I wish Scratch was more powerful, kind of like Flash was back in the day, so that it would be easier to make more complicated things with it. I feel right now if you want to make a somewhat real game it gets too hard too quickly because you need to work around the limitations.
Yeah, I also think this is the safest way. PeerTube doesn’t have direct messages like PieFed, Lemmy or Mastodon have.
Congrats! For me it also has bin godsend that the company allowwes Linux for developers as an exception. In my case it also means that you yourself are responsible for everything yourself, backup, upgrades, security, etc. The only thing they make sure is that the Cisco VPN is also working (it’s shitty but anyway) with Linux.
But that is exactly what I want. They do offer a corporate Ubuntu image, which I used one time but hated it, so I blasted it and installed Arch (btw.).
I still need to run MS office and Teams, but I do that in the Browser (have to use Chromium for it because it doesn’t work well in Librewolf). But like you say, those pills are much easier to swallow compared to winning Windows 11 on a daily basis, especially as a IT professional.
I’m already using a matrix bridge for it because I can’t get some cousins to move natively to Matrix. But if that would make it more stable it would be appreciated.
I found a cool guy to talk to because he read my blog post about “Scaling on Linux” https://jeena.net/scaling-on-linux and he reached out via email and told me that we had similar problems. We met for a beer and some more Linux talk and we’re in contact on Matrix since then. It turned out that he hosted the FOSS for all conference last weekend so I went there too and interestingly met a lot of people from Lemmy there: https://piefed.jeena.net/post/271523
What I’m trying to say is reach out to people, it will develop into cool things over time.
Samsung galaxy smart tags are a thing and Find too, I’m using it on a daily basis.
I use Syncthing as an alternative to iCloud to sync files between devices. But there is also NextCloud and even commercial offerings like DropBox.
For Photos I use Immich and it’s amazing.
And at least here in Korea Samsung Pay works everywhere while my wife with Apple Pay has to carry coach or a credit card with her everywhere she goes.
Yes instances can be defederated, but on a single user instance you get defederated because of what you did, not because of some other people did.
What do you mean have no reach? I’m on a single user instance and can write to any community on any instance I want.
I’m using Syncthing for sharing it, so as long as one other device is online it shares the newest version of the database.
I have a RTX 3060 and just installed the proprietary driver on Arch with pacman and that was it.
I saw how impossible it was to actually take the WhatsApp call for Zuckerberg himself.
Sponsors, paywall, using it to advertise or support your business, etc.
I would like to tell my story which led to me encrypting my PC hard drive, even if it’ not a laptop.
I had a iMac, first it was from work but when I left the company I bought it ao I could keep it. When asked if I want to encrypt the drive while setting it up I denied because it’s not a laptop so I didn’t take it with me so it couldn’t get stolen.
Until I woke up one day and this big iMac which was the center of my desk was suddenly gone, together with my Nikon camera, my external sound card and other electronics the thieves could grab quickly while I was snoring in the bedroom.
I didn’t mind the hardware so much and I had backups of most of the things already anyway, but the feeling that they could mount the HDD and get all the data especially I was logged in to all websites and change my passwords, etc.
Since then I’m encrypting everything.
Not like on YouTube, but differently.
I have it build in into my instance and while it is the best, doesn’t mean it is usable.
Oh and finding new content is kind of impossible, I wish PeerTube was set up more like Lemmy with communities which you subsribe to instead of channels people need to follow explicitly.
I can’t run my own Odysee instance to be independent of third parties which might moderate away my content if they don’t like it. My content my rules.
I mean I did throw up a PT instance and publish my videos exclusively on it, and I’m getting decent views if the topic is interesting and I promote it on hacker news, I’m getting several thousands of views. But that does not fix the PeerTube mobile app, nor the fact that finding content is practically impossible and the subscribe mechanism constantly randomly stops working, there is no app for my TV (like SmartTube) etc.
I’m all in with PeerTube as a creator, but as a user it’s a terrible experience.
Oh yeah, a reliable Android Syncthing client would be awesome after the debacle with Syncthing-Fork lately.