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https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface makes most of the features “just work” in mainstream distros on these devices.

In the laptop that can also be a decent tablet sometimes space, the brand still does really well, though most people are probably fine with tablet that can be a decent laptop sometimes. Hopefully mobile linux projects like mobian and postmarketos allow the later idea have more than iOS and Android as viable options soon.

I wish they would have used X (formerly Twitter) in their article title as a departing annoyance to Elon.

https://mwood77.github.io/ws4kp-international/ is the live of the international fork using Open Mateo

It’s kinda bland, but there are some neat creators there like this couple biking the world and documenting it on a pinephone running sxmo.

I’d like all these creators to be on PeerTube, but I get it hosting is daunting, and discovey in a centralized system is easier, so platforms line Odyssey. The crypto and free speech stuff attract a certain segment too, right or wrong. Their new effort to be a youtube front-end will put them in competition with invidious and similar too.

I forgot the LemmyWtf Peertube community had this directory of recommendations: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

Outside of what others posted, here’s a quick list:

North American Urbanists: CanadianCivil has Paige Saunders, OhTheUrbanity, and Shifter. Urbanists.video has Heartland Urbanist

FOSS stuff: Penpot (foss figma, they have their own instance) Emacsconf (on Toobnix)

Fedi folks: Elena Rossini (on her own instance)

Fedi.video is a great place to discover other stuff outside of just using Sepia/in-app searching by what you’re looking for.

I wouldn’t mind age or “is a person” verification done with privacy protecting means, such as GNU Taler blind signed token solutions that are open source and audited by independent security teams, but that isn’t getting implemented. Instead every “verification” service is a literal privacy nightmare simultaneously linking identity to speech and harvesting user data for sale.

Non-EU parts of the world should be encouraged to have better data privacy laws as part of their trade deals with the EU.

It should be illegal to not allow unlocking the bootloader, but it is very common.

Looking at its Wikipedia entry, it looks like a reasonable alternative, I hadn’t looked into it before.

Have you had the chance to try it out?

Not reviewed in this eval:

• DeltaChat (though would likely score similar to Signal with more points for decentralization)
• IRC
• XMPP
• Lemmy/PieFed/Nodebb (if he’s going to include Discourse…)

Looks like its available as opt-in, but as part of their premium / ee not FOSS build. Bummer.

So Rocket.Chat (which TIL can federate to Matrix)?

The web instances work pretty well, that’s a shame the iOS app didn’t work for you. I’m only a consumer not a producer of video content so I interact with a fedi microblogging platform instead of having an account on a peertube platform itself. The Android app seemed okay but following users with RSS and interacting via my microblogging account, as well as directly checking my favorite platforms’ sites occasionally for serendipity seems to work the best for me.

I’m sure with the fundraising blitz the apps will get better too this year.

Meanwhile https://joinloops.org/ and https://joinpeertube.org/ keep getting better and better

Hopefully more creators will take notice and at least crosspost their content on better platforms too.