Thank you for the recommendation. I have been wanting to try out the FUTO apps (which grayjay) for a while but couldn’t find it on f-droid. It looks like they have their own repo which you need to add.

Just got grayjay downloaded and it is so good!

Another reason no one else has mentioned yet is that countries want to have control over their own power generation. If you’re power is all generated in another country then it can potentially be turned off by another country.

Before the recs I just want to shout out libro.FM - they sell audiobooks and donate half of the profits to independent book stores.

Classic sci fi:

• The dispossessed - also the left hand of darkness (which is meant to be good buy Inhavent read)
• Foundation series
• permutation city

I think the more modern sci fi is good too so I will give you some recommendations anyway:

• Project Hail Mary - mentioned by other commenters, really good
• Children of time - first and best of a series, really good
• Expanse - series of books set in the near future, hard sci fi and a bit of space opera
• Red rising - a space opera a bit like a fantasy book in a sci fi setting
• Murderbot - series with a bit more more comed, very entertaining and easy to get into

sailfish?

Another day older and more tech debt

Sorry about this. I just found the video interesting when it popped up on my feed.

I don’t know about the history of this creator, I just found this particular video interesting when it popped up. Sorry if this creator is known to be untrustworthy.

You can install alternative android distros on an android phone that will keep updating long after the manufacturer has stopped. For example lineage OS which supports lots of devices (but not all).

There are also Linux distros targeted to mobile devices.

You just need to pick a device that is supported when buying.

Discourse and Lemmy are both based around topics/communities so hopefully there will be better federation here. E.g. being able to follow a discourse topic from lemmy would be really cool.

Hopefully they have done this in a way where Lemmy can federate with then easily.

We can already view mastodon threads that are linear inside Lemmy.

Oh, sorry. It wasn’t for me earlier (I linked through from Firefox suggestions)

I have personally used fedora and nixos on a gen 1 framework 13 and it works great.

Does Framework do anything regarding FOSS drivers or firmware?

Regarding your question they say this:

We deliberately selected components and modules that didn’t require new kernel driver development and have been providing distro maintainers with pre-release hardware to test to improve compatibility. We’re also working on enabling firmware updates through LVFS to complete the Linux experience.

source: https://frame.work/gb/en/linux

I think it depends on the website. There are some websites where chrome will work better either because chrome works better with certain libraries/technologies or because the developers put more time into optimizing for chrome.

On the other hand Firefox might have less bloat around telemetry that gives it an advantage too.

I think the DIY model doesn’t include some components in the base price and that is why it is cheaper. Once you configure it to include other components it is a comparable price.

It seems the DIY option will only really save you money if you already have those components or if you buy those other components cheaply somewhere else.

Previous products took much longer for batches to sell out. Even the AMD framework 13 laptops didn’t sell this fast and they were the #1 thing the community had been asking for for about a year.

We (sadly) can’t tell how many units are in a batch. But we can tell that demand is far exceeding their expectations.

I am quite liking liftoff. It has a slightly different layout to wefwef and you can customize it a bit if you don’t like the default colours.

People on mastodon are calling it enshitification day lol

Try this: https://zero-to-nix.com/

It is also available on macos

Isn’t the fediverse an anarchist project?

It seems to be the most flat peer structure of any social media.