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Today I tried out the Mastodon desktop app called "Tokodon", for Linux. Pretty good!

Regarding decentralized stuff...

In the end I still procrastinate to set up 'er, instead spent time setting up federation on my XMPP server. Idk for what sake, but I got it (or at least can send/receive to/from conversations.im).

I just hate all these appliances that depend on "apps".
Where's fun or practicalness in
- Buggy account-tethered bloat weighting half a gigabyte and expecting you got Android with GPlay / iOS
- Navigating that crapp mess to get the device finally working, constantly rejecting it's nag to get a subscription for sending everything to company's server
- Being limited to simplest use cases and particular company (as device lacks standards and is operable merely by that "app")
- Having it getting bricked in the end, once company stops it's "service" / changes service's API or whatever / simply perishes

Guess it's time to renew that TLS crap again

FSP is underrated
A power supply from 2006, years before ErP-ready PC stuff yet <0.3W standby, while most PSUs of that time took over 3W.
Something unthinkable for these times

Rule of thumb:
If it doesn't work or works badly, it was made by Broadcom.

Does IT also include calculators

True. My Broadcom wifi/bluetooth in my Raspberry Pi sucks. USB dongles to achieve the same were necessary.

Only if they can run NetBSD.
Jokes aside, some fully-fledged operating systems got ported to selected scientific calculators. Practicality of it is other story, but nonetheless fascinating.

A bit of games were made, remade, or ported to graphing calculators in the 90s. Some people started learning programing by making ASM or other games for them. I had bought a TI-86 mostly for games because my best friend had one & he downloaded games online & we were able to transfer games from his to mine by a link cable. I played games a lot during school The screen size is also very nice for seeing multiple math problems written out so I don't need to write things down when budgeting or comparing prices of things online like supplements to find the best deal or comparing stats while playing RPG games on my computer. I still have & use it for math but I haven't really played games on it in many years. It's been having a couple issues off & on for a long time now so I'm not sure when something will cr@p out.

I considered buying a new graphing calculator a couple years ago but I wasn't sure which one to get. I read that the newer ones didn't support ASM programs so that there would be less distraction & cheating for students in class There might be a way to change the OS or something on some to make them compatible for ASM programs but I'm not tech savvy enough to buy a newer model expecting that I'd be able to figure out out how to modify it to play games it's not supposed to play. Since I no longer really play games on my TI-86 perhaps I should consider getting one just to use for math. The backlight & color capabilities that newer ones have would probably make it easier for me use when the light is off in my room. I still like the idea of playing games on one though. I dislike phones being entirely touch screen & prefer physical buttons for games. It could be nice if there were some more advanced games or just different games than what's been made for the TI-86. Since I'm posting about it in this thread, I'm interested in any ideas or input anyone has. My birthday is in a couple months & Christmas is a little more than a month after that so I should get a bit of money from my parents.

What the heck is 'CachyOS?" When I first encountered the Distrowatch website, the most popular Linux systems were Mint and Ubuntu, then after a few years it was MX Linux and Manjaro. I hadn't looked at the site for a year or so, and when I did, I found this 'CachyOS', which seems to have come from nowhere, in the top spot. Does anyone here have any familiarity with this distro, and is it any good?

By the way, according to Distrowatch, Arch seems to have lost most of its popularity, and is languishing in 43rd place (out of 100).

Edit: From the description on Distrowatch, Cachy seems to be an Arch-based system. I'm guessing that the fact that it can be installed from Calamares, as opposed to needing the Terminal, is a major factor in its success?

Possibly. But to what I know Arch is all about Do-It-Yourself attitude, so it kinda misses the point

As somebody privacy-concious, a promoter of libre software and user freedom...

...I've bought an iPhone for evaluation. The pure negation of all above.
I'm really that disappointed where Android is leading now (especially after recent news, which might be just fatal for any openness in Android ecosystem), and I'm examining now every possible alternative, in case the worst happens, searching for the next "least evil".

I'm not switching now as AOSP is gud for that moment. I'm checking whether iOS jail is viable option to G camp, got it because it was cheap (160PLN (~38€) for near EoL but still supported device with faulty fingerprint sensor, and then I can put it on bid and possibly recover most of it's price since people get mad for it being an Apple product). Nonetheless I'm not satisfied that I did that in the first place.

Might as well just "return to caveman" once again in the future and switch to dumbphone, and maintain a "poisoned" device for all the "necessary evil" of modern world.

GSM is just bloodey mafia. From manufacturers by the operators to mobile OSes. It's all joke, and an unfunny, very grim one. I wish it was like desktops... They're not perfect either but at least free and fun.

^ I've tried it, honestly I'm surprised it's not really worse from current Android. It's even usable.
Stereotype of iPhone doing everything the other way (and failing miserably) is still live, but it doesn't nag all the time to activate random crap or I've found it's opt-outs far quicker / easier. I've not been forced to install random sponsored BS. Bundled software can be removed nearly entirely; It seems you can't remove only dialer, SMS, App Store and Safari (also settings, but that's obvious). Even iCrap account wasn't needed for initial configuration. Idk however how about all this "Apple Intelligence" s**t as this phone "doesn't support" it, hopefully it's also can be deactivated / removed.

Privacy is non-existent just like on "Googled" Android, despite their noble claims of "believing privacy is human right" (Nearly spat out drink I've had while reading it; I happened to read how much data they collect from their applications beforehand), but the system is at least less of the irritation.

Turns out it's worth to get to know your enemy. Sometimes it's less of enemy than yer supposed "ally"

I seriously don't get how people can do all their computing on mobile phones

Are they masochists or somethin'?

I do.