Admittedly I tend to always see as a bad thing whenever I see phone models without headphone jacks, that said for the last five years I’ve been using phones without headphone jacks and using the wired headphones they came with is enough for the few times I need to use them.

Io uso Firefox con le impostazioni di Betterfox e alcune estensioni per me indispensabili, ed esclusivamente in modalità compatta. Li avrò provati un po’ tutti ma alla fine, per quanto le decisioni di Mozilla mi lascino spesso perplesso, ritorno sempre su Firefox: non mi sembra di avere vantaggi da Brave che non avrei con la mia configurazione di Firefox, mentre Vivaldi mi piaceva e per un po’ l’ho usato come browser principale ma in preparazione dell’impatto del Manifest V3 sui browser Chromium, ormai un anno fa sono ritornato a FF (con Gesturefy per sostituire la navigazione gestuale, che per me è la cosa migliore in assoluto di Vivaldi).

Su Android uso Mull, mentre quando avevo ancora iOS usavo Brave perché era l’unico con cui riuscivo abbastanza a bloccare le pubblicità.

There are just two subs I check about once every two days, but I’m yet to log in again after I disconnected my account last month. I used to only visit it through Libreddit as the UX is better anyway but now that one’s gone too…

I agree, also the holding back of packages just for the sake of waiting probably doesn’t make it more stable, despite what the devs say; also having 300+ packages updated at the same time might make it worse for troubleshooting in case something goes wrong.

As someone who actually started with Manjaro back in 2020 before moving to EndeavourOS after 9 months, I would say that there is indeed a steeper learning curve as you don’t get for example a GUI package manager (Pamac is awful and even as a newbie I used it for maybe three days before I started to use the CLI, but a Linux beginner might want one) and the fact it is a true rolling release means you need to do some more research and maintenance, so I wouldn’t call Endeavour a distro for absolute beginners, unless one is determined to learn a lot about how a computer works… but again one shouldn’t probably use a rolling release then; Manjaro just tricks you to believe it is easier, but it probably is only if you don’t use the AUR.

Maybe Garuda is more beginner friendly than EndeavourOS while avoiding most of the problems Manjaro has? Although I’ve never used it as I don’t see any advantage over Endeavour, and I’m not a fan of excessive out of the box theming and Chaotic AUR enabled as default…

Che bello, peccato abbia cambiato telefono l’autunno scorso sennò ci farei un pensierino e spero che quello che ho preso mi duri per i soliti 4/5 anni per cui ho tenuto gli ultimi. Mi sembra un modello più in linea anche tecnicamente con la concorrenza rispetto a quanto non lo fossero i precedenti, dovessero rimanere cosí spero allora di considerare un Fairphone come prossimo telefono fra qualche anno. (La mia remota speranza personale è che, da produttori attenti a tutta una serie di motivi etici quali sono, decidano un giorno di collaborare con sviluppatori di ROM degooglizzate per permettere magari di installarle e ribloccare il boot loader in seguito, ma è tutto nella mia testa e basta…)

Devo dire che fra tutti i sistemi di votazione quello che mi sembra migliore è quello di Discourse, dove alla fine il “mi piace” (o la reazione con emoji che credo sia a discrezione del forum, fra quelli che conosco vedo che il nuovo forum di KDE ha solo il cuoricino/“mi piace” mentre quello di EndeavourOS ha messo la possibilità di usare le emoji) grazie all’interfaccia risulta meno in evidenza rispetto ai voti di Reddit/Lemmy, quindi mi sembra piú un modo di apprezzare o di suggerire un determinato intervento senza inondare di risposte.

Il che, ovviamente, per la struttura da forum è sicuramente piú adatto, tutto sommato forse non sarebbe male per Lemmy ma credo sia sostenibile solo con un massiccio intervento di moderazione che per la struttura piú da social che da forum probabilmente non è sostenibile…

Brave Search on all my personal devices, even though I’m getting worse results than up to a few months ago, so as much as it pains to admit it I sometimes use Google as a fallback (and the last time I actually used Google as my main search engine was back in 2012!). I probably should use metasearch engines more, though, but have been procrastinating learning how to effectively use them for a while now.

