I was expecting this to be a half-baked plan to block something using a less-than-half-baked definition that would also cover security updates.
The fact that someone actually thinks explicitly blocking security updates is a good idea is just appalling.
KDE Plasma handles the touch screen fine on my PineTab2.
It works in LxQt too, but only in portrait mode (which is the default for this device). I keep meaning to look up how to tell it to rotate the touch coordinates along with the display, and I keep not getting around to it.
But the main issue I've run into is that most GUI apps for Linux are...let's just say they're not designed with touch input in mind.
Not much point in writing a PR if the idea has already been rejected (or is still hotly contested) in the issues. Most of the suggestions aren't just write-some-code solutions, they're design decisions, and if the project owner doesn't agree with that decision? Well, you can fork it like glitch-soc or hometown, or you can use another project that already does what you want (but doesn't have as much traction), or you can keep trying to convince the people running the project to accept your idea. Even quote posts, which they're finally coming around to grudgingly accept as a possible feature, involve a lot of decisions on which posts can be quoted, who gets notified, etc.
I've been using it for a while now. Currently on the "main" instance, cross-posting reviews to my website.
To be fair, science fiction has been trying to tell us this since HG Wells.
As others have said: followers yes, posts, no. Some other Fediverse platforms can migrate posts, though, and I believe Firefish (previously known as Calckey) is able to import posts from Mastodon as well as from other instances of itself.
Done. Sorry I missed it at first!
I used names of fictional robots, androids and self-aware computers (though I avoided HAL for obvious reasons) for a long time. These days my wife and I usually go with an indirect reference to the function or hardware - Ex. a device named Anathema, or a Raspberry Pi server named Marie (as in Marie Callendar, a former local pie/restaurant chain). I had an expendable frankenputer for tinkering that I called RedShirt.
Currently trying to come up with a name other than Chris for the PineTab 2.
Edit to add: Places I've worked have used Roman emperors, drink brands, Simpsons characters, and of course basics like "IIS1" "MAIL4" "QA-3" and so on. Some would add numbers to the names sequentially, others would use the last octet of the IP address.
At least until the NUCs run out, now that Intel's discontinuing them
That's something I noticed when I first started using it, too. One of the first things was picking out the different kids of small birds that my brain had previously filed under "small bird." A sparrow here, a finch there, a warbler or a phoebe, those are starlings not blackbirds or small crows, etc.
I'm still not good at telling different dandelion-like species apart, though, and I'm happy to let the app make its best guess on those and let someone else sort them out!
I tried setting up both for a local music server last year, and found Plex's cloud requirements and constant upselling were more of a pain than it was worth. Jellyfin was the one I kept.
Also:
Again, key factors being: open, customizable, correctable, and serving the user, not serving the platform.