Seriously. I love GOS and can’t imagine using a phone without it at this point, but their social media is a shitshow and a half.

I stopped using it because it was constantly eating up nearly a gig of RAM at all times just by existing. The dev’s AI generated avatar is a big red flag too imo

I went back to Readeck and it works much better for me without hogging system resources.

I completely upgraded my desktop like a month before I decided to make the switch. If I planned ahead just a bit more I would’ve gone with an AMD card for sure. This 4090 is still new enough that I can probably trade it in, but that’s such a pain in the ass.

I maintain my own private invidious instance and that motherfucker has to be rebooted every single day istg

I switched to OpenCloud a month or two ago and it’s been much better overall. A bit of a pain to set up but now it’s running smooth, does everything I need it to do and is much more performant than Nextcloud was for me.

Oh this looks really nice. I’ve been pretty happy with Feishin but might give this a try too.

These are valid reasons that I’d consider getting one for myself. But big tech says fuck accessibility, let’s cram it full of bullshit instead. And that’s on top of the privacy concerns that they seem focused on shoving under the rug rather than making it obvious if someone’s using these.

Yeah their CEO said some weird shit last year. They also just rolled out an LLM chat bot this year. Sketchy company heavily leaning into enshittification.

I switched to Proton at one point because they’re one of the last few providers to offer port forwarding, but I recently cancelled it and went back to Mullvad.

A dead nazi is funny but at the end of the day they’re just another dead nazi. Now when Hitler or Goebbels eats shit, that’s a call for celebration.

Literally just a fucking nazi. Good riddance.

Capitalism

I’ve been using it for ages and didn’t even know about all of this. What a shitshow, jesus christ.

I’m getting a new phone pretty soon anyway so after I stick Graphene on there I’ll find something new instead for sure.

This is a big one. I had no problem ditching the rest and I’ve been able to slowly get friends and family onto signal. But discord despite its incessant enshittification just has no real alternative. Matrix is the closest thing and it’s a clunky, confusing mess.

Plus even if I were to switch, what’s the point if the communities I use discord for aren’t moving too? They really built a monopoly out of this dogshit app and it’s going to be ridiculously difficult to get people to switch to anything else. Hell, look at Twitter - people clung to that shithole for far too long (they still do tbh), and didn’t jump ship until bsky came around, which is barely any better. Meanwhile, Mastodon’s literally been there the entire time but nope.

Good shout! Admittedly I’ve been happy with Symfonium so I haven’t looked into FOSS alternatives but this looks really good. When I get a chance I’ll add it to the writeup for sure.

That’s something I’ve struggled to find so far unfortunately. Maybe something exists but I haven’t found an answer yet.

This is a bit over my own head as I’ve only been dabbling with it recently, but so far from what I’ve found that seems to be the case.

You can get creative with the Rules, but that’s always accepting a level of risk. Like to get Beszel and Komodo Periphery working on my VPS, I technically expose some services, but I keep Pangolin’s auth enabled and use the rules to restrict it to certain paths and only my own public IP to bypass auth (1. Allow: my IP, 2. Always deny 0.0.0.0/0).

I really need to get into a better habit of waiting for their friday events lmao, but yeah that’s where I get most of mine from as well. Otherwise, sometimes a physical record comes with a download slip or w/e, or I’ll just go find a download for something I already physically own. But for purchasing digital, Bandcamp is king right now, and I’m definitely interested in other options that are out there too.

At least from my understanding (specifically for Navidrome here), there’s no way to differentiate which user owns which track/album if they’re in the same location. Navidrome’s multilibrary configuration is basically just telling it “hey this folder is this library, that folder is that library”. A combined single folder is perfectly fine if users are fine with that, but in my use case my wife and I have dramatically different tastes so it makes more sense to separate it all out.

Y e p. It’s a nightmare tbh. No ethical consumption under capitalism etc etc

Appreciate it! I literally just slapped it together just for this post LOL but I’ll probably start using it some more, kinda therapeutic in a way. The assets are all recycled from my streaming days, may as well still get some use out of em