As an android user I almost have no choice since I know too many people who are daft and refuse to change to signal. I have like 7 chat apps on my phone because of different people.

Ah yes, it’s true. I don’t use recommendations. People send me videos or I see them on here and go from there. Old school.

I don’t have this problem on mobile. I use pipepipe and don’t sign in. No shorts. Simple list for subscriptions without signing in. Easily transfers to new phones. No ads.

The best are those websites with 4 ads at once and at least one of them is a video as that auto plays.

Jokes on them, I just close and abandon the article. Fuck that.

Microsoft rapes us every day.

Definitely. I use home assistant but I found a lot of things require enabling integrations with other platforms. They’re bricks if that platform decides they are.

This is why IoT isn’t sustainable. If you don’t have total control you’re fucked.

There are so many good indie and older games these days too.

He has a monthly keyboard budget also.

What about Hanna Montana Linux?

Ah, I missed that part

Stop using google. Don’t you know their motto? “Be evil”

You could just host it inside your network and do an always on VPN. That’s what I do.

The amount of headaches I had setting this up… I can’t tell you how hard I tried.

I think in the end I figured out it doesn’t like vlans very much if you don’t want to use their relay.

I’ve been using nextcloud for years for this. Using Android and Linux and Windows.

Man I use Windows 11 daily for work and I can’t stand how fucking buggy and clunky everything is. It’s so bad.

Once in a while I’ll boot my Linux desktop and it’s just… Bliss. Other than that I spend a lot of time on my steam deck, love that too.

Like ham radio ppl

I didn’t either, but I started using floccus and syncing my bookmarks across my 2 computers and phone. In a pinch it works great for those obscure websites I don’t frequently visit.

It is not

New 3400$ laptop this year. I’ve had it for 5 months.

Sometimes the display driver wigs out and my cursor is permanently glitched until reboot.

Other times my browser is so sluggish until I close and restart it.

Sometimes my keyboard and mouse cut out, and I get repeated keystrokes for a few seconds or a brief period where it ignores my key presses.

I have so many more complaints about windows but I’d probably reach a character limit.

You know it’s bad when I boot my manjaro Linux desktop for the first time in months and the first thing I notice is how fast everything is to load.