Unfortunately, a rather substantial portion of warfare is the economics behind it. Often, spending eye-watering amounts of money on proprietary, overpriced hardware is the point. It’s corporate welfare.

This is great news, and I might be tempted to use it if I had some reassurance that the mail servers (and the organisation that controls them) weren’t subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing. I’m not sure I’d be happy in a fully remote role where you’ve got hundreds of employees voting on how you build stuff, but I know that there are lots of people who dig this pattern, and they’re clearly doing Good work.

This looks really cool actually. I’ve created an account. Thanks for sharing!

Now I just have to find a #solarpunk “pub” :-)

My guess is it’s the license change. From Wikipedia:

In 2018, some modules for Redis adopted the SSPL. In 2024, the main Redis code switched to dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License v2 and the Server Side Public License v1.

Valkey appears to be a Redis fork that was triggered by the license change, but since Valkey still uses the original BSD license, I’m not sure I’d favour it over Redis since the latter switched licences specifically to prevent abuse of the BSD license by parties like Amazon.

• Aegis Authenticator
• F-Droid
• FOSSify
• Joplin
• Thunderbird
• Libre Memory
• Libre Torrent
• New Pipe
• Syncthing
• TorrentsCSV
• Tusky
• UntrackMe
• GNOME
• Lemmy

It would gBoard’s autocorrect got one final dig in. I did indeed mean Heliboard, and I’ve now installed it with the glide extension and… it’s great! Thanks for the reference!

What does Tubular do for you that the stock New Pipe doesn’t? I’m also curious about neighbours, as I’m still using gBoard and I’d rather switch to something else that still supports swipe-typing.

Desktop

• Arch Linux
• GNOME
• Firefox
• Tilix
• Thunderbird or Evolution
• Vim (I still use PyCharm for writing code)
• Joplin
• Bitwarden
• Python

Phone

• Joplin
• Firefox Focus & Firefox
• Bitwarden
• New Pipe
• Thunderbird (K-9 Mail)
• Signal
• Aegis
• Antenna Pod
• VLC
• The FOSSify suite (not the dialer)

Seven Raspberry Pi 4’s and one Pi Zero, mounted on some tile “shelves” inside some IKEA furniture.

I just went through F-Droid and counted out all the projects I have on my phone. At £5 each I’m looking at an annual bill of about £70/year… Bargain.

Thanks for the idea!

Well I just tried it again, and while it won’t let me take a screen shot on the lock screen, it’s definitely still the case for me. It just sits there ringing with the pattern lock on the screen and a little “Return to call” button at the bottom of the screen.

Could be. I do remember trying to get it to work a number of ways at the time. If you’re telling me that this isn’t the case for you though, I might try it out again.

I used this for a while, but every time my phone rang I had to type in my pin to answer it which was a deal breaker for me.

GitLab. The CI is fantastic.

GIMP is alright. Mostly I stick to it because Krita’s dependency on QT means it looks and works differently from everything else in my GNOME environment.

To be clear, I’m not throwing shade. That’s an impressive piece of software. It’s just, given the number of stories I’ve heard (and experienced) about Bash’s tricky syntax leading to Bad Things, I’m less comfortable with running this than I would be with something in a language with fewer pitfalls.

But if others take the chance and it sticks around a bit, I’ll come around ;-)

Thanks for the contribution! It’s a great idea, and with Google fucking about with blocking things like NewPipe, a project like this is a great answer to that.

That looks really impressive, but at nearly 1000 lines of Bash, I’m afraid I’m not comfortable running it on my machine. My Bash-foo isn’t strong enough to be sure that there isn’t a typo in there that could nuke my home folder.

If it does, we can worry about it then, but at present there’s no reason for them to do so. Chrome is deprecating v2 because it conflicts with their advertising mandate. Firefox’s goals are vastly different.

Just use Firefox already.