jlow (he/him)

Are they?

Yeah, they’re very nice, was pleasently surprised that they come with a Bazzite install.

Just recently discovered LocalSend, it’s super nice (if you have some devices that don’t run KDEConnect).

Yeah, if your cool with slave labor, unsafe & unhealthy work conditions, supporting dictators and almost every other crime under the sun buy cheap non-fairtrade (or similar) shit.

I wholeheartedly agree with all your points! You are not your job (even if you love your job)! Set clear boundaries, have hobbies, friends, take walks in nature, do some sports/pottery/gardening/whatever, try different things, til you find some you enjoy.

And rightly so, devs need to eat.

PoE2 came out in early access on Friday and with a bit of tinkering (had to switch to Proton 7, for others it runs with DX12 not Vulkan) I can play on Linux woth no problems. What a time to be alive! 🤭

Is this working for you via Optanium? For me Optanium can’t find a suitable release 😿

German here, did Erasmus exchange in Istanbul, Turkey while at art / design school. While the university there was to, uh … practical? advertisement focussed? capitalist? for my liking it still was one of the best things I’ve done in my life so far. Met so many cool people from different backgrounds, learned a lot about social skills / relationships, the music, the food, it is (was? It was like 15 years ago, before Erdogan) an amazing city. Can def recommend.

Tumblr is is such a goldmine sometimes, thanks for that.

Not being anxious about almost everything.

I was also immediately thinking of tides as a time measurent. Relying on moon cycles gets you out of sync with solar years pretty quickly (os thqt important underwater? You probably do get seasonal changes?), I wonder if you could detect sunlight intensity changes or something and then do the whole solar / lunar calendar leap-day shebang we do …

Mmmh, no idea about that, sorry …

Im petty sure you don’t need to root a phone to install a custom ROM nowadays (unlocking bootloader, yes. And it is obviously more work installing a custom ROM than buying one that comes with it preinstalled).

I’ve always had a bad feeling about them since I read a pretty damning critique years and years ago (I can’t really recall what it was about now but I think it was privacy fuckups, devs not communicating very well and they included apps from rather shady sources from then internet that could potentially to not very tech-savy people installing malware through their official apps store).

That they somehow managed to fuck up their own cloud infrastructure recently (as others have hinted had) doesn’t really make me hopefull that they changed much from back then. Mind you I now next to nothing about this incedent but if you have a service that potentially thousands of people rely on with their data you should have working backups and rollbacks in place.

(Personally I also just can’t deal with the fucking branding, it just looks pretentious, unsearchable and weird.)

I would (and have) just always gone for Lineage and MicroG with F-Droid/Optanium for FOSS apps and Aurora for the few Google Play Store apps I need. Plus Netguard as a firewall.

Here’s a very in-depth German review of a pretty well-respected security researcher on the not-so-stellar privacy aspects of that ROM:

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/e-datenschutzfreundlich-bedeutet-nicht-zwangslaeufig-sicher-custom-roms-teil6/

I’m pretty that Lineage does not fare much better, though. If you’re into privacy the only real option seems to be GrapheneOS which only runs on Pixel Devices 👌

https://github.com/roboyoshi/datacurator-filetree

Basically doing a variant / slim version for my needs

I would advise against using dates in file/folder names for almost anything except for maybe photos and documents. Always pair with searchable keywords. Will you remember when exactly you downloaded that random picture when you wanna find it a few years later? Have fun looking through a hundred /year/month/day folders.

More the latter, I organise mostly by type (movies, series, music, podcasts, comics, books, photos, images etc) and use (workfiles, documents, resources, tutorials etc). There’s was a whole subreddit about this, datacurator, not sure if something similar exists on Lemmy.

Paseo is still working perfectly fine for me, been using it for years, what features are you missing?

Thanks for that! So my hunch seemed to be oretty right, unfortunately (not sure if it should be everybody’s goal to become rich, that seems unsustainable but I wish it would be possible for more people to live a happy life …)

I think the changes of that happening are statistically neglible, though (comfortable maaaaybe if you’re really lucky but becoming rich is probably a one digit change, if that).