Notices by Offbeatmammal (offbeatmammal@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft @pixelfed and then always the same "oh, it was a mistake" non-apology when they get caught

@Gargron I worry that the effort of moderating the rising tide of crap from Threads will become detrimental to this server. Do you have a plan that will result in threads being defederated? What is the threshold, and why is the stated direction from Meta enough to trigger severance?

@nixCraft Vivaldi isn't perfect, but seems to do a decent job (and uBlock Origin still works even though it's chromium based)

@Gargron been scrobbling since 2005 (actually visited their offices back in the day, cool folks) and use their API (especially useful as Spotify just slammed a bunch of theirs shut with no warning). Wish it was better supported by CBS, but I guess hard to justify spending money on it. https://www.last.fm/user/Offbeatmammal

@Gargron @anon_opin I still have PTSD from Firefly! Refuse to watch any show until I know they close the arc off gracefully!

@aral need more folks to help work on NVDA to help it replace JAWS in more use cases https://www.nvaccess.org/

@itsfoss looks like a good routing solution, but I would miss the love traffic and hazard notifications in Waze. Also super dense UI not great for motorbike use

@nixCraft problem is with so many of those machines drivers are a pain with so many proprietary bits of hardware making it daunting for a Linux newbie, especially on laptops. I do go through a process, when we last moved, of converting older machines to Linux and struggled with some, but eventually got everything working before giving them away. I know of at least a couple still going strong :)

@aral while Safari shits me in some respects, I love how Apple have stuck to their guns while Microsoft caved and made Edge into an even worse Chrome. Firefox used to be my go-to but I struggle with some of their UX/UI choices, but still have it installed for testing (and often go for days with it as my only open browser). DuckDuckGo and Brave are great for ad blocking but don't feel right for other reasons. Google played a long game and are now springing the trap