Notices by Thib (thibaultamartin@mamot.fr), page 2

I was looking for an (ideally) OSS Music Player that is not based on Android, and the Tangara seemed liked a cool option, but whoa it’s BULKY!

https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

@killyourfm if you don’t want your Kobo to phone everything home via Google Analytics (yep they do that), the steps described in this post apply to the Kobo Colour as well. My wife has one, and she loves it!

https://ergaster.org/gear/kobo-clara-2e/

The Light Phone III checks many boxes on my wish list for a better companion device that actually respects its owner.

It's really close to what I want, but there are a few gaps that prevent me from getting it.

And if there's one thing I've learned with the Librem 5 it's that with pre-orders you need to keep your expectations low, and then halve them to get an idea of what you will actually get.

(I'm not asking to be convinced that the L5 was a success, I have one)

https://www.thelightphone.com/lightiii

@killyourfm I'm not daily driving one at the moment but have been for a few years.

Main concerns:

- You never know if the hardware is going to be well supported
- Battery life is much shorter on Linux
- Hardware acceleration support is uncertain. Scrolling a Firefox window can end up being very choppy on Linux and smooth on macOS and Windows
- If you need specialized apps, chances are that vendors don't support Linux.
- Most OSS maintainers struggle, so apps sustainability is uncertain

My current conundrum is that on one hand TUIs are not very approachable for newcomers with their steep learning curve to get the basics done…

…but on the other hand they're often more respectful of people's time and attention because of the terminal's limitation.

I mostly like the direction Mozilla is announcing in this post, but it is really tone deaf.

Branding is like a joke, if you have to explain it it's bad.

And when you talk about empowering people from grassroots activists to government officials… include them?

The only quotes I'm seeing are from self-centered directors and marketing folks. It doesn't inspire confidence at all.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/

☺️ Self-care PSA

You can put the "dreadful news accounts I still want to follow" into a list and unfollow them.

Your main feed will be less depressing, and you can actively browse that list to opt-in to reading about how terrible the world is when you're ready.

Intersectionality is important, but you will not help anyone if you're burnt out from all the misery you're constantly exposed to.

Cars are weapons, and driving licenses must be treated like other weapon licenses.

This morning again an old, angry, reckless motorist accelerated instead of stopping to leave me the priority.

I have a bright yellow helmet and gloves, three blinking lights and a trailer with two kids.

What more can I do to be able to cycle safely on the roads I pay to maintain? Buy a rotating light and a siren?

Look what arrived in the mail this morning! 200 of those bad boys, that I will be distributing at FOSDEM.

Because yes. Tech is political, and free software maintainers are not free labor providers.

#tech #stickers #opensource

@killyourfm year ends are increasingly difficult as I age.

I'll be enthusiastic in the summer, I will find things a bit more difficult in fall.

And I will want to spend my whole winter away from computers, next to the fireplace with a warm cocoa and books. Or go outside, have a walk and enjoy the few hours of sunlight I can get.

Winters are cold, dark, and they suck the joy out of us. Working in winter is an ordeal.

I'm sorry Mozilla but no. I love Firefox, but I'm worried about the direction Mozilla is taking.

I've given already and I'll give again to @thunderbird. I fully trust the team to make good use of that money.

Mozilla slashing its advocacy division tells me it doesn't have its heart in the right place.

Do better.

#mozilla #firefox #openweb

And I’m off for the week. No socials, no IM, no YouTube.

It’s time to make the world big again, and myself small.

Time to touch grass.

👋

If that makes you happy, you can afford it, and it (optionally) means we also get to read about Linux power efficiency from you, then by all means please do it!

Your adventures are pretty inspiring @killyourfm, keep the cool pictures and story coming

The general public doesn’t adopt digital technologies. It adopts products.

People don’t use TCP/IP and HTTP. They browse websites on the web with a browser.

They don’t use SMTP and IMAP. They send and receive emails.

One of the toughest challenges of our time is to develop appealing products and open standards simultaneously.

Those are primarily not technical but social and political problems.

"The web doesn't belong just to software engineers. The more we make the web complex, the more we push normal users into the enclosures that we like to call social networks."

https://kristoff.it/blog/static-site-paradox/

I'm an OSS and existential crisis type of person, so writing about the impact of OSS on society is how I relax, but I still feel like a slowpoke doing 😁

You've probably been there already, but as someone who has a lot of overlap between what they love and what they're paid to do I can only recommend to pay close attention to early signs of burnout.

In any case, keep up the good work, it's a joy to follow and read you :)

@killyourfm

Damn @killyourfm, how many words do you write per day?

I already struggle to publish a blog post per month on my free time, and you seem to be an article-dispensing gatling!

Last week I mentioned the open source privilege. It has a big brother: the self-hosting privilege. Escaping surveillance is one valid motive to self-host, but not everyone can do it.

Let’s design tech that solves systemic problems. Let’s include the busy ones, the families, the elders, those who don’t know and those who can’t afford to care.

Let’s take care of society as a whole.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/01/18-escaping-surveillance-capitalism-at-scale/

#opensource #surveillance #privilege

Travelling by sleeper train beats travelling by plane. Hands down.

I’m travelling in a small hotel room with a view. It almost feels as soothing as sleeping in a boat. I got to the train by foot and I’ll arrive in the city centre.

Compare that to a cramped seat in a crowded plane and traffic jam before and after the trip.

Trains are the future of transportation.

How about https://taiga.io/ ?

@killyourfm @Linux4Everyone @nextcloud