They don’t have to be, as far as I understand it. I’ve installed a few websites as apps on my phone (because their app had trackers in it) and they can work really well. Examples are Bluesky and Flipboard.

An example where I agree with you is LinkedIn - installed as a web app due to trackers - but they know this, and the whole point of their app is to get you with Facebook and Microsoft trackers, so they make the web app experience miserable on purpose.

But (and correct me if I’m wrong) a PWA made by a non-surveillance capitalist could be just as good as a native app.

Valid. Except on some browsers e.g. Vivaldi you can put sites on a list that retain their cookies even when you clear the rest.

Why not a PWA?

It says “Payments are made after exchanging existing money into electronic money with the help of an Exchange service, that is, a payment service provider for Taler.”

Do they say anywhere who that payment service provider is? And are there options for who to use?

What is the relationship of fiat currency to tokens? is it €1:1 token?

Good tip! I had heard of them, but they fell off the list somehow. I’ll add them in soon. thank you!

We just put some of these privacy alternatives on a map: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html (scroll down)

What’s missing is anything truly FOSS with no fixed country of origin, but it’s still fun to see how some of the main players spread out.

Enjoy!

Is there not a service like Bandcamp, but for movies and TV?

I want to pay for stuff, so the creators are rewarded, and then I own a copy.

Is Emby totally self hosted (like Jellyfin)? Or do they host your stuff (like Plex)?

Can access this via Duck AI, and compare to other models on the fly.

Currency? I thought it was a payments handler to rival Visa and MasterCard.

Lots of alternatives on this website https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html

If there was a Bandcamp for film and TV, then I would buy stuff there. DRM free.

But until then…

I installed Mint in a cheap mini PC to self host, and have had problems with external USB storage drives.

They kept dismounting, until I realised you have to give them a permanent mount location (why?!).

And they kept losing power because Linux had a default setting that USB devices ‘auto suspend’ after some time. This took ages to diagnose, and command line stuff to fix 😔

Other than that it seems to be a solid distro.

Also - I think these distros should make it simpler to partition the SSD on install. I used to easily do that when building Windows PCs but it was not clear I was making the right choices with Mint, so I went with the default.

Oh… I thought it meant that those cookie banners were ‘false consent’ and therefore render the data collected to be illegal?

Please provide more info - I would like to learn more about this subject!

That is a great find. Thank you!

Oh wow, you’re right!

I wonder how they set that up? DDG has thousands of bangs but not one for Lemmy - probably because it is not at one single URL?

It would be cool if there was an operator that would force the search into Lemmy content. Are they called bangs? Like starting with !r

Totally. And that “legitimate interest” nonsense takes ages to click through 🤦

Damn, I hadn’t even thought about the environment impact! Is there any research quantifying that?