Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

@abhi_jl
I'd seen a lot of complaints about it and always thought "surely it can't be that bad, they must be exaggerating"... I owe an apology to all of those people now 😀

@kmj
#Sengi doesn't work for #qoto for some reason, can't go beyond the initial "provide your instance" screen. It reports "Http failure response for https://qoto.org/api/v1/apps: 504 Gateway Timeout".

Does anyone use a desktop Mastodon client on #Linux?

I'm trying #Whalebird. It has a couple nice features: keyboard navigation mainly (though even that's a bit clunky), and multi-account management. But it feels quite heavy - #Electron to blame maybe - and is pretty limited in customization options.

@acoolidge
Twitodon https://twitodon.com/ serves as a connection point - if they have a mastodon and used Twitodon at any point, it'll recommend their mastodon profile to you. Even if they haven't, it'll register your twitter and mastodon association, so others can find *you* in the future.
There's also Fedifinder https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ that lets you check for the people you follow, and automatically extract any mastodon account mentioned in their Twitter profile.

#twittermigration #twitodon #fedifinder

@2ck
not the original meaning of l'espirit d'escalier, but it could be applied here too

@pollbot
(since there's a request for a reply)
grew up vegetarian, tried meat a couple times as an adult, decided it wasn't better *enough* than the vegetarian options to override the ethical issues

@void
I didn't even know there *were* desktop clients for Mastodon. Whalebird works for me (OpenSUSE), though I haven't done much beyond starting it and logging in. I came across Sengi while searching abt this, that one doesn't work for me but maybe will for you?
Oh, I used the AppImage for Whalebird btw. If you tried the snap install route, you could try the AppImage instead and see if that works out.

Does types.pl block #Qoto for some reason? Searching for users from there returns nothing, and trying to follow from their site leads to "error looking up this remote account"

#federation #instances

@koehlerson
By not digital do you mean handwritten physical notes that you insert as images?
the "handwritten" part reminded me of another app I came across recently, Xournal++ https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/
Doesn't seem like it has tags or todo lists though, at least based on the README.

@w96k
2 GiB?! I often feel like a relic trying to juggle things with the 4 GiB on my laptop, since everyone seems to have 16 GiB these days! So it's good to know I'm not alone.
Unloading tabs when you're not gonna use them for a while could help (if you keep a lot of tabs open like I do). about:unloads (in Fx 94 and above)
Also, uBlock Origin, if you don't already have it. Ads slow down the pages *so* much the difference is amazing. I actually have Javascript disabled by default in the uBlock settings too, which helps even more with speeding firefox up, but that may be too extreme if you're not used to it.

@w96k
The 5 refers to 5 milliseconds, not 5 seconds.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1795273

> I'm surprised if one can actually see the 5ms difference.

@koehlerson @sotolf
Trying kakoune and helix made me (re-)realize the historical chaff in Vim's basic editing commands, quirks that I'd gotten used to over the years. Unfortunately plugins are a necessity for me in my editor, and in that area kakoune is far behind (n)vim.

@koehlerson
I don't know how much of a one-to-one match it is, but Joplin is a pretty famous alternative (there's both a GUI and a TUI).
I personally use wiki.vim (a lighter vimwiki), although in practice I barely use any of its features except page-linkage.

@abhi_jl
also unless 👇

you're defining a type i.e. a struct, in which case specifying the types does help a lot with performance. In particular, specifying non-abstract concrete types for the fields of the struct. Since this lets #JuliaLang know how much memory your struct is going to need, which allows it to generate optimized code. See: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/performance-tips/#Type-declarations

@lydiaconwell
Qoto supports this feature, you can add an account to a list without having to follow it
#qoto #MastodonFork #lists