overview for Elbullazul

Discussion: What Android devices are you using? in c/android@lemdro.id

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pixel 6 pro: my main day-to-day device, degoogled
Pixel 4a: previous phone that I still keep around, mostly because I like the small form factor, also degoogled
Galaxy Tab S6 Lite: for videos and movies, sometimes for doodling, lineageos
ZenPad 8: previous tablet, for games

what are your favorites foss apps ? in c/android@lemdro.id

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

sorry, I meant piped instance (will still check out lemm.ee)

what are your favorites foss apps ? in c/android@lemdro.id

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

have you found a stable instance? Seems like all those I've tried are either throttled or periodically stop working for a few days

What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 1 points 2 years ago

My first encounter with Linux was in 2008-9 when my dad bought a secondhand PC that came with PCLinuxOS. We mostly used it to play SuperTuxKart at the time.

Then a friend showed me Ubuntu (must have been 10.04 or something like that) when we started a website project together

I tried using Mint in college and ended up using it full-time by the end of the year. Then had a brief period of using Ubuntu (drive issues with Mint) before heading back to Windows when I bought a new PC for university.

I've been using Windows for study and work, and Linux for personal development when possible. I'd like to go back to Linux full-time, but I'm not sure which distro to use

Show off time: What does your home setup look like? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Smaller homelab than average, but gets the work done

Show off time: What does your home setup look like? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Mastodon's Founder & CEO Gives His Thoughts on Meta's Threads in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 17 points 2 years ago

Nice to see a balanced opinion, this whole facebook/meta discussion has been pretty virulent at times

What's your work like? in c/chat@beehaw.org

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 2 points 2 years ago

I work with a very old ERP system (released in 2013) and each day it finds a new way to mess with us two developers working with it.

Spent the last 2 days trying to add new data to a report, glad that we finally got it to work this morning

The Pixel 4A will stop receiving security updates in August. New phone suggestions? in c/android@lemmy.world

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 7 points 2 years ago

like many have already said, a custom ROM is a pretty good option. Aside from LineageOS, I'd recommend DivestOS which is a fork with some security and privacy enhancements

What's the 3 apps that you can't live without? in c/android@lemmy.world

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 3 points 2 years ago

Mull, element, bitwarden

I'm a complete selfhosting beginner. How much is feasible on a single Pi 4B (4 GB RAM)? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The pi would be fine for a lightweight music server (ex. gonic), maybe a lightweight photo app and pihole.

Fedi software generally requires a decent machine, so it's probably better to use something else; same for matrix.

I think we might have broken @dansup in c/foss@beehaw.org

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't get how the debate around federation with a platform that hasn't even launched yet got so virulent.