I also went from Nova Launcher to Lawnchair and it’s been great. I’ll check out Dragon some time but I’m glad I found a suitable replacement for Nova.

Maybe people who have never worked before might be surprised.

That’s exactly what they’re aiming for.

Sure, but it’d be nice to let your wife know that you’re okay when you’re in a potentially dangerous situation lol

Although the location sharing did help lol

Yeah, I think that’s the entire point of having a new version lol

I agree with most of what you’re saying, I disagree with the last part of what you’re saying.

The self-host movement is about taking control away from companies, and running web services locally instead of having to rely on companies for them and pay for them. Most things you can run locally without needing a server, but there are absolutely good use cases for server-based services. Some great examples of this are cloud storage, code repositories, and chat servers. You could run each of those things locally, but they are each improved by running them on a dedicated server designed for 24/7 uptime and centralized access.

It’s not just media that doesn’t feed recommendation algorithms - I actually like recommendation algorithms (Jellyseerr does a pretty great job with this), it’s more about having control over my media and it not being taken away randomly. So many times an older show I would want to watch would no longer be “available” so I’d have to download it anyway, with no option of paying to watch for it.

Because billionaires like to stick together because they think that they’re better than all of us combined.

Sure, there are alternatives for the games I listed, but if all your friends are playing any of the games I listed, you don’t have many options for Linux outside of something like Shadow or GeForce Now, which admittedly is a pretty solid option for online-only games if you live near their servers.

The fact they mentioned “anti cheat”, it’s going to be your modern online multiplayer games. It’s going to be games like Fortnite, PUBG, Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc.

Actually that’s just true lmao

Apple TV is honestly fantastic. The only issue is, so many streaming devices don’t support 120 Hz so you can’t have 120 Hz Steam Link for example, you usually need to use the built-in OS Steam Link to stream games at 120 Hz.

I hope this is something that will change in the future.

I think it’s unfortunately a good sign of just how many dumb Americans there are, and that the stereotype unfortunately exists for a reason. They voted for this. This is their president, who they want representing them and leading them. SAD.

It’s so hilarious. Everyone knows who is actually the most divisive president splitting up the people and turning them against each other. Incredible.

The thing is, if they collapse the economy, and nobody can afford to buy their overpriced products, they’re going to suffer too - which is good, it shouldn’t be only us suffering.

I think that seems obvious, not conspiratorial.

They want to make their services cheaper for them to run, and they want to sell them for more money, while buying up hardware so nobody else can compete with them or not depend on them.

It’s worse, it’s forced ads and enshitification. Old is gold, after all.

It’s always one thing: Money.

I built a MAL clone using AI, nearly 700 commits of AI. Obviously I was responsible for the quality of the output and reviewing and testing that it all works as expected, and leading it in the right direction when going down the wrong path, but it wrote all of the code for me.

There are other MAL clones out there, but none of them do everything I wanted, so that’s why I built my own project. It started off as an inside joke with a friend, and eventually materialized as an actual production-ready project. It’s limited more by design of the fact that it relies on database imports and delta edits rather than the fact that it was written by AI, because that’s just the nature of how data for these types of things tend to work.

And if the maintainer doesn’t agree to merge your changes, what to you do then?

You have to build your own project, where you get to decide what gets added and what doesn’t.