Same thing we’ve got, except it’s corporations doing it to us.

Really good article, thanks for sharing. I recommend everyone reads it 👍

That travel router looks good. Will you also be using it to connect to the internet using a phone hotspot or just using it for a local network?

I’d like to design a similar off-grid system. What do you have in mind for mobile wifi router and cellular signal booster?

I’m very intrigued by Guix. What would a Debian stable user notice most if they were to switch?

You could try Jami. It’s peer to peer, so essentially any participants are self-hosting it. Its E2E encrypted, supports group messaging, voice and video calling, has easily ‘linkable’ mobile and desktop apps for all platforms and requires no email address or phone number to use. It’s also the only messenger I’m aware of which is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. I highly recommend it 👌

I work with print a lot too. Very interested in the imminent release of GIMP 3.0 with it’s colour upgrades.

They’re not actually intended for washing your hands but rather for ticking the ‘customer hand-washing facility available’ box and providing jobs for interior designers nephews.

You just need to loosen off the grub screw, which is now in a data center in Ireland.

I’m thinking about offering some workshops. My local authority has funds available for courses and workshops which benefit the community, aimed particularly at people on low incomes. It would be fairly basic stuff, like where to access free software, the advantages of it, some recommendations and perhaps even some introductory lessons on using software like Libreoffice, Thunderbird, KeepassXC, GIMP, F-droid, the Fossify suite etc.

I haven’t yet, although I may do in future. If they were hosting my own videos I would certainly be giving them a cut of sponsor revenue though.

Some of the youtube channels I watch also have channels on Peertube instances or on Odysee. Both options allow me to follow using RSS. I prefer my views to go to these platforms, so hopefully more content creators see these as viable hosts for their videos.

Peertube is also federated, so you can follow channels from your Mastodon account (and I think Lemmy too). You could also spin up your own instance if you like too.

*Iceland. I recommend them too.

It’s not on your list but 1984. Iceland based, good for privacy, runs on renewable energy. You can install YUNOhost on it and easily run the things you mentioned plus a bunch of other stuff like email.

Nice, what is your artist name? Maybe I’ve heard you on it!

Looks like a peach of an app. Nice recommendation.

I remember hearing about this. And I bet you the reason they ended up with so many songs with less than 1000 plays is because of their own algorithm. Apart from creating money problems for most musicians, they have been actively narrowing our artistic culture by effectively inbreeding modern music. Its really bad. We need musicians (and all other artists) to express and reflect who we are and what we’re about. They empower us. I feel like contemporary music has become narrowed down to nothing but hedonism, vanity and self-loathing; largely thanks to the likes of spotify.

BTW if you’re interested in something which is good, check out https://radiofreefedi.net/ It’s music from artists on the fediverse. I’ve had some great sessions listening to their comfy channel and discovered some awesome new artists that I wouldn’t have otherwise.

I actually quite like the idea of facebook becoming a few billion bots nattering away at each other on Meta’s dime.

I call on all small artists to boycott Spotify.

You will make no money on it but they depend on you for their business.

Do not perpetuate or support the continued impoverishment and humiliation of musicians and the degradation of artistic culture.

You can use the Newpipe app to listen to SoundCloud as well.