Oh, you mean the ancient trek shows? From the pre-historic times?

Voyager is the one older Trek show that, as a whole, just doesn’t catch me. There’s too many episodes that feel like filler, and the show doesn’t seem to care about it’s premise all that much.

If the people you want to have access have static, exclusive ip addresses. Which is pretty unusual, these days.

Graphene on a Pixel 8a. One of the few currently viable options, in my eyes.

Sad. The 32nd century era didn’t give me much, but trek being in production gives momentum for more trek.

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I think you might be confusing the columns there. Firefox is listed as project using Ai, Librewolf and Zen are listed as ‘alternatives’ (a bit silly, since they are soft forks, but whatevs). Neither seem to be listed for LLM usage.

Call me when they have federation. Kinda all in on Matrix, but if they do get Federation, they might actually be a workable alternative if you don’t need/want encryption.

I mean, you can have a look at recent merged PRs. With proprietary engines, you just don’t know.

I’ll be interested to see their implementation, though it likely won’t replace matrix for me.

It is, and that makes it much better than Discord, but currently they’re mostly building another monolith on the central instance. Self-hosting doesn’t mean much if the communities are all on there.

I’ll wait for federation, hope it comes soon. Till then, I see more potential in Matrix.

In my eyes, the only sensible way of building such a platform at scale is having it be federated. Otherwise you can host a server - and if you’re unlucky, might need accounts on five servers to access all the groups you want.

If their federation implementation comes relatively prompt and is workable, that’s great. If not, it feels like a way to bootstrap a centralised alternative to discord. Pre-enshitification discord, but it’d again be up to a single entity whether it stays that way.

I don’t mind paying for hosting, but I don’t want to jump from one centralised platform to the next.

They are selling a subscription. It isn’t really a donation if you pay a set price for services.

I’d also hold out to see their federation implementation before considering them as viable as matrix.

They do seem better than stoat, though.

I could do a lot of things I do on the daily on my phone. But it would be more finicky and annoying. I have automated pretty much all regular maintenance my PC needs long ago. I just don’t see what I’d get, except for more janck.

Hey, my brother has those pants.

I have a weird relationship to tech wear. I like it, but it doesn’t really match my style. And Fabric of the Universe charges crazy shipping to Europe.

Some of those might be less prevalent depending on where you are. But yes, there’s a lot of things to keep in mind.

Also, the plastic card thing is neat, I did not know that.

I’m especially annoyed about how easy it is to traci Bluetooth devices. I seem to remember that newer devices can rotate macs, but all my headphones are too old for that. And I kinda don’t want to throw away good hardware.

I’ve never used Rocky with a DE.

Cloudflare also has one that gives you some more data than Netflix’.

https://speed.cloudflare.com/

We wouldn’t want any Graphene OS device to fulfill the requirements necessary to be certified. That would make it useless.

‘Rooted’ doesn’t mean rooted, it means the Google API it checks against says no. And is unlikely to say yes on any device that isn’t ‘official Android’, with Google Apps having System access.

I use Graphene. There is some banks that do tap-to-pay independent of Google Pay, but not mine. There is one legit good thing about modern tap-to-pay - it cycles card numbers, making it harder for retailers to track you.

Didn’t Vivaldi? I don’t really use them cause I mostly avoid non-FOSS software, but I seem to remember them announcing they’d be keeping support.