Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

The most sustainable phone is the one in your pocket. Make it last. 🌍💚

#changeisinyourhands

@dallin@fosstodon.org Apple's vendor-lock-in with iMessage is particularly bad, because not only does it harm functionality, it hinders social interaction for non-Apple users, and makes Apple's messaging system look superior while doing it. RCS, a new texting system, fixes a lot of problems with traditional SMS and MMS messaging. It has very wide support from pretty much all modern tech, except Apple's (surprise). And so poor messaging between Apple users and everyone else continues.
https://www.howtogeek.com/349968/what-is-rcs-the-successor-to-sms/

I came up on hardware that was 10-20 years out of date when I was using it, because that's the best I could get. And you know what? It worked fine. Using these junky old systems taught me patience, and how to think through a task before I do it. And most of all it taught me to never trust a computer with anything important: paper is crash-proof. It also taught me about the relentless cycle of enforced obsolescence that pervades our society, and that I want no part of it.

It took Benjamin Franklin three hours to get going in the morning. Suddenly, I feel decently high-functional.

“Are you sure you want to remove this account? This will remove your access to resources like email, apps, network, and all content associated with it. Your organization might also remove some data stored on this device.”

Uni: This is how we write resource-efficient algorithms.

Also uni: All communication for this class will be through [insert processor-melting multi-gigabyte bigtech adware product here]

@Charadon

They're not horrible, but outside of Gnome, they're very jarring.

It's just so dadgum unnecessary. Mutter can draw the blaster bars.

#GNOME is constantly playing the power grab game, and I'm sick of it.

Nobody wants to be Unix anymore (openness, utility, usability, interoperability), they all want to be MacOS (consolidated control, like-it-or-lump-it, one grand master vision 😂)

I'm so done with the *ego* of these projects.

Shakespeare was ahead of his time.

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Gotta #confess...

I miss the sounds of hard disks clicking.

It was such great auditory feedback regarding your computer's state, and it was so great to HEAR your computer working.

Haven't had one as a primary/boot disk since 2014 or earlier.

Of course, they were pretty quiet by then.

I don't miss my screaming 20MB miniscribe so much.

Well... maybe even that one. X"-D

cc: @dfloyd888 @RS_Naifeh

Every so often I feel drawn to my #DEC #vt510 terminal. Tonight I've spent an hour or so reading email and browsing the web (yes, with #eww) on it. Despite, or perhaps /because/, its limitations, something about it seems familiar and comfortable.

And I'm writing this toot using the #cli program called #toot, from my amber 80x25 screen on a vt510 that's nearly 30 years old. toot reminds me of IRC in a way, and I think that's a good thing.

How often are you in the #Fediverse?
Please boost or share!

If you're starting a brand new account on a Fediverse server, it's not a good idea to post lots of content before you have followers.

The only people who can see your posts on the Fediverse are those on your server, those on other servers which have at least one person following you, or those who see your post shared.

If you post all your best content up front on a brand new account with no followers, no one outside your server will be able to see it. Even if they follow you later, the posts you made before that will not be visible to them, because Fedi platforms don't backfill old posts on accounts you follow.

It's much better to gradually add content as your follower numbers grow.

You only need one follower from a server in order for everyone on that server to see your post. Even if you only have a dozen followers, that's up to 12 other servers that can see what you post.

#Fediverse #Followers

(Sorry for repost, I phrased original post really badly!)

Vim as an Electron app

Gotta say, the Single Unix Specification is pretty SUS.

Ok, I'll leave.

PC Mag - October 2004
https://books.google.com/books?id=ApuK7-wXQnYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=twopage&q&f=false

If you're creating a username on PeerTube, don't use dots (i.e. full stops, periods, points).

Dots in usernames break compatibility with other Fediverse servers, and people won't be able to follow your account from outside PeerTube.

#PeerTube #Fediverse

If you're an #Apple user, apparently today is a good day to update your stuff.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/17/iphone-ipad-mac-zero-days/