Iván Ávalos 🇲🇽 @avalos@cybre.space

I think I'm getting old. I'm slowly starting to appreciate more stability and reliability in programs over major UI changes every week. I prefer apps not to change visually for decades, but to work well and be efficient; than having pretty apps that consume tons of RAM and change their UI/UX frequently.

Firefox's Proton UI redesign is turning out too well, in my opinion.

@hinterwaeldler "In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software." 🤣

@hinterwaeldler "By a truly unbelievable coincidence, I was recently out for a walk when I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me. As I got closer, the dull enterprise typeface slowly came into focus: Cellebrite." 😂

@cinebox I use Metatext too, and it's working fine. The app still needs a lot of progress and performance improvements, most importantly, scroll smoothness.

It also has some flaws with the order of mentions when replying to threads, and it doesn't include mentions in DMs, making them impossible for the mentioned person to read. That's at least in my experience.

Thoughts?

@loke I explained in this thread that my preferred term is “*Linux”. Not sure if it has been used before, I just made it up.

@alcinnz That might sound too general or confusing for most people, especially due to the lack of capital letters; but within a well-defined terminological context, it's definitely fair enough!