RL_Dane

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to random

I can post instructions later for anyone who wants to know how, but I figured out how to use the #AuroraStore to revert the #GoogleCamera / #PixelCamera app to the version before the horrendously dumb UI redesign.

It's wonderful to have my old camera app back. So much more convenient.

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to random

Oh neat, RCX (the rclone app for f-droid) now supports Goog Photos! I'm not adding to that service anymore (obviously), but this is great for (slowly) browsing my old photos store.

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to random

I'm not sure who to feel worse for: my generation, that was brought up believing that the #AmericanDream was real, only to see it crumble to dust during their middle age, or this latest generation, who is growing up realizing that its all bullsh, and there is no point. 😒

#AmericanAngst

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to random

I've been liking @Mojeek's results more than DDG's lately.

The only thing that keeps me on DDG is the !bangs

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to fediverse

#Fediverse #Fedifriends

RL_Dane, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Blog

New #blog post: "Six Months a Mourner"
https://rldane.space/six-months-a-mourner.html

#loss #rlDaneWriting

#CW: loss of a pet, #Christian references.

cc my wonderful chorus: @amin @dm @joel @pixx @ivan @libreivan @sotolf @theDoctor @thedoctor

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to ADHD

What if "#neurotypical" is just a euphemism for "boring?"

#ADHD

RL_Dane, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

So thankful for all of the awesome lunatics that inhabit this space with me!

R. L. Dane 🧉's Fedi Circle

Inner Circle
@amin,
@dheadshot,
@mirabilos,
@orbitalmartian,
@joel,
@OpenComputeDesign,
@hacknorris,
@daniel,
@giantspacesquid

Middle Circle
@ivan,
@mos_8502,
@royal, …and many others! (see img desc)

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to random

~2010 was peak UI design, and everything has gone downhill from there.

I put Ubuntu 10.04 on a VM just for giggles, and wished I could use it as my main OS.

I liked Gnome 2 even better than modern MATE

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to YerbaMate

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the #yerba that thoughts acquire speed, the #mate acquires stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

#YerbaMate #CaffeinateMe!!

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to KDE

My music stopped playing, the phone rang, I answered it.
After speaking for a few minutes, I hung up and the music started up again.

It took me a second to realize that the music wasn't coming from my phone, it was coming from my computer.

#KDEConnect is groovy, y'all. It pauses your music when a phone call comes in. (MPRIS-compatible player required, of course, but even mpv on the command line can do that)

#KDE #Plasma

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to privacy

You know what would be awesome?

A #privacy service for the web that renders web pages for you on a server, caches ones that are polled frequently, and presents you with just the useful static elements of the page and no privacy invasion.
Think of shells dot com, but just for the browser, and streaming either something like SVG/PDF or a very sanitized HTML+CSS.

It would be great for casual browsing and web searches where you're just looking for INFORMATION, not an obnoxious web app.

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to KDE

Discovered something clever:

I use Ctrl+Super+L for screen locking in #KDE #Plasma.
It works fine, but Plasma doesn't automatically pause media playback when locking the screen.
So, I removed the lockscreen shortcut, and added a custom Ctrl+Super+L shortcut to execute:
bash -c 'playerctl pause & qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock'

Perfect!

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to random

I realized recently that my phone typing accuracy goes way up if I hold the phone lower down, giving my thumbs more space to hit the space bar accurately (because nothing I've used so far is particularly good at recognizing something like "goingbhome" as "going home").

The only problem is the center of gravity of the phone is mostly out of my hands at that point.

Phone cases really need "wings" like game controllers have. Foldable ones would be groovy.

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to random

Me: <logs in with userid and password>
Website: "We sent you an email, please 2FA..."

<thirty minutes pass>

Me: <logs in to same website with userid and password>
Website: "We sent you an email, please 2FA..."
Me: "THAT IS NOT HOW 2FA IS SUPPOSED TO WORK."

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to random

KDE Plasma application dashboard... are you ok, bro?

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to random

Has anyone gotten @loops #loops beta invites yet?

I'm eager to try this puppy out 😅

RL_Dane, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Saw a full #eclipse for the first and possibly last time in my life.

NOW I understand why people spent crazy money to get here for one day, and why the ancients flipped their lids when it happened.

My photos: https://pixelfed.social/p/rl_dane/683142405562602693

RL_Dane, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

What are you going to #blog today?

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to android

New version of #HeliBoard (Openboard fork) just dropped.

This is just about the PERFECT FOSS #Android keyboard.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/helium314.keyboard

It doesn't have built-in gesture typing yet, but you can import a proprietary gesture typing library (I'm guessing its extracted from Gboard)

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to random

I think I figured out how @kev got so many groovy watches ;)

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=oMX-AT0w3W0

#CasioCult

RL_Dane, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Blog

New #blog post: "The unfolding horrors of Toxic Masculinity"
https://rldane.space/the-unfolding-horrors-of-toxic-masculinity.html

#CW: obvious from the title, plus some mild self-denigrating language and a single #bible reference.

(Also, post-dated to tomorrow for relatively self-explanatory reasons)

#rlDaneWriting #ToxicMasculinity

cc: @amin @joel @pixx @ivan

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to iPhone

Imagine an alternate reality where Steve Jobs never budged on allowing apps on the iPhone, but allowed people to jailbreak their phones as long as they took responsibility for it (like how some Chromebooks have a dev mode).

You'd have tons of fun little apps, and almost no #enshittification of the app store. You'd also have a lot of great PWAs for those who never wanted to jailbreak their phones.

I don't miss the iPhone, but I absolutely miss the golden era (2008-2013ish) of the #iPhone.

RL_Dane, 1 month ago to Blog

New #blog post: "How did we survive?!?"
https://rldane.space/how-did-we-survive.html

#rlDaneWriting
cc: @amin @joel

RL_Dane, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to amiga

Hey #Amiga folks,

I'm trying to explore an alternate history (via emulation) where I got an equivalent A500 system from my parents for Christmas 1989 instead of the Macintosh SE (20MB HD, 1MB RAM) I got that year.

What magazines can I look for on archive dot org or elsewhere online to find hardware prices and bundles for that year? Any idea?

Edit: More background info in my replies below