Quest: Kali Bandits

The Kali have been terrorizing villages across Linuxia. I beg you, young traveler, help us fight them off. I’ll reward you with riches beyond compare!

Objective: Protect the village from the Kali bandits.

Reward: +500 gold

The questmakers haven’t updated the quest descriptions in a while. I’m waiting for the next update when they port the Whonix ISO kit.

I have [Ancient] Debian Armor and a GNOME as my companion. I often equip the Tor Browser Cloak of Invisibility. If slain, I will drop a Locked KeePassXC Database Chest. After completing the mission Revive bricked Linux system, I was awarded with the [Rare] Ego Potion. When drunk, it boosts all stats temporarily during a battle.

I personally can’t stand any other options except for Cinnamon (since it got a redesign) and a few distro-specific ones. That’s just me though. Explore away!

I have a potato laptop, so GNOME is a little too heavy on it. I think KDE Plasma would be fine for a desktop, but I’m addicted to GNOME

I use both: GNOME works better for a desktop, KDE Plasma works better for a laptop.

There are more than those 2 options for a Desktop Environment, by the way ;)

Thank you for referencing my list! In case anyone wants some extra info: The frontends for Audire and Audile are open source. Audire uses the proprietary Shazam API, but Audile uses the open source APIs AudD and ACRCloud.

I made my own curated list of open source software. Most of the software on there is stuff I use.

But the biggest improvement coming from Windows?

The thing that got me to switch from Windows to Linux (the straw that broke the camel’s back) was Window’s “Eco Mode”. Eco Mode is a cute little thing that (at least at the time) cannot be disabled. It automatically slows down apps so your computer draws less power to help the environment. What did that mean for you? ChatGPT (which was just starting to boom at the time) would become barely functional because Eco Mode would slow down the browser. You could only temporarily disable it per-process, but it will enable itself right back again whenever it wants.

I’ve been waiting for a post like this. Every single time I have tried Windows 11 I have fallen in love with the UI and UX. Sure, it can be buggy at times, but that’s true with anything. It has always pained me a little bit every time I have to replace it with Linux. KDE Plasma 6 is the closest I’ve been able to find to Windows 11. Microsoft in my opinion did a really sleek and nice job making Windows 11 pretty, especially compared to Windows 10.

ISPs are generally all equally as bad (except for Spectrum. They’re probably the worst.). I stay with my ISP because they’ve never once complained about any of the torrenting I’ve done.

Why the next leaps towards AGI may be “born secret”

I found the article it was supposed to be linking to: https://roadtoartificia.com/p/why-the-next-leaps-towards-agi-may-be-born-secret

Today I learned: layman, laymen, laywoman, laywomen, layperson, and laypeople are all real words. I thought it was just “layman”.

The reason Brave is recommended is due to its boost in security over Gecko-based browsers, as recommended by the GrapheneOS team (see here and here). Any bloatware and tracking in Brave can be disabled. I don’t like some of Brave’s decisions just as much as anyone, and if a fork of Brave that removes the bloat by default is created, I will be sure to include it. Even still, I included Mullvad Browser as another alternative for those not happy with Brave and want a Gecko-based browser. Brave is my top choice, but it may not be yours. Feel free to make your own list of software that meets your own requirements, but you’ll find that the other software on my list is just as “credible” despite my browser choice. I’m not forcing you to use any software in that list, so feel free to use whichever web browser you wish.

Like I mentioned, I wasn’t able to get every app. I already had a lot to go through, but I may check these out in my free time :)

it’s the best out there, but the bar is pretty low.

For most open source health apps, I found that this is very true. Almost every app here is Android-exclusive (I put no restrictions on which OS it couldn’t be on, I only required it be on Android) meaning it doesn’t get wide adoption. Lots of them are outdated, buggy, abandoned, low quality, etc. I truly wish I could see (or spark) a movement in the open source community to start making health apps, because health data is the most sensitive and most exploited data there is. This post is a sort of doubles as a sad “this is the best we have, and it isn’t even that great most of the time”

These are just the apps I tested, and lots of them have been abandoned. I mentioned that, unfortunately, Paseo is abandoned as well as Pedometer (PFA).

Have you used Gadgetbridge yourself? If so, can you tell me more about your experiences?

Could you provide more information about those apps, such as what they are used for and which criteria they meet?

IT’S AMAZING! HOLY…

My exact reaction to trying it! I wish I had known about this so much sooner.

When I get asked why, I just say I’m just confirming what Google Maps said to me (which tbf can be outdated) so I get updated!

I’ve gotten so used to lying or social engineering to maintain my privacy, that it felt weird to be honest about actually contributing to a map and telling people what it is.

Thank you so much for recommending this!

You’re welcome! But thank the StreetComplete team for making such a wonderful way to contribute to OSM