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Earth Walker

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  • A general fediverse client app, supporting multiple content types? (mastodon, lemmy, peertube, etc)

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  • It's a hard user experience design problem to create an interface that presents all possible types of posts, content and interactions in a sensible way. This "kitchen sink" approach is kind of what Facebook does and as a result its interface is messy and cluttered. That's not to say it's impossible or wrong to do things that way, just difficult and unpopular.

    On the technical side, it's really hard to make a client app that works with multiple server softwares, because they all have different sets of features.

    In the current world of fedi software development, it would be a single dev or a small, likely unpaid team that would have to make the equivalent of several different client apps combined into one. I don't anticipate such a large and complicated project being completed until the devs can make a decent living doing the work.

  • DankPods just switched to Linux!!!

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  • I think it should be really clear to everyone now that the Steam Deck is exactly the kind of thing that Linux needs: nice hardware with a well-integrated OS that is designed to be user-friendly and has some guardrails to prevent you from breaking it.

  • DankPods just switched to Linux!!!

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  • Some of my fav quotes:

    "Ads in an operating system that you've paid for from a company that owns ridiculous amounts of money is so offensive."

    "data, it's like the new gold to people"

    "I got the confidence to really jump into Linux after the Steam Deck."

    regarding the terminal] "You just see text going across the screen, they're working at lightning speeds."

    "I'm kissing convenience goodbye, I just want control."

  • Privacy respecting pinterest alternatives

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  • Which features are most important to you? Search/discovery, categorization, tagging, sharing...?

    These days I usually just search the web for images and save them to folders on my computer. I have the folders synced to my cloud storage, so I can access them from any computer if I want to.

  • Self-Hosted setup for remote music lessons?

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  • Nextcloud may be a bit overkill for your use case, but it does have a very good video chat function. It's also pretty easy to deploy as a snap package or with the AIO docker image. A downside is that the other person has to have an account on your instance and log into it to join a call. However this is not necessarily difficult to arrange.

  • What are your thoughts on passkey login?

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  • I would very much prefer to use passkeys wherever possible. My password manager of choice Bitwarden also supports them. Unfortunately, Android 13 which I am running does not support setting a default app to handle passkeys. So I cannot access that functionality on my phone yet. I think in a few years I will be authenticating with passkeys for a lot of services. However there will be a lot of services that lag behind in terms of offering passkey authentication.

  • Stickers for attention about privacy.

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  • Learn Linux TV has some stickers related to FOSS and self-hosted sofware. It also helps support a great learning resource.

    https://merch.learnlinux.tv/

  • Hyprland is now fully independent!

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  • I'll quote Vaxry from his blog:

    "Obviously, the fact that I am banned from contributing to Freedesktop - and by extension wlroots, is another big factor, and probably the one that finally tipped the scales, because I am no longer allowed to participate in discussion or contribute code to wlroots."

    https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-wlrootsRewrite

    "I definitely am not a fan of how seemingly weak people online, especially teenagers, have become. Words are just words. Someone calling another person a "retard" shouldn't really be a big deal."

    "I said:

    if I run a discord server around cultivating tomatoes, I should not exclude people based on their political beliefs, unless they use my discord server to spread those views. which means even if they are literally adolf hitler, I shouldn't care, as long as they don't post about gassing people on my server

    that is inclusivity

    Which I definitely stand by."

    https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-inclusiveActivists

  • Hyprland is now fully independent!

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  • Fair enough

  • Hyprland is now fully independent!

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  • In other words, Vaxry is so unwilling to compromise or learn from others that he would rather isolate his project from the broader FOSS community. That says a lot about him and the people who support him, especially since this conflict with freedesktop.org started over Vaxry condoning hateful trolling of trans people within the Hyprland community.

    This is a problem for me as a Hyprland user because if I share some rice I made or make suggestions for other users, I'm leading people into a community that may be actively hateful towards them. It utterly extinguishes any enthusiasm I have for the project. I like the software but I'd rather be part of a project and a community that I can feel good and excited about. Maybe time to find a new tiling Wayland compositor.

  • "Ranma ½" (Remake) New Key Visual, PV

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  • I read the manga a long time ago and I thought it was fun but it got so repetitive and formulaic that I got completely bored and stopped reading it like 8 volumes in IIRC. Will probably give this adaptation a try, maybe that aspect will be improved.

  • What do you prefer to selfhost?

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  • Thank you, I wasn't sure if that video was re: Traefik or VPN. I appreciate the suggestion.

  • What do you prefer to selfhost?

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  • How did you set up a VPN to securely connect to your services over the internet? I have looked for guides to do this and haven't had much luck. I would really like to implement this in my setup.

  • What do you prefer to selfhost?

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  • I self host jellyfin, nextcloud, owncast, tandoor, komga, photoprism and searxng. I use nginx proxy manager for a reverse proxy and SSL cert automation. Works great for me but I would like to get into traefik sometime.

    I self host for privacy reasons, also it's fun, it's a learning opportunity and sometimes self-hosted services are functionally better than the other options out there.

  • Bye Bye, Earth - Episode 1 discussion

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  • "Army of Insatiable Emptiness"

    sounds like us who watched too much anime

  • "Sanda" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual

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  • I would take this as a joke except it's Science Saru so basically guaranteed to be good

  • Sharing music collection easily?

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  • Jellyfin is ideal for privately sharing music. Plex is similar but not FOSS.

  • Video playback in mastodon mobile app

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  • That's funny, my phone is kinda small so I had to scroll that horizontal menu with the download button, over to the right to access that button 😆 Thanks for the screenshot

  • Video playback in mastodon mobile app

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  • I also ran into that issue the other day. Did you file a feature request for that? If you didn't I will. In general though I really like Moshidon. The video player functionality I want is not available in any mastodon client app except for Fedilab technically, but its implementation is still very primitive for now.

  • Video playback in mastodon mobile app

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  • That's awesome, nice work! I just tried out Tesseract and it seems to work quite well. Feel free to leave some links where people can try it or contribute to the project, if you like.