Droid-ify is an F-droid frontend, that is also in F-droids repo as an installable app so it’s safe, in this case one of the F-droid repos OP has is actually malicious and is installing a modified version of Signal, the package name is wrong org.thoughtcrimes.securesms, it should be thoughtcrime without the S.

I think Play Protect is intrusive, but this time it actually tried to protect OP from a malicious Signal clone.

There’s actually a video of it too that a lot of people haven’t seen (Video visuals are SFW, though there is gunfire sounds in the distance in the second half). The image alone misses a lot of what the guy did, he even climbed on top of the tank.

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/YeFzeNAHEhU?si=bdKE9yo6HukO3Fhc

Private frontend link: https://piped.syncpundit.io/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

Ah, I didn’t know it was all at once, yeah sounds more like what you said in the other comment about Hetzner or providers pruning customers then.

Could this be due to the .ml and a few other domains thing again? The issuer is gradually pulling all of the free domains from people, while leaving the paid users active until their term is up.

/hj is a tone indicator meaning half-joking, some of these are rarely used but this is a good list of them

I think if the ability to buy something (from the provider, not ebay/secondhand or whatever) on a valid platform, at a reasonable price, without any BS (ex: bad anticheat/the cracked version provide a better service/etc), and if you can genuinely afford it, then it’s better to just buy the thing. I also believe in supporting indie companies and solo devs, they usually provide fair access anyway but if I can’t get something from them I just go without.

Outside of that, fair game in my opinion. If the seller doesn’t provide fair access to something, they’re basically asking for it.

If someone just doesn’t want to pay, fair game to them as well even if I’m not a fan of that. My views are just what I hold myself to, not what’s right or wrong for everyone.

One for people in the US:

You aren’t taxed at the higher rate for all of your income when you get a raise that puts you in a higher tax bracket, only the part that is in the range of that bracket specifically. The rest of your income below the bracket is taxed the same as before.

I’ve seen a lot of people decline promotions and raises over this, and bosses are very happy to let you continue thinking that’s how it works.

Not sure if that counts as not common knowledge, but a lot of people I know didn’t know it before.

My favorite was Infinity/Eternity for a while, but I tried out Jerboa and it kinda just stuck for me, I really like it

Poll results are pretty interesting so far too

I’ve been thinking the same thing, I stick near stable releases of distros mostly because of both breakage and I don’t like just having hundreds of updates every week, this feels like a good in-between that gets me everything I want. I don’t need the latest and greatest days or hours after release, but I certainly don’t want to be years behind either.

Not a bad idea really, if you update tons of stuff without rebooting if you have it disabled sometimes weird stuff can happen, but its not very common and usually not very bad at all. I’d leave it on if you want that extra little bit of stability, but if its just a regular every day use computer I think either way is fine.

It’s because it has offline updates enabled in Discover settings, its not a distro thing rather that Gnome and KDE have that in their software centers as a setting, and Fedora enables it by default, but it can be disabled.

It’s to make your system more stable because no packages get moved or updated during a running system causing unexpected behavior, and you also don’t have to reboot when it tells you, it’s more just a reminder that updates are waiting to be applied when you do, they could really word that better.

I barely used Reddit and just lurked occasionally, but I dropped Reddit and went back to forums + Lemmy.

I tried to join Lemmy a few years back too but I didn’t stick around long, this time it did stick. Since I tried Lemmy before for a month or two back then it was really easy to just switch back.

They offer a free tier directly from the Onlyoffice team which is likely enough for what you’re looking for if you’re okay with it being hosted by them, as for hosting it yourself their docs are here

For average use not really, assuming the VPN is reliable and trustworthy, and if by average you mean just regular day to day browsing.

When you start getting into the territory of doing stuff that would actually get investigated, it has some benefits like having a little bit of protection from possibly backdoored servers, MITM, etc.

For regular privacy in day to day, it is an improvement but I wouldn’t consider it worth the latency gain unless absolutely needed.

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+1 for OnlyOffice cloud, sounds like exactly what OP is looking for

Snaps mount themselves as a filesystem which floods the menu with needless entries when you’re trying to monitor/manage filesystems

I’m all for the second USB-C, I feel like this is more likely to possibly happen compared to getting the headphone jack back, plus it would just be useful to have in general

Thanks! Switched to Jerboa a week or two ago and I’ve been loving it

It can be used similarly as a lite version of KDE Connect, but KDE Connect is for pairing a dedicated device to your PC. This will allow sharing between phones on the same network as well, and allows easier use for usecases like quickly sharing a file to your friend who has their phone connected to your wifi, without making a permanent pairing of the devices.

You could do the same with KDE Connect but you have to set it up on your friends device and allow permissions and all that. With this, you just choose the files and send, and it can work over a link you send instead if the other person doesn’t want to install the app. This is a much simpler version for one-time file transfers and for devices not owned by you/not trusted.