Is it only Graphene? I vaguely recall having had it on DivestOS (RIP), which was a Lineage fork.

Edit: Any app, duh, yes, silly me. Don’t remember if it was possible for all of them.

IMHO if you only care about Google sucking your data and not other privacy/security, the most important question isn’t between OSes as much as it’s between:

1. No Google apps (GAPPS); honestly good ol’ LineageOS is just fine. If you don’t install Google spyware you don’t have Google spyware, just the connectivity check and dns. Which you can probably change. Major con, many applications installed from Play store (through Aurora store, apk, whatever) and practically all notifications you’d receive from them stop working.

2. MicroG; open source GAPPS replacement that tries to send as little data as possible to Google, while keeping Play store apps & push notifications working. /e/, iodé, Lineage for MicroG, Lineage but add microG manually during installation, formerly CalyxOS…

3. Add GAPPS but try to handicap it somehow (incl. GrapheneOS work profile isolation); I don’t remember if it’s eg. possible to block them from accessing the Internet on non-GrapheneOS phones, by app permissions or eg. NetGuard?

If we’re taking into account other privacy and security, then GrapheneOS by a mile.

I blame that the world, especially work, is more unforgiving of ADHD traits. Scatterbrained-ness isn’t as much of a deal in agriculture (where you usually can course-correct in time, I’d imagine) or monotonous factory repetition (of course it probably really sucks for ADHD-Hs for… well… monotonous repetition), but definitely is in an office environment. Also so many things now prey on your attention in constantly developing ways (all the ads trying to sell you things, just about every online service, streaming services, social media) that it scrambles even NT peoples’ brains, so of course it only makes it harder for ADHDers.

Adding Oulu, Finland.

• Map, abt 10 km diameter around city center
• Map, abt 20 km diameter, designated bicycle routes but not necessarily “baana”
• In action

I’m not quite certain what you mean either, but I’ve been very happy with NextRSS that could be installed in my Hetzner-hosted Nextcloud instance. Granted, I use it through the Android app, but of course it has a web UI as well.

Not all (any?) of the free Nextcloud hosts allow installing the news app/extension though.

It mulled in the background for about 30 years to process, and then I came to the conscious conclusion that out of all the possible equally pointless reasons to hang around, for me satisfying my curiosities and improving the world for my fellow experience-capable-beings are the ones I want to do. Of course I still slip into mind-numbing distractions a lot, that’s just being human in the world we live in.

That, and that practically, what are the options anyway? No point in ending it early, or wasting your finite life on something you don’t actually want.

My choice of philosophy is absurdism, honestly because I think it sounds more fun than “optimistic nihilism” or “existentialism”. IMHO there’s a whole host of philosophies that basically suggest the same guide to living well, with different emphasis (for example):

1. Figure out what you want (<- 20th century existentialism)
2. Do it the best you can (<- stoicism, confucianism)
3. Don’t let the other stuff distract you (<- stoicism, buddhism)

buttmonkey → b8y

I’d read b8y as “baby”, so absolutely ❤ this. Was this intended, am I an idiot for not reading the others as anything?

It’s very similar, part of the “threadiverse”, Fediverse services intended for Reddit-like UIs, like Lemmy and kbin/Mbin. Both use ActivityPub so you can read&post either on either.

They both have their pros and cons. Piefed has better moderation tools, multi-communities, and combines crossposts, among some other things; downsides, it’s written in Python which is… weird, though early metrics suggest it uses less resources. Lemmy is more established, has better app support, and is written in Rust, which, prestigious. But honestly, a lot of it comes down to community and politics.

But then it’s not the real paper behind the intended link, just a copy, and the paper on Sage will still be sad.

And then it doesn’t offer a free full paper.

I know, it’s mostly the comments making fun of “bland european cuisine” that got to me; plural, so didn’t respond under one. The meme doesn’t even mention Europe. Sorry, should have been clearer.

And sure, you can say that soy sauce is spice, or that the scallions and sesame oil in scallion pancakes are a spice, or that the soup portion of french onion soup is nothing but spice… Personally, I think in those cases what you call “spice” is one of the ingredients being celebrated (or in the case of soy sauce, sometimes just a way to add liquid salt). Such as in the case of spaghetti aglio e olio, garlic is the thing (along with quality ingredients), whereas in spicy foods it’s nearly always about the balanced spice blend. Even in something like chili, the peppers play a smaller part.

Some of these have been for privacy and FLOSS ideology over the past 5 years, but anyway…

Fully deleted:

Windows -> Linux (mostly; have a Windows VM I don’t use and needed hubby’s Windows installation for the MSM download tool for some old phones a while back).

Instagram -> nothing

WhatsApp -> Signal, Matrix/Element, SMS (friends understood, lost some community groups and annoyed others)

LineageOS w/GAPPS -> LineageOS for MicroG -> DivestOS (RIP) -> GrapheneOS (-> trying to move to UBPorts Ubuntu Touch)

Twilio Authy -> Aegis

BitWarden -> KeePass (this one was purely because disentangling from US services and it still hurts, ❤BitWarden)

Google Maps -> Organic Maps + browser Google Maps without location

Still have but use very little:

Facebook -> nothing (marketplace and some niche old-person hobby advice)

Gmail -> Proton -> Tutanota (lingering registrations, occasionally collaboration through Google Drive)

Google Drive -> Hetzner-hosted Nextcloud (for calendar, contacts, backups, etc)

Reddit -> Lemmy -> Piefed (kept for some hobby groups I might need to ask sometime)

Youtube -> Arte, local public TV streaming (YLE Areena) (for what I first check for passive entertainment)

Okay, that chicken looks disgusting, but really. Minimalist cooking celebrating the ingredients without leaning into spices is a whole thing. Sashimi? Cong you bing? Tamago gohan? Spaghetti aglio e olio? Fresh bread or “new potatoes” with butter? Finnish salmon soup (clear or creamy)? How could you not appreciate those just as much as a well-seasoned flavor bomb?

Also to defend european cuisine, yes chicken is boring, that’s why actual European recipes would also drown it other stuff: coq au vin, arroz con pollo (Spanish variant), frango piri-piri, chicken paprikash, Kyiv chicken…

I’m going to steal this.

As a woman diagnosed at 40+, when responsibilities finally overwhelmed my coping mechanisms, this rather irritates me. “No you don’t have this condition we’re just starting to take seriously, for which there are medications and which entitles you to at least understanding if not accommodations in the workplace. You have ~lady hormones~. Are we going to acknowledge perimenopausal women might face challenges and benefit from workplace adjustments, but are still capable people? Silly hormonal thing, of course not.”

Ameglian Major Cow

While this is often true, I think it’s also important to say that peoples’ mental health struggles are equally real even if they have financial security and everything apparently well in their lives.

PostmarketOS on Fairphone is afaik FAR from ready for daily driver status. 100% for UBPorts Ubuntu Touch (on gen5 or gen4) though. Also iodéOS in addition to /e/.

I absolutely adore that you looked it up, and feel seen and validated.

Any idea of how I could use RSS feeds but priotitize the sources? So if overnight the same piece of news has been reported by several sources, the reader would leave my favourite but skip the others?

I really need to find a way to scale back from my 1k daily headings but am loathe lose sources.