This can be a great idea, if it’s done well. For example, the Street­Complete app has achievements to encourage contributions to the OpenStreetMaps project:

How would using NixOS have made OP’s system immune to the critical hardware issues that they discovered were the root cause making their computer fail to boot?

I don’t see this one mentioned often, but Frogatto & Friends is a lot of fun if you like platformers with an old-school aesthetic. I keep it on my Steamdeck to play a few levels every now and then, it’s a smooth game with a nice feeling to the controls.

The source is here.

I mean, we are in a degoogle community here, so it wouldn’t be odd to see criticism of YouTube’s policies as well. Yes, it’s also a problem that YouTube hosts far-right content, and is one of many reasons to degoogle.

What has this to do with degoogling?

FWIW, if you self-host Adguard, you can do those things without needing to bother with touching individual hosts files. It’ll also then just work for every device on your network. Create your own domain and expose adguard via a subdomain and you can just point your phone at your DNS server while you are on external networks too.

Nothing is too on-the-nose for capitalists. Look at Palantir.

I can’t tell if there’s a way to deal with this from the screenshot, but that looks like an accessibility nightmare. How is a blind person supposed to accomplish that task?

What if I don’t have a mobile phone? What if I do, but the camera is broken? What if… eh, fuck Google.

Like you, I am excited about it for the sake of the community, though I’m hard pressed to find any reason to play games on my Android phone as it is. Android games are either ad infested junk that isn’t interesting to me, or open source and playable on Linux already.

I’ve messed around with Waydroid because it sounds cool in theory, but every time I get it installed, I’m like “now what?” I can’t think of anything to actually do with it, so I imagine it’ll be the same for Lepton.

Still, very cool to have the options, and I’m happy that Linux is getting more attention as a preferred platform such that gaming companies recognize the value in supporting translation layers for it.

You might be right about this software, but regardless of this specific use-case, I was responding to your overall sentiment towards containerization in general. It’s worth looking more into, that’s all!

I just want to encourage you to reconsider. Docker (or podman) is worth taking the time to figure out. It’s not particularly difficult to learn the basics of, and is extremely powerful.

Your life as a self-hoster will be massively simplified by spending a weekend learning to use docker or podman. Not using containerization is like opting in to hard mode with dependency and configuration hell.

There are a few:

• https://f-droid.org/packages/com.drip
• https://f-droid.org/packages/ch.nilsgrob.android.bluemoon
• https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mensinator.app

I’m not a user of any of those, but from descriptions and screenshots alone they look decent.

How would that work? How would you distinguish the “pedos” visiting from anyone else? Whatever these “children specific sites” you’re referring to, are children going to create, host, and manage them all on their own without any adults ever to help them at any level?

I think OP is referring to Fog Panther, I just saw this yesterday in Flathub: https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/com.fogpanther.FogPanther. It definitely appears to be some jackass selling a blatant GIMP clone.

you can’t beat them, join them

Saruman was not supposed to be a role model.

Do people expect the price to go down?

Actually yeah that would be great. After all, Netflix is raking in more profit than ever (this chart represents earnings after expenses are removed):

That’s billions. Billions of dollars every year that’s just… extra. Where the fuck are they wasting all this money that requires them to raise prices instead of lowering them?

I mean, we all know it goes to funding the Epstein class and making the world a worse place for everyone else, but it should go towards making their service better and cheaper.

Let’s stop normalizing the predatory nature of capitalism, and instead be surprised when people don’t expect better.

That’s not a fair statement to make. As published in their FAQ, developer time is not what’s lacking in the effort to support more devices:

For most [unsupported] devices, the hardware and firmware will prevent providing a reasonably secure device, regardless of the work put into device support.

My 2013 Dell XPS laptop is still running beautifully with Fedora 43 too! Honestly, it’s amazing how much life a piece of old hardware can have with Linux running on it.

Sorry that Cyberpunk didn’t work for you, that’s understandably frustrating. I hope you get what you want from your return to Windows.

If you ever decide to try Linux again, you might benefit from asking people for assistance before you get so frustrated. I’ve personally played Cyberpunk for hundreds of hours on Linux, so I know it certainly does work. There’s probably something going on with that specific repack you’re using that makes it weird to get running.

That looks like Ubuntu, which I believe uses a modified version of Nautilus for the file manager. Hitting CTRL-L (for “location”) should give you a path bar to type into.