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Create more accounts on other instances. Most mobile apps support switching between them. It’s also useful to have separate accounts for separate topics, so if someone stalks you it’s harder to figure out who are you irl.
On an other posts they wrote @sunaurus@lemm.ee is not available during the holidays, but he will fix things afterwards. But afaik the federation bug is not solved yet anywhere, it affects all 0.19.* instances. Working instances simply haven’t updated yet.
OP asked about Open Source not about privacy.
MicroG minimises connections to google servers, here you can read what addresses it still connects to and why: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connections
Can you open about:processes?
The full powerplant is not abandoned, only these parts are not used anymore, but they don’t demolish them because it’s a protected monument.
Originally it was a coal powerplant, in the 1970s they switched to gas, adn these control rooms not used since that. They also use it for district heating nowadays.
Hungarian wiki is also very detailed about it: https://hu.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelenföldi_Erőmű
You can try to read it with an online translator: https://hu-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Kelenföldi_Erőmű?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=hu&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Docx is not a proprietary format, it’s a standard, it’s called Office Open XML: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
And M$ published its specifications, so Libreoffice devs could support it. But here comes the funny part: M$ (deliberately?) doesn’t follow the specification it published. So the formatting problems of LibreOffice come from M$, because they don’t follow their specs, but M$ can just do whatever they want because of its market share.
I read this story a long time ago, and I’m paraphrasing, but on this wiki page you can read a lot of controversies related to this format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML
I think it shouldn’t be managed on lemmy side but on the users’ side, e.g. on your device/browser. Libredirect can automatically redirect to those sites, not on just lemmy, but everywhere on the internet: https://libredirect.github.io/
Another problem is these alternative frontends relatively frequently disappear. If you post a link to a random instance, it’s quite possible that 5 years later the instance will be down, and the link won’t work at all. Libredirect addon updates the urls of working instances, so it will work later. There is even a button in the addon to switch to another instance, so you can find the best available site.
Edit: I misunderstood what are these sites, they are not imgur frontends but separate image host websites, so this comment is just about the first paragraph.
The problem is not building a new operating system, but app support. We have and used to have a lot alternatives, but because mainstream apps are missing no one wants to use them. They don’t have enough users, so developers won’t develop for them, egg-chicken problem. Everyone tried to solve this by android compatibility layer, but android apps will always run better on android…
I use microG since years at this point, and while most things are working, I always find some quirks, and some random apps not behaving as they should. I’m fine with that, but a non-tech guy would freak out from that. And it’s not even a completely different os, only an alternative implementation of GMS aka Play Services.
See previous and current examples, all of them was/is a good or at least usable as an os, but if you can’t use your bank’s app or whatever app you need in your daily life, you won’t switch to it. Even M$ couldn’t solve this problem, why Mr. Pei could solve it.
Edit: Obviously in the article they don’t speak about an actual OS, but one more Android skin… So Mr. Pei is not planning to solve this, they are just redefining the meaning of words, Android skins are called "OS"s in entrepreneur speak nowadays.
The source on this is one guy from X (formerly Twitter), from Vietnam.
I mean, it sound plausible and expected, but it’s not some official news.
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