/e/os is LineageOS + microG with an easy installer available or pre-installed purchase. The interface design is based on how iOS works, for example to move an icon on your phone long press one of the icons and wait till they all go wiggling and then drag the icon to where you want to have it.

I think /e/os is okay for folks who want a deGoogled phone that comes pre-installed.

In case anyone wants to try the /e/os easy installer on an old and supported phone, the /e/os easy install is really much more easy compared to plain LineageOS install.

Sorry to spoil the party, but Mull browser and Mullvad browser are two different beasts. Mull browser is for Android by the DivestOS person, and Mullvad browser is based on Tor browser by the Swedish Mullvad VPN company.

That one has posts from 2 months ago or older. After some searching I found another one which is recent, here’s a post : https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/88991

Here’s on Mastodon : https://mastodon.social/@newsycombinator@framapiaf.org

And RSS feeds : https://hnrss.github.io/

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Ouch, that’s a nasty bug imho. Thanks to this wiki entry I’ve looked up the file librewolf.cfg in /var/lib/flatpak/ and changed :

pref("network.trr.mode", 2);

into

pref("network.trr.mode", 5);

and that seems to fix it for now (till a newer LibreWolf maybe overrides that file).

Thing is that searx.be has been remarkably good for my use case since a long time. With other instances YMMV.

The mentioned server side changes (e.g. A server move you mentioned but could also be server settings, provider settings, etc).

I guess that is the case. According to https://searx.space/ the searx.be server is in Austria but might use some proxy to talk to Google and similar to avoid quick blocking. The maintainer of searx.be also maintains yewtu.be and that one uses proxies (The proxy names can be seen when blocking auto play of videos in Tor browser).

Also getting results in Russian here since a few days. Usually it is either Swedish or Dutch. Never German.

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👏 Fireworks! 🎆

Most if not all Piped video instances seem unusable right now : https://lemmy.ml/post/19084660/12956916

Indeed. I tried on mobile with LibreTube and with Mull and both fail. And also fails now in Tor browser. The list is getting shorter.

Now I’ve tried almost all of them in the Piped instances list (Several domain name for sale and server not found errors) and only the smnz.de one works for me. :( I am wondering whether a freshly installed self-hosted private Piped video instance will work fine.

Works for me still (Using Tor browser. I’m Europe located).

The instances list is not up to date :

• List of instances : https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances But after trying maybe more than 10 of them I found one which manages to play a video :

https://piped.smnz.de/watch?v=bBhDWTZDH9c

There’s probably more working instances.

Plan B : I guess running your own Piped instance and not sharing it with a lot of people could be worth considering.

Personally I’m sticking to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Yt-dlp#Faster_downloads for the video downloading I do.

Was about to post the great blog post from my bookmarks, but another commenter beat me to it (t y !). Here’s comments on that blog post on Lobsters and HN :

• https://lobste.rs/s/gqoj5n/passkeys_shattered_dream
• https://web.archive.org/web/20240507211213/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40165998

Yes and no. Code development for Nitter has officially stopped afaik, but there are still some instances not completely dead.

• https://status.d420.de/ Nitter Instance Uptime & Health

Yes, gdebi :

• https://screenshots.debian.net/package/gdebi

This article is about Mobifree https://f-droid.org/en/2024/05/24/mobifree.html As far as I can see F-Droid mentions that it will be a contributing partner :

For more than 14 years, F-Droid has been developing solutions which act as pieces of the alternative mobile ecosystem puzzle. So it was a natural fit for F-Droid to become a contributing partner in the broader Mobifree project.

F-Droid playing a role :

F-Droid will play a major role in this project, tasked with creating a decentralized distribution system for developers to deliver apps to Android users.

Help to create the NGI funded project Mobifree :

F-Droid is one participating organization who has joined forces to help create this new mobile ecosystem. However, additional input, expertise, inspiration and work will be needed in order to break the traditional framework established by Big Tech. From community outreach to legal support, from developers, to researchers and end users, we welcome all forms of support.

I don’t read that F-droid will force ads on F-Droid on users any time soon. I can imagine F-Droid will continue to exist as it is but I could be wrong.

Tested playing a video with an Invidious instance right now and it worked. Did you try another instance ?

That’s because you’re using it for a purpose it wasn’t intended. I2P isn’t designed to be used to browse the regular internet, for that it’s better to use TOR. However for anonymous torrenting or accessing i2p-sites, it’s quite fast imho.

Okay, good.