Yes, it’s just sway

I’ve been using RSS feeds for youtube channels for a few years. I don’t visit the site if I can help it, I don’t login, I don’t “like & subscribe”, I don’t see any clickbait thumbnails and most important: I don’t see any ads. Just newsboat & mpv.

Good recommendation indeed, the zones of thought are awesome. One of my all time favourites!

I’d go for Alpine Linux in such case.

You may want to check out numen, targeted towards power-users.

I’ll interpret non-US a bit broader as non-English. English is hugely dominant in scifi so it’s often hard to find good books in other languages. I’d also love to hear the recommendations of others too! A few I read:

• (German)
  • “Die Welten der Skiir” trilogy (by Dirk van den Boom): https://bookwyrm.social/book/593373/s/die-welten-der-skiir-1 is really great . He also wrote another trilogy (Die Reise der Scythe) which is also quite nice.
  • “3517 Anno Domini: Wir waren Götter” by Raik Thorstad. Note that his is a primarily an M/M romance, but it has a nice dystopian scifi setting.
• (Spanish)
  • “En un lugar llamado tierra” - I read this long ago, don’t remember much: https://bookwyrm.social/book/979935/s/en-un-lugar-llamado-tierra
  • La señal - https://bookwyrm.social/book/979918/s/la-senal
• (French) The works by Jules Verne should probably be mentioned here, despite being written well a century ago. “Vingt mille lieues sous les mers”, as already mentioned in another comment, is a must-read classic.
  • “Helstrid” - I have this one on my e-reader for a while but haven’t properly started it yet: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1289177/s/helstrid , so I can’t say if it’s any good.
• (Dutch) Long ago as a teen I once read “Coriolis, de stormplaneet” and liked it: https://bookwyrm.social/book/979934/s/coriolis-de-stormplaneet

Let’s not downvote the poor guy just because we lost him to Apple. The comment is on topic and people are allowed to make different choices/mistakes 😉

The more kooikerhondjes the better! :)

A pinephone with postmarketOS and sxmo

I can definitely see where you’re coming from and I have similar experiences. I got fairly fed up with the fact that the modem often doesn’t come up again after suspend on the pinephone. And if you disable sleep like I often do, you often find a dead battery. Despite all the great work of so many people, I’d have hoped for some more stability in the ecosystem by now.

I also took up a spare Android phone unfortunately, but I’m really fighting with its interface, I want my sxmo !

(cross-post from Mastodon)

I’m currently reading The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, by Roger Williams… It’s scifi about “the singularity”, albeit a bit graphic and disturbing.

I recently finished reading “Arrête avec tes mensognes” by Phillipe Besson (english title: Lie with me), a gay novel, and that was a great read.

• Arch Linux on desktop and laptop
• Ubuntu on server, with containers running mostly Alpine Linux
• postmarketOS (Alpine Linux based) on mobile phone (pinephone)

This reminds me also of Framasoft.org , who do a similar thing.

• SourceHut as an alternative git foundry, https://sr.ht
• Any HedgeDoc deployment , like https://pad.nixnet.services/
• Any jitsi meet deployment, like https://meet.jit.si/
• KeyOxide for online identity verification (using gpg), https://keyoxide.org/
• PlantUML for drawing all kinds of diagrams based on formal text descriptions (online version: https://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/uml/, but mainly just an offline tool). I’d encourage people not to use online services for everything but simply rely on good tools.
• Freesound.org (https//freesound.org) for sound fragments
  • TrekCore.com for Star Trek sounds ;) https://www.trekcore.com/audio/
• Bookwyrm as a fediverse alternative for sites like goodreads (tracking and reviewing books): https://bookwyrm.social/
• Fotostrips.nl if you’re dutch and like comics

And in general I’d wish more people would use RSS (and more sites would prominently offer it) to aggregate things like news.

Babylon 5