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halm,
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It’s only a duopoly?! I’m genuinely curious who you see as the top two and what other bloated browsers don’t make your list.

halm,
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Right, so engines not browsers/brands. That makes sense 🙂 I guess Edge, Trident or WebKit don’t really figure into that scale?

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LOL, fair point!

Chrome but crypto and homophobic CEO

😬 I’m just going to guess Brave?

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Duh, you’re right. I refuse to use it so I’m not exactly up to date…

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Funny how Bountysource deteriorated at the exact time cryptocurrency got involved.

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It just cited the wrong Neal Stephenson book, so not way off.

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What can possibly go wrong?

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Well, fuck. It was fun while it lasted.

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It’s definitely true that Twitter consistently failed to raise the expected profit for stockholders, which is probably why they appreciated the wild overshot that Musk offered. I sort of appreciated that the company could stay so uncommercial for as long as it did, running only on hype.

Did Nazis use to “run rampant” on there before? Maybe not straight up, clear cut Nazis but there were some people who really dogwhistled in that direction going way back.

halm,
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Friends? More like feudal lords picking and choosing which projects they can benefit from supporting.

halm,
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Non-paywalled archive.is link

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Ooh, good one! I’ll try to stick to the very basics that I’ve installed, different strokes for different use cases and all.

  • MicroG — a non-Google framework to circumvent annoying GSF dependencies.
  • DAVx5 — will sync calendars and contacts from your own cal/cardDAV instance.
  • ICSx5 — helps add external ICS calendars into your calendar.
  • Syncthing — keeps documents, pictures, etc synced between devices.
  • KISS launcher — search based launcher. No bloat, no muss, no fuss. Everything else seems to try too hard after KISS.
  • Fossify apps. There’s a whole suite but I only use
    • Fossify calendar,
    • Fossify contacts,
    • Fossify SMS messenger.
  • Fennec — a Firefox that passes F-droid privacy muster.
  • K-9 mail — um, is this top grade email app named after the robot dog in Doctor Who? Affirmative.
  • Open camera — so much better than a basic Android camera app.
  • Authenticator Pro — 2-factor authetication (dunno why it’s called “Pro”, it’s not like there’s a paid tier)
  • Obtainium — another app manager, for the fringe cases where an app isn’t on F-droid but you trust its source enough to download it from there.

Edited to add:

  • NewPipe! — third party YouTube player that puts a stick in Google’s tracking and profiling.

Additional repositories

F-droid is great and all but its best feature really is that you can add other app repositories alongside the flagship one. IMO you absolutely need to add the following repos for the best selection (ie., adapted to my list above 😉)

Suggestions for more repos?

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That would be in your phone main settings I guess, and specific to your device? In no Android stock or custom ROM I’ve used have I seen a “photos button (bottom right)”.

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Oh, good catch! They have their own repository that can easily be added to the F-droid app. I think repos deserve special mention, editing my op.

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Hmmm, so DivestOS supports bootloader relocking, huh? I’ll have to give that a look.

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It’s a …social workspace? It feels a bit icky though, like being teenage peer pressured to go to a mall. Just a little too consumery.

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Yeah, I’m not clicking a Screen Rants link but “Jelly Breens” is a quality pun!

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I think you should’ve stuck with the bottom tier.

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Could’ve done without the vocals on the background track but that was a worthwhile supercut.

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Yeah, KISS is amazing, versatile and simple with a small footprint. It honestly should be the default throughout Android.

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Yeah, because using the KISS launcher is like going into the CLI and building stuff from source /s

It does the absolute basic of what a launcher should do and then some, doesn’t track you and gets out of your way. Those principles wouldn’t kill Android, but maybe Google’s ad revenue would smart a bit.

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Yeah, that’s a George Carlin quote, and I’m well aware of it. It’s no excuse for dumbing down interfaces like a launcher, or filling it with superfluous features (that coincidentally feed into a corporate clickhole).

