This is a good time to make aware about an amazing privacy-centric & user-friendly alternative - Peertube. It is not a big network as of now but the benefits it provides over YouTube are large - it is a part of the fediverse. Of course, only through increasing participation will the network become bigger.

If you still wish to use YouTube, you can try third party front ends like Invidious or Piped on the browser; NewPipe(Also is a front end for Soundcloud, media.ccc.de, Peertube & Bandcamp) or LibreTube on Android.

If you only browse YT Music, you can try HyperPipe in the browser. There are many apps for it available on F-Droid, an alternative app store for Android. My personal pick is ViMusic.

Discord should be avoided as a communications platform. I don't see a single point that makes me want to use it.

It has no customization or designing flexibility, you are forced to stick to one design unless you pay for a stupeid & an expensive subscription. Otherwise you need to use potentially unsafe third party tools for it and even those go against Discord's ToS.

It is a non-private, non-secure and overtly commercialized product that should be put in the bin. But thanks to the virtual monopoly in creating a social platform (also thanks to the tech-illiterate influencers for promoting it) for more than just "Chatting for gamers", as it was originally intended for. Discord in its current state is nothing more than just a commercial market where you are the commodity. Its not a social platform.

I don't want to give out my data and message history for some company to sell to be able to discuss about your project on GitHub, or even be able to communicate with you.

The client is garbage as well unless you own a super expensive rig.

I abandoned Discord completely more than half an year ago with the vow of never registering again. I completely shifted my comms to Matrix & Signal. I have not been more at peace since.

If you manage a public project you wish for people to interact with. I request you to at least keep a mirror/bridge on XMPP, Matrix or even Revolt. Please choose something open source, private and secure for the sake of other people.

Gives new meaning to 'Parental Controls'.

This is a good time to make aware that an alternative exists - UnifiedPush.

Twitter as a venue to allow the people being directly impacted by oppressive regimes

Twitter has played a large role in supporting said regimes.

According to data dating June de 2022. Matrix had at least 64 Millon users.

That is not a small number. So yeah, people do use it. While it is significantly low compared to Discord. Keep in mind that Discord has had much more advertisement done for it than Matrix did.

Judging by post & history. They are just a troll. As for this article. I don't understand why anyone bothers sharing it. It is one of the most hot garbage ones I have seen. Most of this article gives arguments that are either old, have no relevance here or are just plainly cherrypicked (the jitsi one for example, open the link and see the last comment, that they quoted). Most things are also application side issue with no relevance for wayland devs. "Oh my app does not work in wayland? Must be wayland's fault!" This is a rubbish logicless argument. If one wants to not use Wayland, they are welcome. But things like "Boycott Wayland" are irritating to those who do want to use Wayland because they know how Xorg is.

So are the others I mentioned.

This is not at all stretching it. Discord's client is very poorly optimized and bloated and it is known since a long time. I could never run it on my hardware with a comfortable experience. Even some of my friends would ask me to look for and provide them older versions of the app because each update would make it laggier for them to use. I don't live in a First or Second world country with a good paying job. Most electronics are imported here and cost a lot.

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I appreciate the project and would follow up on its development, it looks quite interesting, however I must make a small highlight regarding the title. The writing makes it seem as if SearX is not open source and provides ads. I think some rephrasing might make it more accurate.

I prefer to think it as it is named - A Legend. In that each timeline is a different take to narrate that Legend.

https://fedipact.veganism.social/ lists instances with their decision.

Post-war he worked for the German Foreign Office where he instituted the "Hallstein Doctrine" of diplomatically isolating East Germany.

So basically he went from being a Fascist Lapdog to being a Fascist Lapdog. Got it.

It is common in this Corrupted and Degenerated Brahmanical-Fascist regime. I have seen such incidents since a long time. Each one pains to recall. And unfortunately these will continue as long as these Pigs rule the country.

You can disable them in the settings iirc.

Can you elucidate more on «Simple mobile tools will soon become a spyware.» I use a few of their apps available on F-Droid.

For Spotify, you can try ViMusic.

Terrorist Israel could easily solve this by separating themselves from Palestine. But they won't, because Israeli terrorists hate Palestinians and prefer to have them Genocided.

Amazing text! I was just commenting how ridiculous the article is this morning and now you have written a more lenghty criticism.

As for the Zoom bit. I will add my 2 years experience of using it on Wayland on Artix as well as Void Linux - I never used Gnome and it worked fine on Sway and River on my iGPU. In between a few updates I did face a few crashes of zoom when rendering on my nvidia gpu but it was still fine. I have not used zoom in over an year so I can't comment on how it is now.

As for "wayland does not work properly on nvidia." Solely nvidia is blame. They have been pushing out patches to bring out more support but it's just nvidia who can fix that in the end. While I would not want to assume what hardware the author uses. Wayland works like butter on my Intel hardware.

Great alternatives for xclip and many other X-tools are already in the market.

The VSync issue on wayland is genuine. Disabling it in-game does not affect anything because it is enforced by the compositor. VSync is an integral part of Wayland Compositioning (acc. to the wlroots dev) but a solution to automatically disable it in full screen applications, etc is down the pipeline and work is ongoing. I have not been following it but I think some fixes were already released, I could be wrong.

