My wife and I are smooth sailing on Graphene for almost 6 months now and she’s not as techy

Can confirm that this happens on mobile (installed via F-Droid on GrapheneOS). It will seemingly change countries or profiles mid day or overnight without a restart.

It is super annoying and causes sites I use to send me through all the verifications again / generate new tokens…

I have not witnessed this on Linux via flatpak but will keep an eye out…

Can confirm that this works - even better if they said no and then later ask you to send something “hey can you send so and so’s contact card” or. “Photos form the event”

And then you say “Yes, on Signal”

They will download right there

All Geckos can sync if Mozilla Sync is enabled with an account. So you can sync say LibreWokf or WarwrFox on desktop to any mobile version, such as IronFoz. They do not have to “match”.

As someone who heavily uses Bandcamp both as an artist and a fan, I am still dedicated to the platform. However there has been a decent amount of enshittification recently - now they are pushing artists to switch from PayPal (bad) to Stripe (worse) for artist payouts.

Why is Stripe worse you ask? Well the first thing they ask you to do is give them full access to your online banking through your primary bank when you set up an account.

Grapheme is smooth as can be for me and great for multitasking

I personally found it very easy to install Graphene and get it up and running.

Same! I have a few of my very early very primitive tracks in Buzz.

Jeskola briefly revived it so if you’re wanting to return to trackers could be worth a look. Renoise is still hyped (haven’t tried it) as is the hardware Polyend Tracker (also haven’t tried it).

I’m more of a (virtual) modular than a tracker mindset these days so a combo of FL, Bitwig, Reaktor, Plugdata etc to make a fusion of industrial and idm–

https://sunthief.bandcamp.com/album/thy-neighbors-looking-glass

Jeskola Buzz Tracker. Making tracks in a vertical midi step sequencer with no mixer was wild AF.

IIRC it came with an awesome drum kit called PSI Drums and a set of proprietary plugins (non VST) which included several cool synths abd Whitenoise Stereodist - the most brutal distortion I’ve ever heard, surpassing Ohmicide, Coldfire and Rift in its ability to turn things into aggressive digital terrain.

Migrated to Fruity Loops pretty soon thereafter

Very much in the AI skeptical and even anti-AI crowd. I appreciate the attempt and it does feel aligned with Proton’s overall direction / mission.

I just tries it in a web browser and it was 0/2 of the first two questions I asked it.

It is really exhausting and annoying to have assistants baked into everything now just so “ready to help”.

Will probably check back in a year and see if this still exists and if it is has improved. In the meantime I’m doing just fine without any AI whatsoever

From an outsiders perspective, element has never worked for me and never been stable enough to get anywhere close to discord. Joining servers is buggy AF and Element X is severely hobbied on mobile.

I’ve been refusing to use discord for about 6-8 months and am often invites to join various discords by IRL friends and online communities. I wish Matrix / Element was a viable alternative but I’ve never been able to get it working for anythung other than DMs, and I’m already happy with Signal for that honestly.

As a non developer I want to be sensitive to the amount of work involves, and the number of cooks in the kitchen, but the fact that we don’t have a FOSS- federated slack / discord killer app is leaving so much interaction on the table.

I’ve heard of Revolt but it doesn’t seem to be there with encryption

Ehhhh do you have more evidence than a couple policy-specific / sycophantic tweets? I’m not sure I’d personally describe it that way

This type of thing (+ the AI embedded shenanigans) is what sent me over to Obsidian for personal use.

Still use Notion a bit for work but I’ve peeled way back on it.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think we are still waiting for true tab process separation.

I love IronFox and use it alongside Vanadium. When Fission is confirmed I will bump IronFox back up to most browsing - vastly prefer Gecko browsers as a user but concerned about tab isolation and tracking.

iIRC IronFox has Fission already but there was a dangling question regarding an inability to still isolate processes.

This isn’t on the IronFox devs either - it really needs to be fixed upstream by Mozilla

Joined PeerTube last month and have had great success with it in terms of as a platform and place to share art / content, though of course the views have been low.

I’m sure there is a megathread elsewhere but would love to see an acceleration of folks adopting the Fediverse. My talking point has been to sort of sell Fediverse alternatives (Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon) as superior to other big tech alternatives out there (such as BlueSky and Flashes). We are either at the vanguard of a mass migration or just migrating while no one else is intending to, which I guess amounts to the same thing!