If f-droid doesn’t expect to survive I think the whole stack /e/OS relies on might eventually collapse (microg, lineage, …).

To be fair, I don’t think Xitter is really dead? It certainly took a hit though 🤷

We’re at an insane level of stupid. I had to buy a new smartphone in an emergency yesterday, and the onboarding runs as follows :

1. “What browser do you want to use?” Firefox
2. “What search engine do you want to use? (Non skipable)” Ecosia

This results in installing two separate apps : Firefox and Ecosia

I think it’s the same deal as search engines : people have been made too unaware of what is on their devices. Every service needs its own app or people will just not dare to “tinker”.

I bought a second hand surface pro 7 recently and I’m quite in love with it! With a few GNOME plugins it’s a quite capable tablet AND a quite capable laptop on the go.

Linux phones are moving fast but it feels like Android is moving faster on the other direction 😥

(Yes I know Android is built over Linux, I mean more traditional and open distros like postmarketos)

Sourced facts nonetheless

I see three ways of switching windows on windows :

1. Clicking on the taskbar, but its quite slow because it relies entirely on mouse control
2. Using alt+tab, this is super efficient when you have at most 4 windows open, then you often have to scroll through the whole list and concentrate to not miss your window
3. Using the task view : this should be the modern way, the trackpads shortcut is super intuitive, it works well with many windows and is well integrated with virtual desktops. But it seems completely unfinished : it’s super laggy, very buggy (animations often freeze leaving some windows impossible to select) the taskbar blinks for no reason 🤷

But again, I think I’ve been spoiled by Linux. Many desktop environments integrates virtual screen so well that you can easily switch between apps in less than 200ms, which is a big deal : if you look at two apps it’s almost more convenient than moving your sight from one monitor to another (for example copying some data, or monitoring some progress)

“Multi modal”

Will it finally be possible to be productive with more that 3 windows open?

About YouTube premium :

1. I don’t like the idea of spending money for Google. I don’t find it very ethic to use their services in the way I do but no replacement has come up for years. I try to mitigate by donating to some content creators and I would love to pay a subscription to something like Nebula if there were at least 3 people I follow in there.
2. I would use an adblocker even if I paid. On my phone Tubular is just a much better experience : multi platforms, aggregates my subscription, no addictive low quality suggestions and lightweight while still featurefull (and it integrates sponsorblock 🤫)

Also on my previous phone the YouTube app was super slow and would regularly crash because of RAM shortages. This was 6 years ago though.

I was gonna make a sarcastic comment on how surprised I was that a 5$ subscription is not enough for something so heavy that it requires building new nuclear plants.

But holly shit, ChatGPT+ is 23€/months.

My take of this is that their definition of socialism is “an economic system where all people appear to not be rich” while their definition of capitalism has to be “some people are super rich”…

Why the fuck would you call an external API for a static font?? O_o

Does it have something to do with paid plans?

So he’s now over with AR honeymoon?

Yeah people often mention the funny phone designs from the 2000’s but they also praise the Nokia 3310 for its reliability.

After having a similar feeling as yours I went for NixOS.

My thoughts then : if it breaks I can rollback, and the unstable channel is quite comparable to what arch offers.

Now : I’ve moved to stable channel, because it’s updated enough and allows me to only deal with breaking changes twice a year. Moving to NixOS was time consuming (but fun) because it required to rewrite all my dotfiles and learn something new.

Is your pin automatically updated to reflect inflation?

The idea that RAGs “extend their memory” is also complete bullshit. We literally just finally build working search engine, but instead of using a nice interface for it we only let chatbots use them.

A quotes from my networking teacher, a few years back :

WikiLeaks revelations on NSA are great news to us, now we can by cheap Chinese hardware as we know it won’t spy on us any more than american hardware.

To sum it up even more : this looks like standard end-to-end encryption, but any app user have the same network traffic, completed with fake data if no communication is needed.