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[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

So, there are 2 main places for shortcuts/actions: tracker actions and edge actions.

These are my tracker actions

I set it so it activates when I tap and hold the tracker, it shows up those shortcuts. If I slide my finger towards one of the shortcuts, it activates it.

These are my edge actions

These are actions/shortcuts that you trigger by pushing the cursor to the edge of the screen.

You can pick any app from your phone or any of the actions available in the app, there are a lot... Like system controls (volume, brightness control, media playback buttons, screen lock, screen rotation, etc.) and you can also make a shortcut for Tasker/MacroDroid/Automate action. So basically, you can make a shortcut for almost anything you can think of.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

I think it might be possible only in the paid version, but that's exactly how it works, you just have to increase the Cursor area in Swipe zones settings.

And it does stay under the Twilight if you give Twilight the accessibility permission.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I think you are missing the point of the app. The cursor part of it is more of a gesture, or you can think of it as a "thumb extension". The point is to help you avoid the inconvenience and save time by allowing you to reach farther parts of your screen without repositioning your hand. I called it a "phone touchpad" just because, when you activate it, a part of the screen is acting like a touchpad. You are not using it for a specific purpose of having a cursor on your phone, the cursor is basically just the tip of your "virtual extended thumb". So it's a utility/accessibility software.
Using a physical mouse would be the opposite of what this app is trying to achieve.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (15 children)

On Android, it's probably a little utility software called Quick Cursor (it's not FOSS). It's incredibly convenient being able to spawn a cursor on your phone from thin air that you can use to reach the "unreachable" portions of your screen, especially if you are holding your phone with one hand. Besides being a "phone touchpad" it has a bunch of ways of triggering actions/shortcuts, for example: volume or brightness control, launching an app (I use it for launching a floating calculator, notes...), opening notification shade, copying text (it can copy any text that is under the cursor, even if it's not selectable)...

It's not that I couldn't go without it, but it changed the way I use my phone and it would feel really weird without it. It feels like it should be a part of the OS.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Settings shortcut: Comment options > Display navigation bar


Click on that 👆, it will take you to the setting that you need to turn off.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

I still use Sync but Thunder looks really promising. Very nice UI and tons of customization options.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

The app (locally, on your device) checks if someone from your contact list installed (became available) on Signal, and if they did, you get notified by the app.

 

And it shares your phone number with everyone in your contacts who has Signal installed.

Someone can get notified only if they already have you in their contact list (so they already have your phone number), and have Signal installed.

 


I still wish you could choose if you want others to be notified tho...

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago

Haha, I actually had earbuds on with brown noise playing, but I could still hear the barking faintly. My brain just decided to hyper focus on it :/

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A few nights ago I was trying to read a book, and there was a dog across the road who wouldn't stop barking. I was reading a single page for 15 minutes until I was finally able to tune him out.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Right! I was wondering why it stopped working, it's pretty useful.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

If you can...you are endangering the environment.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1895271

FYI!!! In case you start getting re-directed to porn sites.

Maybe the admin got hacked?

 

If your instance is updated to version 0.18.1 (you can check the version at the bottom of the page).
You can find some new themes under profile settings.


 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1143350

Why YSK: I've seen several commenters asking if there were specific bots such as RemindMe

However, there are so many bots already on mastodon that will federate with us! Check out botsin.space, a masto-instance specifically made for hosting bots

Just tag @remindme@mstdn.social and say the time after (I recommend you not do it on this post unless you have an actual reason though as it could spam their servers)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/963301

I shared bits and pieces of this before, but it's officially up and running now: https://www.search-lemmy.com/

This is an enhanced search engine for Lemmy. With a few primary goals:

  • You can choose a preferred instance. After choosing what your primary instance is, and performing a search ALL links will open in that instance.
  • This aims to be a replacement for using site:reddit.com in Google, but just for the fediverse.
  • You can filter the search results by:
    • Instance -- This will filter the results to only show communities that belong to a particular instance. Just type something like instance:lemmy.wrold or instance:https://lemmy.world/. This is separate from your preferred instance, such that you can search for posts on lemmy.world while still opening them on lemmy.ml.
    • Community -- You can refine the search by a specific community. You use the same syntax that you'd use here community:[!fediverse@lemmy.world](/c/fediverse@lemmy.world).
    • Author -- Similar to the above you can also filter by a specific author such as: author:@marsara9@lemmy.world.
  • The entire thing is open-source. You can view the code and even host your own instance... See more details here: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search.

NOTE: This only supports Lemmy instances for now. Other fediverse type instances may be in the future depending on how this works out.

I've been working on this over just the last few weeks, so it hasn't had a chance to crawl much of the fediverse yet. For now it only supports lemmy.world and lemmy.ml but other preferred-instances will come online as time goes by.

If anyone finds any bugs, and I'm sure you will, or if anyone has any suggestions PLEASE raise an issue on GitHub for me to track. Lastly, if anyone wants to help contribute please feel free to reach out.

**NOTE TO SERVER ADMINS: You can prevent your site from being crawled by adding lemmy-search to your robots.txt for the user-agent.search` to your robots.txt for the user-agent.

 

From what I understand, federation doesn't currently fetch historic actions, so if your community was fetched onto a new remote instance after you featured/pinned the post, then it won't appear like it's pinned on that instance.

 

Quick guide on how to use this python script (on Windows) to copy subscribed communities to another account.

  1. Install Python.
  2. Go to repo page. Click Code >> Download ZIP
  3. Extract the ZIP file
  4. Open the extracted folder
  5. Open config.ini file with the text editor (e.g., Notepad) and type your credentials and corresponding instance links (and save it)
  6. Click on the path field within the folder, type cmd and press enter to open up Command Prompt within that folder.
  7. Type lemmy_migrate -c config.ini , press enter.
  8. Wait for it to finish.
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/530489

The issue: You find a link to a neat lemmy community on some random instance. In order to subscribe, you have go to your instance, search for the community, find it, open it, subscribe...blah!

