Signal uses AWS.

oh my fuck. circular imports.

I set out to create a Discord Bot in Python, then gave up trying to use an easy “proper” server-side language and just did it in TypeScript

I didn’t know cobalt.tools was OSS. cool!

Mint is lovely! I started out with it years ago and still use it today.

T-Mobile offers the basic edition (with ads) for free on my plan at least. knowing Netflix though, that probably won’t last much longer. oh well, I’ll still have the high seas.

then remove that “colossal attack surface” by compiling a custom kernel and utilities that only includes the features the product needs. create a system tuned to the exact product to make it extremely reliable. almost everything electronic you see in commercial use is Linux because of this very fact.

Many medical devices run Linux.

Toyota, Tesla, Audi, Mercedes, and Hyundai vehicles use Linux.

you certainly can rely on it for your life and nearly every electronic device you use will use some derivative of it.

this. after i set different zsh themes on my servers + my main machine i now know exactly what machine i’m running commands to

I’d say that bloat is whatever you define it to be and can vary depending on the power of your system.

I care less about how much resources apps are taking up on my desktop (32GB RAM, Ryzen 7700X), but I do bring my concerns over to my laptop (8GB RAM, Ryzen 4500U).

the one thing I cannot stand are electron apps and anything similar. they are a whole browser bundled with an unoptimized interface, and will eat up what used to be a decent amount of RAM for a laptop back then, as well as my battery life. for this reason I always try to find native apps that use less power and less RAM, which in turn improve my battery life.

this is just one example of where you can draw the line for bloat, although you are completely correct in saying that it is subjective.

in my personal experience of using it, it doesn’t feel very polished in most places + strange bugs like being unable to install certain packages. doesn’t have the comforts of a distro like Pop OS or Mint (i.e. automatic timeshift setup on first time boot, checking for missing dependencies for other packages). that’s just my personal opinion on it.

kitty terminal + zsh shell, two fast and customizable tools

not sure. I just use it to chat with friends, family and such, not so much for new connections

Signal and Lemmy, gotta be my two favorite genders

oh boy do i have news for you

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ah I see. at first I interpreted it as you couldn’t reclaim the space from windows

what do you mean by your windows storage being “in limbo”?

diodon works exactly how I wanted it and no less. I’ve mapped Super+V to it as well and disabled the applet icon

Mull (Firefox) or Cromite (Chromium). Cromite isn’t on F-Droid though

Aliucord might be up your alley too, it has some plug-ins to backport functionality to the (better) 126 version of discord

that’s completely acceptable. i like when apps integrate with my Monet color theming and I’ve never had issues loading video after i turned off the Piped proxy, basically just turning it into NewPipe with a different look. In my experience, don’t turn that on unless you have a specific reason to. It leads to video loading issues just like you found.

Some things I like about LibreTube:

• The PiP functionally works better than in Newpipe
• I can see the likes and dislikes of comments and expand the thread to see more comments
• Swipe gestures to enter and exit fullscreen just like on the normal YT app
• I can view a content creators content by Livestream, Short, normal video etc. for some reason shorts just don’t show up in Newpipe
• SponsorBlock integrated. I am aware there is Newpipe x SponsorBlock

If NewPipe has a way to add the above functionality, I’ll gladly try it again!