I’ve been using mate, generally happily. I don’t remember what if any issues I had with xfce. I hated gnome.

I think somewhat worse, but try a web search. One attraction iirc is very fast charging.

It’s just about LFP which are very common now. The new trend is sodium ion instead of lithium ion. CATL (battery manufacturer in China) is shipping those now, and they are starting to appear in some cars.

Oh you mean the discontinuation rather than the accessory itself. Meh, there is always ebay. Someone will always have an extra one left from their old phone before they upgraded to a usb-c phone.

You have to post X events for the keystrokes. I may have some code around that does something similar, lemme look.

This was close to the plot of the 1973 science fiction story “By Any Other Name” by Spider Robinson, later expanded to the novel “Telempath”. The story won a Hugo award but the virus scheme didn’t work out so great.

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/apocalypse.php#smelly2

Vance becomes president. Whether you party is up to you.

Controversial? Unpopular I can understand, but that’s not the same.

I still prefer wired buds and chose a phone with a 3.5mm jack, but I wasn’t into Apple phones to begin with.

Now that Apple is going USB C, the lightning adapter will stop mattering, I guess.

Nordstream redux? I wonder if Hetzner is affected.

It works fine for me, everything else is worse.

No matter which sort you use (except for new),

Yes, sorting by new is best. The rest of the post seems irrelevant.

I wish the web ui (and apps) could work like an old fashioned usenet reader, where it would list your subscribed communities and say how many unread posts each one had. I don’t like having all the communities jumbled together. That seems fixable.

You can pay a lot less than 10x for completed panels. https://store.santansolar.com/ amazed me.

Embrace RFC 8890 (“The Internet is for End Users”) as a guiding principle for all Mozilla client app design and for the organization as a whole:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8890.html

Specifically, delete item 9 from the Mozilla manifesto and replace it with “follow RFC 8890”. That’s not supposed to be an anti-business stance, but rather, a recognition that the commercial side of the internet has the resources to look after its own interests, and Mozilla should be on the user side, rather than trying to straddle both sides.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/

Absolutely not. Type “Lamont Lieberman” (without the quotes) into a search engine for more info. Also “Clinton puma”. In the opposite direction, Kamala Harris lost a lot of Biden voters. Biden was considered relatively left of center (though nowhere near as leftist as Sanders) back in the day.

It took me some moments to figure out that this is an Android launcher. Nice. I guess it will be on droid at some point.

Travelers were formerly called Gypsies but that is now considered a perjorative term. They are subject to a lot of racism in Europe.

Meh the reddit software isn’t that important, and it was once mostly FOSS. It’s about the data, not the code. Spez has a ridiculous sense of entitlement.

The reddit app? It never would have occurred to me to use that monstrosity. old.reddit.com still works (dk for how long), same with redreader, and my personal API client still works though they have been messing with that (certain endpoints no longer work through vpn’s).

They keep echoing the same worries without actually providing solutions. … Start proposing changes to protect ActivityPub or just step aside please.

That is a non sequitur. Maybe the doomers are right and AP is simply non-viable in the long run, and the right thing to do is abandon it rather than protect it. That said, I couldn’t make much sense of the linked article. I did like the description “51% attack” which I hadn’t seen in that context before. It’s not exactly accurate but it’s a nice metaphor.

I thought traditional SMS was purely a 2g or maybe 3g thing, and it is absent from 5g, though maybe simulated somehow. Amirite? I know MMS has been around for a while and it seems harder to escape from now. Even voice service is now done through the internet pipe, though maybe it has special routing at the carrier level.

SMS may have been marginal/best effort in the past but it would have been better to make it more robust and make work in places with not enough signal to handle voice/data, not convert it to video.