The fix: Use a simple browser bookmark to go to your home instance and open the federated community in one click.

This works through modifying the URL of the page your on and puts the host name (e.g. lemmy.ml) after an "@" symbol after the community and then changing the host name to your own, hard-coded one.

How to steps:

  1. Create a bookmark in your browser and then "Edit" it.

  2. Change the URL to this text (modify the "lemmy.world" bit with whatever your home instance is):

    For lemmy.world users: javascript:(function(){location.href="https://lemmy.world/c/"+location.href.match(/(?:.*)\/c\/(.*(?=\/)|.*$)/i)[1]+"@"+location.host.toString();})();

    For lemmy.ml users: javascript:(function(){location.href="https://lemmy.ml/c/"+location.href.match(/(?:.*)\/c\/(.*(?=\/)|.*$)/i)[1]+"@"+location.host.toString();})();

  3. Change the name of the bookmark to whatever you want. Mine is named "lemmy.world".

  1. You're all set!

Now, from any federated community main feed page, click on the bookmark and you'll magically be taken to the same community on your local instance. Magic!


Disclaimers: The community must be federated with your instance. You can only do this from a URL that has the community in url (e.g. not from a post or anything).

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/86720

Created as a sticky post for my community. !lemmytips@discuss.tchncs.de

📄 Documentation, guides and FAQs:


📱 Mobile apps:

App Name Platform OS Stage Community Link Code Link
Artemis (Kmoon) Kbin, Lemmy (Upcoming) Android, IOS Private Beta (Starts end of June) Kbin.social Soon
Beyond Lemmy Android, IOS In Progress
Connect Lemmy Android Google Play Beehaw post
Jerboa Lemmy Android Google Play, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid lemmy.ml Github
Lemmynade (Lemmur fork) Lemmy Android, IOS In development Bigfoot Ninja Github
Limbo Lemmy IOS Testflight lemmy.world Soon
Memmy Lemmy Android, IOS Testflight lemmy.world Github
Mlem Lemmy IOS Beta, removed from Testflight, lead dev stepped down lemmy.world Github
Morpha Lemmy Android, IOS No releases yet vlemmy.net Gitlab
Slide Lemmy Android Under development Post on lemmy.world Github
Summit Lemmy Android Google Play, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid lemmy.world
Sync Lemmy Android Research. Patreon lemmy.world
Thunder Lemmy Android, IOS Testflight & IzzySoft lemmy.world Github
wefwef Lemmy WebApp Alpha lemmy.world Github

Data taken from the google spreadsheet (by @d00phy@lemmy.world)


🌐 Useful sites:

Instance and community explorers:
Stats:
Search engines:
Miscellaneous:

🎨 Custom CSS Themes / UI Tweaks for Lemmy:

Best place for finding CSS styles: userstyles.world

Some by Lemmy community:

Place to find more: !plugins@sh.itjust.works | Fetch


🌍 Useful communities:

Links should open in your local instance. If you get couldnt_find_community, click Fetch first.

About Lemmy:
Promote(new) communities:

Miscellaneous:


Suggestions are welcome.

 

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/71764

link to post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/311799

The amount of apps being developed for iOS / Android is getting really crazy now and new apps keep popping up every day. Updated list below:

Most apps on the list are lemmy apps, meaning they don't work with kbin. Artemis is specifically designed to work with kbin, not sure if or when any of the other ones will go in that direction or become interoperable as there are some challenges with the kbin API at the moment. Having said that, a new API is in the works so things should get better with time.

I made a neat table, here u go:

::: spoiler Click to see table

Name Platform OS Stage Link
Artemis (Kmoon) Kbin, Lemmy (Upcoming) Android, iOS Private Beta (Starts End of June) /c/ArtemisApp@kbin.social
Memmy Lemmy Android, iOS Android Release (Pending Play Store Approval) /c/memmy@lemmy.ml
Mlem Lemmy iOS Submitted for App Store Review (July 1) /c/mlemapp@lemmy.ml
Morpha Lemmy Android, iOS Under Development /c/morpha@vlemmy.net
Thunder (FOSS) Lemmy Android, iOS Alpha Release [Thunder on GitHub] [Thunder Community]
Beyond Lemmy Android, iOS Under Development Beyond on Lemmy
Limbo Lemmy iOS TestFlight Beta Join the Limbo for Lemmy beta on iOS
Jerboa Lemmy Android Released Jerboa on GitHub
Slide Lemmy Android Under Development (More information coming) Slide on Lemmy
Sync Lemmy Android Research /c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
Lemmynade (FOSS) Lemmy Android Beta (Github) Lemmynade
Connect Lemmy Android Beta (Play Store) [Connect Release Post], [Connect Community]
Lemon Lemmy iOS Development, Beta in Early July Lemon Introduction, Lemon Community
 
  • Install Stylus browser extension: Firefox, Chrome
  • Go to userstyles.world and search for "Lemmy"
  • Pick one and click
  • It will open a new tab, where you will have to click one more button.

Style may not apply to the URL of your instance, and in that case, you need to do it yourself.

  • Click on the Stylus extension icon, and then click manage.
  • New tab will open with a list of all installed styles. Click on the style that you just installed.
  • That will open the style editor. You want to look for a field that looks like this and click on the + button.
  • That will add a new field just below it. In the empty field, type the URL of your instance.
  • In the top left corner of the page, there is a Save button. Click that, and you are done.

Preview of some stylesClick on the image to go to style page.
Lemmy dark theme

Rediggit for Lemmy

DreamySweet's Custom Lemmy Theme

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