sabreW4K3 @ sabreW4K3 @lazysoci.al

Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.

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You don't think that pulling toots tagged with #politics into !politics@lemmy.world could be useful?

Do you want releases or news?

Why are people downvoting this? Upvote it as thanks for posting it and then go and buy yourself an SBC or an Android box from AliExpress.

Beehaw was actually my first threadiverse instance. It didn't become my main, because you all are way too over the top. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean that in a bad way, just that I needed a bit of chaos in my life and this instance is like cotton wool. When I left, it was so that I could partake in football discussions and life outside of this instance took a minute to adjust to. However there was one thing I took away from my experience, it's that this instance was full of good, compassionate people. So it's no wonder that despite my two major stints on other instances (shout-out to lemmy.tf and lazysoci.al), I always made sure I was active here. Even with this particular community. If something is super technical, I tend to take it to programming.dev, otherwise I come here because I want to have more humanist discussions about things and how they impact people and I love that. I'm glad to see that you're all doubling down on that.

Off-topic, I think you're doing the beehaw community a disservice by not updating the instance. I know you're waiting on SubLinks, but who knows when that will be ready, in the meantime, Lemmy has added some very good and very useful things that improve the quality of life of users, admins and moderators.

It'll be interesting, because Google have spent a lot of money to maintain dominance and no doubt Bing will try and fill the vacuum. Now is a good time for search engine investment. I suspect that Google will try and make some concessions to appease the law. Expect to hear rumours of Chromium and even Android becoming non profits.

Better for Linux? I'm not sure I would say it is. Better for the world in general? When you compare things like power consumption, you can definitely see that in some use cases (the average user), ARM is superior. But for Linux? Maybe by default owing to the fact that it's more modern. As for RISC-V, the core is open source and "all" the extensions are proprietary, so it's not as open source as it pretends to be. But it's definitely better than what we're currently accustomed to as mainstream.

I've seen at least one journalist say that they think so.

Try this link https://mastodon.social/@s_levi_s/112903065829205736

Thank you for such a fair and balanced response. Amazing work.

I'm not sure why material you is important, would you mind explaining a bit more about that?

I enjoy homogenous design across my system. When I gave some of the FOSS alternate front ends to Telegram a try, it really taught me just how much it makes a difference. It's such a tiny thing but it's nice to have. It's one of those things where it's like the developer cared.

By "No filename preservation for audio files." do you mean when you download it then it gets changed from its original name or something else?

So me and one of my friends send each other tracks all the time. In Signal they're all listed as "Voice Message • Sent by XXXXX" it's just not useful.

Why should a text messenger be fun? It's a communication tool, not a game...

Because I enjoy speaking to friends, family and lovers and shouldn't be forced to not enjoy it to make a bunch of old men happy.

The stickers accessed via the sticker button left of the textbox. You can add stickers by going to https://signalstickers.org and click on add stickers. And you can add them some way if you receive a new one from a contact.

Why isn't this in the UI? Rhetorical question, goes back to old men. Signal is designed by the same type of people that clamour for phones with no front facing camera.

What is a list of links? Links you have sent/recieved previously?

Indeed.

Maaaaybe because it's focus is privacy, not bells and whistles

Which takes me back to my original post where I'm asking for bells and whistles before I was asked to justify why

Signal is designed for and by a bunch of old men. It's just not an app that makes being in it fun. Take the implementation of stories for example. Everyone else implemented them as a banner atop the message list, the Signal developers for example hid them away in a tab.

Adding new stickers in Telegram is as simple as open the sticker panel or select a sticker and get recommended stickers. In Signal I haven't got a clue.

There's no Material You implementation either.

No list of links.

No filename preservation for audio files.

It clearly serves a purpose and is good at that, but it doesn't lend itself to being a good messenger for people that want more than privacy.

I went back and edited my posts to be more clear

No material you, but in general the UX sucks.

From https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320451-Troubleshooting-multiple-devices

Signal can only be used on one mobile device and up to five linked Signal Desktops.​

It's single Android device

Which of these allow people to add me via telephone number, can run on multiple Android devices, has a wide array of animated stickers and has a great Material You design?

Since others are mentioning non-US based, I would like to recommend Migadu.

actual black people's opinions

But I'm black too though and I don't remember voting for you as our representative. Which is to say, yes, there's certainly other things we can do to tackle racism, but tackling ground level stuff like inherently painting black as bad and/or negative is part of that. You're free to disagree, but so would Candace Owens, so being black means nothing when you're on the wrong side of the issue.

Sometimes people just want a moment to themselves.