[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

Also, macOS is derived from FreeBSD.

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Hello,

I've been using Voyager (iOS) for a while and it seems to be the only app still moving forward. The only feature I miss from other similar apps is being able to go back/forward by swiping on the bottom bar. Is this something we could get on Voyager too?

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I searched and found a post on the issue from months ago, but it seems to not have gotten attention from the devs.

It's really annoying to open an image, try to share it somewhere else, see the share sheet showing the image's information.. Just to have the link to it shared instead of the actual image.

Can there be a setting to choose which behavior you want to have for this, please? I imagine thare are people who'd rather share the links, but I think it's a good compromise to have a setting for it.

[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

The first six paragraphs (plus the headline) of this "news article" are the same thing with slightly different wording...

[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Sorry guys, I think it might be my fault. 😂

A month ago I replied to the dev with a wall of text on how I felt like Avelon showed great promises but paying for something based on what it sounds like it'll be in the future is a bad idea. I still think my position regarding this is right.

However, a few days after that, I decided to just do it with the lifetime purchase and hope for the best. Turned out that around that time Memmy's devs revamped that app and haven't added the number one feature on my list (bottom bar swipes navigation) and others are still planned to return. Avelon also went on a hiatus (I think it's related to the rebalancing of pro features). Most other Lemmy apps are in different stages of having some stuff I like, but lacking most features I want.

Hopefully we'll see updates again soon. I'm not going to try getting a refund or anything, but if this flops, I'm most likely gonna give up on Lemmy.

[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I personally find it rather infuriating that swapping those is made so difficult, and to this day don't know who has more usecase for media keys and varied power buttons over function keys.

Non-IT people, who, believe it or not, are the majority of users out there. I've stopped keeping score several years ago on how many people had asked me how to bind F-keys to something else, but at that point things were like 100% of IT people wanted F-keys, while 70-80% of non-IT asked me for help rebinding them to other things.

I'm a programmer and these decisions annoy me as well, I'm just pointing to the answer as for why some computers come with the annoyance enabled (and often make it unnecessarily hard to change it). I'm by no means defending it. If anything, I think it should be up to the OS to have an easy way to change the behavior instead of assuming what the user needs and making it difficult to change.

[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

iOS has that feature built-in. Tap on the notch/dynamic island and it'll scroll back to the top of the screen.

What some apps (Tweetbot, Apollo, Slide, etc) implemented to make that better, is code for when you tap on the notch:dynamic island a second time, it takes you to where you were before the first tap.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by eatstorming@lemmy.world to c/avelon@lemm.ee

Hello,

As the TF version specifically asked for feedback on a couple of points that I've noticed differences, here we are.

  1. ~~Performance: it feels less fluid than before on my iPhone 14 Pro. Not game-breaking, but scrolling is slower (it feels like it never uses 120Hz scrolling now), some actions (voting/saving) feel slower or take multiple taps to register/happen~~ (I was wrong about this, the TF version is visibly faster than the App Store one) and I've noticed quite a lot of videos not loading at all (usually NSFW ones). The player becomes irresponsive and in some cases I've had to reload the app to resume using it.

  2. Fonts: I'm not sure if the iPhone 14 Pro is considered small, and I use the font size slider at the 3rd point from the left, but the layout is slightly different. The fonts are larger than before, but if I move the slider one point to the left, they get smaller than before.

And one extra thing I've noticed: there is no way to scroll back to the top of a community or feed without triggering a reload. Is this intended?

Thank you though, this app keeps getting better.

[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I think the problem is that just like you (and me), they might not know what their purpose is. 😂

[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Yep. The thing is that in the US it's not readily available, and even if companies do twist the government's arm to make it happen, it'd still take quite a while for people to accept it (if they ever do in significant numbers).

Also, obligatory reference to the documentary American Factory, where the differences between American and Chinese work cultures are shown in a similar scenario (a Chinese company opening a factory in the US).

[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

It's not just the price, it's the whole package. The only place I've seen it being lightly talked about was on the Aug 11th's WAN Show.

TSMC is a Taiwanese company, therefore they expect workers to follow the Asian/Chinese work culture. Meaning basically living (usually literally) in the company and very rarely going home for a quick visit. None of this western "work/life balance" nonsense, none of the unionization stuff. Oh you're not happy with something? Do not even dare speaking up, much less grouping up to discuss or protest. Just suck it up and deal with it.

The price is important, don't get me wrong, but Chinese companies do not want people who won't take any and everything their bosses say without even a slight hint of question.

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Really liking what I see so far, it has a very Apollo-esque feel. It feels so similar that I keep trying to navigate using bottom bar swipes (my favorite feature from Apollo) 😂

What I have noticed so far in terms of bugs/needs improvement:

  • There is no setting to turn off the hide bottom bar on scroll. That‘s something I grew to really dislike ever since Apollo. The idea is nice but I just hate how the implementations never seem to work. It gets in the way more often than not, preventing me from using the bottom bar when I need it and not hiding it when I feel it’s safe to do. Therefore I prefer to just have that off.

  • More often than not most clients seem to fail to actually perform the action I just tried - voting, saving, etc. Lemma doesn‘t give any feedback on whether the action went through, so I spend more time than I think I should waiting for the voting/saving buttons to light up, etc. Often I need to go into the post again for it to update the statuses. I understand that some instances suffer from this more than others, but I think the client app should give you some hint on what just happened. For the record, I’m not sure what magic its devs have been doing, but Memmy seems to be the only one to get this mostly right. I‘d say it fails to perform the actions about 20% of the time or less, while most other clients seem to fail 50%+. Memmy also gives a haptic feedback on the actions, so I can notice whenever something goes wrong easier.

  • The media player opens videos stopped, so you need to tap again for it to actually play. I understand some people might want this behavior, but I think there should be a toggle for this behavior or for the video to start playing once you tap on it - I mean, it should be a separate thing from “autoplay of videos” on the feeds.

  • Search doesn’t seem to work, as shown by someone else here

Thank you!

[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
  1. Do not run a root account for regular stuff. This is a lot less common now since most distros require you to create a non-root account during install and a lot of the systems annoy you if you're running as root, but you'd be surprised by the sheer number of people who use accounts with UID 0 daily. This may also be caused by """more experienced""" friends/family setting it up that way to try cutting corners regarding access rights, but the bottom line is: don't be that person. Use root when necessary only.

  2. Get into the habit of not blindly running every command you see online or trying every trick you read/hear, at least not on your main system. Try to setup a VM (or multiple) for the purpose of trying stuff out or running something you're not sure what the impact might be.

  3. Keep your system updated, from kernel to userland.

  4. Get into the habit of reading news regarding exploits, malware and the responses for them. You don't need to become an infosec professional or even understand what they actually do. What is important is for you to learn what to avoid and when something really bad is discovered so you can update as soon as possible.

These 4 steps are arguably more important and create better results than any anti-virus could ever hope to do for you. They won't ever get to 100% security, but then again, nothing will.

[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I too browse All but am not interested in quite some of the communities that pop up from time to time. But in my experience, just tapping on the community and blocking it seems to do what you've requested. Is that not working for you?

Edit: one related request I'd like to sneak in, is to add "Block Community" to the burger menu for the post. Currently it only has Block User, which forces us to go into the community first in order to be able to block it.

[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Is it considered wrong meme because Sync for Lemmy is only available on Android, while the meme is using an older iPhone?

[-] eatstorming@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

For me the biggest highlight is the navigation bar swipes support. This is what Apollo did best in my opinion and I'm glad Memmy started to have it as well. Thank you!

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