Is anyone here actually using ReactOS?

I feel like Linux just makes more sense to pretty much everyone, but maybe there are users who depend on very specific Windows-only ecosystem for whom ReactOS makes sense. It’s just such a strange little OS.

MicroG makes most things work, so it’s not much compromise in my experience. :)

I use /e/OS which has access to apps from the Play Store, so that I still have my banking apps and stuff. I think streaming apps should work just fine.

…offline support?

I realize I’m not entirely free yet, but I sleep better ever since I changed to a non-Google Android ROM. Also because the path to proper mobile Linux feels shorter now.

Anyone still on Google Android: Look into making the change. It’s worth it.

And if not, at least start getting your apps from F-droid whenever possible.

Remains to be seen if it made it to Gaza or if it was intercepted after getting this close. In either case it’s heroic as fuck.

Naturally the Berlin police responded by doing what the Berlin police does best. Al Jazeera has some nice pictures.

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/9/28/tens-of-thousands-rally-in-berlin-against-german-support-for-israel

Times of Israel also reported on it, in case you don’t trust Al Jazeera for whatever reason.

More seriously from a technical side, I’m also not a huge fan of the browser and the engine being the same thing. To me they should be kept separate. So personally I’m cheering on Servo.

He now also celebrates Charlie Kirk hoping that others will pick up his great work, and whines about white men being discriminated against in tech.

Let’s just say he’s certainly not anti fascist.

At the very least, someone celebrating Charlie Kirk and whining about white men being discriminated against is not someone I’m interested in supporting, and if the future of the open web is in their hands I’ll just stick to lynx.

https://youtu.be/zDrfisZP-Us?t=135

Touché. Gotta admit I didn’t think it through properly, there’s probably a bunch of other things as well. Point is I think I’ve provided the music industry with more money than it strictly deserves.

Especially with the price of concerts these days. Jesus.

Lol, I’m a vinyl nerd, I’ve probably given more money to the music industry than to anything else except food

Easier to let users play music for free when you don’t pay the artists I guess

“How do you do, fellow scholars”

And very few of them are on record advocating for how we should not have empathy for gun victims. The right wingers whining for compassion here are dishonouring his legacy.

I would be very happy if anyone could explain to me in a simple and coherent way why I, as a normal user who am aware of what I am doing on my device and am not targeted by any group that’s out to get me, would need a “hardened malloc”, “secure app spawning”, “vanadium browser and webview”, or a “hardened PDF viewer”. The last of these four is the only thing that means anything to me, and it sounds dumb. Yeah, I know PDFs can be dangerous if you open random shit, but come on.

If I run Waydroid it’s only to get my banking app (trusted source) and Whatsapp (not a trusted source but not directly malware either) working. I hardly need their hardened PDF reader.

I guess if Google closes down AOSP it would get forked, and the fork would probably be a separate thing from the current Android distributions. So that the landscape would continue to look a bit like today, except that AOSP would be an independent thing.

Then I guess it’s possible that Google would seek to make android apps incompatible, gradually making the whole thing kinda pointless. I can’t say I’m using Android for the great UX - I’m using it because it supports a few apps I continue to be forced to use. If I can’t use them on Android any more I’m switching to Ubuntu Touch or PostmarketOS in a heartbeat.

I guess the parts of the fediverse that allows adult content. There’s a lot of people on the fediverse dedicated to supporting sex workers and stuff like that. None of these sites or users are in a position to sue the UK though, I’m just giving a pedantic answer to your question.

Now 4chan becomes the face of resistance to this shit, and people will think it is only being opposed by a bunch of deplorable incels. It delegitimizes the entire opposition - you can’t speak out against it any more without being associated with 4chan and whatever the fuck kiwi farm is.

At least that’s the risk, and that’s why I wish these sites would go die in a hole rather than involve themselves with things I care about.