regular recopies too. I usually immediately know if that's the case on the first sip because they often have a rather strong flavour, which isn't really pleasant. It seems to depend on what sweetener(s) they've chosen to use, but they can taste bitter, astringent or just... not good. I usually end up having to throw away the drink. I don't drink soda very often, so I'm wondering if this is something you have to acquire a taste for?
Note: these are **not** my first impressions, that's just the blog's title. I came across the post and thought it was interesting and you all might too :)
My pick is [crew chief](https://thecrewchief.org/) for a better spotter alternative.
A new release of NsCDE is out as of a few days ago. It's a desktop environment which resembles CDE.
About 8 years ago I got into cycling and really enjoyed riding, but I ended up moving countries and ended up gradually stopping cycling. Since then I've worked an office job and been pretty much a couch potato. I'm wanting to get into cycling, but find I can't really stick to it on my own, I am wondering if anyone knows of online communities or groups for people who are unfit but are trying to get into cycling?