I use old thinkcentre machines, they’re cheap and are powerful enough for decent servers. I have them loaded with 16gb of RAM and 2x265gb NVME each for mirroring. They work wonderfully.

Pixelfed does this with mastodon.

Liftoff. Just a plain, minimal, and stable experience.

Project Gorgon!

While overall I agree with this, their work on advancing gaming on Linux makes it easy to look the other way.

I’m pretty sure beeper is against TOS if they’re using the Matrix bridge I think they’re using.

I’ve tried this out a bit recently, it runs really well but I can’t figure out why it exists. I don’t really understood the appeal of “everything apps”.

Delta Chat is still really good though, I definitely recommend people check it out.

Edit: didn’t realize there were some multiplayer games, being able to send a chess invite is actually pretty cool.

banking apps

Works in the browser for me

dating apps

Works in the browser for me

YouTube

Newpipe or clipious

proprietary alarm

Why?

google maps

I’ve been using osmand for years across Canada, works fine for me

cute icon pack

😂

To each their own, and use whatever tool you prefer, but moving away from google and proprietary software is a lot easier than people think.

Aurora is a full replacement for the play store. I’ve been using fdroid as my only source for apps for years now. It has everything I need.

Cult of the Dead Cow

I keep a handkerchief on me and do this all the time.

The reason is privacy, everybody has a reason to use it.

This also happened on reddit

Self-host an instance with no karma and no mods.

Well known software built using Matrix. A lot of people have been following this project.

How could anything be simpler than skyrims magic?

I’ve only used one AMD card with Linux and it was so smooth I never thought about it. Lately I’ve been using nvidia for one year and I’m losing my sanity with it. Switching back to AMD next week.

Lemmy.ca is the best. Large local instance, great uptime, good admins.

And we have a handful of large communities.

So tempted to buy a domain and do this

Syncthing will also work with Nextcloud.