He should funnel 11mil back upstream to Arch, we all know that won't happen, but it should.

Also for those wanting to get into Hyprland try out: ML4W. Its the best dotfiles I've used and the creator seems fine, no controversy AFAIK.

https://www.ml4w.com/

Ah yes let me hand Google access into what apps I have installed on my phone. Definitely a reasonable thing to do.

Just stop using telegram

But even if it was, not caring who you give money to is not is not a defence against supporting fascism.

Ffs i didn't know 1password an futo were also part of this. My employer uses 1password for everything, guess i have one more thing to be annoying about now.

Gentoo does a wild amount of work on $12k per annum but I don’t think $12m is that crazy - if it’s more than you can spend then you can pass it on to your dependencies. We shouldn’t expect open source contributors to do everything as a volunteer effort because then it becomes a rich person pastime. What’s infuriating here is that this $12m goes to people who aren’t exactly doing anything worthwhile.

Moderators acted a bit weird, imo, but I can't quite understand why they complained about Plus on F-droid if it was not published there

This isn't even a distro, just some configuration on Arch

This means that technically VLC has been the furthest from the earth any human as been.

How is corporations donating millions of dollars to a fascist not normalizing the ideology?

Yep. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the distro. This is just rich fascists throwing money at eachother. There are thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of other projects that are more deserving and in more need. This is entirely about who and not what.

It's nice that people are finally starting to write about what a coke fuelled POS DHH is. People within the Ruby community have known this for years. the fact that he is where he is because of some truly horrible PHP is mind boggling.

It's not a foundation. It COULD HAVE been one but in typical coke fuelled ranting DHH fashion he blogged about how the money would go towards marketing thus, womp womp, no tax exempt foundation for you buddy.

Not when your buddies are billionaires.

That is not how it goes when millions of dollars are involved 🤦

12 million seems like a LOT for any distro

AuroraStore is working fine on my lineageOS phone

Well, shit, I'd only heard of vaxry because we seem to share an opinion on D-Bus.

Everyday my longstanding hatred of DHH is proven correct. I never liked him or his ideas, and seeing his shitty-but-accepted ideas in full context did a lot to help me understand how fascism is more than just ideology: It's world view, it's practices, it's lifestyle.

It runs as an unprivileged user app and uses randomized accounts.

Google play services under graphene are all also unprivileged.

You can add all apps you dont want Google to know of to your blocklist, so the unique fingerprint from your app list is extremely reduced

I wouldn't say extremely, as you still need to keep all of the apps which you install from the store itself unblocked to get updates. Anecdotally for me, that list is all of the niche apps which I can't use FOSS alternatives for, like banking, work, transit, etc. so it's very likely still uniquely identifying. If you're hiding system services in Aurora that you don't want it touching, that makes it even easier to identify you, because Google play doesn't do that.

Aurora is WAY better for privacy

I'm not a security researcher and am basically regurgitating what the Graphene team has said about it, as I think they know a lot more about how the play store works under the hood and the information that is required to send to Google than I do. I think they have a blog post about it somewhere.

No, Aurorastore is still worlds more private than Google Play, and until now it was really reliable!

It runs as an unprivileged user app and uses randomized accounts. You can add all apps you dont want Google to know of to your blocklist, so the unique fingerprint from your app list is extremely reduced. Google Play doesnt do that. Aurora is WAY better for privacy

For security yeah, you can use google play and add the signatures to VerifiedApps

to me it's pretty simple: Do you value privacy more than having easy access to "normal" apps? If yes, skip aurora store; if no, use aurora store.

Anything more than that gets into putting in a bunch of effort and worry for not much benefit.

I've used vlc since the stone ages. However recently (on mint) it's been opening two windows, one for the video and one for the player. Doesn't matter which boxes I click in the settings. Super annoying

VLC is slow and clunky. It's pretty outdated. mpv is fast and extensible, it's a good replacement. Of course, good to have both around for situations like you described.