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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Great guide! Very useful for people discovering a world outside of the GAFAM’s.

    I’ve done everything, but leaving Whatsapp is the most difficult one. I use Threema and Signal with my close friends, but I can’t get rid of Whatsapp because of many groups I have to follow but I’m not close enough to people to ask them to switch.

    I’d love it if these two chat services proposed a separate app which would be interoperable with Whatsapp.

    Yes Meta would still get some of my data, but less than if I had Whatsapp directly.

    Also getting Whatsapp business and setting an automatic answer asking people to contact me through mail, sms or other chats is useful.

    Leaving youtube is also difficult as Peertube is lacking non tech content like basketball…














  • Yeah it’s important to know that the first step in an issue free experience on Linux is just getting the right computer.

    Still nothing beats a free computer and I’m really happy to have my wifés old MacBook Pro running Fedora for some tasks that my daily driver can’t do. Luckily the broadcom issues happens around once every 2 years for me and not with every update.

    And my daily driver, a Microsoft Surface Go hooked to a big screen has other issues, like sometime being really slow when it’s usually quite fast for such low end hardware.

    When I’ll inevitably have to replace these, I’ll try to find more suitable Linux friendly second hand devices…






  • But did you ask creators if you could mirror their channels? Because if you didn’t, you’re just robbing them of some of their revenue.

    I understand the need to have more content on Youtube, but I don’t think we should steal it.

    I easily found almost enough Linux channels, but I can’t find basketball or videogames reviews channels.

    I think we’ll get more content if one day you get the ability to show creators we’re supporting them through Patreon or something else.