FarraigePlaisteaċ (sé/é)

The EU is a shared platform, not an identity. We are not a monoculture and I don’t think aping USA in this regard is helpful.

A Reuters article on this too https://www.reuters.com/business/eqt-eyes-potential-6-billion-sale-linux-pioneer-suse-sources-say-2026-03-09/

My Kindle Oasis is still on 5.15.2 despite being connected to the internet. I wonder why that is.

Anyway, thanks for the specifics. I should look into this. I don’t like the jailbroken software as much, but I’m conscious of what Amazon might do to my Kindle next.

Obligatory: I bought my Kindle before I was aware of more ethical alternatives. I won’t be buying Amazon again.

Oh, I had no idea. Thanks. I’ll look into it. I use OM.

Edit: I’ve switched to the new app. Thanks again!

I hope you’ll leave a review here when you’ve had some time with it. I depend on some accessibility features on my phone so it’s not as easy to transition, but I’m determined to reduce my use of US (or any, really) big tech as much as possible.

Good to see this initiative. I hope it succeeds. I know Teams is being used in the public sector still, for example.

Thanks. I see Bunq in Ireland supports this. I’ll have to research Bunq

Yes I have that enabled, as well as a few other recommended ones for webgl. It works technically, it’s just visually very hard to look at because it’s so badly rendered (lots of noise).

It can’t do WebGL websites such as https://semsystem.net/ but besides that, it’s been very good for me. (I’ve gone through the config enabling various webgl settings but still no luck).

Thank you!

What other alternatives are there to Zoom, Teams and FaceTime? I’ve used Jitsi in the past but something changed (I can’t remember what) and had difficulty with whatever instances I knew of and had to stop using it.

Yeah, I think investing in an existing, federated FOSS instance is what’s needed. Not this.

Sounds similar to https://www.trustcafe.io/en/About - at least the intentions. It’s a pity a new company is needed rather than supporting existing projects like Mastodon/PieFed etc. If it reduces the spread of oligarchs disinformation then it will be worth it IMO.

If they display the Spotify logo anywhere, promote or mention that their podcast is on Spotify, or “all platforms” I unsubscribe. And yes, I’m having to unsubscribe from many of my favourites. But I’ve been reading more as a result (or “reading”, using text to speech with ebooks).

At this stage, if a podcast exists on Spotify then I will not listen to it on other platforms either (even if I liked it).