DishonestBirb

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This applies to Apple as well.

 

I currently use an iPhone, but given the recent attacks made by the US president and members of his administration on my country (tariffs, annexation threats,etc) I am loathe to support any company based out of that nation any longer. Obviously I know that it is likely impossible to get a functional mobile experience with zero US corporate involvement, but what is the least possible I could do and still be practical? A degoogled fair phone device? Something Chinese running a custom rom like lineage os?

I want to sell my iPhone and Apple Watch ASAP and get something that won’t have my sending money to the US via my app purchases (store cut), monthly services (iCloud), and my data being used/sold.

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Can this handle plugins? I use a modded DeDRM on my Kindle Unlimited books, and so require plugin support.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Royal Road has its own issues such as author groups on Discord colluding to drive up member’s “Rising Star” rankings, and drive down the stories of authors they don’t like. Also, very inconsistent moderation policies that highly favour certain authors over others who just so happen to be friendly with mods, etc.

I also don’t believe it’s open source, so I’m not sure how it’s really any “more free” than any other fanfic platform out there in the fediverse sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're doing the Lord's Work. Keep it up, please and ty!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

NexusMods is working on their new post-vortex mod client, which does have Linux support. It can be found here on github.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

There's Librera FD, on F-droid. It's the open source version of Librera on the google play store. I believe it strips out the google api/cloud stuff, but its db /reading status/etc are all easily synced via Nextcloud (which is what I do). The only real negative I've found with it is that it's search for text in books is slow compared to more popular reading apps like Moon+ Reader.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It is still possible if you have an old enough Kindle. I have a 1st gen paperwhite and can just connect it via USB to my PC and pull books off the kindle with Calibre and then remove the DRM.

Though if you're wanting to remove DRM from Kindle Unlimited books, you'll have to actually edit the DeDRM plugin code, as by default its set to not let it be run on KU books.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Wait why the hell is lemmy.world federated with Meta anyways? That seems... stupid?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The discussion thread for Fedora specifically stated that the change was requested by Red Hat, as well.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Shit like this is why I use a DeGoogled phone. Get a Pixel and install GrapheneOS or CalyxOS and use open source apps wherever you can, and sandbox any Google Play apps you have to use (banking, etc).

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Especially with Red Hat's current shenanigans that just recently happened. I can't see how anyone thought this was a good idea OR good timing for it.

 
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

if you have TCP only and decentralized peers/peer exchange/local peers turned off in qbittorrent (a good security idea if you're using a VPN to torrent already), you'll get added security at the cost of less peers. Not to say that's for sure what's going on for you, but if you have sane settings for security, it could well be the cause of the discrepancy.

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