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+1 for the expanse! the story isn’t extraordinary but their take on space faring was so good. now all sci-fi looks dumb :( i wish there were more series like that

just joining in on the misery. arr-s overpromise and underdeliver, tried for a month and gave up with just jellyfin and qbittorrent web. jellyfin is ok at masking the atrocious file names and directory structure, bless its soul

ah i’d categorize 30/mo as expensive :) i pay around 8 eur and have email, matrix, minecraft and jellyfin running!

not at all: atproto works very differently. fedi instances “do it all”, on atproto pds-es hold content, relays discover and aggregate, appviews show stuff. iirc relays can also implement moderation (such as blocks or bans). right now to my knowledge the only relays are bluesky’s and blacksky’s (because hosting a relay is very resource intensive)

i think my point kind of missed: i dont have specific recommendations unless an use case or a set of requirements is provided. most services from big providers are “catch all” because of budget and desire to capture market, privacy alternatives aren’t

i also misunderstood this as a recommendation for others rather than sharing own’s choices, so I’m sorry if I was annoyed for what I felt to be poor choices (and i feel these are for generic users trying to get free from big providers)

but really, drop brave

this is not good. stuff like google calendar and photos are cloud service, a local app isn’t a replacement and there’s so many good ones. brave stuff just injects their affiliates and ads and has paid models, plus is led by someone with very questionable views. arch linux as windows replacement is objectively a bad choice as first linux distro. keepass is great but again offline.

yeah, if you want privacy, de-cloud. even google photos is private if you never connect to the internet. we should recommend less bad alternatives with comparable features, talk about compromises and use cases, and generally avoid making such eye catchy “privacy packs” which don’t work for most and are honestly a circle jerk for who already solved their privacy needs

also there’s no private AI. your local model is built on stolen data, so if you care about our privacy and not just your own stop using ai crap or kindly fuck off back to your favorite techbro

it absolutely is! honestly all matrix homeservers are impressive, the protocol is not for the faint of heart

while i don’t want to throw shade on the developers’ intentions, nor have any real proof of what data is being kept, a fetch request bears by minimum the source ip (which can be geolocated) and the fact that the homeserver exists and runs continuwuity.

i’d suggest a matrix channel as alternative, so hosters can opt-in by joining. plus, by leveraging the matrix protocol, such announcements become federated push notifications, meaning they could come from any homeserver (limiting ip logging) and don’t imply the continued existence of such deployment, or the software which is being run

even converting such mechanism to an opt-out “auto-join announcements channel” would be more privacy respecting

be warned that continuwuity phones home by default to fetch its news and feed it to the admin, you may want to turn that off before booting first time

why wouldn’t it be? you can send emails from web uis too. you can share diffs however you desire. you can have a remote for each developer, and push/pull changes to each other. the github mindset kind of ruined the resilience and distributedness of git: one central remote, one account authority, one central place where discussing MRs… ever forgejo is not as good as decentralized git: what’s a forgejo identity?

meanwhile git has been decentralized and distributed since day one, linux is still developed in a decentralized and distributed way and forgepub is just not ready and not even close.

sending emails with an attached diff to many ppl is too hard? make a nice offline gui doing that and we’re distributed. github was a psyop to make us un-learn git, making it better is silly, like wasting decades searching for “good cigarettes”

lapce feels like vscode but is built from scratch in rust iirc. lapce.dev

my 2 cents but 3.85 is super reasonable for lithium batteries, which range from 4.2 to 3.6 depending on charge. DIYing some other battery in should be trivial voltage-wise

periodic reminder to not touch dansup software and to move away from pixelfed and loops

dansup is not competent and quite problematic and it’s not even over

developers with less funding (even 0) contributed way more to fedi, they’re just less vocal

dansup is all bark no bite, stop falling for it