Posts by me@joshuastrobl.social
(DIR) Post #AcsZA6x24MHQlsLotE by me@joshuastrobl.social
2023-12-16T21:09:39Z
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@BeAware @Jain @buddiesofbudgie We all already go "here you can have the data". It is called federation and ActivityPub.
(DIR) Post #Act5UL64Nloay6Gdrk by me@joshuastrobl.social
2023-12-16T14:59:46Z
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This whole anti- #Threads, #defederation thing is getting out-of-hand. The attached image is a post by the admin of Floss.social and it honestly blew my mind.I run my own personal Mastodon instance so I can choose with what instances I defederate from, don't have to worry about getting banned for sharing content in non-English languages (namely Finnish), can customize it to my liking (add any sort of emojis) and of course have the freedom to post content on a wide range of topics rather being on an instance that encourages one specific dogma, ideology, viewpoint, or topic.For (Buddies of Budgie, I chose the Floss.social instance after moving from Fosstodon since there was a restriction at the time on supported / allowed languages (strictly English) and problematic moderation. Instances were being blocked rather trivially and while it isn't clear that Floss.social is going to be blocking Threads, the language of the owner / admin is rather concerning.It's concerning because it equates being excited for prospect of another alternative to X / Twitter and wanting to promote ActivityPub, not to mention sharing your thoughts, ideas, organization, etc. with a wider audience -- with the notion that one is being paid or otherwise financially incentivized to support Threads or ActivityPub.For Buddies of Budgie, it gets all its donations (a generous 68 USD per month with many one-off contributions as well) from the community, in the public, via our OpenCollective. Not companies, not some masterminds at some secret underground cabal lead by Zzuck and Mosseri. Just other people that like open source and in our case, a desktop environment for Linux.https://opencollective.com/buddies-of-budgieThe values of Buddies of Budgie are established at https://buddiesofbudgie.org/about/organization and focused around three pillars: Independence, Transparency, and being User-centric.Folks from all walks of life and all sorts of viewpoints can use our software. They have a legal right under its license. I nor anyone else have to agree with those viewpoints for them to use the software. We aren't getting money for supporting anything but our own software and our own values.Of course, I have personal views on how we should treat each other, what is / isn't acceptable, and moderation is applied in my community to make sure it is free of hate, repressive or other harmful language, etc.From a leadership perspective, it is in my best interest to ensure the work that the organization and its members are doing is shared with the wider world. We're proud of that work.So what's up with the shaming from folks about being excited about Threads? We get to reach more people, it's a fantastic opportunity! Folks need to stop asserting that others have a lack of values for simply wanting to connect with others.
(DIR) Post #Act5VJclLLcKgs1b9c by me@joshuastrobl.social
2023-12-16T17:13:21Z
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@downey @kaidao "We don't ask everyone everywhere to share those same values"No but you assert that anyone that doesn't 100% align with you clearly must be bought out or claim someone has a lack of values, which is completely off-base. The world is not black and white.
(DIR) Post #Ad0HaIZiBmrI480FBQ by me@joshuastrobl.social
2023-12-20T14:30:09Z
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Whenever I type "Hey folks" I always proofread it to make sure I'm not saying “Hey fucks”. It's almost happened a few times. Fortunately today at work was not one of those times, but I do always have to check just to be sure. Starting out a message in a Slack thread by saying "Hey fucks, be sure to refresh your pages” would probably not be great.You would think I'd just change how I greet people, but nope.
(DIR) Post #AiVclQU8atzvPuYMu8 by me@joshuastrobl.social
2024-06-02T06:45:21Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Having looked at the patch at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3304 it seems like a pretty reasonable thing to get put into a point release and as you indicated in the video, point releases in this case are not guarantees of the inclusion of only "bug fixes".It was implemented in a matter that did not break ABI or backwards compatibility for libmutter ABI 14, so GNOME would still be in the right even if the argument centered around SemVer 2.0.0.The code that enables the behavior, at least at a quick glance, seems like it would be trivial for Canonical to patch should they decide to be weird about keeping NVIDIA users on an LTS with what could be argued as a sub-optimal experience.Basically two lines of code: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/blob/gnome-46/src/backends/native/meta-renderer-native.c?ref_type=heads#L1882At the end of the day though, I would not be surprised if Canonical just spent some extra engineering time and let it in once it has been validated.
(DIR) Post #Aicg1lvxIGISb68TT6 by me@joshuastrobl.social
2024-06-05T16:25:06Z
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@protonprivacy 👏🏻Linux👏🏻app👏🏻for👏🏻Drive.👏🏻Want my money? I want a first-party syncing solution for Drive.
(DIR) Post #AieR7uFACVXf6wVUOG by me@joshuastrobl.social
2024-06-06T12:47:35Z
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@protonprivacy Great to see Linux support for Proton Pass. Is Proton Drive next? :)
(DIR) Post #AieWqA2rJOK8dBfnZw by me@joshuastrobl.social
2024-06-06T13:37:59Z
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@protonprivacy Also just an FYI there is a conflicting file so you can't co-install Proton Mail and Proton Pass:file /usr/lib/.build-id/c7/dd943c9a2f9568fcd82fa7baddb1f22f38fb22 conflicts between attempted installs of proton-mail-1.0.3-1.x86_64 and proton-pass-1.17.5-1.x86_64Submitted a ticket to report the issue as well.Fedora Budgie Spin (40), x86_64
(DIR) Post #AieWy3XbNUTEm8okt6 by me@joshuastrobl.social
2024-06-06T13:53:02Z
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@protonprivacy Can confirm that worked. Thanks for the quick response! ❤️
(DIR) Post #AjabtKYFwRVJyvxaWu by me@joshuastrobl.social
2024-07-04T14:21:27Z
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@protonprivacy And yet still no Proton Drive for Linux.
