While this is true, it’s worth clarifying that GrapheneOS in particular is able to run apps sandboxed, so they can’t communicate with eachother as they can on a stock OS.

Having said that, no one should expect that their right to privacy is given (or fought for), unless they take it first. Yes, laws and all, but user education is the bigger issue.

Users were onboarded onto the Internet before they had an understanding of the differences between cyberspace and meatspace, and how that could affect them. Placing the blame (and solutions) solely on third-parties is a dangerous mistake.

Skill issue.

Fix it.

Go Fedora for Gaming with new hardware. If you’re a couple generations behind in hardware, Mint will do just fine.

Fedora gets new hardware support faster along with newer drivers, same with Arch and Arch-based distros (like EndeavourOS, BazziteOS)

What is it with these people that when thinking of Linux base their decisions on decade-old knowledge and go straight for Ubuntu. Ubuntu isn’t what it used to be, competition actually happened and we’re all the better for it. In the meantime, Canonical F’d up, and Ubuntu should not be anywhere near the top of the recommended distros list.

Want something that actually works, go Linux Mint. Have much newer hardware and want to game, go with Fedora or an arch-based distro like EndeavourOS.

Don’t go Ubuntu. You never go Ubuntu.

Element X is quite good now (note the X, not the classic ‘Element’). Fluffychat’s good too but missing some features.

Incorrect. Technically Matrix is a protocol, and a forum client can be made. You already have some PoC social media ones. It just so happens that most well known clients at this time and for instant messaging. But it can be much more.

In the current pseudo-capitalist world economy, the rich do help in pushing a circular economy, in a variety of industries. If the rich are too taxed they’ll more easily leave the country and move elsewhere. Your country loses a lot of its GDP. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem, but it’s also how the government of today runs, where everything is run on credit and paid for later.

Lean-governments are possible, but in such a case a government can never spend more than its GDP produces. No government would go that way right now, mainly because people aren’t educated enough to make a decent argument for it, verbally or otherwise.

Your country either welcomes the rich, or answers to the IMF.

In summary//TL;DR: In a credit-based, credit-ran, loan-promised economy, greatly successful small and medium businesses are not enough to keep GDP high enough to pay off national debt.

There are some good Matrix community, on matrix.org as well as individually run homeservers (federated).

Use GrapheneOS and switch to PIN authentication didabling fingerprint auth, especially when travelling abroad.

Leaving a comment here on behalf of HIMYM: Bowl.

Edit: Pycharm works well too.

Py-Charm isn’t a Python interpreter, it’s an IDE. It has a purpose.

over to Linux full-time back in ~3.15. I recommend you join the LUG Org (Linux User Group), as they have a load of resources in case you get stuck and have some people working on specialised Wine runners. They also run a Matrix Space that’s worth joining.

For email and VPN, I recommend Proton. Even their free tier works well.

Just to make it clear to any other people reading this, Jellyfin has Group Sync where you can create groups with participants and syncplay media.

Odysee did/does something interesting where if one uses the desktop client, the video gets streamed and cached, and then seeded back over a configurable amount of time. I could see creator’s communities being self-sustainable this way.

No.

If by Media Player you mean Jellyfin Media Player, assuming Windows from your previous post, then yes. You’ll find a cache folder somewhere under %AppData% (User Folder/AppData/(…)) Can’t remember the exact path as I don’t use Windows regularly, but know it’s there.

Self-hosted Matrix.

It still needs polish, but it’s on a good path. Meanwhile others are centralized by a single authority with an easy target painted on them for government coercion along with multiple other attack surfaces, and even information easily traced to PII. Also, not everything is encrypted. A lot of metadata is left out of E2EE. And those servers/providers have that data.

By contrast, a drop in the ocean is far more likely to not be targetted from the outset, making pretty much any matrix server (potentially with the exception of the matrix.org one, but it’s ok to treat it as a demo anyway) a really good choice in that sense.

Ah I see. Did you change the lobby URL in the config file? There’s a config file with a lobby URL, you need to change it to point to the correct lobby where servers will show. Or is that what you with the changing the default server?

Edit: Just checking, are you running at least version 2.65? Also, I mentioned changing the config file, I’ve just been reminded the file is downloaded separately and then just replaced, no need to change it. I’ll DM the unofficial “official” guide from the forums.

I’m also on Linux. Ensure you have docker and docker-compose installed. IIRC you also need the windows server files# . I’ll get back to you with my server compose file.