I am glad, that the comment section here isn’t filled with Valve fanboys, like it’s usually when Valve is criticized.

That actually makes sense, thank you

How dare the government raise money to fund useless things, like infrastructure, education or social services, right?

Codeberg is a nonprofit, that has a democratic “member” system and is fully funded through donations / member fees.

Codeberg has always been perfectly sane

Why are you against a sales tax?

What is the problem? Maybe reload the page? If you want the link to the post: https://blog.strawberrycloud.org/2026/05/15/democracy-has-given-up-pretending/ .

The main reason in this case, is because I live in Germany, so I’ll be fucking executed, if I get caught pirating.

I already payed a thousand euros a few years ago when I was caught seedimg “Her” (I forgot to turn on my VPN). That’s when I decided to never do anything risky again, so I got a debrid service. That’s fine, because no actual seeding is now happening through my ip.

I’d probably recommend something with GrapheneOS as it’s pretty easy to install and use. I personally use it as well and never had any issues with it. You might want to look if your Banking apps work, but other than that, you can pretty much install most major apps through Aurora (like WhatsApp, Signal etc.)

If you want to go fully open, you could also try buying a Fairphone 4 and installing PostmarketOS on it, as I see PostmarketOS as the long-term ideal future OS for phones, because it frees us from the shackles of phone update cycles and gives the user full control over their OS (including changing the desktop environment).

But if you want to use PostmarketOS you have to be willing to tinker and not everything will work perfectly. Especially the camera will not be perfectly supported, even on the well supported Fairphone 4, your pictures will look worse than the ones you could take on Android, because there aren’t good drivers and post processing yet. But it can be really cool if you are an enthusiast.

Yeah, noticed that a few days ago, most of the stuff I watched on streamio was gone.

Luckily, my subscription runs out in like 45 days anyways, so I just switched to Torbox. Works pretty well and is at a similar price. Too bad for the 4€ I wasted, but what can you do I guess

What new features is Mint getting?

That’s fucking based! Finally, some public money for stuff that so much of the public also relies on.

I hope this becomes a trend, because there is some huge potential when governments start to fund FOSS

Damm, I learned a lot about Linux through this meme

Steve Bannon says this? Sorry for being cynical, but I don’t by anything that Trump’s goons say.

What most people need to understand is that a lot of politicians don’t believe in anything, except serving the interests of their donors.

Just like they didn’t do anything about the “deep state” or the prices of eggs, they will never even consider doing anything that threatens Nvidia or OpenAI.

It’s nice that the political discourse is shifting, but don’t expect anyone who is currently in power to help you in this fight

Also, if you didn’t want to know the answer, then why did you even ask?

How? I actually do the stuff I say, which would defeat my cliche of a communist online.

If you mean by that, that I am a communist and spend some of my time online, then you are correct.

It’s not about not doing something, it’s more about learning to do something.

I would personally recommend you start educating yourself about anticapitalism / anarchism and communism. Here is a good video to give you an overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrTzjaXskUU.
After that, maybe start with joining some leftist protests in your area or joining a local leftist group. Then talk to the people there and learn how to do even more.

It’s hard, but it shure as hell is better than just giving up.

Nope, if people stopped buying lootboxes, they would just find something else.

The problem is not peoples behaviour, it is the fundamental incentive structures, that incentivize exploiting your customers.

If we really want to fix this problem, we need to abolish capitalism.

I am a huge believer in free software and researched a bit if there was any open source social media.

I found out the Fediverse was a pretty successful attempt at this and now I am active mostly on piefed and Mastodon.

Contrary to most people here, I don’t have a huge gripe with Reddit, that I wouldn’t have with any other corporate owned social media. I am here mostly because I believe in this project and want to see it evolve. I don’t simply see it as a Reddit / Twitter alternative.

Litterally 1984