Yeah they also cut huge corners on the wireless card that has an issue with dropping packets, didn’t add an Ethernet port to the dock, and then made all their online games use a peer to peer connection limited by the worst connection in the lobby 😅

Its cool the retroid works so much better for you! Did you ever try like the DS or 3DS? If you have I’m curious how you felt about the ergonomics

I feel like a huge part of the issue with the switch are its ergonomics combined with its weight. You can only use your hands for but so much, supporting the weight, operating the tiny controls, and gripping the device. Like it feels like kind of a combination of not enough space to grip, too small of actual controls and also enough weight that you really need a better grip on it

I feel like it depends a lot of how big your hards are. They do fine for me (though I still prefer full size controls), but I have little hands. I could see them being miserable for many people though

Ayyyy, fuckin congrats my friend!!

As more of an art and design person than a technical one, yeah almost undoubtedly, though I can’t think of specific examples

But I really appreciate the work that goes into a beautiful logo, typography, or UI, and that will often sway me, probably more than it should

Void’s beautiful logo/logotype is what originally got me interested in it as a distro, and the only reason I’m not using it now is cause I’m a dummy and minimal distros require I use my brain a lot more than I’ve thus far been willing to get my computer up and going

I’m glad I could help, I hope you have a lovely day! ☺️

Aldi and harbor freight are both good options. Aldi makes no political campaign donations, and harbor freight doesn’t make any as a company, but their senior employees apparently have only donated to democrats.

If you wanna check somewhere the Goods Unite Us app or website are very helpful

!goodsuniteus@lemmy.ca used to be pretty active but it pretty much entirely died down

If anyone else knows companies with a good track record throw them in the thread :)

This looks fantastic! will it possible to use purely locally as just an android app in the future?

I think for a lot of folks it might be nice to have the option to just eschew self hosting for synchronization and just use local storage, and then have a route to expanding and adding muti device ability should they go set up a server ☺️

You should also crosspost this to !japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz and !learnjapanese@lemmy.ml!

This looks neat, I’ll have to sit down and give this a proper try some time ☺️

Any chance you could give a simple explainer on how to set up a !! abbreviation in fish?

I’m a fairly non-technical fish user and every time I’ve tried to figure out how to do it I’ve ended up giving up 😅

If you don’t know off the top of your head thats fine, but it seemed worth an ask ☺️

Thats fair, I’m not the most knowledgeable on this subject.

I do think its understandable to be frustrated with decreasing user choice around init systems though. To me it feels frustrating how often the conversation around systemd seems to break down into:

systemd is Satan incarnate, and poison to linux

And

Actually anyone who doesn’t like systemd is braindead and just doesn’t like it cause it’s popular

I don’t think peoples frustration or unhappiness with the way its impacting the linux ecosystem is entirely unreasonable. I do think the zealotry and lack of nuance with which people voice their frustrations is often tiring an unhelpful though. That being said, if I understand correctly other init systems are still available for MX, so In don’t think its really that big of a deal in this case? Not sure. Original commenter doesn’t seem to think that helps the situation, but like I said, I’m not super knowledgable on this subject 🤷🏻‍♂️

A non-technical person’s best attempt at a useful answer, please forgive and correct me if I get things wrong:

Systemd has become the defacto standard on linux, and was, to my understanding, kinda the first init system to do all its jobs consistently well enough. Though the way distros first implemented it sucked, or something along those lines.

Many people were frustrated by those early issues, and my impression is that its not exactly an elegant piece of software, instead managing to function well through more of just brute force and by being huge and complicated.

People in the linux world really care about the Unix principal, or Unix philosophy (each piece of software should do one thing, and do it well), which is what has enabled linux to be essentially modular, and facilitates tons of user choice, but also fragmentation

Systemd seems to kind of do too many things to really adhere to that principal, and with projects building dependency on it, some folks feel its bad for the linux ecosystem for one massive piece of software that does so much to get tied into every project so that other init systems aren’t usable anymore. It means that if systemd isn’t the best solution anymore, it doesn’t matter, better solutions may not get use anyway without building tons of workarounds for systemd dependencies.

