I second this recommendation 👍 Generally it should work better with a controller as well.

I tend to use Hugo these days, which can be a bit janky as well, but there are nice themes for it.

If you want something really easy and Permacomputing compatible this looks pretty neat though: https://lichen.commoninternet.net/

While theoretically true, the main bottleneck with Lemmy seems to be the database performance, so with both projects depending on PostgreSQL for that, I somewhat doubt that Piefed being written in Python will have much noticeable effect in reality.

The base consumer models from regular brands usually have no write cache and are thus cheaper, and obviously slower, but for data storage that doesn’t matter so much.

But you can also look into 2.5" HDDs if you are looking for power savings and noise reduction over regular HDDs.

Just look at the PostmarketOS wiki for the supported devices list.

In general there is an Android app compatibility layer called Waydroid that allows running Android apps, but it is similar to a custom rom, i.e. forget about running those security locked down banking apps etc in it.

The last one in the list.

The vote is missing one song.

Well, in theory airplane mode should disable it, but as a software feature that could be spoofed if the device is compromised. Some privacy focused phones have hardware kill-switches for the cell-modem because of that.

The “not super accurate” location is only from one cell tower (via the shared public IP). Triangulation via multiple cell towers is something only the ISPs with antennas near you can do, and it can be much more accurate.

Due to the emergency call function, a mobile phone will still connect to cell towers and send the unique device id even if you take out the sim.

(Might be mentioned in the video)

Well, obviously if you host from your home ISP, people will be able to figure out your home’s approximate location via a reverse IP search.

But otherwise go for it. It’s not that hard to do and a nice learning experience.

The militias in Rojava (northern Syria) are kinda working that way. There are no real ranks and they were quite effective fighting ISIL and Turkish proxy forces in recent years.

This guy also being a perpetrator of bullying because he didn’t like moderation decisions makes this post a bit ironic though 🤷

This is odd because I know a few mainland Chinese people that use XMPP without problems (and afaik without a VPN).

Sounds like your server got blocked for another reason?

Well, instead of leaking metadata to Signal, AWS, Cloudflare, Google/Apple and your ISP, like Signal does, RCS only leaks it to your ISP /s

You can easily redirect xmpp to port 443 which is not blocked by most firewalls. If you have problems with firewalls or public wifis your xmpp server is misconfigured.

The actual military grade (xmpp based) messengers implement security lables, meaning messages are tagged with the required security clearance and if you invite random people to a chat they can’t see the messages.

Something like that could be also interesting for a Lemmy frontend to make it easier to share images on instances that have strict upload limits.

Hmm, maybe they are running some developer release? I don’t think this has made it into an official release yet, and if so that must have happend very recently (I tried selfhosting Pixelfed about 6 months ago and it wasn’t available yet).

This is a planned feature for Pixelfed that is perpetually finally almost finished since about two years now 😅