So I handed over my Samsung A72 to a child, and replaced it with a used Pixel 7a . I thought it would be smaller (I am tired of large phones!) and run better software.
It's an awful phone. No ANT support, no SD card, aggressive Google stuff everywhere, confusing and fiddly interface, and my plan to use #GrapheneOS has apparently been thwarted because bank apps now use Google, not Android, calls to check that they are on a secure phone.
The #SNS #T2 or #Pebble might have closed down, but there is something to learn from the team and community: theme it and build your own identity!
This is the new look of https://pebble.social based on the mainline #Mastodon #fediverse software.
It gives the instance it's #identity amidst the countless instances powered by mainline Mastodon.
The theme ported to mainline Mastodon's default UI by @blobcat and is available here https://github.com/blobcatz/pebble-mastodon-theme if other instances wants to install it.
@zensoup @hyc I originally wrote this with "user", but a lot of people including me don't like that word and I hate the word "stakeholders". Clients don't have to be paying clients, just someone or some community for whom we're making software.
It is perfectly valid to write software for oneself, just nerd away for the art and/or fun of it, but even for software written for oneself, more often the software is incidental and serves furthering some non-software goal.
Lots of people originally considering themselves non-developers get into software this way – linguists, lawyers, biologists, textile designers, tax accountants, visual designers, musicians, architects, farmers, divers ...
PSA: It’s OK to criticize[1] something even when it’s provided free of charge to you.
Examples:
It’s fine to criticize a book that’s in the public domain.
It’s fine to criticize open source software.
It doesn’t have to be scholarly either, it’s fine to use memes etc to communicate your opinion.
[1] To judge the merits and faults of; analyze and evaluate.
@lxo and that goes back to the main problem with gnu/foss philosophy, it's focus on software.
It's a great approach to produce tech, like Linux kernel for example, but it consistently failing to produce great products. Because great products involve much more than just software
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