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Interesting. It would also make sense that going full FOSS might lead to less social media use indirectly, since most social media apps would require micro-G

I knew it

I’ve tested my local AI and it’s almost indistinguishable from humans in communication style

Why are AIs like ChatGTP so easy to spot then? Is it just the fine tuning?

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What so you mean by ‘webs of trust’? Can you elaborate?

As far as I can tell, Signal can’t do multiple text channels in the same way discord can. Migrating a Discord ‘server’ onto a Signal chat would only work if it were a small group. Anything bigger than that would basically just give you a really big and disorganized group chat (though it would at least be a private disorganized group chat).

Throughout my daily use, I noticed something peculiar. I was using my phone less and less.

You’re not the first person I’ve heard say this after installing graphene OS. Why do you think this is? Is it just because you don’t have social media apps installed?

Matrix is better than IRC for most uses because it can save chat history but IRC can’t

They only scan for faces of known offenders based on previous entanglements.

How does the system know who’s an offender and who isn’t without scanning their face first?

Try piefed, one of its main draws is that it has more tools to deal with spam

Yeah especially if OP sticks with their Mac. The WiFi drivers won’t work on Mac without proprietary drivers

Also worth noting: you don’t need to get ride of MacOS to try linux! You don’t even need to make any permanent changes to your computer. You can also just boot from a USB and see how you like it. This is different from adding the distro to your computer with a USB. Because when you’re just booting from a USB it doesn’t make any permanent changes to your hardware; it literally just runs linux off your USB. Files won’t even be saved between sessions (unless you really tinker around with it, but even then the files will only be saved on your USB). This is a low risk way to play around and check out how well different distros work on your Mac.

I suggest trying Ubuntu. It’s super beginner friendly and has great documentation which should guide you through booting from your USB. I put Ubuntu on my Mac back in the day and it worked great but the speakers didn’t work because the drivers weren’t open source. You should boot Ubuntu from a USB and play around with some sound sources to see what I mean. Since this will likely be the biggest problem you face with Mac its worth checking out before making permanent changes

CodeBerg sounds great but this doesn’t seem like a longterm solution. If CodeBerg ends up getting really big then it will get overrun with slop as well. We need to find a way to cut the slop problem off at its source, but I have no idea how that could actually work.

Very nice

That sounds really cool actually. Does it require special licensing like ham radio does?

What’s meshtastic?

I second this. Apps that use other services under the hood aren’t nearly as accurate, either.

Okay thanks for the heads up

Thank you!

It does sound interesting. Where do I start?