Sounds like you dont have much data in your area. Organic maps draws from openstreetmap iirc, the same as apple maps i believe. That would be something you can work on.

Case in point :)

I personally prefer postmarketOS but everything is better than stock android/ios

They could go full deep packet inspection like other authoritarian regimes. But otherwise its gonna be tough.

You need to have a phone that doesnt read your screen though. Iphones eg read everything you do and probably share that data. No idea about android.

Thanks for mentioning this. I recently switched to kodi for my tv setup and it works well with plex. I wonder if jellyfin would work with it. I might try it.

Plex is pretty awesome, ngl. I always wanted to try jellyfin since paywall and all but since most people wont donate to open source to save their own lives, I really cant blame them.

Walled garden or die

Thats how i read azure

Sounds like we might meet at the congress in december. :)

And I‘m with you on needing a phone that works. Sadly, wishing it were in that place right now doesnt help. On the other hand neither does just jumping in the deep end.

With open source stuff, real people need to help out, either with work (eg testing) or with money, because the „build company, make open source thing, profit“ doesnt really work that way. Companies like pine64 deserve to be flush with money because they actually care to make something thats ours.

So yes, I also have a main phone for work atm while tinkering with the postmarketOS phone until I deem it stable enough for daily use.

And thats what I suggest to people who are willing and have at least one old phone they cant or dont use anymore.

P.s.: the fact that there are this many distinct phones that do at least boot while they are barely able to pay one person for dev work is actually great news.

I dont know about caddy but nginx proxy manager does this very well. Also, if running in docker, you can expose the port that runs ssh for forgejo und a different port than the host machine‘s (eg 2222). In that case you just put the remote in with the port and call it a day.

Btw are you people seeing autocorrect decline on iphones before the launch of AI iphones? Pretty sure thats also illegal.

I agree on all points but the last.

Over two hundred phones have been ported to postmarketOS and every person giving it a shot will improve it. Together with grapheneOS, there are huge possibilities to mix a phones versatility with the freedom of linux. Combined with manufacturers like fairphone and pine64, phones also become more easily repairable.

The issue currently is that we have become ver accustomed to phones being very polishe. a lot of folks dont appreciate the free and open source phones and OSs due to their freakishly expensive, subscription ridden devices being optimized better.

If tech interested folks would default to repairable phones and open OSs, we would make a considerable jump towards being mainstreamable.

I‘m not saying people are at fault. Its just the way it currently is. We‘re seeing big improvements. I hope this continues.

Thanks for chiming in. Thats very insightful. It still seems like bsky is claiming to be something that its not.

So, from up close it seems like people can have their own servers (i checked wurzelmann.at which is currently on the frontpage) but they do not seem to have their own frontend.

This indeed makes it so that for people to actually SEE your content you must federate with one entity and are controlled by them.

Imo this is very bad because it takes the freedom out of federation. Yes, you dont need to login to an app but if they ban you or defederate or delete your post, nobody will see it, right?

Please someone who has tried and gets the technical details shed light on this.

Good luck! I appreciate your praise. Its nice to be seen for the stuff we do.

That said, you‘re doing a great thing if you try and hit the edge of your comfort zone.

For me it is running postmarketOS on a pi with plasma since only 50% of things work and I‘m likely going to try to get the rest working too. Currently, sound isnt working either, resource monitor doesnt work and streaming 1080p content is about 3SPF.

„The content“ is there. Its just the addiction inducing, never ending dopamine that doesnt flow as freely which is great.

If you follow the topics that are most prevalent on the fedi (eg freedom, activism, technology, diversity) you will not run out unless you scroll for many hours a day, which is suggests you find yourself a hobby.

Also, the self fulfilling prophecy of „the fediverse is too small, I go to big platform“ will keep the fediverse small.

Be the change you want to see.

Thank you very much. I will update on my progress for sure.

Thank you very much for sharing your experience. That is completely within the acceptable range for me. I am fully prepared to compile and tinker.

I guess I was hoping for someone saying: „I did it with THIS risc v tablet and it works great“ or „there is a problem that you will not overcome likely at this point in time“ like the cameras in postmarketOS are a roadblock rn.

I‘d say I‘ve fully embraced the fediverse for over a year, running half a dozen instances for many fediverse services.

The discoverability is indeed an issue for many services but the worst on peertube. It actually has great content but nobody sees it due to it not being properly suggested.

On lemmy vs reddit I can proudly say a lot of topics have great content and its not easy to run out of it if you subscribe to varied communities. One big problem is how spoiled the users of commercial socials are. The amount of people there is of course insane compared to here so someone used to heroine (x, facebook and reddit) will always feel withdrawal on lemmy, mastodon and such.

Imo, we need to keep making strong, compelling cases for the fediverse, against the corpoverse and increase our technical arsenal. Peertube needs clients for every platform and a central discovery (for example instances.joinpeertube.org).

We also need more straightforward installation procedures so more people can host their own. Of course non tech folks will have a hard time either way but a „fire and forget“ compose file or ansible playbook, ideally next to one another like with awesome selfhosted on github.

Feel free to make a community or find one and link it here! :) i‘ll happily join and put in some work.