dontwakethetrees

@dontwakethetrees@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Lost Faith in Kagi⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also as a Mac user who went from Safari, ended up using Orion up til recent Kagi drama, and found LibreWolf. It works well and I’ve found it to have better compatibility versus Orion. I’ve used that with Searxng for more private searches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People (rightfully) shitting on Elon were forcefully given blue checkmarks and now they can’t hide that mark so that it looks hypocritical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Best" Mac browser: Your view⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So I had been using Orion for about a year with good results. It’s modified webkit so it feels like Safari but supports Chrome and Firefox plugins and has anti-fingerprinting/privacy measures.

  I switched away after the situation a month or so ago with Kagi (same dev) adding Brave to their search and being a general ass to the people that raised concerns.

  Currently I am using Librewolf, a privacy focused fork of Firefox, which has preformed really well. The only real issue I have is not being able to auto-fill sms 2FA codes like Safari.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a music solution⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I too am going from Apple Music to self-hosted.

  Personally I run Navidrome on my server. It has a web player for computers and play:Sub has been my mobile player of choice. Also supports offline downloading to your device. Super lightweight as well.

  • For acquiring music either I use Freyr-js (which finds the highest quality copy from Youtube/Youtube Music), Nicotine+ (frontend for soulseek) or check against Bandcamp and Soundcloud to see if your artists have uploaded there. Of course always support your favorite artists if you can, if not then 🤷‍♀️.

  If the tags for the music files are incorrect, I use Kid3 to correct them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t see touchscreens on laptops to be something to judge a company’s innovation on. I work in communications and I can really only think of two coworkers that personally own touchscreen laptops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If anyone is using an apple device, NetNewsWire is open source and is dead simple. No extra features, no premium tier, can sync with iCloud or self hosted servers, and the reader mode can be applied source-wide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically won’t be able to download from the app store but using applications like imazing to download it and as long as you previously owned it, Apple will restore your purchases.

  I’ve been using a manga reader that got taken off the store around 2017, still use it and transfer it to each new device (works for both phone and iPad). The ad-free in-app purchase restores just fine too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad Apple printed and played with stepper motor sounds.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s from the Touhou game series (shoot em up with anime girls based loosely on folklore). The song was originally level music for Touhou 4 (1998), but got remade in 2006 for an official album.

  Touhou fans are pretty die hard and the Bad Apple music video was many fan’s introduction to the franchise. Take that and the relative ease of recreation and it’s becomes a more than decade old meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pegboard PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as your dust isn’t conductive (such as metal dust from a machining shop) it really isn’t a real concern. Most of the time if dust kills something: its caked on, thermally choking components, and often mixed with something else like tar from cigarettes.

  Exposed and on display like this, the owner is probably going to be meticulous about air dusting it often.