James R Kirk

I think immutability actually takes away from the confusion and kind of makes the overall experience much more similar to windows where editing system files is something rarely done even among most power users.

I would suggest installing Fedora Kinoite, poke around it for 20-30min and if you find it too confusing then just putting windows back.

My point is that it’s not a big decision/commitment. And it’s trivial to undo!

Ah ok, so ignoring Calibre for a moment, what’s the difference between Calibre-Web and Calibre-Web Automated? The ReadMe does not contain a list of the differences.

Using a PC is going to be safer actually because it’s easier to block most of the telemetry. Bonus points for Linux.

This is explaining the difference between Calibre and Calibre-Web.

The person you replied to asked what the connection is between “Calibre-Web” and “Calibre-Web Automated”

Is there some feature you need that is sprcific to mobile devices?

So to make a bluesky with (for example) two users is available for anyone to create at any time, but is so extremely technically intensive that absolutely nobody besides the one company is capable of doing it? You don’t find that the slightest bit odd? I think the open source and decentralized claimes are straight up lies.

Bluesky isnt decentralized

But if it’s open source what is stopping them from simply creating another bluesky like yesterday?

Jay Graber’s background before BlueSky is in Web3 so take that information how you will.

My bad, I’m not an expert here but it’s weird that it’s open source and yet nobody else can have a bluesky? Like could I download that code and make a bluesky for everyone? If so why has nobody else done it? why is there only one for profit bluesky?

To answer your question though, no nothing has changed.

It’s still for profit, not federated and closed source so honestly I don’t know why it’s being discussed here

+1 for this recommendation. Gnome is going to feel more familiar to a MacOS user and Silverblue is very resilient.

The LinkedIn-styled writing here is hard for me to get through, but I think the general gist is that for profit platforms are easier to onboard which I agree with. This line stands out:

And what do we get in return? A worse experience than cloud-based services.

I have to disagree somewhat, it’s a different experience that is absolutely more difficult in many ways, but for those of us who value privacy, control over our data, and don’t like ads, the trade-off is worth it. Also it goes without saying that the usability of selfhosted apps has exploded in the past few years and it will likely become less and less of an issue.

Using a camera on public property in the EU is broadly very legal.

Using recycled parts is the best advice. As you said, it’s almost certainly overkill and the price can’t be beat.

Not sure if you are looking for blogs but I this guy is a good writer: https://rys.io/en/index.html

This is literally literally a drama article

It’s annoying to be treated that way isn’t it?

Please don’t sealion me.