Lettuce eat lettuce

Oh wow sounds great, can I get in line now to not use it?

I really hope Brother is telling the truth!

I play Lichess on my GrapheneOS Pixel6a, works well. Same with Signal, Firefox with several mobile browser extensions.

Bitwarden, NewPipe, Tailscale, Duolingo, Uber, Discord, Matrix Element, all the Proton mobile apps, Backblaze, etc etc.

Pretty much every app I try works flawlessly. On rare occasion I’ll experience minor bugs, and twice I’ve had to use GOS’s extra privilege mode to get an app to work.

Overall, Love GrapheneOS and I’ll use them as long as they are around and making an awesome alternative to Google’s garbage.

I’ve used two, NameCheap, and PorkBun.

Hated Namecheap, would never use them again. Janky pricing, tons of email spam, terrible UI.

Porkbun has been pretty great. Simple, solid prices, easy to use, no issues for about a year and a half.

I wouldn’t even give that scumbag a quarter.

A liar, scam artist, and scumbag.

I will happily bet any amount of money and possessions at any ratio to any “expert” that we won’t.

My entire life earnings, every possession I own, times 100, at a 1000:1 ratio. Please, “experts” bet me, I would love to go all in on this prediction.

Speak for yourself, Jellyfin has been awesome for me. Fantastic piece of software.

Jellyfin is love, Jellyfin is life.

Check out Neocities, a great community of indie web fans, built in the spirit of the old GeoCities sites.

Some really great sites there, it really captures that late 90’s to early 2000’s internet vibes.

Fighting with Linux is generally rewarding. On the rare occasion when it happens, I almost always learn a lot, and I’m able to figure out a functional solution.

Windows on the other hand feels like fighting with a manipulative, toxic partner. It happens constantly, you’re always a little on edge, and you never come out learning anything, you’re just relived that it’s over.

Been using LibreOffice and OnlyOffice since university, well over a decade ago, haven’t once missed MSOffice.

Meanwhile, I saw a post on r/debian a few weeks ago of a user running Debian 12 on a Pentium III server.

My 3rd and 4th gen i7 workstations are also running it like champs.

You know what’s funny about that? I can think of at 4 times in just the last year where a Microsoft outage caused significant downtime (at least 1 hour) for the company I work at.

• Twice, Outlook/Teams was having major regional issues for hours, people at my company couldn’t log into Teams and weren’t getting emails.
• Microsoft’s Dynamics platform, (which my company’s ERP software is built on) had some infrastructure issue that made it unusably slow for several hours.
• Who can forget the lovely Crowd Strike kiss of death fiasco a few months ago?

Meanwhile, the 12 year old janky Debian servers I had were running Ansible, Docker, OpenProject, and several other services without a hitch, same with all the Linux endpoints I had deployed.

Centralization causes many of these problems and makes them more severe than they otherwise would be. When you are locked into a single vendor for everything you do, you’re completely at their mercy if anything breaks.

The problem is that nobody, at least in the US, markets open source solutions. The big players corner the market, and IT just learn those big players. You should see the looks I’ve been given when I present IT directors with a quote from ix Systems for a TrueNAS solution to their storage needs. They have no idea who they are, even though they provide enterprise grade storage solutions at a fraction of the price of Dell or HP.

The US tech environment is a cyber dystopia controlled by the Tech corpos of silicon valley. It’s so frustrating.

Free speech readings, increasing! Liberty levels, maximum! Freedom metrics, exploding!!! IMA BUSSSS!!!..oh nvm, the techno-fascist douchebag was a lying hypocrite the whole time.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as…

Second influx to the Fediverse?

Ikr. I’ve got two 12 year old towers that have Debian on them. One is a Docker box and the other is just a raw Debian server.

I installed KDE on both because I like my servers looking a little sexy lol. They run smoother and more stable than any of the Windows machines I support.

They’ll probably be fine for another 10 years, maybe even longer.

So accurate, I have 5 towers right now set up for re-purposing as servers, with a half dozen more coming in a few days saved from e-waste. That doesn’t count my homelab rack server, networking gear, main gaming tower, and 4 laptops…