grey_earthling

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by grey_earthling 2y ago
And Mindustry (which is free on Flathub).
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by grey_earthling 2y ago
For users who've already installed Element on Android (or iOS), will there be an automatic upgrade/migration path to Element X? Or do I have to persuade them to install an app again? And if so, how often will these manual migratio
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by grey_earthling 2y ago
Celluloid streams using yt-dlp automatically if you ask it to open a supported URL. Parabolic is a purpose-made downloader that uses yt-dlp. https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.github.celluloid_player.... https:&
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by grey_earthling 2y ago
The same announcement from their own website: https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112434381586...
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by grey_earthling 2y ago
If you want to avoid Google, F-Droid also has options: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=period
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
It's worth noting that this isn't a direct comparison. The packaging (tin versus squeezy bottle) isn't changing — they already sell both. Only the labels are changing, and they're keeping the tin (specifically) unchanged
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> Every other option results in far less people discovering and interacting with your project, by orders of magnitude. Yes, this is the problem. The article suggests: try to fix it.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Until they run out. We can't recycle anything 100%. Eventually we'll have to learn to do without.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
They say they are funded by donations: > How is Liberapay funded? Are there fees? > Liberapay does not take a cut of payments, the service is funded by the donations to its own account. However there are payment processing fees. http
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Patreon knows that Patreon doesn't work - they don't fund themselves by donations on Patreon; instead they take a cut of other people's donations. And the model where some patrons receive a reward encourages transactionalism
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Energy isn't the hard problem; it's materials. We're still consuming materials that we can't (yet?) make without fossil input.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> The Authenticated Transfer Protocol, aka atproto, is a federated protocol for large-scale distributed social applications. Well, there's the problem: large-scale and social are incompatible. Humans evolved to be sociable with mayb
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
What I mean is: where is the website other than bsky.app where I can see content from the network?
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I haven't followed the tech of Bluesky or the AT Protocol closely: does this step mean that people can now set up their own Bluesky instances? Where can I see one in the wild?
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> Beyond that: it's literal word of mouth. This is the key. If you have enough enthusiastic, loyal, (rich and/or generous) devotees, then you can make a living from their donations (e.g. Liberapay) or subscriptions (e.g. Patreo
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Aurora Store is a different app, but it shows the same repo managed by Google. If an app has been removed from the “Play Store”, that means it's been removed from the repo, and a different front-end to that repo won't include it.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Chrome isn't open source.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Firefox's unique selling point was that you could trust it. Mozilla taught me that open source software was free from skeevy used-car-salesman commercial advertising tricks. This morning at work when I opened Firefox, instead of a blan
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Flathub, as the most popular repo, ought to be a sensible default for ordinary users. So it shouldn't be purist if that means losing widely-expected apps, but it should have distinctly less shovelware than the Microsoft and Android sto
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> if it works in Chrome, all web developers will adopt it This is why we, tech nerds who understand the problem, must resist monopolies: object to using such APIs. Chrome wouldn't be in quite this position if, instead of embracing t
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Can LineageOS do major upgrades without needing support? (so once it's installed you never need to reinstall, and you can keep it safely up-to-date forever by clicking a button every so often - like Silverblue)
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
(Strictly a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154536 except this one has comments.)
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> So your advice is to reinvent to very good and battle tested wheel of GitHub GitHub isn't analogous to a wheel. GitHub is a proprietary service owned by one company. Any patent on the wheel has long expired.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> People want a single, global GitLab network This sounds like they're trying to make a proprietary GitLab-only alternative to Forgefed. I don't understand who would want this. Edit: Ah, this sounds like the opposite: https:&#
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
When you choose an OS, you're asking to receive the service of the OS-maker's judgement. So when you choose Windows, you're opting for Microsoft's judgement. That's what this is. “The food at McDonald's is cons
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
whispers try Silverblue… ;)
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Keep it suitably simple.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> I don't know why this is and why they can't (or won't bother to) get their act together It's because you're not their employer, so they can do (or not do) whatever they want.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I'm using Mobian trixie (basically Debian testing) on a Librem 5. The overall experience is very much “not there yet”, but I reckon most of this is down to relatively few high-impact issues, mostly around touch input. Editing text is v
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
10 years ago I would've agreed that Ubuntu is the most reliable option. For me now it comes across as a bit clunky, unpolished and less coherent compared to Fedora Silverblue — Ubuntu has more visible seams where it's been built f

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