👍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.

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.

That looks more user friendly than the solution I put together last winter.

The benefit to finding a Mastodon server with a community that you find interesting is that you get a local feed that is somewhat relevant to your interests. If’s far from necessary but it ads one more dimension to surfacing content.

There are servers that do this. You get a whole bunch of mostly terrible content (with not votes to rise good stuff to the top) and no way to interact with the original poster or commenters. It’s not great.

If the Fediverse can’t survive Threads is can’t survive period, and we should all just move on now.

While I don’t think the iphone is over-hyped I’ve started fantasizing about going back to a dumb phone. The LG enV 2 is still the best phone I ever owned.

• replaceable battery that lasted 3 days
• headphone jack
• physical keyboard
• fit in shirt pocket
• no bloatware

For example, did you know a release of a new fully open source LLM called OpenLLaMA just got announced by the Researchers at Berkeley AI Research?

Nice. Good to know what all of next month’s doom headlines will all have in common. ;)

I gave up on gmail a couple years ago too. It was a LOT of work to migrate but there have been several stories since that make me glad I did it. Plus I now my gmail is nothing but spam and it’s satisfyingly like having a hotmail account just for spam 20 years ago.