Great news. Public institutions should never buy or use proprietary software.

Using non-free (proprietary) software and believing we are free to do anything we want with the software. But we can do only what the app (the devs) let us to do. We can't see or edit the code of program to run as we wish.

Great news for vegan community. I hope other countries will do the same.

Open Source or Free > Source available > Closed source. Okay, I am glad that you allow me to see the program that I use. But if you don't allow me to edit it to my needs or preferences, I won't use your product.

Hello guys! Congratulations for your work on so many services! I have a question about Mobilizon: if I want to see events from Bucharest, is there a way to see events from all the instances, or do I have to search on each instance? Thank you!

Google wants to control everything. So bad operating systems can't be installed on phones as easy as on computers.

Try to fix the mistakes. If you can't, just let them go. No need to live in the past.

Until last child is adopted, people shouldn't make any more children. And even if that happens, it's better to help existing children with your spare time and money, instead of creating new ones.

Great decision to move to GNU/Linux. I used Mint and recommend it as first distro for a Windows begginer. I always use a USB stick for back-up. Enjoy the journey!

Another big reason to switch to GNU/Linux.

I wanted to switch from a proprietary centralized platform to a free federated one. The only inconvenience is that I find a group with same name on multiple instances, each with its own content. Instead of one containing them all.

Yes, phone number should be optional for easy contact discovery, not mandatory. As Threema. You have to provide your ID when buying a sim card.

I have it and used it in the past. It's better in privacy than Signal since it's decentralized and doesn't use any identifiers. Signal forces you to use the worst identifier ever: your phone number. It should be optional (as Threema) for easy contact discovery, not mandatory. Back to SimpleX, I stopped using it because every time you have to connect the computer to phone if you want to use it from computer (it's for maximum security, but inconvenient for me). But it's a great app.

I have it. I would use it if I had contacts there. Compared to Signal, it doesn't force you to provide your phone number, which is great.

Great magazine, thanks for posting!

2 things got me comfortable on command line: 1) A great cheat sheet (one from Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/download/server/thank-you); 2) Practice all the commands from the cheat list regularly. Last page is something for Pro version, but first 2 pages are great for a begginer. There is a typo at a command (or it was in a past cheat sheet): "Sudo change " instead of "sudo chage ". It helped me most to get comfortable with terminal. Enjoy!

There must be foss alternatives to every proprietary software. Big thanks to GNU and Linus Torvalds that joined their forces and created GNU/Linux!

People don't care about their own health or privacy, let alone others. Look how many people don't practice any sport, smoke, drink alcohol or eat unhealthy foods. Or regarding privacy, how many people pay by card, although they know all their transactions are saved and seen by banks and potentially goverment. You made a very strong decision by putting your privacy first, over relationships. Maybe if more people would be like you, privacy-respecting messengers would grow up more.

So you left Big Tech entirely. You followed an interesting journey on it. I guess it was hard, especially in the beginning. Of course, people on Lemmy/Mastodon know more about technology than normies from Reddit or X. I also want to run GrapheneOS, I heard in 2027 it will be released on Motorola. I have Trisquel. Any step away from Big Tech and towards FOSS alternatives is excellent, so congratulations on all of them!

Yes, because people refuse to use FOSS messaging apps. So we have to use the lowest common denominator SMS/RCS. I also have Signal, SimpleX, XMPP, Delta Chat and Threema.