there was definitely a time where i got some results from google in a very ad-like manner, super fucking annoying: “you may like this…” and spamming different search terms, locations etc.

i haven’t seen it since, i figured they were A/B testing the design

definitely not, i used this a ton too. it’s obvious reddit is just getting greedy

so is using something like an Apple TV or Roku box actually more secure than just using the apps directly on the TV?

oh…is that why all these nice smart TVs are so affordable these days?! damn!!

Pixelfed for Instagram to a certain extent. You can also use Instander for an alternative viewer for regular Instagram.

Revolt Chat looks like another alternative for Discord, but haven’t used it myself

From what I’ve seen as long as you’re not using a CDMA network like Verizon it reasonably works. There might be some minor issues when it comes to network performance on 5G/LTE but lots of folks claim that it’s been working just fine for them.

No downside really, guess I’m just more curious what the stock OS is like for the Fairphone

Dammit, what’s it gonna take for the Fairphone to be brought to the US? The only options are buying it from the Murena shop with their /e/ OS installed or to get the European model from somewhere like eBay or Newegg.

Yeah I mean honestly this is not surprising in the least

Is Quake II worth picking up? I have the first one but never played the others

wow fuck that. how does one go about disabling it?

why not, it’d be good practice for a newbie like me!

This sounds like a neat project! I’ll try to catch up on the basics on GitHub and hopefully I can start contributing soon 👍

+1 for NewPipe. Though if you view youtube on a browser with an adblocker (e.g. Brave, Firefox with uBlock Origin) you can still skip all the ads

from my very limited research, it’s not the most private OS especially when compared to GrapheneOS. They do make it easier to switch to a de-Googled product with replacements out of the box. I do recall a lot of their other products like the Drive and what not are open source

Oh awesome!! That’s super exciting

People can block communities right? That might make more sense than just severing connections to other servers completely?

Revolt seems pretty promising. Info is kinda scarce, are they a purely volunteer driven product?

cool, what device did you set yours up on if i may ask? i have a raspberry pi and i’ve seen people set it up using that before but was wondering if i potentially needed a more powerful piece of hardware

With my RSS app (Feeder) I can punch in the URLs of most publications and follow them easily. Not every one is updated though