Endymion_Mallorn

God’s final temple on Earth,

Honestly, I think the biggest question with FreeDOS nowadays is whether you want to use FreeDOS or DOSBox-X. That’s been my situation for a while now, and I go back and forth.

Oh geez, I never realized how deep into the rabbit hole I go. But for me FreeDOS & ReactOS are just because… I was there when they were first relevant. I started with FreeDOS because of the DR-DOS scandal. I’ve never really gotten I2P to work. TempleOS is still ambitious. And I actually jumped on here because I got annoyed that I can’t use Lynx, only Links (I’m on Linux Mint).

I only touched Plan 9 From Bell Labs when I was in or around Lucent.

Tails USB should be in my go bag with a machine that has no HDD, XMPP/Jabber - don’t use it anymore because everybody left it for other things.

And yeah… from there up, I have pieces too.

Not flooding the world with more LLM-related slop really doesn’t sound like that bad a thing. A nation already known for widespread IP theft is better-equipped to double down on that. Then again, I’m one of those people who resembles that meme about the only network-aware appliance I have being a printer, and being ready to disable it if it makes any strange noises.

Well, I’ll never see it, unless TI or another American company designs their own version.

Mint here. It looks like Windows and runs the software and hardware I want. Simple as that.

Well, this way the apartheidist will never see the bugs he’s introduced into any of the systems he’s broken.

Did you call Apogee?

I genuinely don’t mind that too much.

So we need to defend the First Amendment again. They should probably have constricted the 2nd before the 1st for their own good.

Yes, but 90% of everything is crap. Why should we expect data centers to be any different?

My answer is that it depends on several factors. The first and least impactful thing you can do (and that’s in terms of both you and the other person) is to just block them. Next step up is that if they’re not on a big instance that you get content from regularly, just block their instance. After that, report them to your instance owner - they might get blocked from interacting with your instance. And the more heavy-duty action is to reach out to their instance owner with evidence and make your concerns known - then if they get booted, you can continue as you were; and if they don’t, block the instance.

She’s about to be so fired. I wish her the best.

Totally agree with you that everyone in the fediverse should be working together. Especially the amazing devs.

On Android, software can be made with free tools, released on Github/Gitlab/Forgejo/etc, and pushed into an F-Droid repo. Heck, you might not even need the F-Droid side, you can just throw an APK up at your free host of choice. Plus, I don’t think there’s a language restriction in terms of what can be compiled for Android (I’ll make my ignorance known here). Apple is not an open platform. One language is accepted, they have one way to develop software, one (overstuffed) place to download that software from. It is much more difficult to develop an app for iOS compared to Android. And if you try to monetize it, people will use a PWA.

To make it clear, this is not meant to be a debate on Apple. This is just my take on why free fediverse software is much more likely to show up on Android.

I don’t really have a positive thing to say about people who want to stick to Apple as their primary device ecosystem.

It really is, from my limited use. I use the PWA on my (very old) phone and Firefox on desktop. But I like Interstellar.

Oh, I’m aware that both Lemmy and Mastodon have good apps. I’m just pointing out that if the ‘argument’ is that alternatives don’t have an app, MBin does have one.

Why aren’t we suggesting Mbin over Lemmy, actually? Because it seems like it has the same options. And Mbin even has an app (not just the PWA function)!

Sure. And they’ll get paid by the person who chooses to buy it to release it, or by the library.