That looks useful.
I was gonna mention rtings as an alternative to this, then I saw them included, which is nice.
The one thing I miss in this tool is display lag. It’s basically included in the rtings score; but with all the other specific filters, that’s one I’d want up front.
Been loving the feature.
My next hope is that they’ll upgrade tab groups so (when collapsed) I can move them around like normal tabs. Right now it’s a little awkward if I start the group in the wrong spot.
For me, open tabs and bookmarks are different levels of the same thing. I’ll open a bunch of tabs researching some task I want to do, and leave them open because I want to come back to that. Bookmarks do the same thing, but with lower visibility and higher permanence.
Tab groups let me group a handful of things to reduce the clutter. Similar to the way that folders are useful within the bookmarks manager.
To use them, just drag one tab on top of another, it’ll make a new group. Give it a name, and you can now expand/collapse. So 10 tabs all related to one task can stay in-sight to remind you, but only take up 1 tab’s worth of space in the bar.
Ubuntu had a thing for a while where they would send you a CD if you asked for it. Friend of mine from school gave me one.
I appreciate them trying to set expectations. But then I also think a statement like this throws fuel on the fire, making more people want to scalp it.
Mastodon, but I’ve largely dropped it for Bluesky. I’m no purist about full decentralization, and I think it’s enough that the latter both has users, and isn’t currently awful.
I’ve used Bookwyrm a bit. I kinda like it. But it had some UX issues imo, and didn’t keep me hooked.
Also tried Pixelfed. It’s pretty slick, but I just can’t see the point. Like Instagram, seeing a feed of just pictures wasn’t all that interesting to me… though I probably just haven’t followed the right accounts.
Far from perfect, but I think it’s good to have a layer that very visibly shows ‘yes, this is the account you want’.
Domains are a worthwhile addition, but they run into almost the same problem as usernames and handles. Can be made misleading easily - sure, I could often go to the web address and verify it (if they don’t put up a convincing fake site), but that’s much lower visibilty.
Eg, you can probably register nintendo@nintendoamerico.com or similar and get it by some folks just as easily as registering the Twitter handle. There’s a payment step to get the domain, but that’s about it.
The centralization problem you mention is a good point though. It was a fine system, if you felt like you could trust Twitter as a verifier. Today obviously, one could not. But Bsky seems to at least theoretically have a ‘choose your verification provider’ idea in mind, which would (again theoretically) resolve a lot of that issue.
I do not see anything to be angry or disappointed about?
Verification badge was good, the dumb thing Twitter did was throw it away by letting anyone pay for it.
Here’s how Nintendo’s support site lays it out.
I really like App-images. For the most part, they just work, download, run, done. And sometimes you want the flexibility to install something the distro’s pacakage manager doesn’t give you (or doesn’t have the latest version of). It’s a little extra work to put the app in system menus, etc though.
Package manger still preferred. Having the system deal with updates and dependencies is nice.
AUR is still good, but I’d take the App Image. Sometimes these work for me, sometimes they don’t. Still have to manually update them, AFAIK.
But doctor…I am Pagliacci.
Another note: any time there’s a piece of software that you like, but don’t want to use it (because it’s proprietary, missing features, or whatever reason), alternativeto.net is an incredibly useful resource.
Here’s their list of apps with a wishlist feature: https://alternativeto.net/feature/wishlist/
Usually a great starting point.
I can’t offer much in the way of experience - but I have at least wanted to replace Amazon wishlist functionality. I’ve never gotten around to making the jump, so I can’t really say that I personally recommend any of these.
But when I was looking around, these are 3 options that seemed promising at surface level:
I’d be curious to know how it goes, so I hope at some point you update the thread with what works for you.
Glad to finally hear more about tab groups!
Wait a minute… what day is it? Hmmm… not sure if I should trust, lol.
Reminds me of this: https://butter.sonnet.io/
Which also doesn’t have a Firefox version, but I was always kinda curious about.
Actually, is that your project? Lol, you mentioned yellow blocks which made me think of butter.
Thanks for the list! I use a handful of these (in Firefox), but wasn’t aware of all of them. Youtube Redux especially seems cool.
Yes, seems like such an odd oversight from Google. They want you to subscribe to channels, but after even moderate use over a few years, you end up with a massive list of subscriptions. I guess it’s not actually an oversight, the bad UX (for finding specific content) is probably on purpose, they want to funnel you through their suggestions. But still, surprised they don’t include a way to organize it.
I use an extension called PocketTube to organize them – but it stores data locally and doesn’t sync very well, so it wouldn’t fit your use case.
Yes. But not (just) that they haven’t envisioned other monetization - even if other cash is flowing in, they’ll eventually put ads and data brokerage into their business model on top of that.
And why not? Consumers have repeatedly, time and time again, shown tolerance for it.
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My wife prints a lot (and needs color, cardstock support), and this is what we went with. Had it about a year now, and it’s been fairly reliable. A couple streaks and minor issues, but nothing major. Get a good amount of prints per ink refill.
Thanks! Yeah, I had no idea that work was going into the sidebar, since it doesn’t show up in my feed.