BeardlyDavid @fssofdeath@librem.one
He/Him
Joined Jun 2019
@accidentalciso welcome to the #fediverse
I’ll definitely give your stuff a listen!
Hi @Lionheart! That’s a rad bike!! Welcome to the #fediverse
BeardlyDavid
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#feditip: add .rss to the end of most pages you see on a Mastodon server to get an RSS feed for your RSS reader.
Level 2: go about your day without internet, then in the evening settle down at your Computer Desk with a nice cup of tea to RSS-digest the day's shitposts.
Level 3: Aggregates your RSS feeds into epub format. Load the output onto your 2000's e-ink e-reader via USB cable. Sit in an overstuffed armchair with a nearby lamp, say aloud "Ah, yes, today's internet" and sip your port.
@anmaeriel @mpjgregoire@mamot.fr
The price tag I have to agree with, it is a problem. I don’t find the lack of customization to really be a problem. iOS integrates much better with #NextCloud to sync all my things. Otherwise I ran Android pretty vanilla.
There are a lot of other options as well. My second phone is a @purism #librem5 so I get my need for custom met elsewhere :p
But honestly, as a Linux user and a constant modder, I still enjoy the iPhone.
@mpjgregoire@mamot.fr @anmaeriel
Yeah, a little bit. They have a lot of cool built-in features, like generating identities to log in places so you don’t give your email out.
Also Apple collects less info and, as far as I know, doesn’t really sell it. Their business model doesn’t depend on siphoning data like Google’s
@anmaeriel no worries, it’s my pleasure. I couldn’t live with the cost of completely de-googling on Android so I moved to Apple. There’s a lot of good tutorials out there. I’m also active on Matrix in a Canadian channel: #lo_canada:mozilla.org
Lots of people interested in #FOSS who use various devices that have been de-googled. Come join us if you wish.
There’s a whole world of alternatives out there!
@citizencat I can’t ALWAYS let depression ruin my life :p
@anmaeriel hahahahahahaha good question: Free/Libre Open Source Software AKA FOSS Free Open Source Software.
I suppose I’ve been in an echo chamber where this is used a lot lol.
BeardlyDavid
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@fssofdeath Hello there! What's floss? Apart from the thing my dentist always tells me to use. 😅
@a when you start you’re stuck reading the same book over and over again. Choose wisely!
Lots of joy
BeardlyDavid
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If you're having trouble remembering to add alt-text / image descriptions to your posts, follow @PleaseCaption . They will DM you to yell at you about captions if you post an image without them so that you can quickly delete and re-draft, and believe me when I say it's a sure way to get you into the habit XD
I thought that #BigPapaMusk buying the #birdsite was going to be a terrible thing but I am of a different mind now. It has made the #fediverse so alive with new eager people, it’s beautiful.
As always, corporate interest are their own worst enemies. This brings me joy! 🥲
BeardlyDavid
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this site is so weird. how do I know how many internet points I won? how do I know what to be outraged about? I feel like I could just put it down at any moment and go to bed at a reasonable hour, and then check it again tomorrow if I felt like it, in a healthy way. what the fuck
Hi! @anmaeriel
I’m from Québec as well and I’m into all the nerdy stuff! I’m here I mainly post about #floss and #cybersecurity but I’m down for video games 😀
BeardlyDavid
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You may be aware that there is something called the #Fediverse.
But do you know about all the different types of applications that run on the Fediverse?
I made this visual to give myself and others something to point at when explaining "the big picture".
You may be surprised by how many services beyond Mastodon there are to explore.
Download it for free here and use as you please:
https://axbom.com/fediverse/
That post also has links to all the different applications.
BeardlyDavid
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Have you ever noticed that the number of devices you are using daily is continuously growing, but it is ever harder to run #FreeSoftware on them? In 2022 we kicked off #DeviceNeutrality and succeeded in the Digital Markets Act
More info: fsfe.org/news/2022/news…
BeardlyDavid
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Does anyone want the computer pictured here? You can have the (somehow fully in box, although I believe it's repacked) monitor too if you want it
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It feels like it should have been the first thing in the #fediverse
BeardlyDavid
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Si jamais ça peut vous intéresser : j'ai fait un mini-tutoriel "comment rejoindre Mastodon" (avec l'approche de quelqu'un qui a créé un compte il y a moins de 24h 😅) : https://twitter.com/a_berut/status/1587748363348344832?s=20&t=cKorztsTc72txW8exVsEUQ
(je l'ai fait sur Twitter, parce que ça n'aurai pas eu de sens de le faire sur Mastodon alors que les gens sont déjà là, je suppose 
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