So not being thrilled about huge corpos throwing billions of dollars destroying the environment, ruining people’s minds and jobs and potentially killing us all in 10 years is a “dogmatic Luddite stance”. Got it.

No expert but an uuid with a bunch of zeros seems really odd to me - and if I’m guessing correctly, boot is failing to mount your partitions as if the filesystems were corrupt, but I’m just leaving this as bait as someone with more knowledge about that stuff corrects me. In the meanwhile I’d check things to really be sure the hdd drive is ok (via fsck, parted and co)

Other comment lists the procedure to restore a local backup but in my experience that doesn’t work since at least 3 years. Now it involves some finnicky procedure and you not only need your .db.crypt? file but all the contents from your data/com.whatsapp folder so it has some chance to work. I have some backups sitting around since 2021 and this is the time I haven’t been able to even read their conctacts because now whatsapp seems to force people into using the google drive backup method.

Maybe what you call “basic functionality” isn’t as “basic” to implement in code. Or maybe there aren’t that many people that consider those functionalities “basic” (me for example).

All in all the hate towards wayland just does more harm than good and people limited on complaining and hating maybe should consider ways of actually improving it.

But somehow Android, which is based on Linux, somehow checks those points for them…

The hipocrisy is too big to ignore and it’s true, with that mindset of just wanting and waiting for someone else to do the hard work for them to just add patches here and there… they’re doomed to fail.

And as said in another post some days ago, I fear posts like this would cause a Streisand effect. Not cool to give them free publicity.

Last time someone tried making a feature-complete FOSS Instagram client, they stopped after a cease and desist from Meta.

Meta (Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram…) is the worst of the worst offenders for private instant messaging and humanity would be a little less miserable without it. I miss my pidgin days when one could use messenger, gtalk, jabber and whatnot and nobody gave a shit because “features” and so-called “privacy” wasn’t an excuse to rob your, ahem, privacy.

Sorry for the rant

Alas is not in F-Droid

Haven’t had a vanilla install since KDE 5 came out, but the biggest thing I use far from the default install is Karousel

To be fair the left part also once was “Software, by corporation” (i.e. Photoshop CS and prior)

If they were they’d mentioned it, that’s for sure

I don’t know if there’s such thing but i wish there was a foss alternative for street view too

I guess they are thinking about the ‘Compact’ option

Not wanting to be pedantic and I couldn’t care less actually, but it also happens that linux is not a pure unix

It tells Portage to set every package it installs to use the flags spit out by cpuid2cpuflags, so yes, */* is kind of an expansion - it should mean like “every portage package in every category”

Have had a small cheap wacom bamboo for more than 10 years. Not only the device works great in itself and it’s quite sturdy but its support on Linux has always been stellar. Absolutely no complaints whatsoever.