Gemini Articles of Interest
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New Gemini mailing list
I'v started a new Gemini mailing list.
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Browsers: Clutter to declutter
Instead of using one browser to rule them all, my life is now scattered across half a dozen browsers: Firefox, LibreWolf, Min, Amfora, Bombadillo and offpunk. I mean it's fine, nobody is getting hurt, but also what the actual fuck lol. That's not even counting the ones on my other devices.
I'm comforting myself with the idea that this is like the time I konmaried my home and there was shit everywhere for weeks. The house looked like a hoarder palace, but I swear I wasn't a hoarder. I just somehow had a lot of kipple and a chaotic organisation system that got upended when it came time to take stock and thank things for their service.
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apps are (mostly) overrated
The more I think about it the more I realise there's no point in most of the apps. After not touching grass for years, looking at how people live their lives with their phones, their use case seems to be very different to mine, and there are serveal things about it.
Apps like YouTube or Instagram are basically mobile frontend for Web 2.0 sites. Sure they may load stuff faster but them being apps also grant them unnecessary power and control to your device. Besides, some of them even tries to make their website worse so that the app may offer a generally better experience to the user, or at least on the outside that is.
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GrapheneOS - A Short-Term Review
I've been running GrapheneOS, a custom Android OS built for privacy and security, on my Pixel 4 XL and have really been enjoying it. It's been a couple weeks now so I think it's time I share some thoughts on it.
If you haven't seen my recent post on choosing a custom OS to install, it may be worth a read first if you're unfamiliar with custom Android OSs/ROMs.
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