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I actually really like not having backlight, forcing me to use non-directional yellow light during the night reading sessions. I wish all electronic screen were like that.

> "Over the years it has been clear that we in the “open source” camp (as opposed to the “free software” camp) were wrong all along. We won the debate, and gained little for users or developers. All that our efforts did was to make it easier for big corporations build things more cheaply and for billionaires to become trillionaires."

Claiming this and afterwards deciding to use a weak copy left license like EUPL (which can be integrated with proprietary software without disclosing source code) instead of AGPLv3, which really closes SaaS loop is a bit lost to me.

In my primary school in Istanbul, we had chess classes weekly on Fridays as the last class. The timeslot and our kind Ukrainian teacher was making it impossible to concentrate. As a result I never able to become a child prodigy but I have very fond memories of that class. Good for the kids!

"As part of our NLnet-funded GNU Taler project, we’ve completed a deliverable: exploring and implementing Taler support in the F-Droid client. App developers can try this now by getting an account for receiving Taler-based donations and publishing their Taler donation link in app metadata."

GNU Taler project site: https://www.taler.net/en/index.html

I can think of mailbox.org and posteo.de . I use mailbox.org with custom domai for two years now and it works as intended from mail side.

Announcement: https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2026-02-06-update-on-deve...

Always my problem with Tailscale and similar solutions is that I already run VPNs in my personal devices and especially with android devices, I need to switch between two VPNs, which I find a friction that I do not want. Does anybody know a solution to this?

exactly and in case of free software it is not even competition with financial incentive and (not always) so many projects can live long without a good output because of this. i think many people do not appreciate the usefulness of 'non-useful' things

The so-called fragmentation people criticizes in the comments is also a strength for free software systems in long term.

I am using Classic iPod using Rockbox, it is basically drag and drop without Apple's gatekeeping. I also changed battery and increase storage capacity using iFlash adapters. Although I am very happy with this setup, I recommend you check some cheap mp3 players that can be used with Rockbox. It was pain in the ass to open it, and second hand market is way too expensive.

I am using Bandcamp and Youtube to discover music. I also would like to check Musicbrainz.

Unfortunately, it is not FOSS but I find Obsidian with kanban plugin a killer. They do release their Android app from Github, and some custom ROMs allows you to disallow network permission. Also for Linux version, you can use Flatpak release and run it without network permission. Not very ideal, but I find it working for me.

Audio jacks have to come back.

I recently switched to an iPod and have a Samba server that I can use to access my music library on the go if needed, via WireGuard. Honestly, I could not be more happier with it. I think there are very few advantages for technically inclined people to still pay for streaming services, and the fees are not one of them.

Does it also remove Firefox's translation models that uses local CPU? I find that feature very useful and totally obliterated my dependence on Chrome's translate features. Models are surprisingly good, especially for languages like English, Spanish and German.

I can see the use of LLMs and machine learning tools like TTS, translators and grammar checkers to be integrated to browser, but only depending on local models or better, like Firefox's case to CPU optimized local models.

here is mine; https://altug.helidoni.org

I learned hosting and building websites with this project :)