I don’t see how it’s unusable as a chat platform. Yeah it’s not suitable for becoming a social media platform, but isn’t that a plus for a chat app?

haven’t been following what’s going on with fediseer, but it’s good that we have something like it! :) I especially like that cloudflare instances are automatically hesitated, and that there are different levels of mistrust

its very frightening how convincing they can be

on the more technical side, for x86, chromebooks have a special UEFI firmware that only makes it possible to boot chromeos, and so the first step is to replace it with the firmware distributed by MrChromebox, which makes it work similarly to a regular laptop.

but, MrChromebox does not have firmware for ARM chromebooks, so replacing the OS may not be that “easy” in your case. if you don’t find a way, it’s best to treat it as an untrusted device, and follow what I have written in my other comment

if nothing else, if you create a wifi network with a separate VLAN and no internet access, you could use it for Grocy in the kitchen, or for HomeAssistant/openHAB, as a remote controller for Jellyfin or Kodi, or something like that. basically as a touch screen for some internal service.

Strictly with no internet access, though. Make sure to verify it. Maybe also install an app, or write a script that periodically checks this and notifies you if this has changed, not too frequently though to not drain the battery significantly.
The Nock Nock app from F-droid may be good for this with the JavaScript evaluation mode and a simple condition

I guess the hypercapitalist definition of failed is that people bought them, and then sales & revenue dropped. Like it would happen with a quality product.

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I’m sure it is completely coincidental that ublock is about to die as well.

wtf are you talking about?

of course they don’t want, it’s such an inferior addon that it’s almost useless for privacy. it’s little besides just visually hiding ads. but that’s the best that can be done on chrome

Matrix is decentralized, self-hostable, anonymous, and has good multi-device support, but hasn’t yet moved certain meta-data into the encrypted channel.

yet? do they have plans? I’m (relatively) a fan of their platform because of federation, but I thought that it’s not really possible, or at least a very much lot of hard work and even more to change that

simple. ban imaging sensors in the public

the only remaining question is, how is security?

a “reverse bribe”, as is typical of nintendo

System on Chip. Basically the CPU, and a lot of other hardware often including the sensors and wireless adapters. So, a very important, core component of any modern device.

It’s literally insane that they are doing this even though they don’t even have the replacement. It really shows their colour.

actually its not perfect with comments either. I keep 4 notifications in my inbox unread in case I could find out where I got them, 2 of which is inaccessible because they themselves were deleted and I can’t go back to see what was its parent thread

It’s interesting to see gorhill’s reaction. I understand that he’s fed up with all of this bullshit around both the advertising industry and mozilla’s internal happenings, but maybe this was not a logical decision. I hope he is well, or that he gets the help he needs.

Carrot (…) is an upcoming upgrade for Monero’s FCMP++ protocol.

that’s interesting to say. isn’t FCMP itself an upcoming upgrade?

edit: did not intend this as a response

D-Bus is a system service that is used by processes to communicate with others. It’s commonly used, but as users we rarely see anything of it. It’s usage for programmers and sysadmins is/can be quite complicated. It looks they want to add a new simpler one. Haven’t heard of varlink before, though

Something I’ve learned is that it will use a lot of CPU even if the video is paused.

this has been my experience with it on windows too, so it must be a core VLC thing. if it bothers you, I recommend you to try out MPV. been using it for more than a year, would never go back. If you need more than the on screen controller and key combos, there are quite a few proper GUI players being built on MPV.