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  • While this chart certainly shows how dominant mastodon.social in the Fediverse is, I like this chart. It also shows how diverse the Fediverse is. For any other social network this graph would be a simple circle. For the Fediverse it shows 38 different servers, and apart from mastodon.social, the distribution seems quite fair.

    Very good!

  • Biggest follower count.

  • I can't speak for the BOOX Tab Ultra C directly, but I'm interested in opinions on it, because I'm thinking about buying one as well.

    I have the BOOX Note Air though. Overall, I really like it. I use it to read books and learning material, do math exercises and occasionally to draw. I love that it's smart (full Android, download any app) and dumb (slow, grayscale, don't get distracted easily) at the same time.

    Technically you can use it for browsing the web, however I wouldn't recommend it. It' too slow if you want to hop between different sites. It's only comfortable if you access a specific site to read on for a while. I hope the BOOX Tab Ultra C is faster (I mean it should), but if the web is one of your main use cases, I'd rather go for a proper tablet. Even if the ePaper screen is relatively fast, it's still too slow to be fun. Since you're already experienced using ePaper screen, I'm confident you can judge that for yourself though.

    My motivation to get an upgrade is mainly the Note Air quickly slows down when drawing anything semi-complex or above. I can recommend it for reading, taking notes and (limited) drawing. For anything else, I recommend a tablet instead.

  • That's good news, very nice!

  • Yeah, agreed, Marginalia's more suited to discover small-web type of content.

    Another thing that'd be better as a daily driver, but requires manual curation, is to filter out specific domains in your searches. Brave supports that with the Goggles feature, Mojeek calls it Focus. AFAIK Kagi too has a similar feature.

    I don't know any search engine that's able to fully exculde paywalled content though.

  • Hm, thanks for sharing. Maybe a clean install will sort out the issue. Should try that when I'll have some time.

  • Should I approach the team about this?

    Yes, certainly. It sounds like some/most members of the team don't understand the stylesheet architecture of your project and it's vital to sort that out ASAP. The more time passes, the harder it will get to get everything back on track.

    Try to avoid finger-pointing and this shouldn't be a very hard conversation (assuming they aren't super stubborn).


    As a side note, the fact that you first address this issue on the Fediverse and not in your team makes me think that maybe there are some underlying issues regarding trust and open communication. You might want to further look into that. Take it with a large grain of salt though. I don't really know anything about your team so it's likely that I overdramatize the situation.

  • Personally, I'm not interested in the type of posts you mention. However, I don't mind it. In general I think it's great to tell the world if you ditch Windows for Linux, because it shows other (Windows) users that they can do it, too.

    Though I have to agree that for a dedicated Linux community, it doesn't add too much value. If I think a post is a bad fit for the community, I vote it down.

  • I'm not aware of any functionality which allows to block messages from unknown users. I think blocking them might be your only option right now.

    Easier said than done (and already too late for you), I know, but: in general, be careful where you leave your number...

  • Thanks for not only posting your issue, but also updating with newly discovered information. I wasn't aware that uBlock can prevent caching.

  • Slick! My feedback:

    • Consider respecting the user agents color scheme preference (I like to have light mode on day and dark mode on night — don't overwrite that without my permission if you already have both themes).
    • Contrast is too low in the dark theme and way too low (basicly unusable) in the light theme.
    • Consider increasing font size, esp. for code blocks
    • For me it's wierd that posts are kinda centered but not really. Since most (not all) languages are left to right, I'm used to start looking on the left side, not the right. Consider centering the post properly.
    • Consider making the hover animations faster.
    • In dark mode, the icon button hover text is black on dark gray and therefore basicly unreadable.

    What is this dot between the three-dot menu button and the time stamp?

    Personally, I don't really like that the post is displayed transparently over the post list. This makes it a lot harder for me to focus on the content. Maybe I'm not the target group for a design like this.

  • And for 80$/month you can get 25Gbps!

  • It did take forever when I tried the last time. Literally hours.

  • Just installed NixOS with Wayland and Gnome the other day on my laptop with Nvidia card. I had to tune the config a bit, but it works flawless now -- notably also with the offload command. That's fine for me though because it saves considerable energy if the GPU only runs on request.

  • Apostrophe. The perfect, slick markdown editor.

  • You can go to settings > customize and turn off pull to refresh if you want.

  • Works now.

  • uBlock Origin would be my number one, but they don't take donations. So my list would roughly contain:

    • Organic Maps
    • Thunderbird
    • Internet Archive
    • Codeberg

    I'd like to donate to Firefox as well, but Mozilla spends too much for the wrong things and AFAIK it's not possible to only support Firefox development.

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