Cris

It seems we’ve come full circle

Man, this just makes me sad we never saw another device quite like the pixel C, I loved that thing but its ancient now and loads stuff at the speed of molasses

Love me some street complete! It’s a great way for me to get out of the house and do stuff even when places are closed, since I’m not awake during the day

You sign in with your OSM account, and then when you add information via street complete your account submits the changes without needing to use the more advanced osm web interface

That looks awesome! I’m deeply nostalgic for that period of time, material design was the big thing when I was first getting into UI design and I was absolutely in love with it

Klwp and Kwgt are still a blast, that’s what almost all of my stuff is made out of, but iOS has its pros as well :) from what I hear things are progressively getting a little more customizable, if still pretty locked down

At some point I’d like to get a little better at animations so I can make my setup feel a little more alive, but for the time being it’s mostly just static elements

Lol, I’m somewhat similar. I’m a big ui/ux nerd but don’t have professional or academic experience other than some pro-bono work in high-school. But I love tinkering with my phone’s homesceen and other similar little projects. I’m hoping to make a neocites page soon!

This is my previous phone’s homescreen I posted a while back:

https://mastodon.online/@CrisColor/111440259435482295

I’ve gotten a new phone since then and am still getting it updated to fit properly on a new screen, so right now it looks a little jank 😅 but it’s always interesting to hear how other people feel differently about aesthetics than yourself!

Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective with me! ☺️

I’m curious how you feel about the GNOME application icons, they sound like they might be up your alley

Right now I generally have a preference for either weird stylized themed stuff I make myself, or very flat stuff like what android currently does for app icons, but I can certainly see the appeal of other stuff :)

I really like the application icons used in Gnome but I really like the consistent line weights and geometry of material symbolic icons so I’m still using a material icon pack on gnome

Edit: Here’s a picture I grabbed of icons done in the adwaita style Gnome uses in case you don’t use linux and aren’t familiar with them. Its not a full sampling, but you get the idea :)

Personally I don’t, I kinda hate old skeuomorphism 😅

Neo skeuomorphism has some neat novelty though.

Edit: this is just my personal aesthetic preference, I don’t begrudge anyone their love of skeuomorphism, or nostalgia for it.

It’s not quite what you’re describing, but neocities probably has some blog templates you could use. I know there’s a webcomic artist who hosts their webcomic on neocities using a template

But it wouldn’t be a blogging specific platform, and I don’t expect there’d be any way to integrate with ActivityPub

Good luck in your search for the right platform!

Hell yeah!

Personally I don’t really mind opt out unless the choice isn’t clearly presented to people for them to decide.

Like if during installation one of the steps is “share anonymized data” and the switch is in the on position by default, I really don’t mind that. Usage data is massively helpful from a UI/UX perspective and in terms of user testing, doubly so for open source projects without as much resources for doing that kind of testing otherwise.

But if it’s burried in a settings pannel somewhere, that sucks and doesn’t respect user agency

Thats how I feel anyway 🤷‍♂️

Syncthing-fork seems to still be under active development

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/

Syncthing-fork still seems to be under active development, at least for the time being

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/

I’m surprised you’re the only person talking about syncthing-fork and that it’s not the top comment, it’s the only android client I’ve actually used

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/

Here’s the f-droid repo for folks who might prefer to get it that way

Yeah, I agree. I’d just moved over to bitwarden as I switch to open source stuff, I’d really prefer to stick with bitwarden, I’m fairly happy with it

Wow… I’m pretty crap at making decisions, but like… not that crap 😅

That’s like an impressively bad choice

Ah… Yikes 😬

It seems disproportionately complicated relative to how basic the task is. I’ve definitely done more complicated stuff, despite being more of a graphical interface person, it just seems like such a basic (and common) thing a user might want, it seems like it should be as simple as sudo apt install <package name>. As long as I’m using apt and not snap, I expect it to install the .deb package. It feels user hostile :/

Christ. That response from Linus felt pretty fair, Kent seems kinda impossible to work with to be honest :/

Though I did appreciate someone else in this thread pointing out that he may not have the resources for testing. He still seems impossible to work with, but it’s at least good to have context 😅

God damn, that’s a long ass list of steps…

Kinda crazy that’s all necessary, I already didn’t really wanna use Ubuntu since the switch to snap, but damn 😅