Io sono su Coopvoce da quattro anni e mi trovo benissimo, la rete su cui si appoggia è quella Tim quindi per mia esperienza prende praticamente dappertutto (incluse certe aree abbastanza isolate dell’entroterra ligure e del basso Piemonte dove passo spesso e dove non tutte le altre reti prendono - soprattutto quella Vodafone). Non hanno mai cambiato le condizioni dell’offerta quindi io ho quella da 30GB a 6,90€/mese, che per un periodo era stata anche più bassa per i nuovi clienti. Purtroppo vedo che quella minima adesso è da 50GB a un euro in più.

In realtà sono in parte nella tua situazione perché controllo ogni tanto quali offerte ci sono, non perché mi trovi male - tutt’altro - ma per risparmiare qualcosa visto che in media uso 7-8GB al mese. Solo che piani tariffari che costino meno e che non siano veramente quelli con un giga solo è da tempo che non ne vedo (e di preferenza mia non voglio un operatore che si appoggi alla rete WindTre, visto che è quella che ho già a casa, per un minimo di sicurezza che se non ne funziona una almeno posso usare l’altra…).

Admittedly I tend to always see as a bad thing whenever I see phone models without headphone jacks, that said for the last five years I’ve been using phones without headphone jacks and using the wired headphones they came with is enough for the few times I need to use them.

There are just two subs I check about once every two days, but I’m yet to log in again after I disconnected my account last month. I used to only visit it through Libreddit as the UX is better anyway but now that one’s gone too…

Reading the article and reflecting on online spaces I’ve visited, I think it reaches a good conclusion but stopped just short of saying it out loud: anti-consumerism is an inherently rebellious stance and the whole point of aestheticizing simple living is to make it consumable, thereby negating any possible opposition. Even the point of

the slow-living aesthetic online presents a life very few people have access to; […] rich white people can rebrand the privilege of working less into something that’s somehow morally superior

is simply the perpetuation of the consumerist status quo, it’s no different from “celebrity culture”, the topic changes but the structure and the goal is still the same. It’s the same with minimalism and minimalist furniture and aesthetics; with zero waste and/or plastic-free living and greenwashing, and the list goes on. Perhaps decluttering hasn’t been taken yet? Although I see it more as an action to reach a more specific goal, so at least for me it’s somewhat different. But I sadly wouldn’t be surprised if someone has find a way to making the activity of decluttering an object of consumerism.

Thunderbird on the desktop; K-9 Mail on Android.

Definitely not, first of all I love pastel colors and, on the more practical side of things, at least for touch interfaces I do prefer to have some padding: even on larger screens (my current phone is 6.7") I tend to prefer larger and more padded interfaces to avoid hitting the wrong one (and that’s the main reason why I don’t like to type on a phone that much).

So I might even be in the minority but having a control center with larger but less buttons on each page is exactly what I prefer, I don’t mind having to scroll if it’s easier to toggle what I need to.

EndeavourOS sul mio portatile e - ahimè - Windows 10 al lavoro; sul telefono Android 13 (My UX di Motorola).

In piú non lo uso di certo giornalmente ma circa una volta ogni due settimane a seconda di cosa devo fare uso un “vecchio” Mac del 2009 con High Sierra (l’ultima versione che supporta).

I agree, also the holding back of packages just for the sake of waiting probably doesn’t make it more stable, despite what the devs say; also having 300+ packages updated at the same time might make it worse for troubleshooting in case something goes wrong.

As someone who actually started with Manjaro back in 2020 before moving to EndeavourOS after 9 months, I would say that there is indeed a steeper learning curve as you don’t get for example a GUI package manager (Pamac is awful and even as a newbie I used it for maybe three days before I started to use the CLI, but a Linux beginner might want one) and the fact it is a true rolling release means you need to do some more research and maintenance, so I wouldn’t call Endeavour a distro for absolute beginners, unless one is determined to learn a lot about how a computer works… but again one shouldn’t probably use a rolling release then; Manjaro just tricks you to believe it is easier, but it probably is only if you don’t use the AUR.

Maybe Garuda is more beginner friendly than EndeavourOS while avoiding most of the problems Manjaro has? Although I’ve never used it as I don’t see any advantage over Endeavour, and I’m not a fan of excessive out of the box theming and Chaotic AUR enabled as default…

ma voi comprereste un qualsiasi prodotto elettronico con un sovraprezzo obbligatorio dovuto al fatto che qualcun altro l’ha “impostato” per te?

Assolutamente no, a partire dal fatto che non vorrei mai e poi mai che qualcuno imposti per conto mio un telefono o peggio ancora un computer (dove l’unica impostazione che mi serve è installare una distro Linux a mia scelta…), tanto piú in un megastore. L’unica eccezione per cui potrei pagare un sovrapprezzo è il caso che citava @Utzmetah nel suo commento piú sotto, ma quello è effettivamente un servizio, mentre almeno per me un’impostazione fatta in una grande catena sarebbe piú un disservizio che altro…

Quanto meno devo dire che delle tre grandi catene che ci sono nella mia zona (Mediaworld, Unieuro ed Euronics) di solito se devo prendere qualcosa vado da Unieuro che mi sembrano i piú onesti come prezzi e (per fortuna) “servizi” del genere non me ne hanno mai proposti, neanche per dei portatili.

