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Mereo

@ mereo @piefed.ca

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Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.

I switched from: https://lemmy.ca/u/Mereo

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  • I joined Lemmy during the Reddit API controversy, which resulted in my favourite iOS Reddit app being removed from the market.

    I'm enjoying it here. It reminds me of Reddit in the early 2000s. You can actually have meaningful conversations here, whereas on Reddit your contributions get lost in all the noise, and the karma system makes conversation less organic. I'm enjoying my time here.

  • [META] Are paid for, closed source projects, being advertised on this community, appropriate?

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  • Self-hosting is a community effort in which the whole community helps each other to self-host their data, including programming the services people use for this purpose. The problem with closed-source software is that we don't know what's happening behind the scenes, or if it's indeed sending telemetry.

    Even worse, if that service is ever no longer supported or updated, I'll be left with data on my server that can't be used to its full potential, and a service that won't receive security updates.

    Open-source software, on the other hand, is a community effort. If, for example, software is no longer updated or supported, it can easily be forked, and my data can be transferred to the new service.

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  • Sigh... As always, life must be balanced. You can't go from one extreme to the other. It's a spectrum. I self-host what I deem important in order to keep it under my control and not on a capitalist platform.

    It's an adventure, each month, you learn more and realize that you can host more services yourself.

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  • I selfhost because I want to be in control of my data and own it. Closed software is the antithesis of that. They're just bots trying to advertise their software.

  • Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media

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  • Sigh. Because people can't think critically, they're easily brainwashed by these companies. After all, YOLO (you only live once). It's materialism at its finest. People are not content with what they have. They always want more to fill the void, but that void cannot be filled with material things.

    I'm just ranting about the capitalist world of today.

  • Is there room for Windows selfhosters?

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  • I had long covid for 3 years after that. But I'm feeling better nowadays, thanks.

  • Is there room for Windows selfhosters?

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  • Temporary becomes permanent. When I was experiencing severe long-term symptoms of Covid, I bought a refurbished computer to use as a NAS with Jellyfin, Sonarr, and indexers. I kept the installed Windows 10 because I simply did not have the energy to do more. Then, when I felt better, I told myself, "Let me add more services."

    Now, it's a Frankenstein computer where Windows 10 acts as the hypervisor, running Caddy as my reverse proxy. Crowdsec protects my services, and my Flint 2's firewall acts as the Crowdsec bouncer. A VirtualBox VM runs in Windows 10 and hosts most of my Docker containers. Stablebits DrivePool manages my drive pool.

    I've been running this setup for over a year, and I haven't had any issues. I know I should switch to Linux, but since it's been working great and I'm busy, I've been procrastinating.

  • Strava just killed its free API, will require a subscription if you want to build on top of it

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  • It seems watches like Garmin Watches are not affected by this:

    Two things that aren’t changing: every Strava athlete can still access and download their data for free, at any time – and wearable and device integrations are not affected .

  • Trump voter: Somebody asked him ‘To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal?' Trump didn't care. I was angry. I voted for you, and you don't care about me?

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  • Universally, people need keep politicians accountable, regardless of the party.

  • Pope urges 'disarming' of AI in major manifesto

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  • And the farthest west you go, the more the federal government owns lands. In some states like Nevada, the state only owns a small portion of their state land.

  • Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming — but I'm not getting my hopes up

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  • I hope you were sarcastic... Because Microsoft's new business model is AI. So Windows will continue to be their portal toward AI.

  • Framework announced the Framework 13 Pro with full Linux compatibility from the Start

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  • In what way?

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  • I hear you and I respect your opinion.

  • Surge in Systemd forks after the latest changes

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  • By basically forking Gnome, sure.

  • Surge in Systemd forks after the latest changes

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  • Changing to another init requires major re-engineering and it's not easy.

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  • This like comes from distrowatch. Yes means the distro is using systemd:

    • 1 CachyOS: Yes
    • 2 Linux Mint: Yes
    • 3 MX Linux: Optional
    • 4 Pop!_OS: Yes
    • 5 Debian: Yes
    • 6 Zorin OS Yes
    • 7 EndeavourOS: Yes
    • 8 Manjaro: Yes
    • 9 Fedora: Yes
    • 10 Ubuntu: Yes
    • 11 AnduinOS: Yes
    • 12 openSUSE: Yes
    • 13 Bazzite: Yes
    • 14 Nobara: Yes
    • 15 Arch Linux: Yes
    • 16 elementary OS: Yes
    • 17 antiX: No
    • 18 NixOS: Yes

    As we can see, the major popular distros use systemd.

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  • Sure, if you choose a distro like Artix that doesn't use systemd, then yes. However, the major distros use systemd and will continue to do so because it is a critical component of Linux. Once the Linux kernel has finished loading into memory, systemd takes over in user space. Major distros cannot simply switch to a fork on a whim because they need to be completely sure that it is stable and will not cause any compatibility issues.

    Let's not forget that Ubuntu, SUSE and Red Hat are used in professional settings, so they won't change to a fork.

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  • Let's be realistic. All these forks will get us nowhere because systemd has become a platform on which major components of the Linux system depend. KDE's new login depends on systemd, as does Gnome.

    These forks are just a reaction to the latest addition. They will fizzle out.

  • Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies

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  • I believe the MacBook Neo was a real wake-up call for management. Apple dominates the high-budget market. Now that Apple has entered the low-budget market, it could threaten their market share, as well as Copilot's.