Matrix

I think you mean XMPP! I recomend you mean XMPP.

If you download the nightly build #5652,

How does one download this? I visited the page but the named artifacts (linux-amd64 etc) don’t show as links.

Don’t give them ideas!!!

This pretty much. The article makes it clear by making one of the pictures a sorta representation of a black hole but yes, Matrix is quite intensive. XMPP runs on a potato.

I use Debian ftw.

Never said they conflict. Said they’re not a “basic feature”. Sigleplayer has lived without cloud saves since around 1960.

Heck, most modern consoles have a USB port, I’d consider “offline save” more “basic” than “cloud save”. After all we all know by now the corporate internet can’t be trusted.

Hey! Someone else remembers floppy disks!

basic platform features

like cloud saves or achievements

cloud saves

considered “basic”

on a single-player offline game

Ooooh boy, the antiintellectual effects of tiktok reach deep.

Colonialism?

It’s so superior that they finally added color in 2024!

We live in a wild world where people feel so confident about the wayland snake oil that they only added color in 2024!

On the one hand sounds sensible, on the other hand I wonder if that’s possible when wanting to apply things that need to take place as early in boot as possible (eg.: modprobe options for a module, apparmor profiles, …).

this means supporting an ad-driven business model

Not really, or rather it’s not me doing it. Free tier does not really incentivize data collection, nowadays even the business where you are paying still collect and sell information about you and you can’t trust they are not doing so (or turn heel behind your back) without high level access to their infrastructure.

I use free tier services; that signals that if you want to get my money, you have to do lots more than simply have a mouth to run. Some of those services have managed to prove their worth to my satisfaction, and deserved my payment, such as SDF which is where I have an account on, but even then I avoid subs and prefer one-time payments instead. But they are a minority (trust is not to be handed over freely) and Proton just squandered any chance of ever making the list.

Lol hate to say thank you

One thing that this entire situation has done for me is to make me feel more justified in my posture of never paying a subscription for an online service if I can avoid it. So far I’m using Proton stuff for the free tier only, so I can have some degree of relaxation in evaluating any alternatives withotu also having to worry about banking stuff.

“Is this Message approved by your board, and owners”

Didn’t the board already post in full support of this fucker, then try to delete the post for PR damage control?

Since the idea is that the “root partition” is immutable, serious question:

How do you fix a hardware config issue or a distro packaging / provision issue in an immutable distro?

Several times in my Linux history I’ve found that, for example, I need to remove package-provided files from the ALSA files in /usr/share/alsa in order for the setup to work with my particular chipset (which has a hardware bug). Other times, I’ve found that even if I set up a custom .XCompose file in my $HOME, some applications insist on reading the Compose files in /usr/share/X11/locale instead, which means I need to be able to edit or remove those files. In order to add custom themes, I need to be able to add them to /usr/share/{icons,themes}, since replicating those themes for each $HOME in the system is a notorious waste of space and not all applications seem to respect /usr/local/share. Etc.

Unless I’m mistaken on how immutable systems work, I’m not sure immutable systems are really useful to someone who actually wants to or needs to power user Linux, or customize past the “branding locking” that environments like Gnome have been aiming for for like a decade.

Any good alternative to proton services? For mail I have tuta so far, but they cover only that part and the webmail UX in tuta is actually worse for the free tier.

7.8 / Too Much Water.

(trumpets soundfont when?)

If you are using Gnome distros: you can feel exactly what it feels like getting back to working in a restricted, overhyped, overbranded environment like Windows.

If you are using Ubuntu: you can get advertising during your system’s software upgrades. No, really.

If you are using Arch: you can post aroudn the internet saying you use Arch btw.

Depending on the distro, you can use some alternative software stacks, but that’s mostly the backend (eg.: systemd versus openRC, Apache vs Nginx, X vs Wayland); most “desktop app” level is mostly the same for each desktop environment, is kinda the point.