The preschooler was sick with a 24-hour stomach bug on Saturday, my wife was sick with it on Sunday (and is still recovering), the toddler was sick with it on Monday, and now I am pretty sure I am getting hit by it. 🙃
Luckily the web based version still works, but I can’t install the app on my phone so I can’t get push notifications anymore. 😞
I really liked how simple and straightforward the app was, and how it wasn’t trying to up-sell anything besides its core competency of tracking and notifying about packages.
@cassidy That's a shame, I used it whenever I ordered something online, it was by far the best app for this purpose.
It would be nice if there was a FOSS alternative, but I would assume talking to the carrier services is quite challenging
@dtc I have some hope that the app was mistakenly taken down; it looks like it's still available in the iOS app store, and the site is still up and working…
I really like the convention of using ✨ sparkle iconography as an “automagic” motif, e.g. to smart-adjust a photo or to automatically handle some setting. I hate that it has become the defacto iconography for generative AI. 🙁
Pro tip: if your Bluetooth isn't working with a certain wireless card, check the BIOS settings before installing a new wireless card… apparently my Intel NUC had Bluetooth disabled in the BIOS; the card works just fine!
The upside is that I installed an extra RAM stick as long as I was in there. TWICE the RAM at a whopping 16 GB.
TIL Fedora is packaging a web browser app I developed for elementary OS, stopped updating over three years ago, and marked as end-of-life two years ago—yet it happily shows up in Fedora 40 if you search my name. It crashes on launch, so it doesn’t even work…
WHY??
Edit: I guess the package is being EOL'd in Fedora due to it no longer building and this thread, huzzah! My recommendation to distros: don’t package random apps and then not maintain them/communicate with upstream.
@cassidy@adamw You don't have to create a bugzilla account. You can email <package>-maintainers@fedoraproject.org to reach the maintainers of a package.
I’m seeing a strange issue in several GNOME 46 apps: it seems like if the first interaction within the app is touch, then a bunch of things like menus/popovers just don’t respond to either touch or mouse input until you close and re-open the app.
Am I going crazy, here? I’m testing this on Endless OS but I have a bug report against one of my apps stating this as well.
I need to do some more testing, but I’ve seen this in apps like GNOME Music and GNOME Builder as well.
I really need to automate this somehow, but my latest estimate is 3.13 million active users of Flathub!
This is a number of updates delivered to a popular dependency, org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//23.08, between the 23.08.14 and 23.08.15 releases. This was less than a month window (March 18 through April 9).
Pretty impressive stuff!
Edit: updated, more realistic stats based on @alatiera; thanks!
Image encoding × FOSS desktop nerds, I have a question…
The current format for dynamic/dark-style wallpapers in GNOME is not great. I don’t think anyone—including distros, designers, & maintainers—likes how it works: it’s a legacy system of GSettings keys and an XML format that sets those keys but is not biderectional; choosing that XML file in Settings sets the individual GSettings manually, making it hard to show the pair of wallpapers as selected.
@cassidy Apparently, there's also Jpegli too, which is brand new and downgrades to standard JPEGs somehow. Given all the claims (10-bit instead of 8-bit, 35% smaller, full backwards compatibility, better looking than standard JPEG, etc.) it seems almost like magic.
I was listing something on eBay, and they encourage starting with an existing listing—presumably to increase the amount of detail and decrease the amount of work.
When I selected the same model, I got a default description that was extremely robotic and wordy while just repeating the spec sheet. I thought it sounded LLM-generated; sure enough when I went to edit it, there is a big shiny “write with AI” button.
@gadgetoid they sold this model up until the M1 model came out in late 2020… for like $1,300.
It should not be a useless screaming brick only a few years later—it really seems like they neutered their Intel models, especially thermally, so the Apple Silicon models would seem like such a huge leap when similarly-specced laptops from other brands performed better, cooler, and for less money.
I watched “Into the Breach” (S03E13) of The Bad Batch last night. This show continues to be great, and I really enjoyed this episode! I was anxious and on the edge of my seat until the very end—and I’m excited for next week.
Only TWO WEEKS LEFT of this show! 😭 If you’ve been sleeping on it, it’s a great time to get into it so you’re caught up in time for the penultimate or final episode… I have a feeling it’s gonna be good.
• The score/soundtrack! Holy crap, Kevin Kiner and his kids, Sean and Deana Kiner have done an incredible job—this final season in particular has been constantly impressive to me. It has that classic Star Wars orchestral feel at times, but definitely feels evolved in a way similar to the Andor score: a bit more synth-y and eerie at times, sometimes almost… rock?? Idk, it is just great imho.
@cassidy really wasn’t a fan of the idea when the series was introduced as a replacement for The Clone Wars, thought it would be geared towards younger kids to sell more action figures. I couldn’t have been more wrong! I’m so invested in the story by now and kind of sad that it’ll be over soon! 😅
You’re so right about the animation style, I’ve always enjoyed it even in the early CW years, but by now it’s just top notch—easily my favourite of the three animation styles. 👌