(DIR) Post #AllNaQz1dPtI2RPj2e by me@joshuastrobl.social
2024-09-07T14:45:00Z
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@matrix This broke image loading in Neochat and Cinny for me 👎
(DIR) Post #AnGTJM6CAF09mKY3Mm by me@joshuastrobl.social
2024-10-22T10:12:34Z
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My Jolla C2 has arrived!
(DIR) Post #AnYoadoUppvXTFFiJU by me@joshuastrobl.social
2024-10-31T09:02:44Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Unless there is a need for internal Wayland protocols that would outright prohibit use of another compositor, being able to run a desktop shell on top of any arbitrary compositor is a win.In my opinion, desktop environments should not be built with the intent of being monolithic where everything is tightly coupled. A composable desktop approach should really be the end goal for most of them. If a desktop environment isn't opting to shift to that model, then they are in many ways taking ownership of a much larger stack than frankly is necessary, when they could instead be working alongside other projects to build out generalized solutions or ones which can be used as a foundation (with a minimal layer on top of it to facilitate the catered needs of that given environment). See: KDE Frameworks (not just used with KDE / Plasma), wlroots, Mir & Miraway, etc.
(DIR) Post #AnYpjOfIcqFV37goXw by me@joshuastrobl.social
2024-10-31T09:15:31Z
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@BrodieOnLinux "it's a win that coming out of necessity for a lot of projects" If a project views it as a "necessity" rather than an opportunity, then I think that project's perception is likely still stuck in the era of monolithic rather than composable. I wouldn't blame most, of course, as that was in many ways the case for X11 and most desktops (including Budgie under X11, to be fair) either rely on an upstream WM or a fork of it and have in some ways taken ownership over that part of the stack.The opportunity is there for us to see more unique desktop shells or experiences that intermix components and compositors, opening the door to more catered user experiences.As an example, during the porting effort for Budgie Desktop over to Wayland, the first compositor I ran it under (back in May) was kwin! Not everything worked since it doesn't support some wlr protocols, but it was pretty damn close. Ever since then, I've been using labwc as the compositor since it provides a good wlroots-based experience until our "magpie" is daily driveable. In theory, I could run it with Miriway as well, and in fact @Conan_Kudo and I have discussed this in our Budgie stand-ups more than a few times :)I think that's all some really cool shit and a great opportunity. It requires very little engineering work on our part, it is just a matter of the compositor and componentry speaking the same language.
(DIR) Post #AnZilQ9rXa29jnxmUa by me@joshuastrobl.social
2024-10-31T19:29:49Z
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@gamingonlinux Mastodon has become the only social network I can honestly stand using. Threads is full of meaningless engagement bait and Bluesky is just endless anime art no matter how much I tell their apparently terrible algorithm that I want to see less of it.
(DIR) Post #As0ufFYQm7Qh4sXLCi by me@joshuastrobl.social
2025-03-13T13:51:05Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Zen > everything else.
(DIR) Post #At5iUv46p6uKQ8OAoy by me@joshuastrobl.social
2025-03-21T15:10:49Z
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@w8l The year is 2025. It's the year you finally treat yourself to a new high-end desktop setup.You buy an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, an RTX 5090, get stacked with 96GB of fast DDR5 memory. You get a bangin 500Hz monitor.You're ready. This is the moment you've been waiting for. You take out the 128GB USB thumbdrive with your favorite operating system. Nothing is gonna keep you from it or your favorite game.You blast away that 8TB NVMe SSD. You're ready for gaming. You're ready to conquer the world.You boot it up.It's Haiku. Your game: FreeCiv.https://depot.haiku-os.org/#!/pkg/freeciv/haikuports/haikuports_x86_64/3/1/4/-/1/x86_64?bcguid=bc186-RVUP
(DIR) Post #Aw9jX41vTMNOdzyDLc by me@joshuastrobl.social
2025-07-15T11:27:07Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Precisely why I use Luxon (and eventually Temporal when I can be bothered to pull in temporal-polyfill in some places).
(DIR) Post #AxZ4Ln50r67tCrsezw by me@joshuastrobl.social
2025-08-26T06:18:28Z
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Fuck Google.Remember folks, there are other options to Android besides just iOS. Sailfish OS exists. Plasma Mobile exists. PureOS exists.They aren't going to provide the same level of experience. You won't be able to install apps that require more and more egregious attestation. You might even have to switch how you communicate and down the line as more developers bend the knee and turn on shit like Play Protect, change who you bank with or the services you buy.And you know what? That's okay. I'm not a personal liberty absolutist by any means, but lines have to be drawn somewhere. It's my fucking device, I will use it how I want.https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/
(DIR) Post #AxZThMlXruVaou9xRI by me@joshuastrobl.social
2025-08-26T19:22:42Z
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@raccoon I would rather encourage wholesale alternatives. Android ROMs are...well still Android, obviously.