If you dislike the stock OS, or find it too bloated, you can flash LineageOS anytime. Most of the OnePluses are supported. It’s a way better experience than any stock Android imho.

The amount of times I’ve heard this rhetoric coupled with “the animals are better than us! We should let them govern the planet instead! They’re vastly superior to us murderous beings” is baffling

Xfce is nice! I used it myself for a while, though I came back to tiling, I found it too inefficient. With a twm I can use my computer at the speed I like. I run myself a Gemini capsule and Gopherhole for quite a while now, I could give you more information if you wish!

Speaking of small web communities, check out: https://yesterweb.org. You probably know them, but they recently shut down and put out an amazing manifesto of how to grow a community, you should definitely read it. The admins were also Marxists.

I’m glad that you are also an analog technology enjoyer, there’s just something else to these devices that smartphones and computers cannot really provide. It’s quite an amazing feeling I like to share with the people I meet, not many people have seen, not even typed, on a typewriter. Sharing the magic is the least I could do. I sadly haven’t tried a typewrtier… yet. I’ll see if I can get my hands on one, though the simple editing that you do digitally when writing is unbeatable.

Yeah 4chan’s /g/ is exactly like that, they were the guys that got me to read the Unabomber Manifesto. And even back in my worse days I knew Kaczyński was batshit insane, couldn’t really believe people would unironically try and spread his idiotic message. Look at Luke Smith and how he praises the Unabomber and other such figures, even has a video saying imagination is demonic, lol. Same with DistroTube, both are far-righters.

And correctly so! My TV is a CRT and it works just fine. And also is a reason why I don’t really care for 4k Ultra HD torrents and just settle for 720p (Remember when 720p was called HD? I sure do). Bruh even standard resolution, known as 480p, is prefect enough for me lmao. Yeah there’s a constant competition of “MORE PIXELS! MORE QUALITY!” but it’s barely distinguishable on an average screen. It’s just the techbro conception of “progress”

Look around, they are making your software! Not fanboying about it on reactionary internet forums or shilling shitcoins B) Haha, fair

Edit: Thanks for linking me to Dillo! I’ll check it out. I have experience hosting things, so I could help you, if you want to make something like a community or whatever, if you want.

Yep, but the elements in the superstructure can have contradictions inherent in them, right? In any case, I heard of people applying it in their daily lives and so on, so I was curious

There definitely went many millions in the advertising of both. The generated hype will probably die down in one or two months, I suppose.

Ah ha, well both really. It has a dark atmosphere visually and the storyline is about getting lost, some existential questions iirc, etc.

Nevermind, I looked from Lemmygrad and he was banned from here. He is not banned on lemmee.

I didn’t have a debate with them. No idea from where they found me. Probably got annoyed at one of my comments.

He did get banned! Surprising but props to the admins

Horseshoe theory strikes yet again. I doubt he understands what Communism or Fascism are.

Someone did downvote all the comments here, lol

I remember someone from a post-soviet country showing me Hedgehog in the Fog and being like “That’s what a Soviet childhood looked like! We only had depressive entertainment! Traumatic!” (they were born many years after the USSR collapsed lol) I personally think it’s interesting, albeit dark in some places, though the artistic medium is definitely worth a shot, as it had many interesting effects such as the segment with the tree.

Everyone hates targeted ads and marketing bullshit besides people who make money in marketing and advertisement.

More recently, I’ve witnessed many people that don’t skip ads, watch ads on TV, and actually got annoyed when I told them I can help them use an adblocker. Most gave the reason that they’re “entertaining”. What can I say.

Thank you comrade, this was very useful! Not having to switch between Hexbear and Lemmygrad makes it a great experience now.

I try to be as minimalist as possible about the digital software I use and to only use it as a tool, not as endless entertainment. I run a custom dwm, along with CLI only software, my only GUI software is Firefox. I don’t use social media whatsoever, aside from Lemmygrad.

For a while I was on the Gemini protocol, liking the simple aspect of it. Though, it’s become way too reactionary, it’s filled with conservatives debating white genocide and so on. I did find Carl Newport’s Digital Minimalism book of help, though in some aspects it was too bland in my opinion.

Like you said, at the moment we should change how we approach technology itself, and we shouldn’t do it as everything devices. I can hardly focus when I’m not reading on my eBook reader, I don’t even use addictive services. I can use just fine an early 2010s laptop as my main computer, though I can’t come here because the browser lags too much. Everything else is quite good in my case, and it fits my writing needs nicely.

Speaking of analog devices that were replaced by phones, I very much enjoy analog watches. Not the fancy, shiny ones, but normal watches. They’re much more practical than any phone for checking the clock in my opinion. I also own a calculator that’s solar powered, and it’s a great experience.

Yeah I definitely saw what you mean, much of the Linux, Small Web, etc. is very anti-technology and goes reactionary most of the time. Partly cause it’s full of conservatives. I criticise new useless technology such as Smart TVs because it’s capitalism’s way of “innovation” that is predatory, not because new = bad. Too bad there aren’t more leftists in the FOSS communities, though.

We should have a thread where we post any troll accounts we encounter on the Fediverse so we can block them. Kind of a masterpost.

There’s a risk […] that Zelenskiy will be forced into negotiations

Oh well, quite mask off

Nooo not my hololodomor lol, also of course the Uyghur thing is on there. Lib couldn’t keep himself from using the racist Xi image too

Thanks for sharing, good one

Awesome!

Yeah I checked lemmy.one and there are already threads where they trash on “tankies” and that the US security state cannot get into iPhones, sure.