It’s actually the opposite, TBirdMobile is a fork of K9 (and it’s basically just reskinned blue for now lol), they currently have feature parity but at some point (supposedly already, but I guess they delayed it because K9 got an update a couple months ago) K9 is set to stop receiving updates as they fully switch over to TBird.

I also love K9, been using it since ~2012.

At least for now, it is just blue K9, but so help me if Mozilla hurts my sweet app I’m gonna throw a fit lol.

Another bump for antennapod, haven’t found a better podcast app yet and I have tried a few just to see.

Also Delta Chat, I have recently been trying it out through the Arcane Chat app (same dev, Arcane seems to be his feature testing grounds) and I love it so far. It’s easy enough to use I was able to get my mom on it, can’t say that for XMPP or Matrix! I’m sure it’s got its own problems, no forward secrecy, metadata (which to my knowledge every messaging app has by virtue of how “messages” work, even snail mail, it has to know who to go to), but then again Delta wasn’t started as an Amdocs (mossad associated company that infiltrated US telcom) product like the Matrix Foundation, so I trust it more for now. And Delta/Arcane uses so much less battery than Conversations does when running GrapheneOS, like by a LOT. I just checked, Conversations has eaten 20% of my charge since full, Arcane Chat has used less than 1% despite having the same screen/background times and same number of messages sent/received on both.

Woulda made them set my first name as “Just” so it’d be “Just Harsh” and it should make for some who’s on first fun.

Well that was nice of google to help lol. Good luck, I hope you can get them to switch!

I was able to get two people on Delta so far, it seems easy enough for normal people to use, so there may be hope yet!

I think it’s a cheap way to heighten the scary, to give you the feeling that you have no clue what you’re fucking doing but scary shit keeps happening.

I can’t speak for them, but personally I’ve been moving away from matrix entirely for a few reasons.

Element was always a buggy mess on my phone, and a shitty electron app on my laptop.

It was too difficult for normals and while I disagree, they wouldn’t use it. What’s a chat app without contacts after all?

While element was bugging and I was awaiting an update, I found out that the Matrix [.] org foundation was started as a project at Amdocs, then when it was defunded the lead of the project created the foundation. Amdocs is fucking sketchy, they’re associated with mossad and have infiltrated the US telcom networks. Now look, I’m not saying they backdoored matrix, but they did do the other thing and backdooring a chat app would be right in line with their entire schtick, and I’m just too fucking paranoid for that, straight up. It also leaks metadata like piss to any server that federates with yours so if mossad is working with the matrix org, they get all of it just by your server federating with the largest, “official” server. To some degree, metadata seems inescapable, but almost anyone is better than mossad.

They also have a bit of a CP problem in their public rooms so stay out of those, but don’t worry due to that problem they removed searching for public rooms so you have to know the addr to join, so they make it hard to stumble into them, but also now you can’t search for public rooms which is a hinderance if you did want to join, say, the rasberry pi room, despite the risk of cp being posted.

BUT they don’t require phone numbers!

So for now I’m trying out Delta Chat, seems alright so far. No video calling though.

But yeah maybe that whole Amdocs connection to the “official server” is what they were referencing, but if not I’d like to know their reason!

That’s right everyone, glue is made out of Horse Cum.

Yeah I’m sure I would do the full build, but also I’m definitely a weirdo and there’s no way any of the shit I use comes stock lol so it has been mainly the “additional software” and dependencies bit, and to be honest I had no clue how you guys did it but this post helped a lot, thanks!

I’m still kind of a linux noob is also the thing, I started my journey years ago, but only by booting into tails every so often, then eventually ~4y ago I installed Fedora, eventually got tired of gnome and when the framework 16s dropped I grabbed one and switched to FedoraKDE, and that’s it, I haven’t made the jump to a big boy distro that “isn’t recommended for beginners” but Slackware will be the one I try, because I was a SubGenius before I even installed linux.

Thanks! The “having to figure out dependency management” thing has been the largest roadblock in me trying out Slackware so far, but I really do want to try it.

I need to try Slackware soon, by Dobbs.

What are the names of the projects in the steps? Slackware itself I think is the minnie basement, but then I’m at a loss.

Eh, I’m not gonna switch whole OSes to the most invasive spyware I can readily find just for the once every 3y I need to spin up PKhex, wine will do.

Yes but also there was no seven fingered man, Westley wanted his true love.

Would you describe those as big tungsten cubes? Big enough to use them as an example of something that would necessitate extra towing capacity for an entire vehicle?

If so, you must be Hercules if you can roll them and rich if you can afford them.

Two cubes?!

Hey everyone I found Jeff Bezos’ lemmy acct. You seen the tungsten prices lately?!

big tungsten cube

Tbf if you can afford this thing you can probably almost afford a big tungsten cube…

Well they shouldn’t try and sell me on their privacy invasive bullshit if they don’t want to hear about my privacy respecting bullshit. They start it, you think I want to hear it any more than they do?

Digital privacy can often be a bitch. But I just turn every “why don’t you just use X” as a chance to proselytize for people to take back what privacy they can.

Also Shaggy of It Wasn’t Me fame.

No, I have to not paint a target on my back until I get enough to perform a coup. One day when you are old enough to be employed you may understand.