Digital Radio Mondiale enthusiasts: First time?
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Digital Radio Mondiale enthusiasts: First time?
Don’t be that pessimistic, most users had to install Reddit, Twitter and TikTok apps. In the 2010s, grassroots chain emails and Facebook posts with guides to setting up WhatsApp went viral among boomers in my country, touting it as “free SMS”. (Facebook camnot legally describe it as “free SMS” but they didn’t bother correcting anyone of course.) The fediverse experience is already quite OK if you have a dedicated client but the problem is that not everyone does, which is why we need browser support; people are tired of “wOrKs bEtTeR iN ThE aPp” even if it’s true this time. A dedicated URL scheme will automatically associate Fediverse links with any appropriate installed web/local apps. There are still other issues such as hit-and-miss cross-fedi-platform compatibility, no API for retrieving the list of federated instances and lack of appropriate error messages if the source and/or destination instance block each other.
They do, and I like how seamlessly mailto:
links on websites work with web and local apps: your browser will give you a choice and either will work because email servers network with one another (obviously). Perhaps we could do this with linking to content across the Fediverse, with a custom URL scheme such as apub: .com
. I explore this in my other comment at apub:post/20744080/11206632@reddthat.com.
Ironically, the thing that would allow people to use one “twitgramface” account across all the various platforms is federation. But the only way I can imagine it being seamless enough for normies is native browser integration for ActivityPub, perhaps with a new URL scheme like apub://...
. Basically, save a Fediverse account in your browser, and when you open a foreign-instance link someone sends you, you’ll see a prompt:
apub:
)?You can browse this content via your instance and interact with it with one of your saved Fediverse accounts, or choose an app you have installed:
@yourusernamehere@lemmy.one ︿ |
---|
@example@fedia.io |
@user123@mastodon.social |
Voyager (vger.app Web App) |
Tootle (Local App) |
☐ Remember my choice for feddit.nl
☐ Remember my choice across all instances
Accept | Reject |
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ⓘ Why am I seeing this? ︿
This content is on feddit.nl, which is an ActivityPub instance that 3 of your saved Fediverse accounts federate with. To use your account, open this link via your instance, or select Decline to use feddit.nl’s default web interface.
So far, only browser extensions can do this, and not very well at that. Of course, all ActivityPub instances and clients would need to adopt this URL scheme whenever a link is shared between users, and the downside is that Reddit, Instagram, Twitter etc. will never recognize apub:
links. Do you think something like this can ever happen?
Absolutely hilarious but technocally the term is correct as we have 1 natural satellite.
Oh boy, is the A Button Challenge still ongoing. There is quite a hunt to further reduce the approx. 18 presses to get 120 stars in a full-game TAS, or to find faster and human-viable strategies to avoid these A presses.
Obviously not the first but might win a “most basic browser currently maintained” competition if it qualifies (not if HTML rendering is a criterion).
I have never used iOS but I’d guess that makes browsing on it a little less convenient than on a terminal with curl
.
You’ve never used function keys? The dual function is annoying even inside the OS. I have to help several people with laptops and you can’t tell what mode they’re in, the user often doesn’t know either.
On laptops, you never know if the F-key behavior is defined by the OS, BIOS or keyboard driver. I just mash F2, F8, Fn+F2, Fn+F8, Del as often as I can (these are the most common keys to do the trick). You can reduce the options with a USB keyboard with just normal F-keys.
Some laptops don’t have a key you can hold to enter BIOS settings or boot menu (maybe to start booting before the keyboard is initialized?) and there is a reset button hole for that.
Plot twist: he already has one but stays quiet about it, because the result is apparently bad
The recommendations seemed favorable when I tried it. I have since switched to Mint.
Even basic things in distros are quite different, for example the frontend for settings, so tech support threads will show how to do it in the backend. Oh well, but then there’s someone who suggests
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
If you’re a noob, run this and get a “nano: command not found” error, you’ll google it and learn to resolve it using apt
. However, Manjaro’s package manager is pacman
but you don’t know, so you install apt
using a weird guide without knowing what it even is. The next update then wreaks havoc on your system.
My first install ended in a dependency hell because of this.
I think they do make some kind of edutainment but not like this. Point-and-click adventures were relatively easy to integrate some education into but the kid needs the time and patience to find a solution when they inevitably get stuck (perhaps with hints but not walkthroughs). Their attention span is too short nowadays because content comes more often than on 1 CD-ROM per month for the delayed gratification of exploration and puzzle-solving to work.
I had a blast playing the Czech-localized version of Bioscopia until the CD got scratched and it started crashing. I was terrible at gaming (still am but can look up guides now) so I never got past the starting area and reception. Still, the interactive encyclopedia kept working and I went through most of it. I recently pirated a working English-language copy (developed by Tivola together with the German one, I think) and had a blast. It would still crash at later points but I was able to hack the required items in through the plaintext XML save file, as well as 99 credit on the keycard (not as interested in biology anymore) and finish the game.
Dreamcast? Tivola?
Oh, I assumed it was another “witty” word association by a journalist.
The title feels weird. Is this really a way to use “dial up”?
== CISCO TM-33k6m2 DIAL-UP MODEM QUICK SETUP ==
STEP 2: SELECT PROVIDER PROFILE
[1] AT&T
[2] Comcast
[3] AOL
[4] Censorship (default)
[0] Specify Provider Parameters...
> _
And yet, for both you are supposed to pay for an overpriced device. You can at least pirate the R1 app.
It is somewhat OK considering it’s a free app.
It’s just the regular penguin. Clickbait!!!1!!