As someone who regularly uses Tor, it takes like 5 minutes to load a simple webpage half the time

Also would be worth considering RiseUp VPN which is run by an anarchist organization. There’s also a new one BuycatVPN which I think is affiliated with the Tech for Palestine project and from an organization that’s an official partner with BDS, but I don’t know anything else about it.

While F-Droid has security issues, the ideological security benefit it provides that Accrescent/Play Store/Obtainium doesn’t is the guarantee that the app is open source, and if the developer goes rogue (I.e. Simple Mobile Tools) it gets removed. A lot could be improved though.

Lemmy doesn’t have most of the communities I need, so I still end up using Reddit a lot and sometimes other sites/forums. I use Lemmy for casual browsing though because Reddit’s main subs are complete ass and the politics on Lemmy and its focus on Linux discussion is a lot better.

On Typst its --

On the Windows 11 install I was forced to use, I installed vim and helix. And python/julia works for calculator.

They’ve been doing it on desktop Firefox for ages

“Good thing I got revenge though on Google’s sideloading ban by buying a phone that never allowed it to begin with”

Before turning it back on, plug in your flash drive to install Arch Government

Threatening violence on your opponent’s territory right before you have to negotiate with them is stupid though unless you have a reason to want things to escalate

IDK how dumb this idea is, but what if Trump/Republicans that align with him are trying to cause a shutdown to take advantage of the chaos somehow and blame it on the Democrats, and part of the reason for sending the military to Portland/LA was to anger the Democrats enough to not fold?

I don’t think PG has updated yet to take into account that F-Droid is saying they might shut down if Google proceeds with the app verification stuff

He accepts non-binary people but refuses to use they/them pronouns because he doesn’t like the ambiguity of singular/plural pronouns.

I agree with this criticism, but the entire English language is full of bullshit so you might as well consider using Esperanto

It means you can use the regular Linux kernel instead of fucking around with a custom kernel (like Asahi) or with some sort of Android layer (like Halium). So running whatever distro you want shouldn’t be too difficult.

Is it in stock though?

Right now the only decently speced phone with mainline Linux support is the Oneplus 6, and the only one I can find is being sold for $2000

I was trying to package Typst for them once. The IRC barely gave me any help, nor did the mailing list, so I had to guess a lot of things on my own. I ended up spending several hours working on it and fine tuning it to what the documentation wanted as much as I could. Then I finally made the submission, which was ignored for an entire year, before finally being rejected. It’s clear that the package repository has a severe lack of packages, but if there’s no clear way to contribute, then idk how anyone can take the project seriously.

I’ve also encountered bugs that made the tools unusable on my laptop that similarly got no response on IRC and the mailing lists.

Meanwhile on Nix, if I submit an issue on Nixpkgs, it will usually get resolved by the maintainer in 24 hours, or at most a week if it’s a larger change, and I don’t even have to do anything, and things aren’t constantly broken on aarch64.

Ironfox, but I think you need to use a custom repo or use Obtainium

You can listen to ListenBrainz recommendation playlists using Spotube’s ListenBrainz plugin with their new plugin system

From the last incident, there was Aux that wanted to create an alternative for the Nix ecosystem, but it died before it even started. Right now what we do have is Lix (what I’m currently using) and Tvix as an alternative for the Nix program, and Guix as an alternative ecosystem that’s nowhere near as complete.