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  • To give you an example, if you have no water in your house you need to report on wp. No other way. And this is the standard for a lot of services, wp is the ONLY way to ask for support.

    whatsapp requires phone numbers. surely they can be called

    It’s a nightmare, i really want to get rid of meta services but it is impossible for my case.

    if you have tech skills, try running a matrix bridge for whatsapp for yourself. take it slowly if you need it, you are not in a hurry. your own server, federation off. keep using whatsapp as you did before, and check for a month or two if the bridge is running stable. subscribe to notifications for github releases of the bridge to know if there’s an important update.
    you won’t be able to leave whatsapp behind, but at least you’ll be able to get rid of its apps that do whatever that’s not for your benefit








  • there is. if the updater gui integrates with packagekit and systemd, it can start an offline update that reboots your system and installs the updates while nothing else is running.

    kind of like on windows, except that this is one of the things where windows made the right call. complex software does not handle it well if its program libraries and assets are being replaced by newer ones that the running version cannot understand.

    its still kind of a new thing, not all distros make use of it yet, but Fedora does, and it’s not a Fedora custom solution but something that most distros can have.

    automatic filesystem snapshots and rollback can be integrated to this too, and then bye bye to updates breaking the whole system.



  • Your argument in relation to GitHub does not take in the reality of the effort involved with migrating to a different platform, effort that is likely unpaid, has no logistical upside and stalls the development efforts of a project,

    forgejo can automatically import issues, PRs, Wiki articles, and automatic pull/push mirrors can be set up to keep the repo up to date at other places.

    the CI/CD system is almost the same.

    all the usual features are the same or very similar, including the whole user interface.

    not to mention breaking every single source code repository link across the wider internet, links that represent publicity and community engagement.

    who said they need to delete the repo from github?

    I think it’s admirable that a project is asking its community if it should stay or move

    it indeed would be admirable if the communication did not contain offensive tones at multiple places.

    and also don’t forget that they already migrated once. but in the meantime it seems they have gone back to github for reasons unknown to me.