Other folks are frustrated by the frequently overzealous hatred of systemd, and feel what it does to unify linux is more valuable than it’s potential abstract risk to the linux ecosystem, or very complex implementation and maximalist approach.

I mean to be perfectly fair, building hard dependencies on a particular init system does mean it gets way harder for anyone to use other ones, and that does suck

It’s understandable that people would be frustrated by that. I’ve never had any issues with sysd but when I was using void I really liked runit, and with gnome increasing dependencies on systemd I’m worried I won’t be able to use void anymore as a gnome user :(

Only reason I’m not using void currently is cause I’m not quite technically knowledgeable enough yet to set up and maintain a minimal distro.

The Unix principal is a thing people care about for a reason, it’s a pretty core part of how this ecosystem was built up with so much user choice, and while there are some silly complaints about systemd, I do feel like I’ve seen some very reasonable ones. Particularly just that its a huge, very complicated implementation

That looks fuckin delicious

Bonfire social seems cool as fuck, but I wish I understood exactly what it is a little better-

Am I understanding right that its more fediverse building tools for folks who run instances? Or is it a platform like lemmy, mastodon, piefed? Both? Something else entirely?

It feels hard to pin down what it actually is 😅

Love seeing more novel, non-linux foss stuff, thanks for sharing! ☺️

I don’t use it but axio has been rock solid in my experience.

I like gramophone but it’s had some bugs, where auxio just has just done anything I’ve needed without issue when I was trying it out

I’m just fussy about user interfaces, and while axio is a quite nice material 3 ui, gramophone is more beautiful to me

It is my understanding that the back-end marketplace for snap is not open, and that snap as a packaging ecosystem is permanently tied to Canonical (company behind Ubuntu) exclusively.

No one else can build a snap repository or source (not sure what the best language would be but I’m trying not to word things ambiguously).

From Wikipedia:

Others have objected to the closed-source nature of the Snap Store. Clément Lefèbvre (Linux Mint founder and project leader[75][76]) has written that Snap is biased and has a conflict of interest. The reasons he cited include it being governed by Canonical and locked to their store, and also that Snap works better on Ubuntu than on other distributions.

Which is why people are unhappy with snap. And why I say that although I wish fedora didn’t set up their own flatpak repo and provide then alongside flathub, to me its a requirement that it be possible to do that. Because then if the people leading the project start making user hostile choices, you have recourse. Same as with any free license, open source project- you can just take what was already built and the community can rally around moving efforts over to the version that isn’t being user hostile.

Snap doesn’t have that. If they became successful, canonical would have enormous power over the linux ecosystem and if they chose not to treat users with respect, they would already have market capture. The more successful they were to become, the more likely things depend on them. Like important packages only being published as snaps. And the more likely that things have been built around snaps specifically, the bigger of a liability it is for linux as a whole. A liability controlled by a for-profit company, with for-profit motives.

People have similar frustrations with systemd as more projects build hard dependencies on it, but at least those are still totally open projects

Sorry to the long wall of text but I hope its at least helpful 😅

Edited to add the section from Wikipedia

That would be debian… A larger project with more resources. It feels pretty obvious why they wouldn’t include it 😅

This is a pretty frustrating interview to me. He doesn’t really seem to engage at all with the fact that building a core system component in a way that isn’t fully open completely looses all of the resiliency to enshittification or conflict of interest between corporation and users that makes linux a good thing in the first place.

I don’t personally really like that fedora chooses to repackage and serve their own versions of flatpaks. But that its possible is mandatory, because otherwise if flatpaks are successful and they end up making choices that are user hostile, there is no escape hatch.

Its a completely unnecessary choice, and is to me, entirely disqualifying. If snaps were to become successful it would be a bad thing for this ecosystem that I care about.

I also find it frankly bewildering that he talks about everything being their own software stack as a flex, when this whole space is built on collaboration building together, and then goes on to describe it as vertical integration, a form of anticompetitive behavior that countries make laws aimed at preventing. Vertical integration is not a good thing.

Its fine if your stack is all yours, but thinking vertical integration is a flex feels really slimy and out of touch to me

I feel like the obvious picks from the linux crowd would be a thinkpad or framework. I’m sure there are other great options though