gzrrt

@gzrrt@feddit.de

into music (drumming) and programming in new york, ny

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gzrrt,

Nice! My first distro was Kubuntu back in 2016. Pop OS is pretty solid and a good distro to try out, too- just stay curious and you'll probably find yourself hopping around from thing to thing for a while. Enjoy

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Sorry, I'm not seeing the previous one (even after refreshing, changing sort order, etc). Maybe something weird going on with my instance

What are your favorite browser extensions?

Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can't stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything....

gzrrt,

I physically can't use a browser without Vimium anymore.

gzrrt,

#1 is Guyana, for anyone curious

Are we using Lemmy correctly?

What I think could make Lemmy superior to Reddit is the ability to create themed-instances that are all linked together which feels like the entire point. I've noticed that a lot of instances are trying to be a catch-all Reddit replacement by imitating specific subs which is understandable given the circumstances but seems like...

gzrrt,

I think more regional / city instances would be great. Seems like a natural way to consolidate activity around local content, meetups, activism, etc etc while also staying totally connected to everything else

gzrrt,

Hope this brings us one step closer to never having to hear about him again.

gzrrt,

The world is a slightly better place without him in it.

gzrrt,

Can't imagine applying to work for an ad company in the first place.

gzrrt,

No. The future of tech should be about getting more capabilities out of fewer (and/or less intrusive) screens. Would love to see more advances in e-ink displays and open-source, 'ambient' voice-controlled UIs.

gzrrt,

I don't see any downside at all if it's layered on top of some other (very capable) keyboard-driven UI that can do all the same things.

gzrrt,

That's why we need something open-source and self-hosted.

gzrrt,

Don't think anything can actually replace the power and expressiveness of keyboards and text interfaces- that's always going to be the bottom layer for a productive setup (i.e., you need to actually be able to write code, write shell scripts etc to control your machine, etc).

Guess what I really want is just some kind of Unix machine that hums along 24/7 in the background, with many different paradigms for interacting with it when you don't have (or want) a standard keyboard and display. Putting a display over my face feels like a giant leap in the wrong direction

gzrrt,

Same here (even though I own bluetooth headphones). No reason phones can't support both

gzrrt,

Alcohol is toxic, carcinogenic garbage and we'd be noticeably better off if everyone voluntarily stopped drinking it.

gzrrt,

True, or maybe I've actually gone too far back to the pre-boomer era with this one

gzrrt,

Technically I'm not, but fair point

gzrrt,

The only exceptions I can think of are streaming services that simply couldn't exist as standalone one-off products (Spotify, Netflix etc). But yeah, there's no logical reason something like Photoshop should ever require more than one transaction.

gzrrt,

I'd vote for Windows 2000, but the point stands. All it needed (in hindsight) was virtual desktops

gzrrt,

I've been voting with my wallet on this one for years- no headphone jack, no purchase

gzrrt,

I'm on a Sony Xperia 10 IV now. Amazing battery life, decent for one-handed use, has a headphone jack, SD slot, and meh camera. Mostly solid overall- agree the situation's getting worse and worse every year

gzrrt,

No question, removing swappable batteries was pretty brazenly consumer-hostile.

One of the main reasons I'm 100% on board with stuff like the Pinephone, at least in theory (just wish Linux phones were actually ready to be used as phones.. maybe in another couple of years).

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