carnha

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[–] carnha@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You may like this pattern of starting all custom commands with a comma - benefits against a wrapper command would be shorter command names and built-in tab completion.

[–] carnha@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Signal Foundation does work on Signal Desktop - but they only release binaries for Mac, Windows, and Debian-based Linux distros. Those are the downloads available on their website, there is no link to the Flatpak on their website.

The community turns that official Debian release into an unofficial Flatpak release. This means that you need to trust the community packagers to be doing the right thing, along with trusting the Signal Foundation. It's an additional layer of trust that you wouldn't need for an official release.

An alternative option would be building the app yourself - there's documentation here and the repo is here, but then you're responsible for keeping up and rebuilding when they have updates. I definitely hope the Signal Foundation releases an official Flatpak, it's not a great position to be in if you're not on a Debian-based distro.

[–] carnha@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just a note that the flatpak is not made by the Signal Foundation, it is maintained unofficially by the community. See the last sentence on the app description on Flathub:

This flatpak is maintained by the Flathub community, and is not necessarily endorsed or officially maintained by the upstream developers.

There's a discussion about the community flatpak's trustworthiness on their repo here and here, a feature request for the Signal Foundation to have an official distro-agnostic release here, but for now the only official Linux release of Signal is for Debian-based distributions.

[–] carnha@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Accrescent is in early alpha, but it looks like it's on its way to be a great, modern app store.

[–] carnha@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's been an issue about this on lemmyverse's Github for about a month, link here. It seems like there's an issue where lemmy.world is responding incorrectly when asked for communities, and since it hasn't been resolved lemmyverse hasn't been scanning lemmy.world.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7363991

While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si, for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a "Know Your Customer" policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account.

One option to avoid this is to self-host, but then you'll be identifiable via your domain and have to maintain a server.

As a true alternative to Jitsi, there's jami.net. It is a decentralized conference app, free open-source, and account creation is optional. It's available for all major platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android), including on F-Droid.

 

UPDATE: As of August 26th, the server has been rolled back to restore 1.12 items/culled chunks, announcement here

I guess it depends on how you define anarchy, but it's definitely an interesting choice by the admins to soft reset the economy/take away items from players on an anarchy server...

2b2t's announcement is here on their website

[–] carnha@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I found the My Deep Guide youtube channel to be a really good source of reviews when I was choosing an eink tablet, here's a link to his 2022 roundup.

I went with a Supernote A5X. My usecase was for college to take lecture notes and to read academic papers/epubs. I went with the Supernote over the reMarkable for the software support: I really like the concept of reMarkable's Linux-based OS and being able to use community mods, but it felt like I would need the mods to have all the features I wanted, while the Supernote wouldn't allow for modification but would have everything I wanted built in. I've been satisfied with the writing and reading experience, customer support is responsive via email and Reddit, and OS updates have been adding new features without a subscription.

[–] carnha@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jerboa does maintain a list of instances for you to select how to open in the app - list here and see my other comment on how to pick the instances you want.

The list can be updated with this generation script, it seems to get all the Lemmy instances with at least 50 users from fediverse.observer.

[–] carnha@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Disclaimer: I've only tried this with my home instance and it's worked fine, I think I ran into issues with links from other instance, but try it out and see if it works now!

If you hold down on the app and click on "app info", then go to "open by default", you can select which websites should open in the jerboa app:

The "Open By Default" section in App Info for Jerboa

It's worked perfectly for me with links from my home instance.

(This "Open by Default" feature is very useful to know about for unofficial frontends like squawker, because if it isn't an official app this setting is how you choose it to be the default app.)

[–] carnha@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm very excited about this - Apple has such a polished customer care experience where you can walk into any Apple Store that Google hasn't matched. Increasing the options for in-store repair from just Asurion/uBreakiFix to more stores is big for my peace of mind.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/349384

That's nice. I hope I get in my small town.

[–] carnha@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Starting with Android 12 (and maybe earlier, I think it may be a part of a Google Play update?), you can delete your advertising ID in settings - definitely worth doing!

[–] carnha@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a github issue about this if you want to add anything to it, this separate issue also has some details about the sanitation. The issue seems to have been introduced in v0.18.3.

[–] carnha@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Edit: fixed :)

Hi! Incredibly small note - it looks like the community name has a trailing space (it seems like it's "Android ", with a space after the d), so it looks a bit goofy on non-lemmy.world instances with a space before the @:

Picture of the community banner showing the name is "Android " (with a trailing space)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/1291627

Does anyone know if current Pixel/Samsung hardwarewill support this??

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