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BaardFigur··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Chinese developer. I'd love to see Tubular be revived
BaardFigur··on F-Droid 2.0
Less strict in some ways, more strict in other ways. Izzy hates vibecoded apps. Ironically F-Droid official seems more tolerant
BaardFigur··on F-Droid 2.0
It has gotten better if anything. I used to have much more problems with it before.
BaardFigur··on F-Droid 2.0
With F-Droid (at least the main repo) you get extra guarantees that the apk is built by them. A thirdparty store also updates your apps, so you're not stuck at an old outdated version. I do use both F-Droid and Obtainium though.
BaardFigur··on F-Droid 2.0
At least it's functional, unlike in 1.x builds. I'm happy with it. But better support is always appreciated, of course
BaardFigur··on F-Droid 2.0
Of course. Don't even need F-Droid 2.0 for it. Fdroid 1 still supports multiple repos
BaardFigur··on F-Droid 2.0
There's also F-Droid Classic. For me Droid-ify never felt quite right + it never worked properly with unattended updates, for me at least.
BaardFigur··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
Not a good thing. China is an authoritarian regime, which we need to reduce dependency on, not increase it.
BaardFigur··on Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
Reminds me of TempleOS
BaardFigur··on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
Which country? Europe is a continent, with many different countries and many different laws.
BaardFigur··on Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
I don't use my drive much. I still boot it up snd write some data, just not the long term one. Am I in risk?
BaardFigur··on Recall for Linux
I love how the exe-file is just a shell script, printing random messages.

It doesn't actually spy on you though, it just says that it does

BaardFigur··on Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time
Iceland is plenty icy enough on its own. Lots of glaciers. But instead of covering 99% of the island, like Greenland, it's just a significant portion of it, instead. Also the weather there isn't particularly warm or great, even if it's more hospitable than Greenland
BaardFigur··on GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders
I believe the problem is that most of the games they host are Windows games, so in that regard, Linux doesn't make sense.

And maintaining something like Proton is pretty complex, there's so many different distros. Actually ensuring the game works probably was too big of a task for them.

You can always add your gog games to Lutris though.

BaardFigur··on Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta
Tried KDE. I very much prefer Gnome with extensions
BaardFigur··on Quicksort explained IKEA-style
Don't call it quicksört (aka quicksørt/quicksœrt). It's so jarring to read. It's pronounced line the vocal sound in "learn"
BaardFigur··on This map is not upside down
Casually claiming a bunch of British territories
BaardFigur··on Are we decentralized yet?
I thought Bluesky was federalized? How is it not?
BaardFigur··on EU kills Android bootloader unlock starting August 1
Samsung is just inventing a reason to lock the bootloader
BaardFigur··on Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
Hopefully EU can make the same requirements, and hopefully Firefox can port its engine to iOS