A lot of people here are recommending linux first laptops like tuxedo and system76 but if they are too expensive there's also dell and lenovo which are linux-second vendors. Every dell laptop I've used has worked great with linux and are reasonably repairable. The only things to watch out for are gimicky features like fingerprint readers or anything that would need custom firmware, and super slim laptops (for repairability and the potential for weirder parts on the inside) but even for weird hardware like fingerprint sensors, both dell and lenovo have been working towards supporting them on linux as well.

Yeah I think a major release is coming. I think they're working on making the browser more unique and polished before having an official release.

thats the chain of numbers and letters after the youtube link for the rickroll

Its surprisingly useful (and fun) to be able to change the embedded image and title

I think that's a good thing because it means it's probably targeting normal people since the country is moving towards less reliance on things like windows.

Yeah gears look badass on flags and insignias and whatever they can be put on

not until years after I got out of school. I remember them skimming over the whole black panthers movement in general with a TL:DR Black panthers bad and violent, MLK good and peaceful.

if that's your problem with it then it's probably better off without you

yeah imo matrix is better in most ways except for being lightweight, though that is also being worked on. irc has a place but for normal use I think matrix is better than irc.

heads up the windows releases work but they can be messy because most of the devs are on linux/mac and testing windows is more difficult.

though they should remove those ugly sponsored top sites by default imho.

They're working on a whole new start/new-tab page that will fix that

also at the moment there's quite a few smaller updates between when the AUR version was released and now, it will probably be updated for the dot 88/89 release (probably 89 now since firefox 88 is about to be out of date)

I asked the devs and they said it might have something to do with them compiling on the latest ubuntu because then it can break on older ubuntu versions as well as some older distros in general. That's good to know.

I've never had that kind of problem, where do you usually run into them?

It looks like it only officially supports linux and MacOS and BSD support is unofficial while active. I'd imagine if someone wants to put in the effort to support windows they could do it but at the moment I wouldn't expect it. You could try running it in WSL though.

yeah I agree, foss games are cool but most of them don't even get close to what most proprietary games have been able to do unfortunately.

It looks really good, I love the tags feature.

This really helped me understand china and cuba a lot better, thanks for making it

Oh I see

What's his take on XMPP?

Gemini link

Is there any extension that could integrate gemini into firefox?

What's wrong with FydeOS? It looks fine to me.

you should read a bit more into china, america is starting a new cold war and with that comes a shit ton of propaganda, don't trust the government that's entire existence is base on imperialism to be honest about it's "opponents". It's angry it can't control like it can with other countries and that they can't invade it like they did in the middle east. China is about to overtake the US as the world largest economy within the decade and the US is hellbent on not allowing that to happen.

Oh yeah since that edit I've watched bayarea and read a lot abot china and I think I understand it a lot better now. It's a really cool country overall and I think it's one a the biggest hopes for socialism/communism in the foreseeable future. Thanks though I do appreciate you taking some time to explain it yourself too.

There's a system that ensures everyone gets the fruit of their labor, and that if someone is going hungry they are supported by the community instead of being left to die in the streets.

I don't really agree but even if that's the case it's definitely more than just gnome with a few plugins now. I imagine cosmic will be the same down the line.

Fwiw for people saying it's just gnome with a few extensions, the same could have been said for elementaryOS and pantheon DE when it came out, and look where they are now. They also might be doing it so that they have more control over what they're offering with their products instead of being expected to follow gnome.

I like fedilab the most, having all the fediverse social medias in one app is really cool

I just tried to set it up and yeah its a pain

do you have night reader or any other extensions that the browser would load before the website? Also if you don't give something like iceraven a shot, it's on fdroid and has more extension support and other things like about:config available.

it is but it's separating itself in a few ways

lemminauts

This is crazy, most people I know recognize lg because of their phones, and they had some pretty cool phones like @QuentinCallaghan@lemmy.ml said.

I think the fact that it has multiple apps is a good selling point for a lot of people, let them pick what they want. There's also a project called carbon which aimed to create a discord ui for matrix, it's been abandoned now but it could be forked and expanded. It's pretty good as it is though, even without encryption.

I don't anymore, I run arco-linux now because I like messing around with multiple desktop environments. It's pretty good, but I think for stability Pop! is better, also it feels more solid and complete because it's a distro maintained by a company with a team dedicated to it. The Pop! shell is also pretty good.

I think Pop!_OS is a great choice, it looks good and is very customizable and gets hardware updates pretty fast.

thats good to know then thanks

It's engine agnostic, at the moment you can use it with webkit or blink

I'm interested in it too but unfortunately it's ARM exclusive so I can't play around with it at the moment.

I honestly don't understand how you can trust any social media or service in general that's based in the US.

Yeah I agree, bandcamp is one of the few good places to buy music and it feels kind of shitty to abuse it. Maybe that's just internalized consumerism speaking though.