Well, it's time to make a #tumblr account. I go to the website, it takes me to the appstore. The app makes you follow 5 tags and 3 blogs while creating an account.
The tag search is fine. You type, it drops down, you can click on however many fit your criteria.
The blog selector is not fine. They pick one of your tags, and show 10 blogs somehow related to that. I've refreshed mine a few times, it's always the same tag (in this case # Linux). Maybe I want to pick from a _different_ tag, y'ever think of that @ tumblr? Or a blog that I already know the name of and would like to /search/ for, mayhaps?
Also they have these "trending" you can follow. As a trend abolitionist, I am slightly disappointed.
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yes, I know this isn't a big deal, but I'm mostly making an account so I can vote in a youtuber's super obscure poll. A means to an end, as it were.
> if you could change something about #Emacs from the ground up, what would it be?
Lively discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/11nf8ry/rebuilding_emacs_from_scratch_what_would_you_do/
Potentially good discussion? #Emacs android integration possibilities.
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/11mbqvc/mobiletouch_specific_ui_elements_from_lisp/
@ninja but VPSes (sort of) cost money! And I've already got everything else running off of the home lab. What happens if...
Yeah, you're right. It's not that bad. Just a little... unsatisfying.
@ninja I'll have to give it another try - I suspect my ISP will want a monthly fee for opening the email ports...
Well, the poll I did on #Email has run its course.
It appears that most people who have a favorable opinion on email are older millenials / Gen X who participate in mailing lists and such.
It also looks like everybody has a distaste for big gooey monoliths like Outlook and Gmail - and that those of us who only know email through these, equate them.
In short: I only dislike email because big tech made it suck some time in the last 10 years.
Finally took the 5 minutes to set up #empv in #Emacs - it does some pretty cool things (I'm especially impressed with M-x empv-youtube-tabulated, which even shows thumbnails!
@otfrom buffers are useful as big strings that you can see and edit (since the code you're writing is literally in a buffer too).
@meliache @tfb @slevisak@mastodon.social homebrew (https://brew.sh/) can run and compile with no root whatsoever. Might be an option
@nebucatnetzer back up directories with `../` till you're back to / then drill down again like normal.
Extensions like ivy or vertico make this easier by showing the whole path in the minibuffer prompt - not sure what the behavior is on Vanilla...