LOL this is no Dune: Part Two blockbuster. Stop pretending that its supposed to be one.

Ruffalo does a solid, loathsome Trump.

yeah denied lol

A project to give me money in exchange for me writing software.

that is the wrong mindset for a boycott. no amazon period from now until forever. if shows go under so much the better. take your show business elsewhere.

yes we should!

nice! I like to run xfce in no-desktop mode with xmonad for the WM. Maybe the same approach will work with sway.

I tried the servo test browser and it’s not ready for normal websites by a long shot. Hope it makes progress quickly of course…

we deserve it tho. if you’re gonna be dumb, you got to be tough

Oh the guy that blocked Ukraine funding for months? What a warrior for democracy he is.

You don’t have to replace the html web. If a new system was sufficiently fun to create with, people might use it for all kinds of cool new projects. Kind of like Flash used to be. You’d go there for a specific thing you heard about.

A new web free of cruft might turn out to be cheaper to develop for, and that might appeal to the corporate types. Maybe useful for intranet type apps where the browser is specified anyway and you have a captive audience.

Ok maybe off topic, why does a web browser have to be one of the most complicated software artifacts on earth? So expensive to write and maintain that only a few orgs with huge developer resources can do it?

What would it look like to start from scratch with a massively simplified standard for specifying UIs, based on all we’ve learned since html/css was invented? A standard that a few developers could implement in a few weeks using off the shelf libraries. Rather than reimplement every bizarre historical detail in html/css, have a new UI layout system that’s simple and consistent, and perhaps more powerful.

Haven’t looked at it in detail. I like F-Droid because the apps seem to be non-predatory OSS that gets the job done. Its not really a ‘store’ though. I think some apps have a paid Play Store release and a free F-Droid release, to make it easy to support the devs if you want.

Does accrescent support non-free apps?

I had a touchscreen laptop for years and only used the screen if the touchpad was broken for some reason. a touchscreen is just not ergonomic in laptop form. the yoga-style screen should make it much more useful.

my use case would be for occasionally reading music on a music stand, and to run an audio mixer with a tablet style interface.

that looks just like me lol

Make a drain hole at the bottom of a lake, that comes out above it. Put in a water wheel, free energy.

I’ll add to this that when I first registered at mastodon.social, my default view was some fancied up multi-column monstrosity. I managed to turn most of that off, but it was super confusing at first. Start simple and let users add complexity.

Also agree about the empty feed. At least default to the explore tab. Way better would be a tool to help build your feed based on interests.

A tool to read your phone contacts and search for corresponding mastodon accounts would be intrusive (some would even say unprincipled), but many users would welcome it.

Recently upgraded a laptop that had been on the shelf for 5 years up to latest version. Flawless one-step upgrade! nixos. Things never get in a tangle where installing and uninstalling packages leaves random artifacts behind. If you saved it to version control, you can return to a past system configuration and the only thing different is your home directory data.

And yes, if you have a home partition and root partition, that’s exactly what you can do. That’s the beauty of that approach. But back it up!

I order stuff from ebay. Got a phone on the way from china right now. Ebay work-alike might not be a bad place to start.

Another issue might be, how do you deal with people selling illegal items/services? How do you avoid “Silk Road” style liability? Would there be a blacklist that someone running an instance could use so they don’t have to vet everyone they are federated with?

I wonder if you can ‘outsource’ trust by relying on payment systems? If a seller uses stripe and scams some users, stripe would freeze their account right?