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.

Thanks for sharing your experience with it! I’ll give it a try soon then, since it seems very safe given what yours and other replies have told me.

For sure google knows about these projects, it doesn’t take longer than a few minutes of research to find it. It seems similar to Microsoft’s situation with activation, they obviously know about it, but the risk of false positives or loss of convenience screwing regular users is not worth recovering the value lost to a few mod users.

Hold on, the files for Caine’s and Bubble’s AI are written in lisp! Pretty nice detail they added there, since LISP was commonly used in early AI developments. Didn’t notice it before.

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Now that you mention it, I think I’ve experienced something similar. At least I have seen way more old videos I’ve watched before as recommendations. Seems like a YouTube issue then

Thanks! That’s what I wanted to know. Will give it a shot later.

The recommendation thing sounds interesting, might have to do with morphe removing some tracking which throws off the recommendation algorithm.

Thanks, I already had microg (otherwise it would let me launch morphe), just wanted to make sure I wouldn’t have any issues. Seems fine, will give it a try later.

Has anyone used Morphe with a google login? I’ve been trying it without one and seems good enough, but still want access to my subs and watch list. Just want to know if its ok to use with your google account, or does it trigger google in some way that might end up restricting or blocking your account?

toplevel-tag support finally, yay! I’ve been wanting to use it in window rules to fix some windows that don’t go into floating mode properly and title isn’t good enough to target them. Been waiting for it for months.

I used Zed for a few months a while ago. It feels quite fast, good extension availability even for how new it was, and offered a comparable experience to VSCode, but without the bloat. Sadly it quickly started going down the AI editor/LLM infested route and most development went into that, meaning actual fixes and improvements were getting slower (part of my reason for leaving it). It also introduced a few unwelcome changes to their ToS, starting the forks you see today. But overall it was a pretty nice editor, it gets out of the way and lets you focus on work instead of tinkering.

Had to stop using it due to an intense graphical flickering when running on Sway that took way too long to fix, so I switched back to neovim while waiting for a fix and just stayed there.

Regarding the API, Spotify does allow free access, but some content and features are restricted to the official apps. For example, personalized playlists such as Weekly Discovery, release radar, daily mixes and the like are not available and return an error. Rate limiting is ok for a personal use case with a custom api key, and maybe some small apps can stay under the limit; developer agreement is also quite restrictive, so they have a bunch of reasons to block you.

Source: I’ve used the API before and built a small tool to help me export my top listened songs and some recommendations to a list, nothing heavy but still made sure to read the docs needed just in case. Still managed to hit the rate limit with a few tens of requests in a minute, though the way they do limiting is weird and difficult to account for.

*awkward pause* See what I did ther… *video cut*