Mi trovo decisamente bene: è vero, non c’è un grande numero di comunità in confronto a Reddit, soprattutto alcune di quelle che seguivo piú di nicchia non si sono spostate; tutto sommato non è poi cosí male, visto che qui su Lemmy mi sembra che comunque (almeno tolte le comunità piú generaliste) ci sia piú qualità pur con la minore quantità di interventi. Cosí uso anche meno i social rispetto a prima e riesco a fare dell’altro di piú utile…

Principalmente RSS o (prima) Reddit/(ora) Lemmy, della televisione tendo a sentire i titoli del telegiornale e basta perché in casa all’ora di cena teniamo un quiz in sottofondo.

Per quanto riguarda gli RSS, come notizie generali seguo un giornale online della mia provincia, Il Post e il Guardian; il resto è una serie di blog/siti comunque di informazione (fra cui ad es. Il Fatto Alimentare, BUTAC e il blog dell’UAAR) e un misto di siti piú specifici su vari argomenti.

Manjaro was the first Linux distro I used as a daily driver, from October 2020 to July 2021, when I switched to EndeavourOS. To be fair the main reason I switched was all those previous mess-ups by the developers and the troubled past, which I didn’t know of when I moved to Linux. In the year or so I used it, I didn’t have any messed update or crash myself.

I would say it’s still a fine distro for beginners who want to try a rolling release (as EndeavourOS is imho better in every way, but it doesn’t come with any GUI package manager so I wouldn’t call it a distro for absolute beginners), but can’t see any other usage case, as it’s especially risky if you want to use packages from the AUR.

LibreOffice, as I’ve been using it from soon after it was forked from OpenOffice and I’m used to it, and I don’t think it’s worth it to learn how to use another office suite when the one I use works fine for everything I need to do. I had tried OnlyOffice on another computer and I was positively impressed, but not quite enough to feel I should switch; in the end I only even use a small subset of the features LO has.

Just a few days ago I had commented elsewhere that, disappointed with recent Brave Search results, I should have used a meta search engine instead. Thanks to your post I stopped procrastinating and started trying a SearXNG instance as default search engine (just tweaking engine settings a bit), so far everything seems good, results are on point and in multiple languages (last time I had tried a meta search engine a few years ago I had to change manually the language for each search, and it was annoying given that I often search the web in at least three languages, sometimes four) and the uncluttered UI is very nice. I’ll test it out for a few days I guess, but the first impression is good.

Kvæsitso with default icons on Motorola Edge 30 Pro.

I was an iOS user for nearly a decade but I increasingly grew tired of the walled garden and lack of customization (i.e. not being possible for me to tailor the OS closer to my needs), especially the lack of third-party stores for FOSS apps. Not to mention the fact that the App Store model actively discourages developers of these apps, so it is an ideological question at the end of the day.

Congratulations! I’m about to try to get a professional assessment, although in the particular region of Italy where I live it’s a long process for adults that involves getting appointments with two doctors before going to the “Regional Autism Centre”. That has discouraged me for quite some time but this sort of limbo sometimes is hard to bear and now I just want to know it for certain…

Motorola Edge 30 Pro (aka Motorola Edge+ 2022 for the North Americans here), which I got back in early November last year. I did research for a while before buying it (and got it with a huge discount) and I’m mostly happy with my purchase, it’s a nice phone with a clean near-stock Android experience (although I’ve since changed launcher to Kvæsitso) and it’s extremely fast, although I must say I’m not a heavy smartphone user.

Worst things are that the Android 13 update took nearly three months long than planned to come (and here in Italy apparently we were among the first to get the update) and Motorola is not that fast with security updates; while the only really annoying thing is that sometimes it stops the internet connection usually after giving the command to download/update apps, whether from the Play Store or from F-Droid; the connection somehow is still there as it’s enough to cancel and tell do download/update again and everything works.

This is my first Android phone: my first smartphone was a Nokia X6 running Symbian which I got in 2011 and then I used iPhones for a decade (while having been a Mac user all the time), first an iPhone 5C in 2013 and then an 8 Plus which I got in 2018. Clearly the newest was the best of the bunch as it was a quite major upgrade from the 5C, which in turn came when Symbian was an abandoned OS; the last two phones both lasted me just short of five years, and I changed back in November mainly because I could hand it down (refurbished) to my mom, otherwise I would have waited perhaps another year.

This time I decided to leave iOS for good as I was increasingly unsatisfied and worried with Apple’s walled garden ecosystem - for the same reason I had already left macOS for Linux back in 2020 (never had any other Apple products nor subscriptions except for a few iPods over the years) - and even after the novelty has worn off I vastly prefer Android. Right now I have this Android phone and my laptop I’m writing from, which only runs Linux, specifically EndeavourOS, although my old 2009 iMac still works - thanks to a SSD swap back in '17, although it hasn’t gotten newer updates since High Sierra - and I tinker with it from time to time. At work I use Windows 10… but that’s not my choice.

Brave Search on all my personal devices, even though I’m getting worse results than up to a few months ago, so as much as it pains to admit it I sometimes use Google as a fallback (and the last time I actually used Google as my main search engine was back in 2012!). I probably should use metasearch engines more, though, but have been procrastinating learning how to effectively use them for a while now.

Aside from that, I have about a dozen sites saved with search keywords on Firefox (four of them are Wikipedia in different languages, though) that I use all the time.