I’ve only done it for a year now, but I’m giving CHF 100.- (around 100$) equally shared between all the open source projects I’m using a lot.

I keep a list to remember all of them and I update it every year.

And then I’m adapting to the platform they use to get money.

Ok Thanks for the info. I might check it out 👍

It’s an interesting article and I’m also starting to think more and more about game preservation.

I don’t understand why a company like Sony wouldn’t provide you a way to play ps1-3 games on your ps5. I would even be ready to pay for it.

There might be some technical problems I’m not seeing, but people can do it on older pc’s…

I guess the whole video game industry has to think about preserving its own history.

I don’t know if open sourcing games would help, but something needs to be done.

Even playing a game like Sim City 2000 on pc is proving challenging now on Windows. I would want to play it on Linux but I can’t imagine how difficult that would be as the game isn’t even listed in Proton DB. And the VM solution would probably not work as Steam wouldn’t support something like Windows XP…

It looks like a great service, but since I’m already paying for cloud storage (kDrive from Infomaniak) I wouldn’t want to have another subscription.

Although I wouldn’t mind paying once for an equivalent to Google photos which would be storing and going through my pictures on my cloud storage.

Does anyone knows if such a program exists?

I guess so many countries are in the same position. Of course none of them is exactly in the same position, but almost every country is using Microsoft products.

To me this sounds crazy as you could have two enemies relying on the same company to provide an OS for them.

In a way, it would make sense for every country to have their own Linux distribution, tailored to their needs. I’ve only heard about India, some states in Germany doing this, but it seems like the perfect strategy.

My country is really regarding about what its employees are doing with the citizens data, but I guess they’re still relying on Microsoft to store all that data in many different countries.

Thanks for the advice, but, for now, I can’t picture myself managing a professional phone backup without a GUI.

Had it been just a tinkering phone maybe, but not my professional one😇

Yeah but I’d still need an Apple program and a Windows VM, so it wouldn’t change a thing 😅

OrganicMaps works really well even with Apple Carplay. I’m now a 100% relying on it.

Yeah thanks I’ve read about it but the terminal part is probably above my really modest Linux knowledge for now.

An alternative to iTunes so that I don’t need a Windows VM to backup my company iPhone. But I know it’s never gonna happen because Apple is the devil.

I always admire the people taking a lot of their free time to do something beneficial for the community.

Be it as a maintainer, a small basketball coach. a village politician.

I’ve always thought about one day giving back everything I’ve received like that, but I haven’t done yet. Right now I have excuses with a difficult parental situation, but there has been many moments where I could and I just haven’t.

So congratulations and thanks to the ones doing it 👍

Well I can but my instance doesn’t accept money for now.

I guess all the steps you have to go through to accept donations are disuading some maintainers.

That number seems a bit low, but it’s really important to support Lemmy and your instance.

I’d love to support my instance, but it ain’t doable for now (at least it wasn’t when I looked into it around Christmas).

I also think accepting donations demand some organization with taxes and everything. That’s why some instances don’t accept them.

Interesting article which makes me wanna learn more about the history of home computers even if I don’t understand all the terminology.

I feel so happy to have found a home which is not Windows anymore and not having to compromise too much.

Thanks, I had managed to correct the problem, but I just wanted people to be warned that weird things could happen 👍

Especially if you disable or uninstall something you’re not sure about 😅

I’ve now installed Flauncher and ADB and it works really well.

The only problem I encountered was that the colors now seemed way too warm on my TV.

I guess I may have unintentionally uninstalled or disabled something I shouldn’t have…

Edit: Finally had to go back to factory settings as I now couldn’t select the sources…so it’s back to normal Google experience…

Thanks for the answer. I might give it a try soon.

It’s a shame you can’t just format the TV and put some Linux distribution on it.

But I guess a lot of TV’s wouldn’t work afterwards and it would be more difficult to fix than a normal computer.

Could you tell us if your TV is now any slower?

I’m a little bit scared of some things not working properly afterwards.

Thanks. I’ve just tried and it’s cool to have that equivalent to Airdrop 👍

Same LAN is the same as same Wifi?

Would it work between two computers? Even if one of them doesn’t have Bluetooth?