Yes, the Windows store is crap, but it is still miles ahead of running random .exe installers.

And the Ubuntu store is like the worst possible example you could find 😱

Just any normal distribution repository from for example Debian or Fedora works great. And Gnome and KDE have very easy to use GUI interfaces for these and ideally Flathub is also integrated. Super easy and seamless, no joke at all.

Wdym? Installing things on Linux is much simpler. There is exactly one preferred way: the application repository from the distribution with a nice GUI interface for it. File types of archives play no role in that and why would that even be relevant?

Windows only recently got something similar with the Microsoft store, and before is was a super confusing mess of lots of different types of installers and generally a huge security issue to run .exe files from unstrusted random internet downloads.

Your explanation sounds more like you are trying to use Linux like it was Windows XP. But Linux is not Windows… you are holding it wrong 😅

While theoretically true, the main bottleneck with Lemmy seems to be the database performance, so with both projects depending on PostgreSQL for that, I somewhat doubt that Piefed being written in Python will have much noticeable effect in reality.

You mean more cow bell?

Vibe coder? 😏

While this was true 10-15 years ago, nearly all popular distros include graphical configuration tools that are as good or better than Yast these days.

Cli usage on Linux is entirely optional these days on most Linux distributions, but once you learn a bit of cli use you actually realize that it can be a very helpful tool.

The base consumer models from regular brands usually have no write cache and are thus cheaper, and obviously slower, but for data storage that doesn’t matter so much.

But you can also look into 2.5" HDDs if you are looking for power savings and noise reduction over regular HDDs.

The last one in the list.

The vote is missing one song.

Well, in theory airplane mode should disable it, but as a software feature that could be spoofed if the device is compromised. Some privacy focused phones have hardware kill-switches for the cell-modem because of that.

The “not super accurate” location is only from one cell tower (via the shared public IP). Triangulation via multiple cell towers is something only the ISPs with antennas near you can do, and it can be much more accurate.

Due to the emergency call function, a mobile phone will still connect to cell towers and send the unique device id even if you take out the sim.

(Might be mentioned in the video)

Well, obviously if you host from your home ISP, people will be able to figure out your home’s approximate location via a reverse IP search.

But otherwise go for it. It’s not that hard to do and a nice learning experience.

The militias in Rojava (northern Syria) are kinda working that way. There are no real ranks and they were quite effective fighting ISIL and Turkish proxy forces in recent years.

This guy also being a perpetrator of bullying because he didn’t like moderation decisions makes this post a bit ironic though 🤷

This is odd because I know a few mainland Chinese people that use XMPP without problems (and afaik without a VPN).

Sounds like your server got blocked for another reason?

Well, instead of leaking metadata to Signal, AWS, Cloudflare, Google/Apple and your ISP, like Signal does, RCS only leaks it to your ISP /s

You can easily redirect xmpp to port 443 which is not blocked by most firewalls. If you have problems with firewalls or public wifis your xmpp server is misconfigured.

The actual military grade (xmpp based) messengers implement security lables, meaning messages are tagged with the required security clearance and if you invite random people to a chat they can’t see the messages.

Something like that could be also interesting for a Lemmy frontend to make it easier to share images on instances that have strict upload limits.