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I would add for the search suggestion to work (replace searx.be
by your instance URL), use this URL in suggestion URL field in firefox
C++ Software Engineer Big interest in OpenSource communities for years now. 20+ years linux user. But a newbies in fediverse, had heard about it before but needed the help of twitter (for mastodon) and reddit changes to give a real try. Also a fan of Stephen King books. Was [email protected]
I would add for the search suggestion to work (replace searx.be
by your instance URL), use this URL in suggestion URL field in firefox
Coming back to this after a while trying out. Qwant is indeed very nice in Europe at least. I tested it and adopted it, I also like the fact it have a map based on OSM which is nicer than the Apple thing in DDG.
I’ve also used Startpage and DuckDuckGo, they all have their strengths
Can you develop? Why do you prefer qwant over ddg for example.
I also dropped Google search mainly for two reason. First privacy, making money with my private data and so on. Then I find Google search is less and less good, the first thing being that sponsored links are first even if they don’t match well the search keywords and even not looking at sponsored links I think the results are much worse than in the past.
I now use duckduckgo and I’m happy with it but I can try something else.
For notes I’m using Joplin with sync with desktop client through a nextcloud instance. Really a very nice app if you want sync with multiple devices anc user friendly interface.
For maps OsmAnd, I even pay a subscription to support the project (and have hourly updated maps which is pretty cool when I fix wood paths in openstreetmap).
Really happy with this fork, using it for several months now. Also occasionally Unexpected Keyboard for termux / ssh / code …
After a few days of testing, I think this feature is really working very well. Thanks.
I use helium314/openboard on day to day basis, but the few times I use termux or have to ssh a linux box from my phone, unexpected keyboard is really awesome.
Exactly, this makes me very anxious. Feeling that we’re just cutting the branch we are sit on …
What is considered as active ? Is someone connecting to his account and lurking considered active ? Or, someone who just up/downvote without commenting or posting ?
Learned a few (meaning of foobar,…), remembered some and enjoyed a lot. thanks for the link.
Now from the article (which might have been updated since posted, no criticism of OP), it’s clearly unrelated to the football (soccer) match. Seems more related to the events in Israel…
Waow this seems like a great framework abstracting all the ui shitty stuff
IMHO the website is sufficiently usable on a mobile browser. You can still use “add to home screen” to have a shortcut on your favorite launcher.
If you want or need something chromium based, a good alternative IMHO is Vivaldi, although partially open source.
Very nice project, at least I can try to switch from gboard and degoogle me a little more … For code, CLI, … I, however, prefer Unexpected Keyboard.
Recently switched to Duck Duck Go and honestly I find the results better than Google. More accurate, less “sponsored” results, …
Nice tool, didn’t knew about it, seems far more convenient for dumb end users than what I use right now.
Either setup http/ftp servers but that’s painful to explain, or use services over Internet which is a shame on local network…
I think that one of the structural change that helped a lot to have less stalled or unmaintained open source projects is the improvement in the DevOps tools.
I mean that, until recently, I always had been an open source user and supporter but, despite being a professional software engineer, I never coded in open source projects. The reason to this is that I did not wanted to commit myself into a project that I cannot afford to work regularly on because of professional and/or personal time constraints.
Now with the broad use of git and related platforms for open source projects (GitHub, gitlab, …), it’s possible to work only a little on open source projects. You can fix a bug impacting you as an user, translate some strings in your native language, improve the doc, … without commiting to work regularly on the project. You just change the stuff, have no requirements to inform anyone, make a pull request and it’s merged or not by the maintener …
I think this is really what contributed to improvement in the way open source projects evolved.
So I’ll contribute with my list too.
Most used utilities apps:
Games (because it can help fighting boredom when in a waiting room or so):
yep but nothing prevent you from using an hosting service, there are plenty on the web, or you can selfhost