Not just storage costs — mainly for privacy, avoiding Big Tech control, and having an open-source, decentralized alternative where I’m not tracked or subjected to ads.

Classic: modern policies, prehistoric execution.

I agree there are cases where sensitivity matters, like national security or systems tied to critical infrastructure. But when it comes to publicly funded software developed specifically for government use, the default should be open by principle. Exceptions can exist, but they must be justified — not the other way around. With COTS products like Microsoft Office, it’s different because the government is just a customer, not the owner of the development.

Absolutely!

I self-host forgejo, it’s one of the easiest systems I self-host.

But which features other than a plain git repo are you looking for? That will mostly determine your options. There are tons of git repos, and even just a plain git repo on a server with an ssh tunnel is enough if you don’t need anything beyond that.

My main goal is to stay independent from big tech and have full control over my data, but I’m still new to programming (2/8 in Software Engineering).

Fun fact: you didn’t have to reinstall; you can actually boot up a live usb and chroot into your install to fix things.

That’s what I tried! But I couldn’t do it! I should have asked for help.

I completely forgot that grub could be themed… brb

lol

Nicely done. Im always too scared to break my machine by messing with grub. :)

Yeah, the first time I tried it (alone) I broke GRUB and had to reinstall Arch (but I have backups of everything and my dotfiles). Then I followed the tutorial and everything worked out!

I don’t. It’s bad enough that people spend too much time on social media. Why the fuck would i introduce another one?

I’m practically only here because rif died. Its not because it’s enjoyable. I open the app to maybe see one good post among the thousands and thousands of “same”-posts.

You made me think.

I’m sure you could have fixed it with GRUB Rescue. It’s slightly annoying, but it isn’t that hard to get booted from that. Once you get it to boot then you can fix things.

Don’t give up so quickly next time. It’s useful to learn how to fix it instead of just accepting failure and resetting everything.

Yeah, man, I even went into live mode to try to undo what I did, but I still couldn’t manage it (I should have looked for help). But since I have backups of everything and my dotfiles, I didn’t worry too much (though I was pissed, I won’t lie).

I have my system select the default option really quickly, so I don’t see GRUB. This makes it tempting to not do that, but I think I’ll accept the convenient option instead of the cool option still.

On mine, it’s already set to boot into Arch automatically. It shows in the bottom right corner: “Joining world in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.” It’s really cool, man!

That is kind of awesome.

I wish Debian’s default Grub theme was less ugly; I know I could change it (and I have on other installs, but I’m quite lazy about theming these days. Part of it is I have a laptop that I rely on for college and don’t want to risk any theme glitches, so I keep its Debian install as vanilla as possible.

The first time I tried doing it (alone, without watching the video), I broke the system ;(, had a boot problem, so I had to reinstall everything again.

Yes, codeberg, and it’s going to be decentralized soon when forgejo implements federation

amazing!

Lmao, exactly me!

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interesting man, i’ll try!

OMG, I didn’t know this site, thanks man!

Before anything, I would check if there is an active community they are actually interested in, and give them that. Otherwise, there’s really not much reason why they should use it. It would be like gifting someone a box full of manga to someone who is not interested in Japanese stuff. I’m saying this because a lot of people including OP seems to think decentralisation/federation/FOSSness are some major selling points to a lot of people, but it really isn’t. Content usually is.

It even applies to you too. If an instance banned you for mentioning Linux or FOSS, you wouldn’t really care that they were running open-source Lemmy, you would ditch that instance. If that happened with every instance, you wouldn’t use Lemmy at all.

Now you made me think man!

I normally just say, “I read [x] on Lemmy.”

If they ask and are genuinely curious what that is, I tell them it’s like a reddit offshoot, but the users control the network and servers with a high level of transparency in administration/moderation and run off software that can have tens of thousands of crowdsourced eyes helping to find and fix any bug or security issue.

interesting!

I don’t, because they’ll ruin it.

lmao

Brave has already had several leaks and a history of selling data, that’s why I switched to LibreWolf.