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[–] jcg@halubilo.social 6 points 10 months ago

"Piss on your arse" is so weirdly telling of how they conceptualise it...

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Even when they do tell you it's ok, it's probably not ok. Toilet paper is designed to disintegrate rapidly in water, hence why it's easily flushable because by the time it's actually going down the pipes it's all ripped up already. Wet wipes, even the "flushable" ones stay intact. You can try this at home, take two cups of water, in one put in a few sheets of toilet paper, in the other put it a wet wipe. Stir them both for a minute to simulate flushing them down the toilet. The toilet paper rips up and what clumps are leftover are pretty small. Wet wipes stay completely intact, which is why they cause problems down the line when they're flushed.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 1 points 10 months ago

Is it not Rocky Balboa?

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure if you double click a .deb it opens in Discover (or whatever the app store thing is called) and from there you can install it.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You could check out Frappe Drive (and Frappe, the framework it's built on, it's pretty awesome). They aren't accepting contributions at the moment but I'm sure that'll change once it's out of beta like with the other frappe apps. There's also Raven messenger also built on Frappe and you can use the two together (but without any real integration between the two yet, but that's on the roadmap on the Raven side).

I've spent a lot of time researching alternatives and NextCloud is the only one that does everything it does in one place. I've dug into the code a lot to find places to make it work faster and came out confused and mostly empty. It's also federated, and I think it's the only FOSS file sharing platform that is. It''s a very mature application so you'll be hard pressed to find features that are missing, but also to find things that could be further optimized without ripping out major chunks of the application which are likely interconnected with other major chunks of the application. For my personal use NextCloud instance I've resorted to just completely deleting the database and installing everything fresh between major versions, then just rescanning my local folder.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 12 points 11 months ago

You also need an eye for the right aesthetics and some marketing savvy, there's lots of pretty girls who still don't meet the cut for "influencer". Granted, being pretty and having marketing savvy is a really good recipe for success, but it still makes no guarantees.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The way I've always seen it is that "mother nature" has always existed as a metaphysical force that pushes life in certain directions. Humans are just mother nature manifested in conscious form - that is, assuming you believe consciousness and free will to truly exist and not just be an illusion. But the driving force is still "mother nature" just in a different form.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 3 points 11 months ago

Could still be considered an explosion, just really slow when looked at from a galactic perspective

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Depends how you define malware. Technically speaking, EGS's spyware behaviour is disclosed in long format legalese just vaguely enough that they can turn around and say "well, you did accept the terms of service"...

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Then they'd be alienating the open source community that makes a lot of contributions (though much of chromium is still essentially built internally). They also wouldn't be able to lock down the code that's already been released under the more permissive BSD license.

Now, a fork of Chromium is its own beast. Some searching shows that just to build it takes 30 minutes on a decent workstation. It's huge, which makes me think it's the kind of project that could only really be maintained by a large company. Not necessarily a Google sized company, but a large one nonetheless if you seriously want to remove the dependency on Google.

EDIT: turns out it's Chrome that takes that long to build, which includes things not in Chromium like Widevine, licensed codecs, telemetry, sync, that kind of thing.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 0 points 1 year ago

You can't do that???

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