Looks hot, I’m in!

Sarcasm?

Why are their official communities on Reddit and Discord? Why not a Mastodon or Lemmy community?

No such trouble for me, thank goodness

Same. Jellyfin for media (symphonium app for music), immich for photos, nextcloud for pretty much everything else…

It’s peer to peer so it depends on what you’re concerned about. It shouldn’t raise any flags with your ISP I wouldn’t think

Lawnchair launcher

Gotta buy a different phone then

I’m honestly kinda sick of this. Sure, Google’s decision to try to lock down their devices to prevent installing unsigned apps is concerning for FOSS. But can we all just calm down a bit?

Linux isn’t going anywhere, and neither is hardware that supports it. Yes, is possible that Microsoft or even Intel (now that Trump has bought into it) might try to do some sketchy shit. But the open hardware market is starting to look promising. Look at MNT, System76, Pine, Framework etc…

I agree times are scary and everything is looking kinda bleak, but your best option right now is to completely boycot (as much as possible) Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft etc. Just stop using their shit.

Buy up old PC’s, turn them into home servers and self host as many services as you can.

I’m confident GrapheneOS will continue and we will still have f-droid after 2027. But I’m an optimist.

I just hope that the Graphene devs continue to support the last supported versions of Android that allow installing apks.

I couldn’t be happier with my P7 that has been running Graphene since day one. Zero Google. Zero problems

It’s time to start self hosting your own services people!

I was kinda joking as I wouldn’t expect an internet stranger to simply give away a peice of tech that could otherwise be sold. However just incase you’re actually serious, my 6 year old just started school this year and we don’t have a tablet in the house for some of the learning apps she’ll need next year. So that would genuinely be my use case.

I’ll take it if it’s up for grabs

we need to end the surveillance economy all together. Make social media unprofitable.

THIS!

Let me firstly say that I 100% agree with all of the above. And secondly, I don’t work in tech.

But I think most of the frustration from the grey beards is possibly because they’re burnt out. They’ve probably been answering the same questions their entire life. And there comes a point when the actual answer becomes, RTFM.

I don’t agree it’s an appropriate response. The mere fact that the acronym has profanity in it suggests it’s an aggressive response.

I’ve been on forums before where, instead of saying “RTFM”, someone had just linked me to the appropriate man page… Essentially the same message, but far more helpful and a much less insulting.

In my opinion it’s not wrong to tell someone to read the manual, especially if the answer is in it, but it’s how you say it that matters.

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Jitsi is a great open source alternative to Google Meet and Zoom etc

If it works, don’t try to fix it

Ahh thanks for that clarification. That makes more sense. I suppose I’m combined type too. Was likely more evident when I was younger. These days my “hyperactivity” presents as hyperfocus whereas I would climb the walls as a kid.

Not sure that constitutes AuDHD… I’m inattentive ADHD with a tendency to hyperfocas on things that I’m really interested in. It’s worse if I’ve taken my meds too because then I’m locked in, hunter is suppressed… I literally don’t need food when I’m working on something I love.