For those who have the means, please consider donating to PostmarketOS, which has been slowly but surely pushing forward pure linux support for phones, and is the best longterm solution we have to completely circumvent Google and reclaim our hardware permenantly.

It’s also quite viable to turn parking lots into gardens, which if done at scale along with rooftop farming, could feed an entire city (as smaller scale farming actually can increase production by many times for the same amount of land compared to industrial scale farming.

I’m pretty sure one of the creators/writer of voyager was really disappointed that it never actually fulfilled the premise at all, so he went and made the Battlestar Galactica reboot in 2003 as essentially what Voyager should’ve been if the premise was taken seriously.

The shooting and movement mechanics of the OG Dooms are still great, but I can only tolerate them for a few levels due to the keycard driven gameplay combined with the maze-like level design, which I think aged quite poorly, and was something that bothered me even in the 90’s.

Tech workers have traditionally been allergic to unions for some reason, though that is starting to change. They should contact Game Workers Unite or the IWW.

OpenMandriva is now a hard right distro. Mageia is the better option for those who want a successor to Mandrake/Mandriva, though Mageia is struggling to retain an active community and maintainers, I believe.

I recently learned that OpenMandriva’s president (warning, lunduke link as evidence) has declared the project “non-woke” and “anti-DEI”, which has resulted in it attracting a hard right community.

I recently learned that OpenMandriva’s president (warning, lunduke link as evidence) has declared the project “non-woke” and “anti-DEI”, which has resulted in it attracting a hard right community.

So uh… Can’t say I feel too bad for 'em having this unique issue.

Movim has been developed since 2011 (Chatto began development 8 months ago, in comparison) and is based on XMPP, which is battle tested and proven to scale. It has a codebase that is maintainable long-term.

I personally would not trust an almost entirely vibe-coded app using tools prone to hallucination to be secure and properly implement encryption. But if others don’t have those concerns, then by all means.

Based on their contributing page, Chatto appears to be heavily vibe coded, with them actively encouraging any other contributors to use AI. That gets a hard pass from me.

Movim is a federated chat platform that recently implemented most of Discord’s features. It’s a little rough in the UX department, but it’s pretty much all there, and it isn’t vibe-coded like this chatto app is.

A consultant reported that billionaires, when confronted with the idea that the private security team have no incentive to continue to obey the billionaire once society had collapsed, asked the consultant how they could maintain control of the security team, such as if shock collars or locking up all the food would work.

The consultant suggested they simply treat the security team really well beforehand, like just being a good friend.

The billionaires then became concerned, and I shit you not, asked “but where does that end?”

I’ll try to find the link to add it here.

Edit: Here it is.

Flohmarket is just the name of the software, which as another said, is the German word for flea market. I suspect the creator is German.

Anyone who self-hosts their own flohmarket instance can call their instance whatever they want.

Movim is a federated Discord alternative, though not part of the fediverse/Activitypub, as it is based on XMPP instead. It’s still a bit clunky in the UX department, but is currently the most full featured federated alternative.

Also @HubertManne@piefed.social

CoMaps (which uses openstreetmaps) has the option of adding a link to a menu for restaurants, though I don’t think it has reviews.

I believe Flohmarkt is a fediverse alternative.

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Embarrassed to say I completely spaced that 26.04 is actually released (and the article even says it’s based on that too, d’oh). Completely invalidates what I’d said above.

Thanks for pointing that out 😅

I believe the version of KDE used in Kubuntu 24.04 is still 5.27, while this distro uses KDE 6.6, which I assume is added from a PPA. Oopsie!

Per the Drauger page:

like it’s namesake, it requires maintainance from time to time, and issues cropping up are not uncommon. Drauger OS is developed by a small, passionate team who don’t get paid anything for their work. Therefore, users who are new to Linux may want to look elsewhere to gain experience before taking the plunge with Drauger OS.

This being said, any sufficiantly advanced user can easily use Drauger OS to do anything from streaming, video editing, and audio production to everyday usage. However, you may encounter issues in the process due to the gaming-related optimizations.

So I’m inclined to believe it is less stable than a normal LTS Ubuntu or any other LTS flavor, as that combination of old and the new added from their backports repo/PPA has not been as tested compared to the standard distros.

EDIT: I’m an idiot and forgot 26.04 is the current LTS.

It’s essentially a hobby project from people with a fairly high chance of abandoning it at some point. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just not a distro that would be good for an average user, it’s only intended for an experienced enthusiast, as they mention on their project website.

Though I’m not sure how much overlap there is of experienced enthusiasts who are specifically interested in an experimental LTS distro that has a high chance of breakages, as that defeats the purpose of LTS. As I say, it just seems to make more sense to go with Arch or Fedora at that point, which would probably be more stable in comparison.

Not sure why someone would want those old LTS packages with a more up-to-date DE if the stability of using an LTS is mostly lost.

One thing worth pointing out is the storage requirement. Drauger OS lists 32 GB as the minimum, with roughly half used after installation. That feels heavy for a niche gaming distro, especially when many users may only want to test it in a virtual machine or on spare hardware.

Now, the important caveat: Drauger OS still feels like a niche project rather than a distribution with a strong, proven release track record. It has been around for several years, and the developers clearly understand the problem of gaming-focused Linux distros disappearing over time.

That is a fair point, but it does not make Drauger OS a mature or battle-tested choice. The release cadence appears slow and irregular, and the project warns users it is not meant for everyday desktop use.

That’s a shame. I think there could be a case for an Ubuntu distro with a more up-to-date version of KDE, as from what I’ve heard Kubuntu’s quality has kinda gone downhill (and includes Snaps) and KDE Neon is more of an unstable development platform.

However in the meantime, I think KDE enthusiasts are better off just going with Fedora, an Arch based distro instead, or even Debian Testing instead.