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I’m not a fan of lemmy.world for 2 reasons:

• They are the biggest instance,
  while the fediverse should be spread out,
  to prevent centralization/monopoly over the system.
• They de-federated from instances in the past (e.g. dbzer0), and I don’t like sensorship.

However I do not hate them, nor their users,
just not a fan.

I’m not that familiar with Hexbear,
but also haven’t ran into any issues with their users either.

Woah the lawsuit company that makes games on the side did a thing other then filing lawsuits?

Doesn’t matter, I won’t be spending any more money on Nintendouch products.

They ruined enough fan projects for me to start hating them.

And I have not even touched the subject of the calculated breaking point in the original Switch, better known as Joy-Cons.

Ahhh sad to hear, but thanks for your reply,
now I know that I can stop searching,
and start hoping for quick implementation of Wireguard config support for Netbird :)

Thanks for your suggestion, but after going through the Github issues,
I’m afraid that it’s not possible yet to connect to Netbird using a Wireguard config file:

• https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/2504
• https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/2627

I believe Briar currently is one of the best options out there, together with SimpleX.

However I lack usage experience with both.
Since no one I know makes use of them…

It was already hard enough to convince only a handful of my friends to start using Session and Matrix/Element (which are not the best options anymore), but I’m kinda doubtful about my success rate of making them switch once again…

My success with convincing people to use Telegram has been better though, since that’s the most commonly known, but nearly no one wants to install an app they never heard off before, just to chat with only me :P

Also “convincing people” lately goes smth like this for me:

• Do you have WhatsApp or Messenger so I can send you some pictures?
• No I don’t use apps that do not respect my privacy, but you can send em to me through SimpleX, Briar, Session, Matrix/Element, Telegram, Discord or email :P
• Upon which most choose Telegram or Discord as their means to contact me, sadly no one had Briar/SimpleX yet.

*Don’t Use Session,
if your threat profile includes government’s spending ±100k to crack your encryption, since their encryption is not the best out there.

Which they likely won’t for an average privacy conscious user, but they might for high ranking criminals.

It was a good read though,
I won’t invite new people to Session due to it.

But the title is a little click-baity,
“Session’s encryption is not the best”,
would be a more honest title.

Lately these lyrics come to mind ever more often:

White Americans, what?
Nothing better to do.
Why don’t you kick yourself out?
You’re an immigrant too.

Song: The White Stripes - Icky Thump

Shotdog x)

That’s exciting news for sure,
interested to see where Notch’s next project will go, and happy to see him interested in game development again.

However I do hope that if his new game becomes a success, that he won’t sell out to enshittifying companies like Microsoft again…

To increase their revenue.

Google likely pays for them to do so,
since then they can embed telemetry/spyware into the monitor and collect data about your usage, which they’ll sell to advertisement companies and give to law enforcement if requested.

I absolutely hate it already.
Same as I hate that you can’t buy non-smart TVs anymore for the same reason…

I used to block telemetry network wide using a PiHole, and the smart TV of one of my room mates made up 2/3th of the network requests after setting it up, before it realized that it’s telemetry connection was unavailable.

Strongly recommend to keep these devices completely offline, and instead buy a RPi or something of the likes to flash a privacy respecting Android TV fork onto it, e.g. LineageOS.

However it does frustrate me that the licensing costs of these unwanted spyware products, which I’ll refuse to use, are pushed upon the user, with nearly no ability remaining to buy a device that ships without it…

I hear you.
Personally I mostly browse through Eternity,
which easily allows to block NSFW content :)

You might miss out on new/interesting communities that way though :)

I use it very often since I tend to browse the “All” section,
however that needs blocking and post filtering to keep unwanted content out.

No thank you,
blocked the bot user + community.

Yes we need them to survive,
yes they’re better than Google.

But no we’re not being too negative/hard on them!

Lately Mozilla has been pulling a lot of anti-consumer yet pro shareholder shit.

AI is a perfect example of that,
unwanted by the majority of their community, yet still forced upon us by shareholders, for now through an optional addon, which appears to be a foot in the door, which can quickly grow into a baked in addon which ships with FireFox by default.

Sources:

• Mozilla asked the community their opinion about AI, the general response was NO:
  https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nightly/td-p/60519
• Mozilla pushed a poll, tailored by shareholders in such a way that the results would appear that we still want AI:
  https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100
  Yet in the Lemmy comments about the poll,
  again you can see that the general consensus is no:
  https://lemmy.one/post/21332325

They blatantly ignore their community,
and for that we’re allowed to be angry with them.

Syncthing is tricky to get working properly all the time + it drains quite a bit of your mobile devices battery life in my experience.

However a co-worker recently shared this interesting FOSS project, EmulatorJS, it’s self host-able RetroArch, playable from your browser:
https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS

I haven’t played around with it myself yet, but it sparked my interest, because it would mean you don’t need to sync saves between devices, but still can continue playing from your save from any device which can open a browser.

Set up post filters,
block all posts with the words Elon and Trump in em.

Here’s a guide for Eternity which I’ve written:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026

Won’t get rid of all the Elon/Musk spam,
but I’d say about 90% which is already a huge improvement.

Also blocking the news communities does wonders for mental health.
They benefit financially from feeding negative content, since research pointed out that those articles generate more ad clicks, while they don’t give a damn about what it does to your mental health.

Thank you, those are some interesting/good use cases indeed!