Congrats!

Depending on your situation, most of your issues can be avoided by not owning a smartphone. It’s extreme (by today’s standards, at least), but it does work. I ditched my smartphone back in 2017 for a cheap flip phone. I can find spare parts on eBay easily. My car is older, so there is no SaaS crap in it. If I need to keep in touch with someone, we can use SMS, call each other or meet in real life. I use a Linux laptop for banking/browsing the web and I keep a physical GPS in my car in case of emergency.

and I agree with you. Privacy is pretty much gone already.

#mp3z

I keep a GPS in my car in case of emergency, but I try to plan my trips ahead by memorising landmarks on OSM. As a species, we are losing our navigation skills.

How much of a PIA is it to install Linux on a Chromebook? I’m looking for a small laptop and Chromebooks are the perfect size.

Linux Mint’s software manager is not bad.

Same here. Mandrake 8.2 was a buggy mess, but I have fond memories of it.

I’ve got this bad boy. Besides the HHKB, it’s the only mechanical unix keyboard I’ve found.

Emacs user eh? A man (or woman) of culture I see.

I use rtorrent and it’s pretty straightforward.

This is old school! Great guide, thank you.

FOSS has come such a long way that I don’t need proprietary software anymore for most tasks. The commercial software I use for work is ‘free’ anyway.

As an old fart, I’m happy to see that Debian is still cool. All of this arch-manjaro-nix-os-awesome-bspwm-i3-xmonad-flatsnap whippersnapper stuff is over my head.

I’ve used Symfony to build REST APIs, CLI tools, admin panels (EasyAdmin)… It’s truly a great framework.

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but someone wrote a TUI for Lemmy: https://github.com/mrusme/neonmodem

Someone would need to make a request to news.groups.proposals if it needs to be under the big-8. Otherwise, there is alt.*.

Do you mean a BBS that could communicate with the Fediverse via the Activitypub protocol? Not sure if your post was a joke, but it might be doable lol. Synchronet is open source, and if someone is willing to get their hands dirty, it can be done.

There has been a surge of new users on USENET as of late. If you’re looking for a free NNTP server, I recommend eternal-september.

Stop by misc.news.internet.discuss if you’re looking for a general discussion group :)

I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:

I find the hot/active categories pretty confusing too. It would be nice to be able to show subbed communities either across the top of the page or on a sidebar like old Reddit.