I use KeePassXC/DX with Syncthing for 5ish years now. I think I had one database sync conflict in all that time.

Super solid, never have had to worry about these shenanigans with LastPass or 1pass or bitwarden or whatever

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Thanks! I had no idea about this, wish it was a little more robust but I’ll definitely be sharing this app with others!

Well I found good alternatives(Fossify stuff) or most apps I use already have GitHub releases. I just need to try these apps out and if I dont like them then find other alternatives. Like map apps, calendar, voice recorder, etc. Again I found alts, just not sure how they’ll actually function until using them.

My biggest one is the Steam app for their authenticator. I read some stuff online that Aegis supposedly can work as a Steam auth, but yeah.

I’m about to make the switch myself. I have a Pixel tablet and a P9 Pro. I swapped my tablet over just so I can test things out. I want to deGoogle completely. No play store.

So far I’ve had to make a list of all my apps I have on my phone and go one-by-one seeing if there’s an apk for it somewhere outside of play store, and if not, then if there’s an alternative app, and then website or PWA it is.

I’ve come to realize I have a lot of unnecessary bullshit on my phone to begin with. Think I’ll make the switch this weekend, just need to find a few more alternatives to specific apps.

netbook

Damn, I haven’t heard that in a long time…and you’re completely right. It is a netbook and we do need more of those in this new world(even though I don’t like what that means(ownership of hardware or lack thereof)).

Right, kick ass. Well, don’t want to sound like a dick or nothin’, but, ah… it says on your chart that you’re fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded. What I’d do, is just like… like… you know, like, you know what I mean, like…

It’s hilarious how Apple was caught off guard to begin with.

Just going off of the triangle of “cheap-fast-good”, the Neo literally hits all three categories really well.

The majority of standard users only need a web browser nowadays. I’m not sure if it can view/sign PDFs and send print jobs, but I’m sure it can, and all of this covers the 99% use case for a household device.

I’m the tech guy of the family. Linux nerd, GrapheneOS on my phone, blah blah blah. If my mom needed a new laptop I would 100% recommend the Neo and be done with it. No frills, no bullshit. Shit I want to pick one up just to play around with it because it’s CHEAP, even though I dont like Apple’s ecosystem.

I’m not sure how it would fare as a college device(test taking, remote screen sharing, proprietary programs, etc) but even for middle schoolers and high schoolers this should cover most, if not all, bases.

I really don’t get it either. Like it’s some impossible task to just stop using certain apps or some shit.

I don’t use social media(except Lemmy, I guess, if you count that(I don’t)). The only notifications I get on my phone are from texts. I haven’t touched Tiktok since 2019. I don’t scroll YouTube shorts 24/7.

Everyone’s acting like this is some drug or addiction. And maybe it is to some, but again it goes right back to self control.

Read the article, just a bunch of morons who have zero self control.

Isaacs specifically pointed to the 1990s as a time with “a lack of phones, more personal experience, but also still some of the ease of modern technology.”

Just this alone shows they have no idea what the 90s were like.

“Waaah my phone does too much, I just want an iPod!”

Delete social media, download Spotify and boom, your phone is an iPod again. Or turn off all notifications on your phone and buy one of those iPod clones.

“Gen Z” acting like the world was better before social media but they have no idea how to function without social media. If they went in the theoretical time machine back to the 90s they’d have a mental breakdown trying to find their way to the local McDonald’s.

I mean I get where you’re going with this, but I still don’t see how this effects Linux. Oh no I can’t access reddit without a government ID…cool I don’t use it anyway?

And if Lemmy or whatever else requires one then oh well, I’ll find the dozen or so forums that don’t care then

I just add the official launcher as a non-steam game and ran through the install as normal.

Granted I haven’t done it in a couple of months, so not sure if that method still works…but I don’t see why not

You should keep an eye on Gnome. Their recent release, Gnome 50, just introduced parental controls to limit access to programs and they’re looking to implement website access as well.

I don’t like Gnome, but my kid’s first PC will have Gnome on it now because of these new features, which I greatly appreciate

Genshin is playable on Linux? I play it on my Steam Deck.

I think one of the best things I’ve done recently was setup a freshrss instance and grab all of the websites I’m interested in that have RSS feeds.

Now I’m pretty much only using Lemmy to argue with people and go to my rss instance to read the news.

To be fair, YouTube is a giant piece of shit. On mobile, IronFox and Firefox are terrible with it, but switching to Chrome and everything loads instantly.

We all know Google is purposely slowing down non-chrome browsers.

Yeah it’s all just in the GUI to enable and disable what you don’t want.

I don’t get what people are complaining about with LibreWolf being “too hard”. Like it’s 1 minute clicking through menus and you’re done. 5 minutes if you need to read and search things up real quick.

But LibreWolf, ublock installed by default, and then set up containers. Just pure bliss.

For real. What is stopping a program from querying if an account is an adult or child, and then seeing if there’s an email or username or whatever tied to that account age?

So now we have a database of children with their names and emails? Addresses? Or if a system gets hacked and that information is sold to bad actors?

What is stopping a pedophile from making a “child” account and then being lumped in with a group of other children?

These are things you think about in the first 10 minutes of questioning whether something like this is viable and how it can be exploited.

I can’t wait until it’s leaked that these child accounts are being used to target minors for whatever: ads, sexual exploitation, etc.

I just don’t see how consoles can be “shielded” from the AI onslaught.

If Nvidia/AMD/Intel are going to abandon certain sectors and product types(discrete GPUs, desktop parts), I don’t see how they will be fine with custom SOCs. I don’t like “all or nothing” scenarios, but if these higher end chips are going away for desktop, I am assuming it will happen to all consumer sectors as well. So the next consoles would be cloud/streaming consoles only.

But, I don’t believe discrete GPUs and desktop parts are going away.

The niche that assembles higher end gaming PCs isn’t enough to amortize the massive cost of such gaming GPUs by themself (hence AMD and Intel already abanonded their highest end GPU variants).

I think you’re being quite a bit disingenuous here. AMD hasn’t made a “highest end GPU variant” in a literal decade. They’ve never had a competitor to the Titan cards nor the *90 variants, and with the *80 variant slowly taking over the top-end consumer spec(because the *90 took over the TItan classification), all of this isn’t because of AI. It’s just AMD lagging behind the entire time. And I love AMD, but they’ve never been known for highest end.

And Intel has NEVER made a highest end GPU variant. So not sure where that claim is coming from.

Also, I genuinely believe a lot of people’s perspectives are skewed on all of these aspects. Hardware has gotten more powerful and more efficient, we’ve gone through a hyper-inflation period, and AI is gobbling everything up, so yeah prices and hardware availability sucks. But a great mid-range build I just spec’d out(9600X, 9060 XT, 1TB nvme, 32GB of DDR5) is around $1400 USD. Just adjusting for inflation, in January 2016 that’d be a little over $1000 USD. Austin Evans has a video(i5-6500, R9 390, 250GB SSD/1TB spinner, 8GB DDR4) from Jan 2016 with a $1000 USD PC build.

Obviously, and hopefully, a build from 2026 beats a build from 2016. But looking at the pricing and adjusting for inflation and current market conditions, I’d say we aren’t doing bad at all in 2026. Yeah, shit’s expensive, but I don’t think we’re at a “doomsday level of high end desktop parts going extinct” situation.