Me, fighting with using an am5 chipset & nvidia graphics card for Wayland based distros because damn it, who needs a working machine anyway: “Heh, guess I’m not a clown”

Ah mate what a game. I think I own It about 4 times over. Steam, Xbox, switch, and gog (gotta have the drm free version ofc). Would strongly recommend getting both the main dlcs too. War of the chosen adds a significant amount of depth to the gameplay and shens last gift provides the option for robot armies, they don’t necessarily trump operatives in terms of usability. But damn if it isnt fun to drop 6 10ft droids into combat and watch the aliens get shredded.

Alien hunters is quite a good dlc too; and provides the player with some OP weaponry early on. Those battle axes for the ranger are a must have.

No problem, all I did was click the link to check, I’m not affiliated with the blog or flathub etc; so I might be wrong on how many times 30+ apps have been released in a quarter.

But as you say… Seems arbitrary to fixate on the number; the ‘again’ seems to be related to their blog posts, as it was a succession of 2 consecutive quarters with 30+ releases… I don’t think it was meant to be any deeper than ‘this title is practically the same as the last title’

My takeaway from the blog, is that the author is trying to convey an increase in development for Linux mobile apps, which with the recent side loading restriction nonsense from Google; wouldn’t be all that surprising. It will be interesting to see if the trend continues.

More than thirty in how long?

In a calendar quarter, (IE: 3 months) as denoted by ‘Q3’.

Is this the second (or more) time? When was the last time? Why is 30 significant?

It is the second, the last time was the previous quarter Q2/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, JSON API hence the ‘again’ in this title. The number of apps added is significant because it’s a blog tracking the number of app additions to flathub for Linux phones.

Enshittification, in my kitchen?!

You have to be pretty naive to not have seen this one coming from a mile off. But hey, at least people can see what’s in their fridge without having to open the door, what a luxury.

Conversely, I’d imagine there are babysitters out there who at times wish they could just throw the baby away.

All things considered, the leftist infighting between anarchists, socialists, etc… seems very mild in comparison.

I used to think the left had weird subculture names like ‘tankies’, but after hearing the term groyper it’s clear the right have the left beaten on both infighting and pejorative subculture names. (Assuming groyper is meant to be pejorative ofc.)

Congrats! Out of the usual suspects, (nginx, traefik & caddy), id say nginx has the steepest learning curve, so it’s definitely something to crow about mate! I know professionals in the tech industry that have a hard time with nginx config, so an enthusiast getting it down is a bigger deal than you’re giving yourself credit for.

I host various services for friends and family; and here are a couple I think will be of particular interest to you:

• matrix server with element clients. (Self hosted discord/WhatsApp alternative which is open source unlike TS).
• Drop server and client setup (self hosted steam like experience).

Another thing I would strongly suggest doing, is setting up a single sign on Auth server. Something that will allow your friends and family to have one login for anything you setup. Personally I use keycloak. But there are other options like authentik and voidauth that are worth looking at too!

Congrats again on the progress mate! You’re smashing it so far.

kingarthur1

“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my distro. Prepare to die”

Did you read the article? Your final sentence pretty much sums up what happened.

He’s just ken,
Doesn’t seem to matter what he do,
He’ll always be a number 2.

Yeah I can appreciate that take mate. The level of audacity they would need to think something like this wouldn’t be noticed is almost unimaginable. Lying by omission does feel like the best comparison to make regarding this.

Rest easy friend; there will be plenty more corporate nonsense for us all to jawdrop over tomorrow!

If you give a letter to a postman, and the recipient asks why you put “P.S: I love you” on an official piece of documentation, your first thought wouldn’t be “that damn postman, opening my mail to try and enhance it”.

The same is true for YouTube. People have been uploading videos for decades with them ending up on the platform the way they are uploaded, so it stands to reason that longtime users would expect this behaviour to continue, especially if there have been no Comms around any changes.

Of course Google isn’t to be trusted, and anyone trusting YouTube to be ethical clearly isn’t paying attention to anything. But that doesn’t change the fact that youtube have intentionally hidden this change from their user base. Sure, the result was public facing, but the cause was kept secret; and that’s the nuance you’re overlooking.

I wholeheartedly refute the assertion this comic makes that the word ‘lock’ is onomatopoeic.

Damn you sir, you didn’t need to call me out with that last paragraph.

No, I know it wasn’t my shoe, but look at how well it fits!

Activism like this isn’t for people on Lemmy, who have already been exposed to the likes of decentralisation, open source Vs closed source etc… its predominantly for those that still think brand name = quality.

I don’t use social media these days, but i do have inactive accounts; I’m considering logging in and changing the pictures to clippy. It may have absolutely no effect, or it may be the 16th clippy PFP that someone sees, which may then prompt them to ask why everyone is changing their photo to clippy.

So whilst it won’t change anything in a large way, it can act as the catalyst for those who are still unaware to try and educate themselves on the subject, and hopefully lead to them leaving Microsoft products altogether like you’ve alluded to.

For example; I’m already not using any Microsoft products, so continuing to not use their products is less impactful than by changing my mainstream photos to clippy, even if it has no effect.

We can try to tell people about the evils of microsoft until we’re blue in the face… But if they “research” it themselves, it’s far more likely to stick.

Oh I see what you’re talking about. I thought you meant the link to fffmpegs forgejo site rather than the crosspost link.

Maybe it’s just the app I’m using, but sync was able to redirect me to the Open source community that this was originally posted to. (It’s hosted on lemmy.ml, but the poster is from Lemmy.zip, which is why the post link is Lemmy.zip).

When I open via browser though, I see the OSA block that you’re referring too… An interesting difference for sure. But I suppose if all posts from lemmy.zip were blocked, we wouldn’t be seeing this one either, so I’m guessing it’s just post shares that won’t work?

You sure that the issue is geographical? I’m in the UK and was able to access the site without using a VPN or anything like that.

if purity is the reason you do nothing, instead of doing something, then you’re part of the problem.

I’m always happy to talk about routes of how we get to a better place, but if you’re just wanting to argue then I’ll pass.

So long as it fits your world view you mean; else it’s inflammatory language like I’m ‘doing nothing’ or I’m ‘Virtue signalling’ and being ‘part of the problem’, but of course, I’m the one looking to argue.

I already established a very obvious talking point for a route to get to a better place, and it starts with the tribunal kier and his cronies refuse to have, but that talking point was brushed over rather than addressed so whilst your words fit the bill, your actions certainly do not.

The one thing we can agree on is that this conversation is pointless. Our priorities clearly differ greatly, to the point where a separate party just makes sense. You can call it pissing in the wind, or a waste of a vote, doing nothing etc… but that’s exactly how I view voting for labour in the next election; they’re going to bleed votes to reform and SNP, and then you’ve got the left wing voters who want to see actual change, rather than this Tory lite approach to politics jumping ship too. The only people left will be the centrists; and that’s never going to win an election.