Have a look at YUNOhost for your OS. It’s based on Debian and is designed to be really easy to set up and use, which might be useful for you as you have young children and not much time.

Ah OK that’s a shame.

I haven’t even looked at port forwarding. I think maybe some ISPs in some countries might block traffic this way but others will know better. Everything just works with Mullvad on Fedora with Qbittorrent, so I’m happy.

Good work!

I’ve seen this being recommended for audio production but was put off disabling it because I didn’t understand what it was. I’d like the performance gain though.

Has anyone else here disabled it?

Me. Only Pixelfed, Mastodon and Lemmy for two or three years. I dont feel like I miss anything and in fact find it much healthier, especially Pixelfed. I never really used Instagram but love my Pixelfed feed of art and photography.

Where did the Linux socks thing come from? I see it around and am curious about the lore.

I think this is a good article and I agree with it.

A big part of how I got turned on to open source was emotional and still is tbh. I felt like I was being taken for a fool by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook and was angry.

The big money and power is in information technology now and it’s the new instrument of imperialism, which is why ‘enshittification’ has happened. The great news though is that information is so easily shareable and reproducible, so the more of it we make free the harder it is for them to keep fucking us over with it.

I don’t know when the next big civilizational ‘reshuffle’ will happen (probably on it’s way now), but the more that we make common and free the less leverage the greedheads will have over us when it’s time to work out a new settlement.

I think Cherrytree is my most important app. It’s primarily for making hierarchical lists but you can hyperlink between nodes and to external files and URLs and you can insert files, images and tables. I pretty much use it for organising my entire life and archiving important files, links and documents. The database is a single file (which you can have encrypted), so it’s super portable and you can sync it between devices. You can easily theme it yourself too (the default theme/icons looks quite old school).

I also love GIMP 3.0

Pretty ironic considering they don’t play any sports of their own.

I have my Linux laptop open at work next to their windows machine and the difference when I switch between them is ridiculous.

Yeah, I think you mis-read my comment and that we agree :)

I think their point is that in a large enough group there will be people who you cease to regard as peers.

I think a much more stable option would be morals defining your identity and being loyal to that.

I’m glad you posted the question - good to think about.

It would be funny if Trump’s biggest legacy was the mass adoption of open source.

The EU could get a ridiculous amount done if it decided to seriously invest in it.

I use Jami and Session. Interested to check out SimpleX Chat though.

Celery makes all soups taste pro 👌

If you subscribe to hashtags for your interests from a Pixelfed account I’m sure you will find artists and art that you like. There are some wonderful artists on the Fediverse and it’s how I find most of the artists and art that I like these days.

Some that I particularly like right now:

• @rmiddleton.art@pixelfed.art - abstract expressionism

• @humanum@mastodon.art - digital watercolour ‘bio-fantasy’

• @atomicker@mstdn.ca - 1900s Japanese Shin-hanga prints from various artists

I sometimes see artists offering prints but I’m sure most artists would be approachable about making them for you if you’d like to buy one.

Unless the people around you were also doing the same then I think you would still be exposed to polluted views and knowledge.

Do you find that Writefreely federates well? I’ve tried hosting it a couple of times but my accounts weren’t discoverable on many other Fediverse instances. I never got to the bottom of why. I really like it though and would love for it to work out.