Name names or this isn't happening.
The mutual aid group I've been directly involved with, along with the half dozen mutual aid groups I've been adjacent to has collected a ton of cash and not once has some millionaire approached us to do XYZ for them or suppress leftism in our neighborhoods. It's not like there's a lack of guilty millionaires here in New Jersey.
I do a lot of gaming on Linux, I would say give it a shot! Some games run better on Linux and OpenGL than Windows in DirectX, it's really just a matter of the developer and their interest in doing the work. For compatibility, Valve has done a lot of work with Proton (their fork of WINE but focused on gaming performamce) and I've run some newer AAA titles on my desktop with little issues like doom eternal. I have a ~7 year old CPU/GPU so it's not anything top of the line.
Rule of thumb is just make sure your driver's and kernel are up to date. A new kernel release can make your gaming performance skyrocket sometimes in newer games. I remember one kernel update moved my CSGO performance a few years ago from barely playable to full 60FPS on high.
H bomber guy video debunking Ben shapiro, but he yells "and what happens when the plants freeze in winter nick. Are you going to plant those?"
I find the UX is very similar to Insta in presentation, but it's an Insta-lite without any of the algorithm recommendations. Kind of what Insta used to be when it first launched in like 2010(?) prior to Facebook buying it
PixelFed is good, it's part of the federverse so if you spin up your own server you can choose to lock it to just your friends or anyone else using the software. For their own servers, you inherit what the admins have chosen to federate with. I don't recall if there's a native PixelFed app, but the apps for Mastodon work well enough for it, it just may have a different UX (more Twitter like) for mobile. I use Tusky on Android, but there's a lot of other clients available for Android and iOS.
For Instagram if you still need to use it, Barinsta on Android is a open source client for Insta without a lot of the advertising/algorithm shit being sent your way. I've been using it just to keep an eye on some organizers that use Insta over twitter.
I think I remember you mentioning this on another Pinephone thread!
Totally agree as a Pinephone owner. It's not daily driver yet, but it's slowly getting there. It's also not something that I think will ever scale to "daily driver" for some of these tasks, like Zoom, multitasking, etc. just because the hardware is very much lower end (most models only have 2GB RAM, I heard there's some speed issues on the 3GB RAM model, which I have, as well). Just being realistic, but the older adage of getting a performance gain on older hardware with Linux is really starting to erode due to how much power's needed to run things on the modern web, and all these new electron apps which are browsers in and of themselves. It's not uncommon on my Pinephone to slow to a halt with two tabs in Firefox, or one tab on a very javascript heavy site or app. Some of this can be optimized in software of course, but at a certain point the hardware restrictions will ultimately hold you back.
It's very much going to continue to be a development platform though, and a good target device for OS development since it's sold so cheaply. Hopefully the work done for optimizations on this device will carry over to the Librem 5 and other devices as postmarketOS has been doing.
Librem 5 as @redemption said if you want something new, there's also third party support in postmarketOS for a few devices as well if you want to recycle something!
Small dopamine rectangle that you can plug in to a USB C monitor to turn into a large dopamine rectangle
Pixels are great phones, only thing I wish it still had was a headphone jack and that Google didn't try to force you to use cloud storage by not having a microSD slot. Graphene, Calyx, or LineageOS are all good choices for de-googling the phone too!
Yep, you need anbox to run any android apps on Linux, with varying states of usability/working/etc.
Issues I heard of were more some areas having police stopping people or turning them around if they weren't supposed to be out, keeping essential only employees out and keeping it to/from office transit. Only heard of a handful of instances of this in the US and it was mostly around the beginning of the pandemic in NY/NJ, but it might've happened globally more.
For MS management they may have decided that the potential for added downtime from these interactions would've been too much given their uptime requirements in a lot of their contracts, and forced some of these workers to sleep at their data centers as a result to "fix" the issue.
compiled packages from a package manager gang stays winning
the duality of free software. you're either in it for the utopian vision of using computers as an act of liberation or you're a disgusting little freak who wants it for free labor.
Yep! Not sure how many they had but I know they used them on some of their passenger lines here
Didn't know about the history of this, this sucks.
A little, but they're great games.
Thanks! Realized I should've linked it.
Oh yeah, I agree with that. Like you said it would have large impacts in virology and in the geopolitical sense as well since I'm sure western leaders will try to move any disease and vaccine research out of this lab in a reactionary sense by claiming they can't handle any future disease or vaccine research because of this accident.
To clarify what I mean by it being "irrelevant" to me personally, I mean in the sense that it's irrelevant to most local organizing, tenant or mutual aid, I've done and many other comrades across the country have done in the last year, with trying to help with the symptoms of the global pandemic and the awful response here. Whether covid came from a lab accident or the wild, our government still failed us in providing even the smallest safety net to improve people's material conditions, and we had to step up and organize and agitate around it. That's not to say I am advocating for scientific illiteracy, but that at some point things have far too many degrees of separation in the current moment from affecting or improving material conditions in the now.
Hell yeah. I'll work on something when work slows back down!