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Which Distribution and Desktop Environment should I use? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I would recommend slackware or devuan with xfce or lxde

Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm from an East Asian country. :) Pretty sure I'm almost the only one tho..

Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It makes the phone harder to use, which is ironically useful to some. tbh I don't understand lol

If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

fvwm :)

Why do we hate SELinux? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't hate it, but as a PC/phone user it's security features are almost never helpful and always cause issues so I just have it disabled.

Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can always help overseas where you're safer.

GIMP 3.0 Released in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i mean its pretty good if you get used to it.. i remember the shortcuts for all the major tools i use and it's very quick and easy to use for me.

Why is there only one invidious instance left? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

its just the ip, you can use a vpn

Which obscure browser do you daily drive? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

seamonkey but it's pretty hard to use without much love nowadays with so many incompatible websites. It's a perfect mail client tho.

Just get Firefox ESR with arkenfox, that should be enough.

Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Gotta make custom builds for osx and win lol.

Best Beige PS/2 keyboard and mouse for retro gaming build? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The best one is the one you can obtain easily tbh. Old mechanical keyboards from back then are usually pretty good, but looking for a specific model is usually hard.

Does anyone know of a Lemmy ios app that allows me to use whatever font I want? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

On android boost is best for me, proprietary but lightweight.

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mlmym looks weird (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

Since a few days ago I noticed some minor changes on mlmym (old.lemmy.sdf.org)

The logo on top left is low resolution, and the community info sidebar isn't shown by default.

Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20250127103600/https://old.lemmy.sdf.org/ After: https://web.archive.org/web/20250204090416/https://old.lemmy.sdf.org/

Does anyone know if this change was intended? At least I'm pretty sure the logo isn't.. Not sure where to report. thanks.

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Anyone knows what's this on the 5.25" bay? (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

Saw this tower at a flea market and I'm wondering what's installed above the 5.25" floppy drive. Does anyone know?

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Android app with compact ui? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
9 comments fedilink
 

Hello. I used to use RedReader with reddit, but there doesn't seem to be such app for lemmy. Right now I'm using Voyager and it looks/works great, but it's super slow on my ancient phone. Is anyone aware of a native android lemmy client with a compact ui? I'm asking just in case there's something I missed. Thanks!

Edit: I switched to Boost, seems to work great. I do miss swipe to up/downvote though..

RedReaderBoost

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Kiwi Browser is archived (github.com)
 

(also see https://www.androidauthority.com/kiwi-browser-shutting-down-3519510/ )

A while ago Mull/Mulch (and DivestOS) died, and now this.. I wonder what I'll use now.

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Trying to get advice for photo/files storing/syncing (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
33 comments fedilink
 

Hi. Sorry for the vague title. Nowadays I'm using multiple computers and get to need files and such from other machines pretty often. My music and photos library has also increased and it's getting much harder to maintain with it being scattered across many machines. Basically I'm trying to have a photo library and plain files(documents, music, etc) shared across computers.

For plain files I'm thinking nfs+samba would be the best approach, but there are problems. They have speed issues, but as I can't afford large space for all my machines I can't keep a full rsync'd local copies everywhere too.

The photos are my bigger concern, as I'm looking for a tagging feature. A plain directory structure would be easy to sync but those tags would differ by programs.. desktop programs like digikam or xnview(sadly proprietary) would work well if I didn't need syncing, but I'm not sure if they'd work reliably with all their configs/files stored over nfs. Plus, these programs would have incompatibilities by platform and not work at all on android.

Web based solutions like Immich or NextCloud Photos appear to be pretty famous nowadays, but I'm not sure about them as well. They seem to be overkill for my purpose, and those mostly tend to be very new & i'm not too sure about their future, as they store tags and such on their own formats.

Edit: Oops, forgot to say. I have multiple servers right now, one offsite running FreeBSD, another running Devuan, and one at home running FreeBSD.

I'd love to hear how others are maintaining their system. Thanks for reading.

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Looking for a program to document things in life. (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

Hello all. I'm looking for (a) program(s) to manage & document things in life. Mainly these features are what I need:

  • Diary, random notes(like a wiki?) with version control
  • TODO list, auto added to diary at that time period
  • Ability to attach images and text files to those diary, notes
  • Calendar with schedule synced with TODO
  • Easy backup, preferably in plaintext or simple db
  • Text search

Currently I'm using SeaMonkey and my phone(android) to manage calendar (so two separated ones), a paper note to write diaries and use dokuwiki for random notes. This setup is too complicated and isn't productive at all.

I do think my requirements are kinda abstract, and there most likely isn't a single program that can do all this. Although basic I'm a novice FreeBSD & Emacs+evil user so *nix-only or text-based utilities are okay. I'm not aware of any program that meets these needs, is there anything that resembles what I'm thinking? Thanks!

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XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

Hi. I have a group of 6 people using Discord to chat. Recently Discord changed a lot and we're looking for an alternative. We have a few requirements:

  • Good client on multiple platforms
  • Easy to use search
  • Self hosted
  • Permanently saved chat history & attachments on server (no expiration)
  • Easy image upload (Ctrl+V to post image from clipboard)

IRC isn't an option as chat history is saved on the client, and there's no good integrated way to share files and preview images. Matrix would be an overkill as we're a small group not interested in federation, and the available clients had a few bugs. Mattermost lacks a good mobile app (their current one had bunch of bugs). XMPP appears to be the best as it is extensible and has many clients available.

However, I tried configuring prosody on my FreeBSD server and it seems like it doesn't permanently save chat history or attachment files. Does anyone know if these can be solved? Or is there any better alternative than XMPP?

Thanks.

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