Tenet owned housing cooperatives are a way to have apartments without rent-seeking.

I wasn’t the biggest fan of Andor S2’s pacing at first, but after episode 3 or 5 it changes directors and returns to the tight pacing of season 1, and reaches some fantastic highs.

Not only is it possible, a decentralized egalitarian society was implemented with over 3 million people in 1936 Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, and by all accounts it worked extremely well.

Unfortunately, Sailfish OS uses a proprietary (closed source) android compatibility layer, as well as a closed source UI.

For the parts they have open-sourced, they implemented a CLA that contributors must sign. It’s the HA-CLA-I-ANY license, which specifically allows them a perpetual Copyright and Patent license, and permission to re-license your code contributions to a more restrictive license which enables them sell or package it into a closed-source proprietary app.

Personally I’m be more comfortable supporting the development of PostmarketOS instead, since it is completely open-source with no CLA, meaning no chance of any rug-pulling in the future.

GrapheneOS is great, and it’s what I currently use, but it is ultimately a hardened Android fork. One downside of that is it is completely reliant on manufacturer updates to continue to support a phone. Once a manufacturer drops support, the Graphene team must also drop support, as they are reliant on the closed source GPU/hardware drivers that are tied to specific android kernel versions.

PostmarketOS is not based on Android whatsoever, it’s a Mobile focused Linux distro using the mainline Linux kernel. It uses open-source drivers for the GPU and hardware which can be maintained and supported for decades, and is completely independent of Google’s influence. However, it’s still currently rough enough around the edges that it isn’t ready as a daily driver, which is why it’d be so helpful for us to donate to it so they can hire more developers to polish it up, as they recently did to improve the audio support of Qualcomm devices.

More so that the widespread use of AI encourages more and more data centers being built, which uses an insane amount of electricity, most of which is not generated with renewables, accelerating the already dire global warming.

In other words, people’s desire to get crappy art or hallucinated code is speeding up the death of our planet and everything on it.

Please consider donating to PostmarketOS to build up a pure mobile Linux alternative that is completely free of Google’s influence. It’s the best long-term option we have.

Then Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, Mastodon, Friendica, Misskey, Bookwyrm, Pixelfed, Loops, Peertube, all made from disparate developers from around the world, are all one US Federal plot?

Why would they prefer a decentralized, difficult to control social media network over the centralized ones that are already entirely under the control of right-wing billionaires?

I’m pointing out the coming issue is completely arbitrary due to our current system, since we could abandon capitalism at any point with no downsides besides the rich losing their power and wealth. I’m not saying “Don’t worry, it’ll get better in the future” I’m saying we could do the groundwork to switch to a better system now, while we still can, and before increased suffering and artificial poverty and scarcity hits us globally due to the system of capitalism requiring infinite growth in a shrinking world.

I understood the reference, but if we’re going by that logic, the Fediverse itself is a federal ploy.

It’s only a problem under capitalism. Under a decentralized socialist system, everyone would only need to voluntarily work around 4 months out of the year to have all of our basic needs met for everyone, for free. None of us would have to work bullshit jobs that only exist to profit CEOs and shareholders, so there’d be more than enough people to help take care of the elderly.

Ah, another Captain Planet villain added to the roster.

I mean… Same for Fediverse, and Federation?

The whole chart is apparently a reference to an E. B. White quote, and there may be some truth to the pie part.

If you go deep enough, there’s still windows 3.11 dialog boxes in Windows 11 for some core functionality.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240102024352/https://ntdev.blog/2023/01/01/state-of-the-windows-how-many-layers-of-ui-inconsistencies-are-in-windows-11/

GrapheneOS is a great OS, and is currently a great options for a daily driver. One problem with them is that Graphene is still ultimately based on Android, which means they are reliant on Google playing ball with them as least a little, which makes it perhaps not a good long-term solution.

The other issue is that GrapheneOS is completely reliant on manufacturer updates to support a device. Once a manufacturer drops support for a phone, GrapheneOS must also drop support, as they can no longer provide security updates due to the hardware using proprietary blobs for its drivers.

PostmarketOS on the other hand can support a phone for potentially decades since it uses open-source drivers directly from the upstream linux kernel. That has the potential to drastically reduce planned obsolescence in phones.

I say the above as a GrapheneOS user, since PostmarketOS is generally not ready as a daily driver for the average person, hence why I suggest we support it so it can be polished and support for more phones added.

this is disallowing platforms to choose whether to allow them on a platform

The block list is editable by any admin, and the sysadmin can delete the block list entirely.

based on the opinions of a guy that has endorsed genocide and child rape.

Uhh, gonna need a source for that one, Chief.

Free Speech means the government shouldn’t prosecute people for their speech, that’s all its ever meant. It doesn’t mean non-government places must allow Nazis to say their piece on your platform. That just turns places into Nazi bars.

Piefed.social is federated with Lemmy.ml, AFAIK.

As someone who was exceptionally shy growing up, what helped me was acknowledging that I really would rather not try to meet new people or join some social setting because it would induce an anxiety response, jitters and all, but, then forcing myself to do it anyway.

It was very uncomfortable, just as I knew it would be, but slowly, as I forced myself to keep doing it; the jitters weren’t as bad, I didn’t have to take so many deep breaths before getting involved to calm myself, and I started joining into conversations more, cracking jokes, and feeling more relaxed as I began to realize that people didn’t seem to mind it if I made mistakes or stumbled over my words from nervousness, and didn’t look at me weird for being a bit silly (though this depends on the group you find, I fell in with some pretty odd/silly folk, so my own sillyness didn’t stick out too much).

It’s essentially exposure therapy, and it took me a while, but eventually I was able to build up some confidence in my ability to talk to others, and realized most other people are just winging things too. I think what helped me the most was really internalizing the idea that it’s genuinely okay to embarrass yourself, and that it can even be a great well of humor to draw from, which for me removed the fear of it potentially happening. That let me me more present and relaxed, which in turn made being social begin to feel fun, instead of a stressful thing I had to force myself to do.

I think a DnD group in particular is a good place to start, since that tends to attract oddballs that let you be silly, and weirdly it can be easier to be social if you act out a more confident character, which can almost trick your brain into not being so nervous, or at least it did for me :p

If there isn’t a DnD group you can reach locally, an online group would be good too, there’s a number of discord ones, including west-marches styles that can make scheduling sessions easier.

Sorry if this comes off as someone throwing unrequested advice at you, just thought I’d share some tips from one shy dude to another :)