That took me way too long to see

That looks like your average iOS autocorrupt

VLC for mp3s, flac and opus

CoMaps for navigation is really nice to have.

User instance checks out.

The problem is that 99% of android users don’t use custom roms. Therefore when google implements it’s new sideloading policy, there will be gradually less development of apps available outside the Play Store.

On the flip side this may induce a spur of GrapheneOS installs but I don’t think that the amount will be significant enough to justify maintaining a service like F-Droid.

https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

This is a blog post from F-Droid which explains some of the concerns relating to that.

you can use ublock origin on Safari. Brave also does it by default. I have yet to see any ads so far.

Edit: You can also use Orion Browser with the full uBlock Origin. Just make sure to deactivate the integrated adblock of Orion and you shouldn’t have issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S4CbHMZrps

It is a French YouTuber, the title is “The dark History of drugs”

All Center is either far right, right or tumbling to the right

You are 100% in the right for that. I already feel like I wrote too much but I saw that this community was a bit sleepy so I thought writing about my experience would inject a bit of life here.

I could quickly add that I am pissed that I am using proprietary OS right now. at least most of my apps are open source and my desktop runs CachyOS. However at this point or soon to be Android will be just as closed source as iOS.

that’s exactly the one I just saw a documentary the other day about it!

If I am not mistaken the British were heavy on drug use as well during WWII. I cannot remember the drug they were using but apparently at El-Alamein they suffered 80% Casualty rates because the men kept pushing on because it completely hindered their judgement for danger.

In a sane country, centrism means you still support universal healthcare. Obviously not in the US and overtime less and less in other countries.

I’m pissed that the mlem app community is on that instance but I understand why since that was the biggest instance back then.

You would be more than welcome

Honestly I hate to admit that its thanks to LLMs that I have been able to fully switch to Arch the irony is that I actually end up reading more and understanding more about my system.

recently I had an issue where my Moza R5 Racing set up just stopped functionning. it turns out the drivers for it which I installed seperatly were now merged in kernel 6.18. I wasn’t aware of that at all and it’s actually the AI that made me aware of it. now essentially I had to uninstall the drivers and purge the configuration for it and reboot. it was a simple fix but I was doompasting commands into terminal from the AI and it was just going in circles eventually I actually had to figure it out myself.

I think that you actually still learn a lot from the AI about linux in general and since I used gemini pro for a month (now using glm-4.7 locally) which was up to date in terms of news and info.

Even though troubleshooting errors on linux with an AI can often end up in circles, I would have not have found out without the AI that the drivers for my niche sim racing rig on linux were merged into the kernel. I probably would have ended up doing a fresh install or a distro hop (most likely the latter since I always have issues with Arch).

if you are going to use llm, if you have a powerful enough rig then please try to run them locally. I did some AI assisted work with gemini (Google) and I find it genuinly creepy that if I ever ask it a question now it always tries to go back to my work even on unrelated topics, different chats and after prompting to stop or I will switch AI provider (I ended up switching in the end) it bugged me for two months then I switch to local.

I suspect it’s trying to get me back to work to analyze my data to serve google’s own interests but that would just be speculation right? RIGHT?

Good now burn it down please and ban X in France. Thank you.

Commissars BrainInAShit and CowTurd coming in to defend their glorious and compassionate leaders

I mean if we had piefed without a karma/reputation system we would get a true level playing field, reduced performative posting, more raw feedback and less censoring.

but on the other hand there would be too much noise, spam and bot flooding (since no reputation/karma), lack of trust and accountability.

Xitter for example has no rep system yet people still find a way to judge the quality of a post using the Ratio method (likes vs comments)

I like the principle of reddit and piefed expands on that and tries to come in with “common sense tools”

I think it’s really up to you to decide what is important.

Do you want a place for raw, unfiltered, diverse and equal expression? (à la Twitter) which comes with its set of negatives. Or a place that is organized, high-quality and “trustworthy” and its own set of negatives

I personnaly prefer an organized place but that’s just my opinion.

Edit: should have used Mastodon as an example instead of Twitter

It’s understandable to feel that way, but imo this is about basic internet etiquette rather than censorship. If I went to .ml and wrote a few sensible comments there I would quickly get a bad rep. It’s not perfect but it’s a far cry from censorship as well.