But the N100 running at full pelt will be running way more intensive applications than Pi 5. In everyday scenario, that means you can run more applications comfortably without going “full pelt”. AFAIK

Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (BBR)

What services do you run on FreeBSD? Does using FreeBSD limit you in the number of apps you can have, as most of them target Linux?

I hope you don’t mind some questions.

• what are the specs of the machine?
• average number of users?
• which one do you think is most resource intensive
• which one is time consuming to maintain/upgrade?

I am curious about selfhosting an instance for a community but am afraid federation will consume too much time/resource/money for a side project.

IPv6 usually have unique IP addresses (non-local) for every device in the network. does that mean it will malicious actors can target a device specifically inside a network?

I’m hearing a few mentions about ReactOS recently. What do people mostly use it for? It seems it’s trying to be a Windows XP clone, can it run latest browsers, which do not support old Windows versions?

man reads few comments on the internet.

man takes it literally.

Anxiety sets in

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Redirector works perfectly on Android.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/redirector/

If you use on android apps from the playstore, most apps are built to relay their notifications through Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), so they don’t have to have a background notification listeners running 24/7. It also means less overhead from multiple notification listeners from every app having its own. So yes, if an app is built on top of google play services, it requires “google play services”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase_Cloud_Messaging

If an app says it doesn’t rely on google play services, it uses an alternative notification listener or websockets, which might not be as effective, because Google is inbuilt and won’t kill its own apps, the scale of its infrastructure, and its habit of listening on people’s activity.

Add in Androids habit of killing background services, and you don’t always get your notification when the app isn’t in the foreground.

Even Signal from Playstore uses Google Play Services for notifications.

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/g217a6/what_can_google_glean_from_signal_using_fcmgcm/

That’s what I wanted to ask. Last time I heard about their federation, their team were claiming the tests are underway in a sandbox or something. I wonder how that’s going.

can users in other instances talk with people in bluesky?

yes, they did, but the actual pruning starts from december.

they’re going with numbers along with usernames, kinda like discord to reduce spam. I hope they work.

You’d need to get a GPU with drivers for ARM macOS.

I don’t really know much about this topic but didn’t asahi linux reverse engineer them already?

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/first-conformant-m1-gpu-driver.html

The rest of ARM is behind

That might change with Snapdragon X. It isn’t out yet but competition to the top will hopefully start getting the prices down.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21105/qualcomm-previews-snapdragon-x-elite-soc-oryon-cpu-starts-in-laptops-

People still fall for obvious online scams, crypto bots and email phishing, and you think there aren’t enough people won’t fall for fake reviews? Amazon has great damage control, they’ll most likely offer mad users deals they can’t refuse to prevent them from writing a bad review. I’ve been offered same product or a close enough product for free when I complained to Amazon support.

Amazon isn’t some startup that few bad news can take down anymore. They’ll say they investigated themselves, make a pr statement that they banned thousands of fake accounts and people will eat it up. It can keep expanding in new markets and keep the bad reviews rolling in while some mad customers scream into the void.

I have a chinese friend and when I asked them to look for signal, whatsapp, or telegram, the apple app store had them all but they didn’t work after they installed it. They just got a loading screen or couldn’t sign up.

Android custom ROM scene was big back when I was rooting and playing with ROMs, as people found how to root their obscure phones by translating chinese forum posts. You don’t have to access apk sites, there are other ways to share apks. Last I heard fdroid was accessible from China as far back as 2014 until recently.

Here’s a quote from fdroid themselves.

In the Chinese app store market five to ten commonly used app stores, and yet even the largest has less than a majority market share. Most Chinese people have more than one app store on their phone, so there is no monolith there, whereas “outside of China, Apple and Google control more than 95 percent of the app store market share”.

https://f-droid.org/en/2022/11/23/why-curation-and-decentralization-is-better-than-millions-of-apps.html

Do some research before you perpetuate misinformation that confirms your bias.

But fuck the CCP for authoritarianism.

Now they’re not really any better than Android phones in terms of apps and being able to bypass the firewall

What does this mean? You have been able to sideload apps on Android for a decade. How were the iPhones better in terms of apps and being able to bypass the firewall before?

tldr; Zuck cares about engagement, not people.