Little advice from an open source maintainer.
If you as a user or community member want your voice to be heard, try to format your message in a polite, direct, and short way. Even if the topic is very large, try to engage in a fluid conversation by discussing fewer points. Writing massively long messages might cause the opposite effect, where the maintainer feels overwhelmed, your most important points get buried, and the conversation ends up dying due the too broad topics.
Less is more.
@zkat I think we in the OSS community need to do a better job at finding and funding those companies that occupy this middle space.
@Kevbeau68@mastodon.social @Mastodon tried logging in to Pixelfed from the client and it seems to also redirect to linux.pizza for the login. Is that expected?
Hmmm I wanted to try the official @Mastodon app for Android but the login seems to be redirecting me to an instance. Not sure if there's another way to log in 🤔
Registrations on https://pixelfed.social are now open! #pixelfed
@cassidyjames from our mouths to StarLabs ears
https://twitter.com/starlabsltd/status/1542908391793692672?t=lmyKSK0F09GYE9tpKdWn_A&s=19
@benpocalypse one of the things I find so strange about the GTK stack is that there doesn't seem to be a separation for the UI layer. It's all just one thing! There's a reason why websites have abandoned XML for their view layers.
@cassidyjames yeah I think if I'm going to end up purchasing something for a new personal device (the reason for the search) I might just go right back to another Thinkpad. Just torn if I want cheap or something developer grade
@cassidyjames looking at all the offerings most vendors seem to just not be focusing on this feature and want to compete elsewhere (ports and extensibility). Still if almost no one is doing it then some company is missing an opportunity!
@cassidyjames I really love the 14" form factor of my Lenovo Thinkpad but was looking to see if there's anything like it specifically built for Linux. I was looking at Slim, Star, and Laptops w/Linux since they all fund elementary but could find anything specific. I found a 3K one from Slim (I think it was them) but the DPI didn't seem quite right
@Suzie97@mastodon.social @avojak these look great! Love the background too
@tbernard @cassidyjames gotta love the cross pollination of ideas in an open ecosystem
@cassidyjames @androidpolice the Withing smart watches integrate nicely with Google Fit is that matters to people. My only gripe is that they're pretty locked down so Im not sure how long they will "exist" for as a hosted service.
@cassidyjames @androidpolice I have used one of those Withings hybrid watches for the last 4 years or so. There's a whole lineup of them now that you can pick from depending on the features you want. They are definitely stylish watches with a fitness tracker as opposed to a wrist computer in a watch form factor. Would highly recommend a Withings or a Skaagen hybrid for most people.
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