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Stealing was always a crime only for the poor, the rich have been doing it for centuries. It’s only even more blatant in this case.

I hope you mean torrenting and not tormenting 😸

Just install Linux on an external SSD and test it.

Not working for me, just getting error messages when trying to redeem …

+1

I learned Inkscape / Scribus / Krita (which was not easy after 15+ years hooked on Adobe BS) while still on Windoge, had used Linux before so the switch was really painless.

Or might be a sign that capitalists wanna keep on siloing their networks once the hype has cooled down.

Oh, I didn’t know that. Models were people have actually actively consented to their data being used for it (not “Wikipedia is CC so it’s fine”)?

we give, we take, we give again, and we are all in this together.

No, the AI megacorps only steal and then make you pay to use their illegal and unethical services. How naive is this?

What problems did you encounter? I dimly not using the official docker-compose file but one from else (because I wanted to use Http?) but personally I didn’t find it as complicated as setting up Immich or Invoice Ninja or other services that have multiple containers that need to talk to each other.

Mmmh, I don’t think the app ever got disabled by Android during my days of testing (I actually reinstalled yesterday and having a look again, battery drain seems a bit better now so far … ). But obviously a system service is always gonna be prioritised higher than a user app. But as I said I didn’t have this problem with this app (actually the only one I can think of is Syncthing and with that I’m not sure if it’s not the app going to a sleep mode or something by itself).

This seems to be a non-MS alternative:

https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde

Via: https://user.space/e002-red-hat-summit-2025/

What does device-only mean in this context? That it’s only stored on your phone?

It (theoretically) works without PlayServices. I’m on CalyxOS with MicroG enabled and while I was testing OwnTracks I think MicroG was using the Gplay Location services or something? I’ve since turned something off in MicroG location settings that was phoning home to Google and GPS is pretty bad now, not sure if OwnTracks would still be usable.

I think the official app tries to not be killed by Android woth the usual tricks (permanent notification, disabling battery optimisation):

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.owntracks.android

You can (theoretically) control how often locations are tracked and sent but for me was using the location service constantly and draining battery quite a bit.

There is also

https://dawarich.app/

But I could never get it to ingest any data from the recc Android apps (this is probably a me problem, though, Linux Unplugged crew are using it).

I’m pretty sure it’s “open source” (as in not os, actually and probably trained on stolen data like always?)

Yay! 🎉✨

Esp. if the LLM just hallucinates 50% of the “facts” a about the users 👌

Looking forward to the tests that wil confirm that games still run better with Linux on this device as well 😸

For Scotland there’s

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/

with gpx tracos that you can use offline with Osmand or similar.

What completely blows my mind every time is when KDE Connect time pauses my music on my PC when I get a call on my mobile.

Matrix!