“Clearly, they’re taking care of their bodies, they’ve got masculine traits of leadership and protection. Definitely admire that,” she said. “Would not be opposed to dating or talking to a National Guard.”
I don't judge, I just don't understand. At this level, you need way more skills to keep your Windows account local than installing Linux with their GUI wizard. I understand some people need Windows professionally for Photoshop, but I guess the large majority doesn't. If you read this Windows user, now is the time. Trust me, you will experience a level of freedom and performance you would have never thought of.
I guess that's exactly it, Play Services. Google outsourced more and more basic features into Play Services over the years. For example without Google Play Services you do not have
access to the Play Store
assisted GNSS via the cell network
Push Notifications
Maps engine
Basic integrity / SafetyNet
...and other things. A device without Play Services / microG is basically useless for the majority of users.
So I guess Custom ROMs are not necessarily affected by this change by Google, but all devices running Android + Play Services will (99.99% of all devices). And it is questionable if it's worth to develop for a very very small crowd of people, especially as custom ROMs are being in danger for years now. This move by google is by far not the first one against the open source community.
I just have set up syncthing between my mobile and my PC. The DCIM directory is getting synchronized, together with a "share" directory that contains random stuff and my KeePass database. It is my only backup, photos are so omnipresent, if I lose them it's not a big problem.
I think it's the paradigm change. Most people including myself learnt some kind of procedural language in school, shifting towards functional thinking is just very difficult. But of course that's a skill a computer scientist must have and one of the reasons I didn't graduate.
Can you provide an example of a something misconfigured which is easier to manage with let's say Fedora? I am genuinely asking, I don't really know how other distros differ despite from Desktop environments and package managers/mirrors. If I have a problem with Linux I check man pages, stack overflow, the Arch wiki etc. How do other distros encourage you to to the same where Mint isn't doing that? Is it because Mint provides more GUI options?
I think you are exaggerating a bit. I am an adult having Mint on my private computer. I am by no means an expert, but I don't need to be. I write my own shell scripts, I ssh around in my network, I navigate from the terminal, I install stuff, I set up services. Is Mint really a wheelchair for you because it is based in Ubuntu LTS? Maybe I don't understand enough about different Linux distros, but I don't see how a distro can be "too easy".
Fortunately it is way easier to say which instances to avoidlemmy.ml for political reasons and lemmy.world because it's way too big. I don't think I have to mention hexbear and lemmygrad.
Regarding Piefed - I made the switch some time ago, but I don't notice a difference since I am using the voyager app. The only thing that doesn't work for me is auto filling titles in link posts, but yeah that's not a biggie