No joke. Just think of all the LoRa stuff out there.

I'll check it out. I've been using Breezy Weather and have been happy with it as well.

Yes

I'm for the preemptive de-federation.

Not my kid. She only had it on for a specific reason and she only accepts she had to put up with it for now.

She's more than happy to bring it up as an issue from time to time.

Just about every single union out there has an advisory board that includes employers.

Absolutely not true. I believe you are confusing a Labor Management Committee - which is a common space for the Union and bosses to meet and discuss issues.

Bosses are not in legitimate Unions.

Source: I serve in an elected position in a sizable Union where I also serve on a Labor Management Committee.

Secondly, Unions are for the Workers - not the bosses. To hell with "costs." Enough sympathy for these people. If they can't afford to pay their workers a good wage and provide them a quality work/life balance, they don't deserve to be in business.

I was a Xubuntu user for about 15 years but have an old EeePC running Debian.

I just recently moved my main, home computer (10+ yo EliteBook) to Debian 12 and am very happy. I will be soon moving my amateur radio "shack" computer (bought last year) to Debian as well.

Forcing Snaps and Snaps' terrible usage of disk space (in my experience) is what made me move. The annoying Firefox update warning only served to aggravate me further.

I do use a couple Flatpaks (did with Ubuntu as well) but it was my choice - not a requirement. I haven't had any disk use problems or bad experiences with them.

If like add another question - how about in a RPi too? I believe there is a LineageOS android TV out there. For anything have any experience with it?

I find using a combination of AdAway and AFWall+ on android to be effective in blocking a lot of stuff. I run as root.

Probably not.

KeepassXC with Syncthing is the best option I've found.

As an early Mastodon user, it went through something like this when overt Nazis (gab, et al) federated and often used misleading names for instances. The result was an immediate reaction in disgust from the vast majority of the fediverse and rampant defederations of hateful instances.

While I blocked the community, I don't want my little community blocked because the whole instance is defederated. Should that happen I will leave - an advantage of federation.

Edit: I also blocked the 2 posters. There were only 2.