Very interesting opinion, thanks for it.

I think a bit the opposite: I’m really worried about the trend to give people only information they care about. I think it’s essential to be able to have information about everything. Of course there will always be stuff you don’t care about but having it automatically filtered out is dangerous in my opinion. In GAFA-powered social networks, you are only given pieces of information about your own opinion, you never have something that make you question yourself about your opinion. The power of independent and open media like Lemmy is to not rely on such biasing algorithms.

rotfl

Not sure, people outside IT world, at least in my country, still speak about the “Microsoft crash” and don’t know at all about Crowdstrike. Now that make me think that MS will probably try to sue them for the “ravages” to their corporate image.

As a Heliboard enthusiast and pretty happy with it, I would like to ask you what you find wrong with it, what you miss from the original ?

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 …

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.

I read every night with a kobo e-reader (next to my partner who generally sleep before me). I use night mode and a very dim brightness (2-3 %, the max I use is 4 %). It’s sufficient in my opinion.

Exactly, this makes me very anxious. Feeling that we’re just cutting the branch we are sit on …

Also:

• !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
• !communityspotlight@lemmy.world
• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

Didn’t knew this one, still a fan of osmand but why not give a try

Definitely for osmand+, I think this is one of the best opensource app on Android (and the fact being openstreetmap based is a definitive plus because you can correct the map for benefit of the community).

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 ?

Nowadays it’s video for everything… Am I the only old bear that prefer plain old textual tutorials?

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.

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, …