It's behind a firewall. The only thing exposed to the outside is port 22 - and only pubkey login too.
And gee dude... It's been running for 18 years without being pwned 🙂
There is something I don't understand with people who rant about Reddit: if you hate it so much, why do you stay there?
I had a Reddit account myself. I wasted it and moved on. I certainly don't torture myself with it anymore: the communities here on Lemmy are smaller but they're a lot nicer to be a part of, so it's a no-brainer.
The most painless way to dual-boot is to install something that's not Windows alongside something else that's not Windows.
Pray tell, what possible benefit can Lemmy communities gain from Facebook users?
You do realize most people who joined the Fediverse did so because Facebook and the likes are a steaming pile of shit, right?
What possible benefit is there to the pile of shit coming to splatter itself here uninvited?
Once you try swiping to type, you never want to go back. And OpenBoard has Greek letters of course. Honestly, give it a spin - regardless of your problem with Jerboa: I bet you'll love it. Worst case, you'll have wasted 10 minutes installing it, trying it out without success and uninstalling it 🙂
I use Jerboa with zero problems. My keyboard is OpenBoard with Gesture Typing (similar to Swype) and I have none of the issues you report.
It's not just a matter of blocking Threads users.
Facebook is coming on here to slurp up data I don't want them to have, and enriching their own Threads ecosystem with Fediverse content they haven't lifted a finger to create.
Not to mention, when Threads users are able to fully interact in the Fediverse, do you really want that particular bunch to create noise in your communities? I don't. There's a reason why I avoid Facebook in all its forms.
Great.
I joined the Fediverse to escape Facebook's toxic interpretation of communities, so Facebook is coming to the Fediverse instead.
Just great...
Another person discovers that big tech has taken control of our computers without asking permission.
Well, your computers. I run Linux. It only does what I tell it to, not the other way round.
practice the shortcuts
You know, I used to think like that when I first learned Unix shell commands and vi. I shlepped through the learning process because I had to when I was a student. Then after graduation, I joined a Unix company so I was dragged deeper into it screaming and kicking, and I kept picking up more and more commands and shortcuts until they etched themselves deep into my muscle memory. At some point, it all stopped being a chore and it became second nature.
And it went like that for many other software I've used. Decades later, I get the payoff: I'm a fast engineer and the friction between what I want to do and the final result is very low despite working 90% of the time with the keyboard.
It was a pain to get there and it took a mighty long time, I'll be honest. but I reap the benefits now.
If I were you, I'd make the effort for that sort of thing. A couple of months tops: if you don't like it, you'll have wasted 2 months of your life. If you do, you'll have gained skills that will pay for your efforts for the rest of your life many times over.
You know what would be ironic? If you were a bot OP. I mean, how can we tell? 🙂
This danger is why I quit using the Purple Teams plugin for Pidgin: it works well enough (considering Teams isn't exactly open to third-party clients, it works amazingly well in fact) it's GPL-3.0, the source is provided and I compiled it.
So I believe it's clean, but that's not good enough for me to hit our corporate Teams channels with it and I don't have the time to audit the code. Not to mention, while my company trusts my good judgment, I'm pretty sure running an unauthorized client is against IT policies.
So I dropped it, sadly. It's a bummer because Pidgin uses a fraction of the resources needed by that pig of an Electron app - the official client - made by Microsoft.