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  • Imo, the best one is the one that fits the user's needs the best. Though it sounds like a non-answer, distros are usually tailored for specific needs, so not necessarily the features or lack thereof from one distro disregard another.

  • Copypasta of my comment in the post in the F-Droid community:

    Chrono is extremely good for me, given often having to have alarms in the oddest of times, and it allowing me to schedule alarms as one-time only, daily, for specific weekdays, for specific dates, or for date ranges, as well as having the options to force to work in the background if lack of memory in the phone kills it.

    As for alternatives I wish I could find, Librera Reader is still the best ebook reader I found outside of Google Play, but I could use it having better controls. Might even take the dust off my PS Vita to read ebooks, as I abhor touch controls due to them usually not being optimized for either precision or view space available (even on-screen controls might help), and on the Vita I can use the physical controls to move the ebooks' pages around.

  • From what I can observe lurking, communication between Lemmy and Mastodon is pretty half-baked, with things overall boiling down to users on Mastodon being able to follow Lemmy users, but not the opposite, and posts from Mastodon users may appear on Lemmy but with the text body appearing as title instead. Issues like these may appear due to how each site engine handles the data received. If you must follow users from Mastodon on Reddit-like forums, Mbin is far more compatible.

  • If still using Reddit 1~2 months later, maybe follow them through RSS? I remember coming across RSS bridge tools compatible with Reddit as I looked for other services.

  • I don't listen to audiobooks to know any good titles, but sites that sell book bundles also usually have audiobook bundles, so maybe they're a good starting point for finding titles?

    Also, if you use Spotify, I can presume you're at least not overly against DRM, so maybe you'd be interested in Storytel? Came across it a while back and people seemed to talk well of it, apparently being a subscription-based streaming, but didn't look for further info on it as I saw it is "DRM'd".

  • To have an aggregation tool that could seamlessly put together such different environments would awesome, but the scope can be a bit too overarching at first. My suggestion, having seen the progress of another aggregation platform (mainly for video/audio), Grayjay, is to proceed slowly at creating integrations, as effort to maintain them is potentially exponential, and then, when you feel comfortable managing the ones you already made, proceed to the next.

    And unrelated, but is RSS truly shrinking? I found out about it some 1~2 years ago, and unless it's due to me using this type of technology for so little time, but it feels far more are made or keep existing than there are feeds being killed. Worse part for finding the feeds is that often they are hidden in the page's source code.

  • Dunno when, but been using Android since around Android 2, and I remember it only worsening over the years.

  • Looking from another angle from Yoko Taro's point, I'd say that, in fear of failing due to being too big, companies would rather play it safe, but that causes creations to grow sterile.

    And as consequence, people allegedly "weird", which I wouldn't think are necessarily people with curious antiques as Yoko Taro himself, but simply people whose game ideas are far from a safe ground, go for making indie titles instead as then they can be free to do whatever they want.

  • You press F4 and a window within Dolphin comes up, already "cd-ed" to the current directory, the terminal working as Linux's default bash terminal: https://media.ani.social/01/97/74/79/47/67/7d/23/b3/7d/49e623d62d04.webp

    Seems like a simple thing? Indeed. But it's a small detail that saves a lot of time in the long run for helping with the workflow. No need to switch back and forth between two different windows.

  • KDE's Dolphin + Konsole's integration to Dolphin is great for seamlessly managing files with an UI and terminal hybrid.

    Though closed source (overly dramatic music plays), the text editor Sublime Text works great, and at least with major version 3 (last I checked it was in version 4), it can be converted to AppImage without major issues (at worst, paths with spaces have issues).

    Firejail is great for starting specific programs offline.

    Newsboat is the best RSS feed reader I could find for Linux, specifically due to, with its inbuilt macros, I can set it up to open in new tabs several posts from a comically large amount of feeds.

  • In my opinion:

    If memory serves me right (as I played the game a while back), Shantae and the Pirate's Curse's intro stage acts as a tutorial, but it's so seamless to gameplay and story that it barely feels like so. Iirc, also same for Valkyria Chronicles 4's first mission.

    And that I remember better due to playing relatively recently, Final Fantasy VI and Catherine's tutorials are well integrated to their games' specific flows, the former being a series of NPCs you talk to, something you already do a lot in the game, and the latter being quick, straight to the point and given like it is a normal part of the narration and the increasingly frenetic (for a puzzler) gameplay.

    And also if memory serves me right, Dirge of Cerberus and Outlive both have optional missions in their main menus that act as tutorials, that don't feel like a chore, and that if you ignore them, the game is still sufficiently manageable.

  • For Reddit-like forums, The/Brain/Bin (Mbin) and Ani.Social (Lemmy) both seem pretty chill too, and also not defederating with a lot of people. Still looking for a Piefed instance, though that I am doing very slowly.

  • I prefer AppImages. I find system-wide installations risky in the long run, and don't mind managing each software myself. Plus, often I have to use super old software, and when the current programs become old themselves, it's useful, I think, that they're as independent as they can from dependencies that may or may not be available anymore. However, still using apt download just in case as that variant of the command also downloads dependencies.

  • Personally, I think piracy is a tool of the desperate, the disheartened and those that don't care for awarding merit. The desperate if a software is too hard to come by legitimately, the disheartened as a form of protest if the software/company has draconian practices at play, and those that don't award merit because they would, if not never, at least rarely buy/rent anything if not forced to.

    FOSS is nice and all, but do mind people are expending their time in such projects, so if you think a project is good and you can afford it, I'd suggest supporting financially the creators.

  • Meant in that sense, yes - searching for errors and their solutions as I see my computer having such major failures

  • If Mastodon is accounted for, maybe also include Peertube? I remember reading that the base project is French, just confirmation may be needed.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world

    Instances for Portuguese and / or Italian speakers?

    Fediverse @lemmy.world

    Some "quasi features" for Mbin through Ublock Origin filters