• Google Maps: Switch to CoMaps, they’re a fork of Organic Maps that grew out of a transparency issue with the Organic Maps core developers
• Youtube on pc: Not familiar with youtube-tui with mpv but FreeTube is pretty awesome too :3
• Clients for offline music: I like kew (for PC) :3
• Discord: Element is good, but in the interim you should check out Equibop! It’s a fork of the Discord client that strips out a lot of the telemetry.

And regarding PeerTube, be aware that if you go into it expecting it to be a replacement for YouTube, you will always end up disappointed. YouTube is just too big and entrenched at this point and it’s just not possible for any site to be a straight-up 1:1 replacement.

It’s kind of like renewable energy sources: no one method is going to supplant fossil fuels, but multiple different options being used where each is effective the most has worked quite well in putting a quite noticeable dent, even if not a large one, in the world’s usage of it. Likewise, PeerTube, Odyssey, Nebula, all the different sources cropping up will never replace YouTube individually, but collectively it will give people more options, which is always good.

Likewise, I’ve found that PeerTube is great for discovering new content, but it requires a perspective change. Honestly it reminds me more of YouTube in its early days. Not a lot of high-cost productions, but more just regular people putting up videos because they have a passion for it and want to share that passion. For now, I still do use YouTube, but I am finding some great stuff here and there on PeerTube as well. I guess what I’m saying is PeerTube cannot be a replacement of YouTube, but it can be a supplement to YouTube, if you want it to be.

Anyway, sorry for the ramble. Haha. Have a great day and good luck! ^_

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OF COURSE they called them domestic terrorists. That’s what all authoritarian regimes call groups that are a threat to them. 🙄

The competition of who can fuck over everyone else the fastest.

As others have said, the general rule is simple: if it no longer runs what you want it to run, upgrade.

For example, I have an Nvidia RTX 2060 GPU. It’s no longer that new, it’s like 5+ years old at this point. But most of the games I play are at least 10 years old—I think the newest, and most graphically intense, game I own is Cyberpunk 2077—and my GPU runs them just fine.

So, why would I spend hundreds of dollars on a new GPU when it’s still wholly functional for my needs?

Ooh that’s a good point. I mean, not Linux Mint because as thanksforallthefish said below it’s not a Mint-supported DE but I actually installed Arch (btw) with the KDE Plasma DE onto an old laptop I have and yeah it definitely gives early-2010s OS X vibes. :)

That’s legit.

I hate GNOME because it feels like an iPhone.

That’s fair.

I don’t know much about what Ubuntu is doing but it surely can’t be that bad.

You would be surprised.

Yeah…

See, I used to like Ubuntu, but then Canonical had to ruin it for me by betraying the principles that Linux stands for.

Ubuntu is a shadow of its former self, and it saddens me. :(

You know, I can see that.

Still, mac users use macs because they just want the computer to work.

And the Cosmic DE is rather new so can be a bit buggy from time to time. It might look mac-friendly, but its stability is still largely untested so caution may be advised before recommending it in my opinion.

Ubuntu is heresy. Canonical hath turned against the users.

Also, I’m genuinely curious: why do you hate GNOME?

They didn’t say beeteedubs so clearly not.

If she’s a Windows refugee, Linux Mint.

If she’s a Mac refugee, fuck if I know.

If she’s a IBM OS/2 refugee, please let me know how to get the drugs she’s gotten. I want in.

I get panicky from time to time.

Then I try to remind myself of my threat model.

It helps me to re-center myself.

In a storm of emotion, logic can be my rock.

So I guess you could say it’s…Metadata?

I 100% agree, but to be fair, in some jobs there really isn’t much to do. Lol.

With dumbphones, you’re usually limited to regular phone calls or SMS/MMS messaging.

That’s kind of the point.

Sure, you can’t do much with them, but by that very fact you also won’t have nearly as much data to be spied on.

Likewise, you can do much more with a smartphone, but that comes with a much higher surface of attack, and you also have to work a lot harder to keep all the data away from spying.

Sorry for the late reply (it’s been a busy week at work), but yeah, unfortunately, not all software supports that method. For instance, it doesn’t seem to work on Matrix when using either Element (desktop) or FluffyChat (Android). So, I just got into the habit of do it that way everywhere because at least most places seem to support it. Lol.

Because there doesn’t seem to be any other way to have line breaks show up. Lol.

See? This line is actually separated after the above one by two lines.

It’s no trouble! I’m happy to explain! ^_^