pootriarch

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I'm still on Pop!_OS 22.04, the last release version. My applications are getting very out of date from being tied to the jammy package repo.

It looks like Pop.next is still in alpha, which suggests it could be 2026 before it's RC. I don't actually like any other distro — I built a new laptop on Mint, which I only tolerate. But I'm getting nervous, and the UIs for enough apps have evolved sufficiently that it's creating some cognitive load to remember how to use both versions (LibreOffice and Evolution stand out).

What have people chosen to do?

 

the year is 2008. taylor effortlessly uses the singular they in a hook, at a time when probably none of us would have thought of it, in a song about hetero high-school heartbreak.

now they're lighting the world on fire over pronouns. this isn't hollywood. this is a hellmouth.

the jmp support bot lists an 'lnp' option for porting in — so they support it in principle — but it's worth engaging jmp support once you're signed up, as they've probably been through this and could save you some hassles. i had a skype number (two actually) but left them both behind as jmp could assign me numbers i liked better.

if you haven't gotten a referral code yet, PM me.

 

Sam on Mastodon (linked post) grumbles about the profanity filters on jmp.chat (presumably from upstream providers) and getting messages rejected. I've experienced the same, including having my account blocked if I mistakenly send it twice.

When I inquired, support said they were working on improved "routes" (upstream providers) and that I would be waitlisted for the beta of the new routes. That was months ago and I've heard nothing since.

Has anyone gotten into the beta program, and does it improve the situation? Because sometimes you just don't have two fucks to give.

I might need to switch my phone provider. As much as I've loved having all my messages delivered via #XMPP, jmp.chat's upstream providers decency filter is killing me. I constantly get text messages rejected for using swear words. If you ask they insist that all phone providers do this, but if I copy the same message over to my other provider it sends fine.

Are there any other good VoIP providers (not necessarily with XMPP compatibility, but that would be great) that aren't puritanical?

I have the Multiling keyboard. I don't recommend it to others as it's rather long in the tooth and still has quirks I haven't fully sorted. I keep it precisely because it does multi-language support with separate dictionaries; I switch it between U.S. English and French Canadian and autocorrect follows. It's massively customizable but I don't understand it and am more likely to render it unusable than to make it better.

 

What is the default chat retention period in Snikket instances provided by JMP? Is it configurable in the admin panel for an instance?

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

'taylor swift inspired' anything is a warning label, not an enticement. i'd feel this way whether i were a lover, a hater, or a very casual fan making accidental references

 

There's a lot of consternation about the number of services that refuse to register against a JMP number. At the core I suspect it's about information sharing — your carrier will happily give your details to third parties, where JMP doesn't have that information to begin with.

I dealt with this differently. I stopped thinking of my mobile as my 'real' number, but instead as my public one. All personal contacts have my personal JMP number, Signal is registered against my JMP number. Cellular SMS has notifications silenced. When an SMS is important, like when logging into a bank, I know it's coming. No unexpected SMS is welcome.

This works for me because my friends don't use voice, so JMP having metered talk time doesn't matter. But mainly, I don't think of either number as 'real'. I pay for both, and each has its use.

i'm no expert — consensus sounds like putting disused only on the main tag, and when i've encountered this, i haven't marked anything disused at all. i've only looked at the stop/platform to make sure they weren't in any relation (transit line relations may include the passing way but shouldn't include the disused stop/platform). and i make sure route_ref isn't set on the stop/platform. were the stop to be used again, i figure it would have the same ref/stop id and operator, so i don't remove them. listening for better ideas though

 

I've tried Magic Earth a handful of times, but each time I dumped it because it marked a street as closed or wrong-way, creating a circuitous detour. There's no such issue in OSM; it simply hallucinated something.

I was testing it so I knew where I was going, but I'm reluctant to rely on it when I really need nav. Have I been supremely unlucky?

since you have another jabber id, just pop into xmpp channel discuss@conference.soprani.ca

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

aye, sailors, i see. are the bonus tracks purchasable loose, or do they try to make you buy the whole album?

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wth 'taylor's version'? like there was an o.g. eras tour that made money for scooter?

 

Organic Maps is available on Linux! It's on flatpak and several package repos (but not apt). I don't know how long it's been there — I just discovered it.

The splash screen cautions that this Linux beta doesn't have parity with the mobile apps yet, but it's still a huge leap over Gnome Maps. Vector rendering, so you can zoom in as far as you want, and free / open source / not shitty (notwithstanding the big scary EULA, which just contains all the OSS licenses for all the pieces).

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

OSM has a lot more data inside than the website shows - in dense shopping areas you can't zoom in far enough to see all the POIs, much less business names.

I've read before that using cached previews was done to stay accessible to less-powerful mobile devices, which would have smaller CPUs that would be taxed by rendering the native vector data. I view it as a branding disadvantage that OSM appears, from desktops, to have less info than alternatives. But that's a battle that's been had many times before, one might as well argue over paper vs plastic.

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i hadn't realized that the ist's were separate

 

stolen from @MikeElgan@mastodon.social, who asked: who made this?

https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/111875668342669529

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NO. HOW MANY OF HER ARE THERE TO BE DOING ALL THIS?!

 

As a Truly Casual Taylor Fan Honest™, I've been amused at just how many news categories she's dominating by not even quite being there. Every macho man in the U.S. is wound up about her either for politics (or rather, the fear that she'll say something about politics) or for football (or rather, the idea that she'll be a distraction from Real Football).

I wish I could find some way to twist all this attention and use it for good evil. I will spare you all the Macho Man GIF, which you know I was thinking about.

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The main URL points to this: san francisco map bit

 

In the web UI, OSM can't be zoomed in far enough to see the names of POIs in reasonably dense areas. I can get around this by going into edit mode, and mobile apps don't have this restriction. But the out-of-the-box experience, for non-insiders just using the web site, doesn't reveal all that OSM has to offer.

Does anyone know what the rationale for this is?

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's perhaps interesting to see what existing apps ZipoApps has on the Android Play Store.

 

with the simple tools suite being sold to a purveyor of non-foss things, remind me of your favorite lists of recommended apps? i was using simple contacts and am not immediately sure of a good replacement. i would want one without internet permissions, which was why i disabled the google builtin.

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