What distro are you using? And what is the problem(s) you’re having?

I ask because there’s a bunch of really smart I dividuals with extensive experience in Linux (not me, sorry) and from my experience, most people here love to help others troubleshoot Linux (along other OSs).

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Oh, absolutely, but it’s still an exercise in futility if the goal is to have any impact on the offending company’s demeanor and course of action.

Funny how that’s the case for most people 🤣

I would say that I RTFM about 75% of the times (give or take). Though I only do it to see if I can find something other than what I intended to use the software or hardware for.

For that to have any impact, the abusing company leadership would need to have the ability to feel some level of shame. I honestly believe that most don’t have any ability for that.

Yeah, it was a statement, not a question. But it’s partly my fault for not using the comma appropriately. Fixed.

That’s what I think too. And then I see “Their systems are built into everything around us”, which basically only applies to PCs and laptops. What is built into pretty much everything around us, is GnuLinux.

Spoken like a true rebel. My respects.

After so many dislikes, any moderately smart person would start introspecting in where they went wrong.

Of course we do. We’re not animals.

Google enshitifying things? Who would have thought? Seriously, it’s as if they want to test how far they can go upsetting users. There’s got to be some (a lot?) of that, for sure.

Same here. Best part is that they even have non-Netflix media in that tier. Love it.

You have plenty of options. I use Unraid because I bought it before it became a subscription. But I have a friend running Fedora server with Cockpit and running everything from docker containers. The options are endless. ProxMox is a great choice.

I just use Syncthing with versioning, and that’s how I manage all my files and their versions.

That alone is a document management and file versioning system without the overkill of Nextcloud (which is debatable).

Jellyfin. I’ve been waiting for Plex to do this for years. Enshitification is everywhere.

You asked for a podcast client, so here’s AntennaPod.

I have it on auto backup and share the backup with all my other devices over Syncthing.

No need to self-host anything.

I’m not French, never been to France, but this is a little step in the right direction. We should be happy and celebrate every one of these little steps. If nothing else, this makes some noise and starts turning heads towards more privacy friendly software.

Thanks for this. I wish more of us posted resources like this one more often.

Thanks so much. This is really in-depths.