100% agree. It’s worth testing with a new number first before porting your current number to JMP.Chat

I switched from Google Fi to the T- Mobile MI30TI plan (30GB/month, $10/month, data-only) with JMP.Chat VOIP and couldn’t be happier

It was BlueSky, not Mastodon and is linked in the article: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3lt2prfb2vk2r

I agree that there should be an alternative, open-source project, though I know I’m not all that qualified to support outside of financially, (which I would).

I disagree that this isn’t taking up space. Notoriety is a huge asset, especially for tools like this that rely on crowd-sourced information. It would be far better, all other things being equal, to start with the user base and name of ICEBlock than to make a competitor and need to promote it enough to get people to use it over ICEBlock. I highly doubt that a competitor will get anywhere close to the same media attention that this got.

I’m a paid contributor to Delta Chat, but I don’t feel like I can recommended it until it includes sealed sender and PFS. Signal really changed the game with chat apps. 2.0 looks great, tho! https://delta.chat/en/help#sealedsender

If you can’t get people to switch to Signal, you won’t get them to switch to anything else.

There’s khal. It’s fine, but can get pretty slow. pimsync for syncing.

It’s good. I use it. It’s not FOSS.

NixOS. Works great. I’m a bit of a masochist.

I’ve considered doing this. Did you have to remove the old screen even though you were doing a chassis swap?

https://beets.io/

This is what I use

I actually don’t use the “tree” part of it at all. I don’t get it either. It just happens to be easier to wrangle into what I want than other options like sideberry.

for number 4, I use the tree-style-tabs addon and some custom userchrome css to get that and it works great. I have it set so that when you hover over the 4-pixel wide sliver that I leave visible (could make it transparent, I just appreciate the reminder that it’s there), it pops out to be 260 pixels wide. I wish it wouldn’t need that level of customization, but it does work.

You can use Nix with basically any Linux distribution. Here is my Librewolf config as an example: https://codeberg.org/jevans/nix-config/src/branch/main/homeManagerModules/gui-applications/firefox/default.nix

I had a similar issue in my city. I had to talk to the human resources division at my organization, and they were able to work directly with the local transit agency to get me a physical card, but it was a pain, and it certainly wasn’t advertised as possible anywhere. It may be worth trying to call people and ask.

lol I do love this video

ffmpeg can make you breakfast if you try hard enough lol. It’s so versatile

With ffmpeg in windows, you can listen to a UDP stream using the ffplay command. you can set up a udp stream as an output in ffmpeg in Linux. I would set up a virtual sink that goes nowhere in pulseaudio or pipewire to set as your output device and have ffmpeg listen to that sink. There are lots of options in ffmpeg available to tweak latency and quality.

I use a Sony a5100 mirrorless camera + Nikon vintage 50mm macro lens + cheap high-CRI LED panel light

I previously used a super cheap Canon DSLR, which worked, but the a5100 is much better. As a bonus it also doubles as a killer webcam + key light combo.

source: https://nitter.net/alxfazio/status/1926731799226462646#m