👍Maximum Derek👍

I like that they’ve read the memo about fediverse projects being named after animals, but firefish doesn’t fit. They should have gone with Coelacanth or something like that… but easier to spell.

I did not know that. I’ll give it a look for sure.

I didn’t appreciated the FDroid UX until Google app designers lost their damn minds. Now it makes me feel relief.

it deletes it from my phone to clear space, keeping only the cloud backup

One copy of of anything isn’t a backup, it’s a move. Yes, in this case, Google is doing its own backups but you’re giving them all the trust and control.

Bangs are the reason I moved to DuckDuckGo after Neeva shut down

I’ve always enjoyed the cover flow of trackers that the duckduckgo extension shows

I dumped a cup of coffee in my laptop a month ago and was so bummed that it wasn’t for sale yet.

Well, at least we can all rest assured that all the driver monitoring cameras/tech that’s being build by default into new consumer cars and trucks will only ever be used for safety.

The only thing that will stop climate change is if we reduce the beef industry and eat billionaires instead. Every billionaire will chop 0.1° off the warming trend.

I had completely forgotten about it and would have assumed it was a thing of the past.

And the old memes trend is that time the band did a bunch of coffee shop shows playing nothing but ukuleles.

Wine + Wayland for sure. It’s time to let X11 rest, it’s earned it.

I use Pop_OS because I really like having so much much GUI control via the keyboard. I’m patiently waiting for Cosmic to update things a bit.

Deja Dup backs my local machines to my Synology NAS. That uses Hyper-backup to send everything to Dropbox.

This is at least the 4th official microsoft font I’ve been around for. What a time to be alive!

It’s horrifying what data harvesting engines most OSs have become. I remember being so outraged when I learned that Ubuntu’s default MOTD phones home with a couple of pieces of hardware info that I switched distros (the ever growing use of snaps was also a factor). Windows seems like it needs a complete medical history just to “offer” a sign in prompt.

Most of my machines, including my daily driver, run Linux. I’ve got one old windows laptop that I use (via NoMachine) to run Fusion360 on. And we have a 5+ year old Surface Pro that my wife uses for Dice Maker (a windows only program).

IMO the best communities serve a niche. Then you get a bunch of like minded members on one server and you end up with a local feed that is likely to be full of personally interesting stuff.

I wonder if we can take the data in that site and see whether or not the fediverse has a “long tail.” Or if the mass migration has consolidated folks into a more traditional bell curve across servers.

The long tail is a concept that applies in a number of ways but I’m most familiar with it from the very very early days of SEO. The idea that the thing you’re interested in (in this case active users) are spread over so many tiny instances that they seem like a small part of the whole when in fact they make up the majority.

Neither of my old Windows boxes will run 11, so they won’t run 12 either. And I’m oh so broken up about it.