… I haven’t found one that works well with dialog, fixed sized, or modal windows well enough to not get annoying,

This so, so much. I:ve been on Sway (and i3 before) for a long time and this is such a pain in the ass.

Most gui programs that do more than a simple window just don’t work well with them, dialogs filling up half your screen because of tiling, programs with detachable panels that turn into windows cannot be attached again because the main window doesn’t detect it (puddletag is an example I’ve came across recently).

I know I can setup some rules to make the windows float or have the correct behavior, but it’s just too much to fix every single broken dialog I encounter.

Manjaro once again demonstrating they’re not a serious distro/project, hahaha

Also plastic clips on laptops, monitors or any small electronic, pretty much every time I open up something with those clips one of them just snaps apart.

Just looked it up, seems like Improve YouTube already does pretty much the same things as unhook (hiding unwanted sections, redirecting home to another page)

true, I currently have about 5 or 6 extensions to keep that crap usable.

Ublockorigin for ads, improve YouTube for misc enhancements (block shorts, delete button on playlists, codec options), hyperchat to optimize the slow chat on live streams, that no translation extension, sponsorblock to skip in-video ads and identify sponsored content. Theres also dearrow but I disable it for performance reasons.

On mobile it not better, but Morphe fixes all of those quirks too.

Just amazing how shitty a service can get, but shareholder value shall rise infinitely I guess

That’s where the bad day is coming from, it’s just offscreen

I’ve heard so too. Might be worth giving Plasma a shot on my current shitbox of a laptop to see if it can handle it. Though that thing (about 6 years old, btw) chokes on anything that involves graphics, so I don’t have any high hopes

Edit: After a few weeks, tried out Plasma on my Fedora setup. Really liked it, everything worked out of the box, feels like using the good parts of the windows ui without the bad parts, just a few small issues here and there (keyboard didn’t work on the lock screen like once or twice). Sadly, the laptop is too crap to run it, constant swapping on zram, everything fell sluggish, it froze once even.

Honestly yes. A few years ago when I was still getting into linux I’d customize the shit out of everything, wm with lengthy configuration, mostly terminal apps, “minimal” ui with custom made themes, and all that.

My current fedora system is almost default Sway with a few convienent shortcuts and a few tweaks, using GUIs where it makes sense or simply because I just want something nice. I just don’t have time or the need for something so customized. Defaults are good.

Heck, I’m even considering switching to Plasma once I get a better PC (gonna need to sell a kidney or two for that to happen tho), since default Sway still requires considerable tweaking and there’s a few quirks I just don’t want to deal with.

Up until a few months ago, I would normally use spotDL, a tool you gave a Spotify url and it’d search the same songs on multiple sites and download them, while tagging it with spotify’s metadata, which is quite clean. Absolutely amazing piece of software helped me build a good music library, but Spotify changed their api auth because of Anna’s archive scraping, requiring you to have premium just to have a useful api key, breaking spotdl for pretty much everyone.

I currently use just yt-dlp to pull from yt music, SoundCloud and bandcamp. It’s alright, metadata is bad tho, yt-dlp doesn’t tag very well out of the box. I’ve tried torrenting and soulseek, you can get some good quality (and big!) files, but can be hard to find niche artists (Argentinian hardbass sure is niche as hell)

I’d too be interested in a tool like that if anyone knows one.

“Next up, Like a Stone”

You can enable translations while still keeping the rest of AI features disabled. Individual options override the global switch

Thanks for the explanation! I didn’t use to check Lemmy frequently up until recently, so the cornposting has always been this strange thing i saw sometimes, but never understood it. Now it makes sense

Is holding such a cob the path to enlightenment? If so, then I shall find one and hold it dearly

This week feeling like that fr. Tuesday work isn’t over yet and I’m already in need of a weekend, and the rest of the week ain’t looking easy sailing either.

Oh well, just gotta lock in brother

Same here. These feel like I’m reading Pop Team Epic: short comics full of insane humor and weird nonsense; been waiting for a new translated chapter of that manga for ages, but these comics fill up that gap just right, absolutely love them.

I don’t get what’s going on your comics sometimes, but I do really like reading each new one you post. Appreciate the absolute insanity going on in all of them.

I haven’t used droid-ify previously, downloaded it and gave it a quick look. UI-wise they seem pretty on par now, with F-Droid having better browsing, but droid-ify has zoom in app images, something I’ve wanted forever on the official app.

I can’t compare them functionally without using it for a while, so maybe someone else can talk about that.

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You should try the F-Droid version 2.0, it’s currently in alpha but it is completely stable. They have revamped the UI completely, switched to Material You and it feels much more modern than the original design. It has a few new features too!

Been using it for a few weeks and it is just so nice to use now.

qBitController - Control qBitTorrent servers from your phone. UI is really great; I use it regularly to download some media on my server (an always on old laptop) when I’m at work.

Pano Scrobbler - Connects to Last.fm to scrobble any music I listen on my phone. Also nice UI.

Rush - Fetches and shows lyrics for songs you search or whatever is currently playing. Can handle synchronized lyrics and sync with your player.

Auxio - Simple music player. Of the few I’ve tested, it handles metadata the best, which makes it work very well with other music apps (Pano and Rush).

Keysh - Assign custom actions for the volume buttons. I use the default script which makes the buttons turn volume up/down on short presses, and skip forward/backward a song on long presses. I use it pretty much daily to control music without unlocking my phone (and not using the broken controls on my headphones).

MJ PDF - PDF reader, simple UI, very fast.

Material Files - File manager, nice UI and feature set.

Ruler (Privacy Friendly) - On-screen ruler. Comes in handy sometimes.

Binary Eye - QR and barcode scanner. Can preview and copy the text before handling it.