Aves is really good. Used Simple Gallery Pro for years and it was great. But switching to Aves is painless for me.

AppStream makes machine-readable software metadata easily accessible. It is a foundational block for modern Linux software centers, offering a seamless way to retrieve information about available software, no matter the repository it is contained in. It can provide data about available applications as well as available firmware, drivers, fonts and other components. This project it part of freedesktop.org.

It works in the current Firefox for Android beta version.

Interesting perspective. Maybe you could find some good articles with more nuance to post?

There are a few attempts things like this. Here is one… https://fedi.directory

the /usr/bin/krunner executable is owned by the plasma-workspace package. It has a lot of dependencies. So yeah, you basically need a huge chunk of kde/plasma to run it.

A pretty similar Qt-based launcher utility (not quite so good in some areas, possibly better in some) is called albert, if you don’t want to use plasma anymore.

Maybe check out Pop! OS

But, yes, nearly all linux software will run on any distro. And even a fair amount of windows software will run on any of them with WINE (or VirtualBox if desperate). Occasionally commercial software will get packaged in an “installer” format a particular distro doesn’t know how to install. A fairly rare situation, for which there are almost always work-arounds. You can cross that bridge if you ever encounter it.

Interesting perspective. I had not considered the aesthetic angle.

Friend’s grandfather used to say…

The hurrier I go the behinder I get.

I was on digg as well as reddit. I always liked reddit a lot better and was always baffled as to why digg was so much more popular. Reddit always felt more diverse (in topics) and organic (user driven) to me. I guess others had a different view.

Sadly, no one no one seems to remember kuro5hin. Barely even me. It had its moments though.

Where did you find the actual study? The link in the above article leads to https://purl.stanford.edu/vb515nd6874 which has an abstract, but I can’t see the study.

Maybe journa.host public feed? https://journa.host/public/local

Or better, use the elk.zone interface: https://elk.zone/journa.host/public/local

It’s a mastodon instance for verified journalists, and so… you know. If it bleeds it leads…

(I’m not [entirely] serious… just as the cartoon the post link leads to isn’t… [entirely?]…)

From what I’m hearing doomscrolling is quite difficult to achieve on mastodon. People are mostly horribly nice and supportive and stuff. And there’s no cool vampire algorithm exploiting heightened emotions. But where there’s a will, there’s a way! You can do it. Choose your doom-y hashtags carefully, my friend! We believe in you.

Probably the easiest way to avoid it is to simply rename it to something less scary sounding. Maybe something like Alive Enhanced Rich Content Internet Theory for Human People! See, not a problem now.

Also maybe we should reread Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. It has a storyline about a guy who finds out he is the only actual real person on earth. Everyone else are robots. And he wants to know why.

Fedilab handles mastodon, pixelfed and peertube in one app. It’s the most multifunctional app I know of. Pretty impressive, but it doesn’t do lemmy/kbin, or even misskey.

A cherry picked selection from this weeks’ playback history…

• Cleanup on isle 45
• Decoding the gurus
• Science quickly
• More or less. Behind the stats
• Infinite monkey cage
• Homebrewed Christianity
• Three bean salad
• History of philosophy without any gaps
• Science Friday

I bought Moon Reader Pro a million years ago cheep on sale, and it has been great. Still love it, but I like to check out open source readers every once in a while.

Lately I have been using Librera FD. This open source version on f-droid unfortunately has the network features (sync/opds) disabled. The play store version has those enabled. The interface is a bit unusual, but it’s a powerful and flexible reader.

By crikey, I’ve been tracking this one all day following its ridiculous chewing sounds. Now I’ve barely grounded the blighter and it’s snoring like all get out! I think we best likely leave this one alone, it’s starting to drool.

This article is terrible! Here’s another crazy statement from it: “seawater is an almost infinite resource”. Reminds me when not so long ago people considered the ocean to be an “almost infinite” supply of fish.

The journal article that this article is talking about is paywalled, so I can’t check out the source. It’s abstract , however, certainly doesn’t use anything like the hyperbolic language of the article linked here. It’s in a good journal, so could’ve been interesting…

For those wondering what this is about, I quote:

This is a retrospective post about my experiment Searchtodon, an attempt at building a privacy conscious personal timeline search tool for Mastodon.