Ladybird is a nom profit, and its system consist in limiting sponsor max donation to 100k per year, so no company can sponsor more than that and make ladybird dependent on them. On top of that, they try to balance budget to keep money for 18months of salaries at all times, so they dont feel the need to rush decisions and can have stable development

To summarize: It was a copycat version of CocoaBob's GBA4iOS, uploaded without his consent, and on top of that, filled with ads and tracking user data.

This may actually push users into thinking about modding discord, or even better, switching to matrix

Good move discord, I like it

Signal is private, what you should differentiate is being anonymous or not. Using your usual phone number is NOT Anonymous but is PRIVATE, as in the content of your messages being only available to you and the person you're talking to

The way you get a phone number depends on you too, so you can be very much be Anonymous even if signal requires a phone number.

You can call the projects all sorts of things, directionless, messy, bad, underwhelming

But fascist? Come on, not everything that you dislike = fascism

Fascism is not good, but less use the term accurately

Yes, and their donations are limited to 100k a year per corporation/organization, so there cant be a company who comes, donates 20million and then tries to gain control of them through money

Discord:

• Takes down accounts for mass reporting without checking the issue.
• Takes down accounts for sharing slightly copyrighted content.
• Takes down accounts for using alternative discord clients.
• Doesn't take down accounts related to coordinated spam attacks to another platform.

Discord being discord I guess, but it's weird, I've seen them take down servers and accounts for all sorts of light issues, but not for this?

They give a good Image to this kind of developer and enthusiasts group

Also, a possible chance of not having to depend on google, for 100k bucks, thats a really cheap ticket for them

This is insane. A good government would legislate against this, but with current ones, they may even be one of the potential data buyers.

It's honestly sad, almost to the point where defederating from them would be better

But I'm sure we'd be loosing good people from hexbear too

I hope github "enshitifies" to bankruptcy

Let's use codeberg :))

It isnt the best one, but its cheap, allows port forwarding and its not sketchy as far as we know

Air vpn

Gnome isn't bad, at all. The team has caused controversy and made mistakes, but gnome's experience is great.

Talking about ubuntu, snaps suck, and it is more "bloated" than what you'd expect, but still, ubuntu isn't half bad. Is mint better for what the ubuntu audience wants? Yes. Does ubuntu still work well? Yes

And ubuntu server rocks

Mainly humans, but ladybird is built for dogs who like ladybugs and birds and, tech :)

Some will use the built in note editor, some the built in music player, some the built in video player, and now some will use matrix

Mint isn't overly bloated, or even "bloated", these apps are useful for a decent part of the demographic, and having them preinstalled lowers the friction a new user feels when installing a new OS

Companies and organizations earn money by selling user data from these intrusive AIs, and ladybird is the complete opposite, so I doubt it, probably the closest thing to that will be allowing users to have their preferred AI linked on the sidebar, which is normal and non-intrusive by itself

Edit: Some companies earn even more money just by keeping investors happy with this AI bubble

I'm not fixing that typo after such a good response

Hey man! Really happy it's you :), congrats

Download stremio, install the "torrentio" addon, and you're good to go, search a movie and play it, it keeps track of half watched movies and series, has subtitles integration with opensubtitles, and supports tv android pc etc

If you have the money, pay for real debrid and you'll get better reliability

I find this to be the case to absolutely every app, free versions being filled with adds, selling your data, trying to fry you with more and more dopamine intensive content. And then the paid version, which usually is overpriced, happens to be worse than a modified client of the same app but free.

Youtube for example, doesn't allow you to download content in 1080, 1440 or 4k, 720 is the limit, for a paid subscription. Then you try revanced and oh wow, you can download 4k content for free, how cool is that?

And usually changing the interface to make it more addictive, forcing shorts on Youtube, reels on Instagram, making the base app worse so people go for the paid version, is why people end up with moddified clients/applications, yet the companies are obviously going to blame us, "pirates oh very bad, they steal content and avoid ads, why would they do such crime",

Instead of wondering why their app is 4 times heavier than a couple years back, has 8x the useless crap built-in, and is priced 2x than a year ago. At least this crap has taught me to value actual well built apps by great people, in many cases, out of passion.

Props to Freetube, my greatest discovery last year, I can't even express how much I missed using a useful interface for youtube, instead of what we have now...

Well that's it, no-one should feel bad for using alternative apps when the actual company is the one to push users out of their apps with shitty updates and anti-consumer practices.