Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one

@armen
One thing that gets me to actually use my pinephone is when the experience is better than on my android. `wvkbd -O`, micro, and senpai are examples. Hopefully tootle and gerbil get there this year, as fediverse and gemini are two things I use my phone for a lot.
(amd maybe an email and music app too)

@geotechdigital ditching the maximize button was the right move. 'Windows-style' snapping (drag window to the top to maximize) is easier and more intuitive on desktop, and those buttons are irrelevant as client-side decorations for many environments (mobile, tiling window manager, etc)

Saw this comment about #gnome4 #adwaita theme flat design that rings true:

> changing buttons to be plain icons means removing crucially important contrast between elements and weakening visual cues to the user that things are clickable. In effect it makes it harder for the brain to “parse” the interface the person is looking at and leads to users having a harder time navigating the interface

(Personally, I think icon-only buttons are a necessary evil for mobile)

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2021/10/12/platform-design-goings-on/#comment-23856

@neauoire that reminds me of when I wrote character rules for sphinx or #manticoresearch to ignore hebrew vowel markings (to fix search result highlighting). Maybe that's more related to stemming than I thought.

@zash Time for a new release?

My status update: #SXMO and #wvkbd changes (seen here first), better mobile support in #senpai IRC, #alpine 3.15 upgrade experience.
gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/capsule/2021-12-22-status.gmi

@neauoire or in #varvara's DateTime device, the "year 65536 problem"

@silverhax there's also wtype (which in my experience works better than ydotool)

@silverhax two words: rounded corners.

BTW, is this #OpenHardware? (I love #OpenSCAD)

@silverhax I think #valent (#KDEConnect protocol) should be able to do that.

@zudn Me and my dad both found different solutions to this same problem. His choice was more expensive, mine... well you probably wouldn't consider it 😶.

Do you mind answering what size you have and what takes up so much space (besides the OS)?

If yours has an internal SD card reader, you can delay the inevitable by getting a flush, in-slot microSD adapter to offload files/infrequent programs into. (If formatted to apple's filesystem, time machine will backup it).

@PINE64 I hope we can get updates to our modems to remove the vulnerability... but all things in their time.

@zudn I find the web editor on openstreetmap.org very usable on desktop. I drop a pin on the map whenever I find an error. A few times a year, I'll go through my map and location history to add or fix things. (trace buildings, add address information, etc).

@zudn @GoEsr
This is one reason why I wrote this appstore script for #SXMO (timebeing, I still also use android). A simple system should be understandable and usable by the average Joe, but everything has some learning curve.

@zudn For many, using #openStreetMaps will be less convenient than its big-tech alternatives. But keep in mind where your true citizenship is. The 'pattern of this world' is to drink from the fountain of Rome. Living 20 years in the past is a (small?) price to pay to free yourself from its (often wicked) influence.

@ozmik @amosbatto

This (long) post is filled with all sorts of info that I missed, like
> PINE64 sells a tempered glass screen protector for $4.99, and a soft TPU case and hard plastic case that both cost $9.99 for the #PinePhone.
Wish I had realized that before cracking mine.

@neauoire once upon a time, I put #plan9 on a raspberry pi and used it a bit (but eventually switched because I couldn't figure out the wifi (I use that pi for displaying my song website on my piano)). Mouse-chording is interesting (I loved using it for search in left), but given how much I use touchscreen devices (pinephone), I don't see it becoming part of my workflow.

@neauoire Love it!
Left (the C version) is one of the reasons I currently use micro instead of nano (it taught me that using the mouse in a text editor is good for productivity). (ssh is part of why I use micro instead of left)