goatman93 [he/him]
Name names or this isn’t happening.
The mutual aid group I’ve been directly involved with, along with the half dozen mutual aid groups I’ve been adjacent to has collected a ton of cash and not once has some millionaire approached us to do XYZ for them or suppress leftism in our neighborhoods. It’s not like there’s a lack of guilty millionaires here in New Jersey.
I do a lot of gaming on Linux, I would say give it a shot! Some games run better on Linux and OpenGL than Windows in DirectX, it’s really just a matter of the developer and their interest in doing the work. For compatibility, Valve has done a lot of work with Proton (their fork of WINE but focused on gaming performamce) and I’ve run some newer AAA titles on my desktop with little issues like doom eternal. I have a ~7 year old CPU/GPU so it’s not anything top of the line.
Rule of thumb is just make sure your driver’s and kernel are up to date. A new kernel release can make your gaming performance skyrocket sometimes in newer games. I remember one kernel update moved my CSGO performance a few years ago from barely playable to full 60FPS on high.
H bomber guy video debunking Ben shapiro, but he yells “and what happens when the plants freeze in winter nick. Are you going to plant those?”
PixelFed is good, it’s part of the federverse so if you spin up your own server you can choose to lock it to just your friends or anyone else using the software. For their own servers, you inherit what the admins have chosen to federate with. I don’t recall if there’s a native PixelFed app, but the apps for Mastodon work well enough for it, it just may have a different UX (more Twitter like) for mobile. I use Tusky on Android, but there’s a lot of other clients available for Android and iOS.
For Instagram if you still need to use it, Barinsta on Android is a open source client for Insta without a lot of the advertising/algorithm shit being sent your way. I’ve been using it just to keep an eye on some organizers that use Insta over twitter.
I think I remember you mentioning this on another Pinephone thread!
Totally agree as a Pinephone owner. It’s not daily driver yet, but it’s slowly getting there. It’s also not something that I think will ever scale to “daily driver” for some of these tasks, like Zoom, multitasking, etc. just because the hardware is very much lower end (most models only have 2GB RAM, I heard there’s some speed issues on the 3GB RAM model, which I have, as well). Just being realistic, but the older adage of getting a performance gain on older hardware with Linux is really starting to erode due to how much power’s needed to run things on the modern web, and all these new electron apps which are browsers in and of themselves. It’s not uncommon on my Pinephone to slow to a halt with two tabs in Firefox, or one tab on a very javascript heavy site or app. Some of this can be optimized in software of course, but at a certain point the hardware restrictions will ultimately hold you back.
It’s very much going to continue to be a development platform though, and a good target device for OS development since it’s sold so cheaply. Hopefully the work done for optimizations on this device will carry over to the Librem 5 and other devices as postmarketOS has been doing.
Librem 5 as @redemption said if you want something new, there’s also third party support in postmarketOS for a few devices as well if you want to recycle something!
