For a lot of people it’s not even “going back”. They are either to young to have experienced the old web or did but bounced of it. There is a sizeable group of people out there, who went online for the first time not despite facebooks privacy invasive profile building but because of it.

Lemmys default web UI doesn’t have a endlessly loading newsfeed. That’s a intentional design decision to help users spend less time on the platform. Because spending to much time on social media is bad for your mental health. So having friction points is a good thing.

Except the competition doesn’t do that. So what is your average social media addict to do when they hit a friction point? They won’t close the browser. Instead they will go back to the commercial platforms.

Some people like junk food. But creating addictive social media yourself isn’t a good option either

https://www.sovereign.tech/

Apparently: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rétention_de_sûreté_en_France

In French criminal law, “rétention de sûreté” is a procedure for placing prisoners who have served their sentence, but who present a very high risk of reoffending because they generally suffer from a serious personality disorder, in a socio-medico-judicial security center. This measure is limited to convictions for the most serious crimes, in particular sex crimes, and must be expressly provided for in the sentencing decision

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I couldn’t find an English source, even the English wiki article on preventive detention doesn’t list France.

20 years is the maximum sentence in France

Have you tried HERE WeGo, previously known as HERE Maps?

The app started live as Nokia Maps (so Finnish) and is now owned by a consortium of German auto makers (for some reason headquartered in the Netherlands).

I don’t have an iPhone, but according to the AppStore listing the iOS version should include CarPlay.

Depends on where you bank and on what you mean by banking app. There are generally 2 parts to online banking: The banking client and the two factor authenticator app.

If your bank supports the FinTS standard (so mostly German banks), then you can use Saldo for the first part. The second part doesn’t work like that. You’ll have to use the official apps, that aren’t built for Linux. You might be able to run it in an Android container such as Waydroid or AlienDalvik, but that’s usually difficult to impossible to do. Maybe your bank still does 2fa via sms, then you’re good to go. You’re less secure but it works

It’s not European (in fact it’s US American) but PebbleOS was open sourced a couple of months ago as well

I stand corrected

The Linux support of Snapdragon SOCs for desktops and laptops is unfortunately severely lacking. Qualcomm pledged to provide upstream divers, but then the Windows drivers turned out to be a mess and the Linux version had to wait. It is nowhere near production ready. Most of the hardware enablement work is currently as far as I can tell being done by German OEM Tuxedo Computers because they are working on a Snapdragon powered laptop that ships with Linux. But even their work was impacted by Qualcomm stalling (the linked blog article lists Christmas 2024 as their target release date and that didn’t happen).

There used to be a Kodi/XMBC skin for that but development on that seems to have been abandoned years ago.

Depending on your use case Kodi might be a better fit for your HTPC as it tightly integrates with Jellyfin and also has a Spotify plugin. And some skins work generally the way the xmb used to work - they just look very different

Linux is the third option. As far as many normies are concerned the second option is macOS

There are “servers” on Matrix. They are called communities

Here is the relevant part of the documentation for that: https://matrix.org/docs/communities/getting-started/

Bazzite:

• Fedora based, so newer libraries
• Atomic updates, therefore doesn’t break on updates
• Steam and Lutris are preinstalled