Honestly, I don’t think it’s a good idea to say that fediverse == activitypub in the first place.

IMHO all services that work in an open federated manner based on open federation standards are part of the Fediverse. Whether that protocol is AP, Matrix, XMPP or, yes, even Email; it’s all open standards where instances openly federate with other instances that implement the same standard.
Hell, we could even bridge between protocols. Not saying it should but if Lemmy had a mailing list bridge, would you consider someone replying to Lemmy emails from their self-hosted email server as not being part of the fediverse?

For the same reason I don’t consider AT to be part of the fediverse because it doesn’t operate in a federated manner as control is entirely centralised.

VR is pain enough as is; adding a Laptop with weird GPU setups into the mix is going to be even more pain.

Oh, this is the Linux gaming community. Multiply the pain by 10.

The web version works without an account? That’d be news to me.

Sure but that won’t do anything about software issues :p

At the federal level, yes. There’s lots of things going wrong in the “greatest” country on earth. That doesn’t mean you should stick the head in the sand and ignore advocating for incremental improvements. If no sensible transport advocate actually does anything for it because they think there isn’t enough public support, you’ll never achieve that goal, no matter how many advocates there actually are.

Not just bikes recently released a video which touches on this topic with some more differentiated discussion:

https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-these-two-cities-used-to-be-the-same
https://youtu.be/4uqbsueNvag

They are but they won’t have the desired functionality. You won’t get push notifications for instance.

I wouldn’t be so pessimistic. The Netherlands was also a car dependent place that bulldozed neighbourhoods for highways a few dozen years ago and look at where they are now. Change can happen, it just needs a critical mass of supporters and time, lots of time.

Journalism that has any tooth whatsoever would mostly fix this.

As long as no proper journalistic standards exists, populists can pour their BS down the media drain unquestioned, unchallenged. If that’s all you hear about a topic, that’s what you’ll believe.

Note that the clients being FOSS is of little relevance because all they do is forward a recording to a blackbox proprietary service run by a for-profit company.

The code that has access to your audio and does the actual task at hand is not FOSS in the slightest.

Nah, bergamont works mighty fine offline in Firefox on Android right now already. You don’t need stupid LLMs to do machine translations.

The real difficulty is OCR and combining the two.

Everything is behind GrapheneOS in terms of security. It does a whole lot more than just being up-to-date.

Whether you need that degree of security depends on your threat model though.

It’s based on LOS; you get all the features.

Looking around, the latest release available is from …February?

I would not recommend this to anyone if that’s true.

The best part of it is that it’s not just graphical: It’s a headless daemon that you can configure via config file, CLI or GUI.

That’s in stark contrast to i.e. CoreCtl which only operates while its window is open in a graphical desktop session.

Is there a bridge like they have for IMAP btw?

That would be a reasonable explanation if we didn’t get an admission this was done very much intentionally so, with only the inability to even build being an unintended side-effect from the founder and CTO himself.

I’d invite you to actually read the two comments they made in the thread I linked, I get the feeling that you didn’t.

If anyone reading has proof of M$ spying on the German government they could whistle about, right about now would be a great time to do it ;)

Also, their client is still open

*is open again. The clients they distributed were not open source until they open sourced sdk-internal. The fact that you couldn’t even build it with only open code even if you wanted to was a bug but that’s a rather minor issue in comparison.

I also fully believe that they would not have GPL’d sdk-intenral without public pressure. Even when they were originally called out they were pretty clear that the integration of proprietary code was intentional and done with the knowledge that it would typically violate the GPL.

If you don’t see what’s ethically wrong with even attempting to subvert the GPL, I don’t think you’ve understood open source.

One does not “accidentally” build a proprietary SDK for months and make the clients depend on it, intentionally violating the GPL.

They even publicly admitted to doing precisely that, defending their GPL violation with dubious claims how the GPL supposedly works.

A driver manager will not make the problems inherent to Nvidia’s crappy proprietary drivers that need workarounds go away.

If you don’t want to tinker a whole lot, buy a GPU from a vendor that hasn’t been actively hostile to its users for decades and is well supported by Linux and the freedesktop such as AMD.

No AMD GPU user has a need for anything resembling a “driver manager”.