Rather than the grim idea that everybody gets an interface the lowest common denominator will grasp, I maintain that everybody deserves a functional, no-bullshit launcher like KISS. It absolutely isn’t what you make it out to be.

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Apparently Mac users.

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Sure, but again. That is only legally binding in US jurisdiction?

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I have the LibRedirect browser add-on installed which uses proxigram.

It seems Instagram are doing their worst to swat third party access overall so it’s not a perfect alternative. Still beats getting tracked wherever you browse, though.

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I’m curious about this because I had a bunch of dracut warnings when I updated my EndeavourOS to 6.8.7 the other day. Seeing this doesn’t make me too keen on rebooting until I’ve updated without error messages…

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Don’t cut yourself in that edge, kid 🙄

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“So… What can you do with it?”

“Nothing. It"s perfect!”

halm,
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Oh, in the end I just pulled a $ sudo dracut --regenerate-all --force to generate a working initramfs. But did you find a solution to your problem? Glad you found a fix!

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I frigging love markdown for everything!

halm,
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That’d be nice of course. Personally, I just wish everything Microsoft would wither and go away.

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I came here to say matrix but I’m not gonna lie. If XMPP had gotten the traction it deserved we wouldn’t need matrix.

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Was it really back in 2009 that both Google and Facebook used XMPP compatible chats? Those were the days.

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We had the future in our hands but our corporate platform overlords made a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

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It’s basically ubiquitous in academia

You mean STEM. In the humanities we do just fine without, tyvm.

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Just set up pandoc and Bob’s your uncle. It’ll convert markdown to anything. You’ll never have to open another word processor.

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Pandoc + [your markdown editor of choice] is magic. Some editors even come with Pandoc as a dependency so you can export to more or less anything from the GUI. I think GhostWriter and Zettlr at least (I honestly can’t be sure, I’ve changed editors so often and now I just have some Pandoc conversion scripts in my file manager menu).

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Intelligence, on twitter. Nah, not buying it.

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You probably already looked into the Separate+ plugin? But yeah, even now native CMYK support is lacking because — chicken, meet egg — there hasn’t been a lot of support from the graphics industries toward development of that feature.

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Unless you’re talking artwork for professional print shops, people have been printing out RGB pictures for decades. Otherwise, imagemagick will convert the files for you in a single command (note that this solution has also been available for at least 12 years). All you need is the ICC profiles.

Heck, any print company worth their salt will convert the colour space of your file(s) for a fee if all else fails.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks Will End With Its Fifth, Final Season

Well hell.

https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-lower-decks-canceled-season-5-paramount-1851407280

@startrek

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[Boimler scream]

Looking for self hosted digital asset management

I’m looking to be able to store assets that I’ve created and purchased (both 3d models and images, potentially audio in the future) on my nas and would love to be able to use something to browse them and filter or sort them based on what kind of usage license I have for them. So if I’m doing a commission I can filter out...

halm,
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Only one I can think of is Manyfold. Hope this helps.

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Oh shoot, that was all I had. I use Tropy to manage research photos but that doesn’t support 3D models AFAIK…

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Jeez, remember when Nextcloud did only a couple of basic things and did them well? Scratch that memory and give a round of applause to the still-growing Bloaty McBloatface.

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?

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It’s absolutely that, like the office admin workers who swear by Microsoft Office over open alternatives no matter how insidious Windows becomes. “I know this one tool and you will have to wring it from my cold dead hands”…

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Yeah, Jack-of-all-trades here as well. For sure it’s less convenient to have to switch programs for different purposes but there is also the added convenience of not having to find pirated and cracked Adobe warez.

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Sure, I guess. Not what I was after but it has potential in its own right.

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Yeah, if banks had open and standardised APIs we could all use the same FLOSS banking app — or choose from any of a bazillion FLOSS apps. Instead they’re going the authoritarian route and locking customers in with bloated black box, proprietary apps…

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