Aside from that, I have about a dozen sites saved with search keywords on Firefox (four of them are Wikipedia in different languages, though) that I use all the time.

Wow, glad I’m not the only one who had that impression. I have been using Brave Search for about half a year now and rarely had any problems finding what I was looking for, then eventually I started getting mostly older results, sometimes not even on topic.

I use the following ones (on Firefox), except for uBO the others are just for conveniency:

• Bitwarden
• Gesturefy (for some time from early 2021 to late 2022 I used to use Vivaldi as my primary browser and now if I’m using a mouse, not having gestures in a browser feels odd…)
• LibRedirect
• Plasma Integration
• uBlock Origin (middle mode and with some additional lists)
• User-Agent Switcher and Manager (if I find a site that says it doesn’t work with Firefox).

• AntennaPod (podcast player)
• Authenticator Pro (2FA)
• Aves (gallery)
• Bitwarden
• Catima (for stores’ reward cards)
• Etar (calendar)
• Geometric Weather
• Infinity for Reddit… as long as it works
• Joplin (note-taking software, synced with the desktop client)
• K-9 Mail
• Kvæsitso (launcher)
• Mull (Firefox fork)
• NetGuard (works in the background as a VPN to block network access to certain apps, for example I use it to block every network connection by Gboard)
• NewPipe
• Simple File Manager
• Tasks.org

I have an HP LaserJet P1005 from 15 years ago which mostly works fine with Hplip except that every once in a while it asks me to reinstall the proprietary plugin needed. I’m taking note of how other brands seem to work better but to be honest I print so little since I digitally sign everything that once I run out of toner it’s far cheaper for me to have something printed in a shop than to replace it.

Really looking forward to the new calendar, I love Thunderbird as a mail client but I’ve always found calendar and reminders to be quite unintuitive to use and I often had problems with CalDAV sync.

As enthusiastic as I am about Lemmy, the fact that the handful of niche communities that I followed on Reddit might not ever get here is my biggest fear about the platform. That said, time will tell, and for now I’m enjoying using Lemmy in a way I hadn’t used Reddit before.

The only reason I reluctantly keep my account is because of a few niche communities I lurk and sometimes comment in. And I’ll add that Reddit is usable thanks to the old interface + uBlock Origin and third-party apps on mobile (and we all know what’s happening next); I’d call it “alright” just as a euphemism for “not (yet) as bad as Facebook or Instagram”.

The decentralized and community-driven model that essentially guarantees Lemmy being free from big corporations creating the ad-centric hellscape of centralized social media. That, and the UI is much clearer and feels lighter, even compared to Old Reddit.

I started using Linux in October 2020 with Manjaro KDE (not including trying out nearly every major beginner-friendly distro in VMs before installing it on bare metal), then I moved to EndeavourOS - still with KDE - in July 2021 and am still on that same install.

probably under the influence of reddit, where this has become completely gamed–i can’t stand this style of information sorting.

I’ve actually noticed myself doing this by instinct as in the last few months I mostly read Reddit comments sorted chronologically. Part of that is because of the hivemind problem in certain subs, which frankly is even less tolerable the more trivial a subject is, as in, for example, subs for fans of a certain artist where other users jump to downvote people who dare say that not every thing the artist does is perfect. And what’s even the point in discussing things if everything is “how good this is”, “how amazing this is”, etc.?

I had been lurking on a few Lemmy instances for years (more or less since mid-2020 when I started getting more interested in FOSS) and with the Reddit shitshow I finally decided it was time to join, so I was already quite familiar with the concept of instances and how the Fediverse works on principle.

I’m slowly exploring more to find interesting communities to interact with, and hopefully there’ll be more incoming users from Reddit creating more niche spaces.

As someone who definitely was guilty of starting/wanting to answer to posts then not doing it, I had never thought of it before in terms of viral and non-viral content.