Was just thinking about whether there was an open-source alternative the other day, thanks for sharing.

I asked Claude and it said look into The Ash Tree Man by Daniel Harms

• Doesn’t have millions to market like the alternatives.
• More technical requirement (historically anyways)
• Much less likely to be the default on hardware (which is what most ppl stick to)

Made the switch as well thanks to the modern key bindings

Prior to switching (upgrading?) to Wayland, Debian KDE crashed under X11 regularly when waking from hibernation and the taskbar would disappear. Restarting the plasma shell made it operable again, so I created an alias and regularly rebooted the DE shell 2-3x a day:

alias damnTaskbar='killall plasmashell ; kstart plasmashell &'

i agree. Not as good as the OG podcast but it has found it’s form over the last few months

Co-signing 538. Great podcast, especially for those that are good at processing/understanding data

Binged it and it was good.

I get it. I’m a year in and was pulling my hair out dealing w/ frustrating issues for the first few weeks/months. Smooth sailing now, but I don’t deny the learning curves that are possible.

I’m preaching to the choir here on Lemmy but I’m glad that I made the jump to Linux last year

There’s also cheat as well

I want to second cycling. It’s a good way to explore your city for free as well as getting shape. There are often cycling groups that you can join as well if you want to socialize on top of it

Didn’t know this, thanks for sharing!

I think the issue is that constantly virtue signaling about it online has the risk of swaying other voters or making other voters check out completely

Anything with Richard linklater and Ethan Hawke is usually amazing

If you know how to write scripts in bash, that is an alternative way to trigger night mode/dark themes. You can use curl wttr.in to get your local sunrise/sunset, write a simple IF statement if the time is greater than sunset/sunrise and automate it via cron/systemD.

Alternatively, there are a few options floating around on GitHub iirc

It is Google’s attempt to limit what is possible within a chromium browser. It will potentially lead to the demise of numerous ad blocking extensions for example. It is one of the driving forces that encouraged me to move to Firefox to be honest.

It automatically redirects websites. So for example every time that I go to a site that has unscrupulous marketing and tracking, I can potentially use a privacy friendly front end alternative website. For example, every time I visit a Reddit link, it can redirect me to a teddit link, which is a front end alternative that strips out the marketing. These front end alternatives apply to a variety of websites such as YouTube, Urban dictionary, Wikipedia, etc.

You can find either of the listed extensions on GitHub to install them

Can you elaborate on what makes it different from libredirect/redirector?

Glad to see a detailed review that also doubles as an installation guide. I definitely had anxiety following the docs when I took the plunge last year.