Yeah gaming on Linux can be frustrating at times. Some games work perfectly out of the box, some don't even start or lag a lot. Especially on Nvidia graphics things get complicated. I'm an AMD user and everything is mostly working fine, but a friend of mine uses Nvidia and he struggles more with driver issues and missing Wayland support.
If all I did was just office tasks and browsing the web, I'd completely switch to Linux as well. But as a gamer, things start to become complicated very soon. Some games run perfectly fine, some don't run at all. It's hit or miss. That's why I keep Windows around and boot it almost daily. But the situation of gaming on linux is improving currently, so I'm hoping for a bright future...
Signal won't be interoperable with WhatsApp, because that would destroy their whole privacy. And honestly, it's better they aren't. Don't know about other private messengers standing on this topic, but Signal already said it won't happen with them.
I've already switched to Linux partially. My PC now dual boots to Manjaro and Windows. I won't switch completely, but it's great to have such an awesome alternative right there one click of a button away. And the funny thing is that I'm not even the only one amongst my friends to do that. We are now three already and we even game on Linux too.
Also ich sehe und verstehe deine Beobachtungen durchaus auch, aber ich würde behaupten, dass "militant" und "Mitte" sich ausschließen. Für mich scheint es eher eine laute, rechte Randgruppe zu sein, die immer behauptet sie seien die Mitte. Die wahrhaftige demokratische Mitte der Gesellschaft, das sind die, die wir in den letzten Wochen auf den Großdemos für die Demokratie gesehen haben.
Ich wohne in der Gegend um Reutlingen und muss sagen, dass ich besonders auch die meisten Dörfer und Landstraßen als höchst gefährlich erachte. Hier sind oft Radfahrer aufgrund mangelnder Infrastruktur auf Straßen unterwegs, die sehr unsicher sind. Außerdem scheint mir gerade die Landbevölkerung massiv überfordert damit, wie man als Autofahrer einem Radfahrer begegnet, ohne diesen zu gefährden. Überholen in der Kurve oder 20cm Abstand zum Rad sehe ich oft und bin einfach froh, dass es zum Glück bisher immer gut ging. Manche Autofahrer werden hinter mir ungeduldig und drängen, wenn ich nicht sofort überhole. Ich hasse das. Wir brauchen dringend eine gute Infrastruktur für Radfahrer, am besten ganz getrennt von vielbefahrenen Autostraßen. Einziges Positivbeispiel der Gegend: Tübingen. Viele Radfahrer und ausreichende Infrastruktur und Radwege dafür.
I guess your brain implant will probably kill you before the end of your favourite playlist. Just like all those test animals.
That's a valuable Idea. If I force them to use the secret chats option, then they maybe notice that Telegram is worthless without all the flashy stuff and is not private at all. And it's at least a step forward into the right direction.
I don't think WhatsApp is a good option. Their clients are not Open Source, so it's unknown if they really implement all the privacy features of the Signal client. Also, Facebook and WhatsApp are known to collect every single bit of Metadata they can get, it's really bad. I wouldn't touch it again, under any circumstances. I'm glad that nobody I know uses it, at least inside my circle of friends. Some still use it for outside connections or family members.
And they have some weird crypto scams running in the background as well.
I know, but their server doesn't. And since everyone uses it without the secret chats feature, they could read every message we exchange.
So I'm in a somewhat unfortunate situation. My circle of friends doesn't want to switch to another messenger and we are currently stuck on the worst possible platform for security: Telegram.
The problem is that it is very hard to convince anyone to switch, if they are all perfectly fine and like Telegram. I mean I can get why they like it: The UX and UI of Telegram are amazing and there are well functioning clients available for any platform. It has more features and gimmicks than any other messenger I know BUT it lacks one mayor thing: E2EE. And that's mostly what I care about. The second problem is that I was the person who recommended the switch to Telegram right after WhatsApp was bought by Facebook. I know, that was a bad recommendation, but back then I didn't know shit about privacy or why E2EE mattered. I was just like "Hey, it's not by Facebook, so it must be better". And now everyone I know is there and won't leave.
If - in the hypothetical situation of me setting an ultimatum and deleting my Telegram after that - I wanted to make them switch somewhere else: What messenger would that be? Currently I'm mostly thinking Signal. I know it's not perfect either, it is centralized, and the servers are in the US, but it has a bigger user base already than most of its competitors like Threema or Matrix/Element and it is very easy to set up and use. I'm already a user of Signal, Threema, Matrix, WhatsApp and Telegram (every platform for some contacts, but most of them on Telegram sadly), so having yet another option is not a problem for me, as well as getting rid of one is also no problem. I'd love to delete both Telegram and WhatsApp in this move.
So, in conclusion, what I need is a messenger that has all or most of the following:
- best possible security (E2EE is minimum)
- easy to use (no complicated setup, simple UI)
- already has some users (not too niche)
- cross-platform and multi-device (should run on Android, iOS and Windows/Web)
- some flashy dumb features like stickers and so on to keep them entertained
My choice would be Signal. But I am unsure if that is the best choice or if I should just wait a bit and see what all of the new EU laws about messengers and gatekeepers bring to the game and if anything chances with that.
I heard a lot of bad stuff about Brave and their CEO lately and am now unsure if the search engine is any good? Do they censor stuff? Is any data collected? Can it be considered private?
If you'd not recommend it, what are good alternatives and why? I was a long time duckduckgo user before, so anything similar to it or brave search would be great. I'm not into self hosting.
Germany, 25. Always driven manual, don't even know how to drive automatic.
Five soldiers of specialized anti terrorism forces battle against some other five soldiers of those same forces, to defuse a bomb. But for some reason all of these operators are from the same countries and task forces and should actually work together. Also the servers of this game are shit.
I'm not upset in any way about Sync. It seems like a quality app with a different business model.
What I'm actually upset about is people claiming open source apps are shitty and only Sync is possible to provide a good experience. That's just pure bs
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My homescreen is pretty basic, most important apps are on the start page, other stuff and games on the second page.
The wallpaper is animated and shows the current weather at my position. I uploaded a few seconds of the current animation to YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/W1_zyn-Pvvk
The app providing these wallpapers is called Breezy Weather and can be found on F-Droid (https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.breezyweather) or GitHub (https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather)
I'm sorry to say, but you seem to be clueless in the world of software engineering. Open vs closed source does not make any software better or worse. This solely depends on the talent and will of the developers to create a good app for you. That can happen in both worlds, but just because an app is not open source doesn't make it better in any ways. Rethink it. Sync might be a nice client, but you're dependent on this one dev to always deliver a good experience and keep updating, whereas if it was open source,you could be sure someone would continue the work and help fix some issues if anything was to happen. Open source has a lot of potential. Don't let anyone fool you into thinking it's worse in any way. It's not.
