I made this Lemmy account a couple years ago, stuck around for a while then gradually forgot about it until recently with the reddit fiasco. I recall seeing these kinds of posts (and still occasionally do), but I wasn't aware of the role of these people till now.

probably going to switch lemmy instances or something (kbin looks interesting as well)

Yep I've just been playing CrossCode
can confirm.
I wish there was less shovelware so I could find all the good games without having to wade through endless pages

bspwm

Mathematics adds up

My weirdest irrational fear is having something important like a phone fly out of a barely open window while in a moving vehicle - I sometimes have cartoon logic.

I saw a physics question once that ended with: "For the purposes of this exercise assume the Earth is flat."

If you just start walking, eventually you'll bump into someone.

That was probably a joke

Read more books

It's christmas time in Veloren

fyi here's the corresponding nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03659-0

snow

With punctuation and numbers (2mins):

Without (30secs):

I think these are hand-picked

I wish this wasn't satire

see https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Debian

Personally I think Debian is an excellent libre distro.

Tails shouldn't affect matrix messaging other than the session always being temporary/amnesic (which I would find tedious).

Given Tails doesn't come with a matrix messenger either use a matrix client in the browser (eg. element web) or install a matrix client (instructions for installing additional software on Tails).
I've not used persistent storage but perhaps it can be used for remembering matrix sessions (?).

If you are okay with other messengers, Tails includes the Pidgin messenger which can connect to XMPP and use OTR encryption. Tails also includes OnionShare which can also be used for messaging over Tor (I don't know whether the included version supports that).

Blender Peertube link: https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/a69d68a5-a0e0-4a80-9d66-49f093c97aaf

This looks awesome

Youtube still has pretty much everything unfortunately - there's not yet a proper alternative for content (depending on what you want). I use Newpipe and Freetube to watch it (I would use RSS with mpv if I didn't have so many subscriptions).

PeerTube isn't a replacement but it's a fascinating alternative with some good channels/instances.
https://joinpeertube.org/

In addition to the other LBRY/Odysee comments, see this recent news: https://odysee.com/@lbry:3f/lbryandodyseeevolving:7 (Odysee might not/probably won't be open source in the future)

May Evil Track All

The BitTorrent sharing is done in the browser so if you have the option (My settings > Video settings > Help share videos being played) turned off or WebRTC turned off (including Tor Browser) or are using other methods to watch videos on peertube (eg. downloading) it shouldn't be torrenting anyway. Issues with BitTorrent with Tor also apply here if enabled.

Read: https://framatube.org/about/peertube#privacy

Also watching videos will probably be quite slow over Tor, so I wouldn't recommend it. Perhaps you could use a VPN instead, although I don't know your threat model.

The dystopia is already creeping in

I would be a waterbender

Since that's a myth the analogy goes deeper

If we keep repeating this question I think that'd make us lemmings, which is my preference.

Bromite makes favicon requests on-demand.
https://github.com/bromite/bromite/blob/master/README.md#features

maybe PeerTube (or Framasoft in general)

There's also lots of organisations/projects to donate to on https://opencollective.com/discover?show=open+source

Books from the bookstore.

I use a Starlabs Star Lite Mk III and I put Linux Mint Debian Edition on it.

or Linux Mint

the music app is terrible

yeh if you want flathub apps in the appcenter you need to go to flathub.org, download an app from there and you can choose the option to show other flathub apps (although it took a while for me)

That's cool - what do the different colours mean?
interesting that it calls lemmy users "lemmies"

yeah