nxtbl

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by nxtbl 1mo ago
They could easily use both, if necessary. Or link them and more via a Matrix server - but that would require a bit more work to do.
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by nxtbl 1mo ago
> We use a WhatsApp group for co-ordination. The time and location of the meetup is announced there. That's a hard no. You really, really should use Signal instead.
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by nxtbl 5mo ago
My first thought was that 5-10 posts a day is just too much. Can't expect everyone to read everything and also react to each one.
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by nxtbl 5mo ago
Same here, not logged in to X and works just fine with Firefox.
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by nxtbl 6mo ago
Results appear to vary. 2.5-3.4MB with 2560x1600 resolution. Firefox + uBlock + uMatrix + DDG essentials.
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by nxtbl 6mo ago
From https://keepandroidopen.org/ : " As of the date of this update, it exists only as a blog post and UI mockups. The community is being asked to accept a product announcement as a functional safeguard five months bef
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by nxtbl 6mo ago
No. From TFA: "There is a one-time, one-day wait"
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by nxtbl 6mo ago
3) And how can we keep on using F-Droid and other app stores? 4) How can we install apps made by devs who won't do the verification dance with Google?
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by nxtbl 6mo ago
Because the "new" layout is awful.
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by nxtbl 7mo ago
There are many brands making proper shoes/boots for winter hiking. I would recommend taking a look at Haix, Lowa, Salomon Quest series, Lundhags and Meindl.
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by nxtbl 8mo ago
Same file works everywhere. Just leave out the ones that are different on platforms: - browser.download.dir - browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk And instead of making a "google doc" a plaintext file would be better.
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by nxtbl 8mo ago
Too bad that their new interface is awful. Wastes so much space, and cannot normally collapse the left bar at all. So first thing after updates or login is to hit "Support" and "Click here to switch back to the old version&qu
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by nxtbl 8mo ago
Sounds like they just don't care about privacy, do they? Guess showing them https://i.redd.it/0imry50rxy961.png still won't change anything..
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by nxtbl 8mo ago
"In-app purchases" another annoyance of the play store, can't see prices without installing an app. So question for users of Octopi, how's the pricing?
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by nxtbl 8mo ago
Good idea, especially if it caters for us in Europe, too.
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by nxtbl 8mo ago
I'll take a good trackpoint + three buttons below space bar over any and all trackpads. Can't stand using them. Of course I also have separate thinkpad trackpoint II keyboard and a good mouse to use when on a stationary desktop -
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by nxtbl 9mo ago
I only stopped to collect FLACs instead, whenever available. When Spotify came, I tried it, made playlists etc. One of them had 1000+ techno tracks in it, from 90's mostly. After a while, half of them had disappeared due to licencing e
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by nxtbl 9mo ago
Well, not directly. When adding a keyword, I put it in the name of the bookmark in parentheses. Thus eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/newest is with the name "(hny) HN new" and keyword hny. When typing hny in the
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by nxtbl 9mo ago
This functionality has always been available in Firefox: Just add a keyword to a bookmark.
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by nxtbl 1y ago
from TFA: Filter lists update only when the extension updates, no fetching up to date lists from servers (this is a big one!) No custom filters, so no element picker which allows you to point and zap Many filters are dropped
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by nxtbl 1y ago
.. and then there are panorama extensions, which ease handling a lot of tabs immensely. No other browser seems to have anything alike. No, the grouping of tabs into tabs does nothing compared to this. https://github.com/proj
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by nxtbl 2y ago
Been doing that, but especially in the last few years sites have been dropping RSS support and won't bring it back no matter how you reason for it. For example, job seeking sites: https://tyomarkkinatori.fi/ is the nat
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by nxtbl 2y ago
They are keeping both: "Quite a few people seem to love K-9 Mail and have asked us to keep the robot dog around. We believe it should be relatively little effort to build two apps from one code base. The apps would be virtually identic
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by nxtbl 2y ago
1. & 3. I hate all channels and everyone who does that. Useless and distracting. Hence I never hung around in general chatter channels..
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by nxtbl 4y ago
Whatever online sources you read, follow or want to read, it's much more efficient and less time-consuming to concentrate them all in a proper feed reader. Subscribe everything there, classify and sort them as you wish, use the reader
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by nxtbl 4y ago
So we're still getting the fb excuse/apologism. Anyone could have used - and many of us used - plain old email, then irc, various messengers et al before zuck came. Back then, at that time, there were other ways to keep in touch a
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by nxtbl 4y ago
Open in [X] Firefox Focus and it forgets everything when you close it.
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by nxtbl 4y ago
They used to be, at least during the Amiga heydays. Sid Meier's Pirates!, Civilization, Colonization, Railroad Tycoon etc. [1] David Braben presents Frontier - Elite II Also after Populous, games like Powermonger, Black & White etc
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by nxtbl 5y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/sew1rn/twitte... For now, this removes the login pop-ups. For mobile use, there's Fritter.
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by nxtbl 5y ago
Also, Mozilla should stop removing features, buttons and preference items based on bullshit metrics that majority of the power users don't even keep enabled, thus skewing the studies completely.

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