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I've heard about this, but can anybody who's gone through it describe how much effort it was? Do you have to do a from-scratch Windows install? Did you lose any of your stuff? What level of computer expertise would you say is enough to handle installing LTSC, e.g. could your parents do it?

Mate, wtf is an old carburator?

Our country’s gonna boom.

Technically not a good choice for this community specifically. 2FAS Auth operates out of the USA. Being FOSS does change the implications of that, though.

Looks like development on AndOTP stopped ~4 years ago (July 2021). There's definitely an "if it ain't broke" factor, but the way Android keeps dropping support for older SDK apps, you will probably need to switch to something else eventually. I hadn't heard of Aegis before this thread, but apparently one of its big features is support for importing from other authenticator apps (including AndOTP and Google Authenticator).

This one's not strictly enshittification-related, but I find YouTube Comment Search (Firefox, Chrome) extremely useful. YouTube videos frequently have way more comments than any sensible person is going to read through. By searching for keywords, you can check whether somebody else already said what you were thinking and 👍 that instead of posting another duplicate comment that will get buried forever.

Why we throwing shade on fat legs?

Uhhhhhh, bem vindo a EasyList/uBO – Cookie Notices.

Sorry, can't speak Portuguese beyond the stuff out the front of Nando's. uBlock Origin includes two lists in the settings (both off by default) that also handle bypassing cookie notices. The other one is AdGuard/uBO – Cookie Notices, but I've been getting by with just the first one enabled. Useful if you want to keep your number of extensions down.

EDIT: Also just realizing this is not Portuguese. Told you I can't speak it.

It's kind of complicated. Bluesky doesn't do anything the way the fediverse does, so a PDS isn't a full instance, it's just the way that your personal account interacts with the Bluesky service.

An analogy I used in another thread about Bluesky got way too complicated, but my starting point was that if Bluesky is a swimming pool, then hosting a PDS is bringing your own personal bucket of water from home. Ultimately, you're still feeding it all into the one big pool that Bluesky owns, at least until somebody else builds another swimming pool (puts up the money to host a fully-fledged Bluesky replacement service) and you take your bucket over there.

On its own, the PDS doesn't really do anything without the rest of the infrastructure behind it. You can't go swimming in a bucket.

This is technically incorrect (the best kind of incorrect?). Bluesky is open source, with the exception of the discover feed algorithm, which they claim must remain secret to prevent it being manipulated. There are open-source replacements for that feed available, so it's open enough that it is theoretically possible to spin up a Bluesky replacement, albeit impossibly expensive.

Coming at it from another angle though, the product in any commercial social media product is you, so in that sense you're right: the product is not open source. Either way, open source code is not some panacea that erases all risk of commodifying its users. Bluesky is a great example because while it is open source, that in absolutely no way prevents them from tracking their users.

Operation Clippy.

GPL wouldn't prevent this in any way. It doesn't compel you to provide source unless you're also providing binaries. That's exactly what they're going to do, only show their work upon release. Not defending that choice, just explaining that it would be perfectly GPL-compliant.