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cloudskater

@ cloudskater @pawb.social

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  • I'm just trying to search for a website...

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  • I know. I'm trying not to use DuckDuckGo because of their AI support. I was told this was a good search engine to use instead, but it often spits random stuff back at me.

  • Why aren't the left more active on alternative platforms?

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  • Thank you! I'll have a look into these!

  • List of servers to block

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  • I'm sorry, are you talking about pawb.social? That's the Lemmy instance I'm on and I've never heard anything particularly bad so please show me what I'm missing. Of it's my Mastodon, I'm on bark.lgbt over there, which has no bad history from what I know.

  • Why aren't the left more active on alternative platforms?

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  • What do you think makes an instance definitively leftist and do you have any other examples? I'm interested!

  • Mastodon @lemmy.world
    cloudskater @pawb.social

    List of servers to block

  • Proton left Mastodon...

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  • Posteo is a really good option for email as well. Dedicated to being green too, and not just for show, it seems.

  • A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions

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  • You are posting in a community called "fuck_ai"

  • Which phone and OS should I pick?

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  • Oh, I found Graphene excellent! It's just the notifications are pretty essential and I cannot get them working outside of one app. That's the only reason I criticized it.

    Are the Jolla and the FLX1 harder to swap OSes on if needed, like you said? I'll consider the Fairphone as I know it's the most popular option, but I've also heard criticisms of parts not being available or software support being dropped. Few and far between but considering how much good press it's gotten, I'd appreciate your take on that. That said I'm sure they wouldn't mind using an app emulator as long as it's functional. I've helped them get Windows games running through Wine on Mint and also got them the BizHawk emulator for old games and stuff, so they're no strangers! haha

    But hey, thanks so much for this, it's really helpful.

  • Open source alternatives to Life360?

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  • Thank you, I'll have a look!

  • Linux Phones @lemmy.ca
    cloudskater @pawb.social

    Which phone and OS should I pick?

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • Tried that too. Its not federated and generally just didn't like me lol

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • Sorry, I don't knowingly support crypto bros or war profiteers if I can help it. Plus if in looking for an alternative to a bad service, I'm not gonna give cadence to the platform already doing shitty stuff, just for it all to crash again once that one gains traction.

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • I've heard Matrix was involved in some crypto bullshit and military operations of some sort. I want an alternative but Matrix is just shady enough all around for me to stay the hell away.

  • Real Nazis

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  • Thank you for actually giving me an explanation instead of just calling her comics unfunny lol

  • Veganuary

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  • Are you doing something to fuck over "the powerful"? If so, what?

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  • The only commercial social media I use anymore (or at least post on) is Bluesky, and I'm getting weary of that, too. I've switched completely to open source operating systems and workflows in the past year or so. During that time I've also become vegan and am trying not to go to any sort of shop at night. That last one has nothing to do with the state of things at this very moment, but I don't want to give companies more reason to force people onto late shifts when working in retail/customer service already sucks and even full time won't get you close to a living. The last thing anyone needs is their sleep thrown off, as I know from struggling with it myself. I may not be able to stop buying things, but fuck working when you should be sleeping. Unless you're literally an essential worker, in which case those shit shifts should be cycled between people, not consistent.

    ...I didn't mean for that to become a rant lmao

  • Tastes like enshittification.

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  • Plus with entertainment stuff they're usually finished once released (or at least they SHOULD be cough cough game industry). It would be better if every game was open source, especially since there are tons of old games that could do with revamps but are too niche to invest in. If we had the source though, die hard fans would be all over that shit and wouldn't have to spend years decompiling and romhacking! But that said, creative tools need to he constantly updated and should be open source always in case something goes bad. My ROM of Spyro for the PS1 isn't changing anytime soon, so while it would be better for the source to be out there, I'm not worried about it suddenly becoming unusable.

  • Real Nazis

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  • Not trying to reopen a can of worms but care to fill me in on what happened?

  • halal paintball

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  • Then ball-ify the mixture and shoot it directly into your opponents' mouths. Might break a few teeth but they'll taste alright going down!

  • halal paintball

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  • I love how this goes along with another reply saying vegans are too weak to play. Shit, man, I'd like to try paintball but if I'm forced to use marbles then yeah I guess I am too weak lmao

  • Still alive?

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  • I second this, I wanna know

  • vegan @lemmy.world
    cloudskater @pawb.social

    Why. (A Rant About Bread)

  • privacy @lemmy.ca
    cloudskater @pawb.social

    There has to be a better way!

  • Buildapc @lemmy.world
    cloudskater @pawb.social

    Cheap parts for screwing around with

  • privacy @lemmy.ca
    cloudskater @pawb.social

    Open source alternatives to Life360?

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    cloudskater @pawb.social

    Text to speech that's free of modern, "generative" AI?

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
    cloudskater @pawb.social

    How to make Linux Mint recognize controllers with extra buttons

  • privacy @lemmy.ca
    cloudskater @pawb.social

    Domain providers for a Mastodon instance

  • Furry @pawb.social
    cloudskater @pawb.social

    Transfem Shadow Bubsy. (Art by nicopossum)