pleroma.debian.social

Anjan | @anjan@pleroma.debian.social

Software Freedom Advocate. I try to be helpful. Feel free to message me! πŸ˜ƒ

Co-maintainer of sxmo: https://sxmo.org

Posts here are my own and not my employers'.

#nobot

@stealthswor They have a chrome version on their github,

@hamblingreen I guess "support" is a messy word. But I also think these frontends represent the best of FOSS. They dont have trackers, ads, malicious features, etc. in contrast to their proprietary counterparts. They can be good for onboarding. All that said, we should advocate for free network services (now that we have them) as much as possible.

@hamblingreen Hey! So all my content is exclusively on peertube, self hosted blog, sourcehut, pleroma, etc. I am a militant advocate for free network services where most people would be inclined to "go where the people are". I would never support proprietary network services because of these frontends.

That being said: any step towards freedom is good. There's a huge amount of howto info on youtube and if it's not CC-BY/CC-BY-SA (to upload to peertube), youtube is our only choice.

@tagomago I used to use privacy redirect. iirc, this program is a fork of privacy redirect that supports more frontends, will redirect if the instance is offline, etc. I love the redirect feature since it encourages enabling multiple instances.

Im so grateful for all the Free software frontends to proprietary platforms. This addon is useful for accessing them automatically:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

I cant decide between

https://birdnetpi.com/
or
https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast

to install on my raspberry pi.

@icedquinn @ryanleesipes Notmuch is nice. I used muchsync to sync my notmuch tags. However, I also used to use an Android and syncing tags doesnt really work there. Even though the tag system is much better, it doesnt really work well with multidevice setups. I switched over to mu4e cause it uses imap folders which inherently sync easily.

@ryanleesipes Ah, Ill see if it fits my use case with the new responsive interface. Making a user interface more "mobile friendly" doesnt only help mobile users. Sometimes Ill make a window small width-wise and programs that adapt well to small width cause of mobile enhancements (ie. dino) are much more enjoyable to use.

I like mu/mu4e cause it's a really good indexer and searcher with good cli search utilities. Being able to use emacs to send emails is also a big bonus.

@ryanleesipes i use mu4e on the desktop and neomutt on mobile devices running postmarketos.

Any plans to have an adaptive interface for mobile devices in thunderbird? I dont like explaining my neomutt setup around normies =p.

@vitali64sur It depends on whether you have a t-mobile version according to the wiki.

I recently started daily driving Sxmo on the poco f1. You can read about my experience here:

https://momi.ca/posts/2022-04-19-sxmopocof1.html

Did you know there are centralized alternatives to the ?

They are great!
Instead of being developed by volunteers for the community they are developed for millionaires with the sole purpose of getting them more money and influence over the "users".

They contain ads and algorithms, so you don't have to decide, what you want to see, but you get to see what makes you addicted, so you view more ads, buy more stuff and thereby support the capitalist system that we all love.

Instead of anonymity you get to enter your phone number and other form of identification, which totally helps against hate speech, right?

I could go on with advantages, but I think it's best you check them out for yourselves.

The fsf just published my talk at #libreplanet 2022:

https://framatube.org/w/dHBrnMQeEt8Mq82KxV4zKm

Check it out!

@vitali64sur hahah, the plan was to develop sxmo-utils which is a set of coreutils for mobile devices. I guess it's not accurate to call Sxmo an os.

@aryak @vitali64sur No idea. You might want to ask in #postmarketos-offtopic on OFTC irc network.

@aryak @vitali64sur The poco f1 recently gained calling support https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KtfTJbLiYfg

I just installed osboot, a freedom-respecting boot firmware on my x230 without any external flasher. I had issues with getting the external flasher to work but it’s possible to put the linux kernel in your chips. Huge thanks to @libreleah for this amazing project and helping me getting it working.

osboot screen (grub payload) running on my x230. Cool osboot logo is displayed

@bacardi55 @jan_wagemakers Thank you for attending! I appreciate it.

@novimatrem Thanks for writing this! It works well on pipewire too.

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