As for X11 Atoms: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41005297/x-to-wayland-what-about-atoms Just boils down to the application dev's willingness to port the app to Wayland. The author of the 'boycott wayland' article seems to just want wayland to implement Xorg 1:1 for it to not fail their stupid standard of what-should-be-boycotted. And at that point Wayland is not Wayland but Xorg.

Most of the arguments presented in the 'Boycott Wayland' article are either generic issues being worked upon by the devs or things that don't have much relevance but put down in a manner as if to almost fear-monger that Wayland is the spawn of the devil and must not be used at all.

The rest were possibly Anti-Personnel mines instead. Those do not usually require the potential of Anti-Tank mines.

You can use third party frontends like Nitter on Web or Fritter/Squawker on Android (available on F-Droid) to still follow accounts for info without the requirement of having an account anywhere. With the condition that viewing is the only thing you can do.

I left Twitter over an year ago and I use the frontends I mentioned to follow about 20 accounts for info on varied topics.

You clearly do not know what you are talking about so I have no interest in giving more value to your already worthless comment. It is amusing that you must introduce the term "Wayland Apologist" as if that has any meaning in this sector.

It will certainly be a Mega-bite...

Always did on my hardware at least. When I was using Windows, my old laptop started lagging very much and it was becoming unbearable. I could not get a new one immediately. I got to know about Linux one day and installed it to try it out because there was not really anything else I could try.

I could not believe myself how buttery smooth my laptop became after that. 95% of the games that I used to play on Windows run with more performance on Linux.

Thanks.

So Godi Media has found a place here as well.

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FDA's recommendations: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/spilling-beans-how-much-caffeine-too-much

For measure: 8 oz (227 g) of Coffee has 80-100 mg of caffeine or 35-45 mg of Caffeine per 100 g of Coffee. (Average, numbers may vary accordingly.)

I will highlight one thing many people tend to have a misconception of: There is no such thing as an unbiased source. The thoughts of every person in the world are a reflection of their material conditions. Hence whatever a person reports will always be biased. A source can, however, be true or false but will always be biased one way or another. Some people reply with "Oh yeah, I meant least biased source." There's no such spectrum, it's either biased or unbiased and an unbiased person would only be one who has had no past experiences on Earth whatsoever but even that is controversial.

What you can instead ask for is a reputable source which is truthful. But the dealbreaker here is that you will need to search for it. No one source will give you complete information always either. You will have to study multiple sources. That's what reasearch is. If research was as easy as just sticking to one reputable source then it would be severely flawed.

Some people in the other comments recommended Wikipedia as a good source. Wikipedia isn't really a good source but a good compilation of sources, but again, not always. I say you skip the article content itself on Wikipedia and scroll down to the Citations/References section and read those sources. That should be a starting point.

As for Marx. Just read Marx. My first paragraph here was written through a Marxist lens ironically. Some helpful links below if you get tired of Searching Wikipedia. (It's mostly Anti-Communist) https://marxists.org/ https://marx2mao.com/

The main issue here is not that some of the issues that are mentioned there are not genuine. They indeed are genuine and have mostly already been notified to the devs working on the protocols and the compositors. The issue here is how those are presented. By creating this almost cultish "battle between the 2 display servers" thing is not productive and demoralizes developers. Making criticism is one thing and productive but "boycotting" is not. And certainly not in the bad faith way the author of that article has done. I myself have both X and WL setups and I alternate between them frequently. I am not sitting here "boycotting" one display server in a prejudiced manner. This is Linux, not Windows or MacOS. Users are free to continue using Xorg and develop it according to them if they do not like something else. And similarly, they are free to use Wayland.

I host my projects mostly on Codeberg but still keep a Github account because of the multitude of useful projects that are unfortunately hosted on GitHub. I wouldn't waste a second to delete my GH account if those projects migrated to Codeberg or any other Libre alternatives.

Funny, the Liberals think Pro-Hamas is bad.

Unfortunate. Brave boy.

The FSF has been making this call since a long time.

Reminds me of the innumerous hours I spent just levelling to 80.

Went to the website in the Picture. It is mentioned there if you scroll down a bit - https://cure.org/

Israeli terrorists needs to stop murdering innocent Palestinians everyday, and they need to release the hundreds of political prisoners as well as innocent palestinians arrested by them, some of them kept locked up since decades. Remember, almost all Zionists are White Foreigners, the IOF is made up of them and supported by the Yankee empire.

For Apple products there is the petty "status symbol" thing. If I share my experience, my father has a mania of buying such stuff only for the sake of imagining that he is on some position where he is like, "Oh I own this and that, you peasants won't understand." The macbook he bought many months ago now lies dusted on a shelf because it is practically useless to everyone in the household at the moment. It's a total waste of money for something no one cares about but him. I do not argue about it as it is a waste of time for me. It's his dogma and his money. I have a more rational mindset of looking at things with a materialistic approach i.e. analytically measuring an object's use value rather than its prestige.

Thanks. That appears to be quite an unfortunate turn of events. I just deleted and replaced the apps w/ alternatives I already have in my personal list.

To be honest. I did.