Yeah I like it over Mastodon as well. The UI/UX feels more modern. The only downside is that the majority of the Twitter-alternative fediverse is on Mastodon, so I have to run 90% of accounts through ‘search’ to follow them.
The article does touch on some of the main instance’s issues towards the bottom too I just found out.
If nothing else, the article is great for a breakdown of the features of Firefish. I’ve been a user for 2-3 months and didn’t know a lot of the info covered.
On a related note, I was on firefish.social but it was very buggy for me after a while. Thought about throwing in the towel but eventually realized that it was instance specific.
I have since migrated to calckey.world (Calckey -> Firefish instance that didn’t change its name) and the experience has been buttery smooth.
It’s completely markdown which is future-proof and easily portable to other software
Great question. Had to think about it and I’d say for me personally, poor implementation of color pickers is the biggest frustration.
As a technical user, I have no qualms w/ editing the default selection if it’s hard to read due to colors, but I get frustrated with poor color picker implementation. For example, color swaths that don’t have named descriptions when you hover over them. Even/especially the standard ROYGBIV colors on the first page of a color picker, but also to a lesser degree, descriptive hex codes on more nuanced online color pickers. I can’t tell the difference and don’t feel like hearing someone ask why I made the bold choice of making the sky pink.
Another issue is something like KDE’s Konsole has a color picker that doesn’t have clear names/examples for which aspect of the terminal is being changed, so when I wanted to change the bash custom prompt color to improve readability, I had to edit 5-6 different options, and use trial and error to fix the color.
Good to know. I will say as a colorblind person, it’s always a tad ironic because as a colorblind person, the filters don’t make things definitive. It’s still a bunch of random colors that I can’t identify lol
That my solution. I have a ‘Sync’ folder on every device’s Home folder, and then I use some aliases to determine whether to grab the bash_aliases file or replace it:
By far, the diff alias is the most used. It allows for a quick check on what is different between files w/o having to open them up
My uneducated guess is that Endless OS pays manufacturers to have their OS installed as it has what appears to be privacy-conscious telemetry. It won’t be anywhere close to what Microsoft/Apple, but in the Linux telemetry world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and so it’ll still have valuable data.
Some of the areas that are unlike most other distros I’ve come across:
To me, it’s akin to the free third party apps that come packaged with many Android mobile devices. Less intrusive since it’s anonymized, but also feels more intrusive because it’s the entire OS being monitored. I believe I came across a headline that Fedora is attempting to use the same tracking software in the link above
This review shares a more judgmental view of their practices
This article has a more positive spin
Just updated, thanks for sharing!
I switched to Kate eventually myself. Using the KDE defaults where possible to reduce size encouraged me to do it
Good insight. We must protect @bug at all costs.
Ran nala after seeing this post and got a libc update on Debian myself
7 years support for (new & future) Pixels & 10 years of support for Chromebooks. WATTBA
I agree re: malicious compliance. Also leading w/ the web price knowing that the majority of their base uses mobile devices to connect
m/TheyDidTheMath
It feels like every other post on privacy and technology is someone pushing the (paid) search engine Kagi nowadays…
The questionable privacy policy doesn’t negate the actual work being done. I’m no longer using them, but calling it tree NFTs is misguided
I used it as my primary browser on my laptop/desktop. I supported the cause and through my usage I planted +150 trees, but the trade-off is steepening so I’m going to have to jump ship.
I’ll be pivoting to DuckDuckGo as my main search engine, and use Brave for more nuanced/specific results.
Thanks for the heads up
Some random ones I created over the last week or so:
alias clipboard=‘xclip -selection clipboard’ # Allows me to pipe output directly to my keyboard. good for pwd for example.
Function allows me to get tldr and cheat responses to commands quickly
function cht() {
curl cheat.sh/$1
}
Easy calculator so that I can do math w/o launching a specific app
function calc()
echo “scale=3; $@”
My impression
tldr/cheat: Explains most popular arguments using as little words as possible
man: Explains the entire command using a more technical tone
info: Explains the entire command in slightly more informal tone. Can feel wordier as a result, but on the flipside it connects alternative/related commands in a logical way