jim3692

joined 7 months ago
[–] jim3692@discuss.online 2 points 5 days ago

I started with Lubuntu, because of Minecraft. My PC was so slow that even Minecraft had improved performance, compared to it running on Win 10.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

TL;DR: Do not sell the app, sell the service

After reading all the comments, I am a bit confused.

Based on my understanding, this a self-hostable, privacy friendly app, that does not contain a libre license, as you plan on monetizing it.

First of all, the primary reasons of opting for libre software are privacy and freedom. So, the lack of such license can be considered a red flag.

Second, a lot of privacy conscious Android users download their apps from services like F-Droid, that have strict rules against closed-source. So, trying to sell a privacy solution on Play Store does not sound like a good business model.

Tips for monetizing a libre service:

  1. The client should have a libre license. You code running on the user's device should be verifiable.
  2. Charge for your STUN/TURN server.
  3. Sell the server blob. Sandboxing apps on a Linux system is far easier (to prevent them from accessing the internet and potentially leak data).

There are apps that are even available on F-Droid, and are similarly monetized. Some examples, that I use, are: Bitwarden, Mullvad, Telegram and Tailscale.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

I mostly use it for accessing my servers when I leave home. So, no need for constantly updating it. I prefer to install the OS and forget about maintaining it on that device.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have Debian on a laptop that I don't use that much, and I use Nix package manager for managing the apps I use.

Running Arch was a nightmare, as I was updating once every 1-2 months and I was getting lots of conflicts.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 8 points 2 weeks ago

I am still trying to figure out what is going since Win 7, and it takes so much space (I don't know about Vista)

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Docker Engine, without the Docker Desktop licensing and VM overhead

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bruuuhh!!! I usually just press deny all, without reading.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 2 points 3 weeks ago

Would hosting in Albania be a solution? It's in the Europe continent, but it's not a member of European Union. UK is also fighting encrypted communications.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 39 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

My question is: even if EU manages to apply laws for backdooring encryption, wouldn't cybercriminals just use different tools? They may force Signal to backdoor its encryption, but what about Briar? Will they backdoor the Tor network? Will they ban it entirely? What about Matrix? They can't prevent offshore encrypted instances.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

After implementing Brainfuck and Sudoku in Nix, I was thinking of implementing a backend framework. However, I decided that I am not insane enough for that.

 
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