I mean, I mentioned that my experience with Pixelfed has not been the best, since it lacks content and discoverability. I wouldn’t sign up again to Instagram (I deleted my accounts years ago), but it’s obvious that it has orders of magnitude more content, and maybe the recommendation algorithm can be useful sometimes.
Personally, even if I don’t want to, I have to use WhatsApp since everyone in my country uses it, even government offices.
Yes, that’s exactly it: the discoverability. I joined a small to medium server, and I thought that Pixelfed’s search would be like the one in Mastodon: search for a hashtag and get results from all of the other federated servers, but no. The search function doesn’t seem to work with hashtags, so subscribing to one is a pain.
And the available apps are not very good. And the official one hasn’t been released yet.
Besides Lemmy, I have a Mastodon account. I’m not very active, though. I’m also on BlueSky, but because most of the post where uninteresting to me I uninstalled the app months ago and hadn’t logged in since. And I’m exploring Pixelfed, but my experience hasn’t been so good.
Something like this Firefox theme, but with some violet mixed in.
Some weeks ago I tried to install Arch on an old laptop, and since it have been many years since I’ve installed Arch for the last time, and I’ve heard good things about archinstall, I decided to try it. Nothing fancy: single drive, LXQt, no encryption, auto partitioning…
I tried maybe 4 or 5 times, configuring different settings in the script, and every single time it gave me a broken installation: no GRUB, or no display manager, or incorrect video driver (Intel, no Nvidia here). I supposedly configured all the options correctly, but I never got a working system. In the end I snapped and searched for some video tutorial and installed Arch the old way. I have no desire to use that script again, at least for a long time.
Seymour! The house is on fire!
“Updated README”
Tab Stash seems to be what you’re looking for.
But people in the 90s were doing their work just fine, with that same UX paradigm. What’s the difference now?
Just to be clear, I’m not saying that software’s UI and UX doesn’t need to evolve. But it bothers me that a perfectly usable UI gets criticized only because it’s “old” and doesn’t look “modern” (tf is a “modern UI”, btw?).
So, the problem is that people doesn’t have a working memory anymore, is that so?
What’s wrong with the 90s UX? It lets you do your work without being intrusive or annoying, so what’s wrong with it?
I’m a big fan of UwUntu.
Melodysheep moment. Their content is simply amazing.
Thanks! I wrote that when on mobile, so I didn’t think to add instructions 😅. Also, if the user needs to allow some cookies, they can be set at Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies & Site Data > Manage Exceptions.
Is to prevent that that you configure UBO in medium mode. Since many cookie banners are loaded by a 3rd party script, they’re blocked by UBO when configured this way. For the rest I use one of the “Annoyances” filter that come preinstalled. Since the time I adopted this method (~3 years) I think I can count the number of cookie banners I’ve seen with the fingers of one hand.
Configure uBlock Origin in medium mode and set Firefox to delete cookies on quitting. Easy.
Been there, done that. It wasn’t a bad experience, but also not a good one.
I mean, my laptop is a Dell from 2018-2019 with a 8th gen Core i5, so I don’t think is too “new” 🤷🏻♂️.
I always liked what Charles Darwin wrote to J. D. Hooker in 1853:
It describes perfectly the feelings of a biologist while doing taxonomy work.