One of the news sources I follow with RSS decided to publish a recipe for “apple nachos” for some godforsaken reason. I honestly kinda hope it’s AI-generated garbage, because I’d truly be saddened if a human person used up some of their limited time on this Earth to redact this “article”.

If left alone with my thoughts for too long, I invariably start humming the Hamsterdance song.

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Canadian special forces have been involved in the U.S.-led Flintlock training exercises in Africa for more than 10 years. During that time, they have trained troops from Niger during five different Flintlock exercises.

From the article. As to why Canadian special forces were involved in training African troops, I couldn’t say.

I use FreeTube on desktop to follow my favourite YouTube channels, and I’ve found the related videos section to be quite good in occasionally suggesting videos from channels I’m unfamiliar with. I also have a Nebula subscription, so I find content creators from there as well.

I do admit that sometimes I’ll login to my old YouTube account and check what their algorithm is suggesting. I just copy/paste the URLs into FreeTube.

The personal wiki idea is so insanely nerdy and obsessive and might just be the thing that pushes me to start self-hosting stuff. That’s such an amazing idea.

Can we just stop? I think we’ve gone too far. I say we take like a week or two, where no one’s allowed to sell or buy anything. Just taking a breather, and realizing how exhausting all of this is.

I’ll copy-paste this stackoverflow answer, because it sounds like its written by someone more knowledgeable than me.

blobs are binary firmware, not distributed as source. they are necessary for certain hardware drivers to function, in whole or in part. As the source is not readily available, there are deblobbed distributions for opensource “purists”.

In the firefox context, there are certain non-free portions of firefox code base, namely the branding and some mozilla services integrations. Those are removed. This is more about licensing then availability of the code.

On mobile:

• Feeder (RSS reader)
• K9-Mail / Thunderbird
• Mull (Deblobbed and privacy oriented Firefox Mobile fork)
• Catima (Loyalty card manager)
• Cofi (Coffee timer)
• Neo Launcher

On desktop:

• Spotify-qt and Librespot

I use a bunch of other stuff as well but these are the one I truly use daily that haven’t been mentioned yet.

If anyone wants to spend 30 minutes learning about McDo’s ice cream machines, boy have I got the YouTube video for you!

(Piped link)

If a web app works for you, https://www.barcode-generator.org/ is based on Zint which is FOSS.

You could also install Zint directly on MacOS via homebrew (see section 2.3 of the manual). This installs the command line tool. I believe you should be able to run a GUI if needed by typing zint-qt but I’m not sure since I’m not really familiar with MacOS.

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In a mysterious coincidence, the other 99% are facing ever-growing struggles.

Okay yeah I’ll admit that’s pretty bad, haha. The only password I actually know nowadays is the passphrase to my Keepass database, which clocks in at 40 characters. I rarely say this to people, but have you considered a shorter password? :P

Have you tried changing your user agent string to Chrome? I know it can sometimes sidestep these types of “errors”. It can be changed manually through about:config under general.useragent.override, or there exists plenty of addons to switch it more easily.

Sounds like it’s time for some correcthorsebatterystaple!

Yeah they don’t package their Apks for Github, they only publish the source code. You have to add it via DivestOS’ F-Droid repo. Here’s a little step-by-step guide, it’s not exactly intuitive.

• In Obtainium, add new app, use this URL: https://divestos.org/apks/official/fdroid/repo

• In the “Override source” dropdown, select “F-Droid Third-Party Repo”

• Under the additional options, there’s an “App ID or name” field, in which you must input “us.spotco.fennec_dos”

• Make sure “Auto-select highest version code APK” is enabled

Which app? All their apps I know of are on the ProtonMail Github and published under the GPL.

I’ve never encountered these issues with Mull, but you could have a look at Cromite which has a similar development philosophy as Mull in regards to privacy and security but is Chromium-based. Being Chromium-based might help with rendering issues on some mobile sites.

It’s not available on F-Droid however. I’ve swapped to using Obtainium to manage my apps to avoid this type of annoyance.

Treeplanting might be up your alley. Doing the actual job is pretty solitary, you’ll see your tree-runner a few times a day, you might have a planting buddy, and the boss might come around once or twice to check your trees.

But outside of the work day, it’s very much the camp environment you describe.