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2026-04-17 20:01:52 CEST

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me if i get the new Bouncepad in a state where i want to release it before podcast show
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2026-04-03 21:36:36 CEST

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yes. Amazingly that is still better than writing an iphone app in swift

2026-04-03 21:34:23 CEST

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i wasnt saying you need to host the podcasts. i was trying to say i didn't think this was the "fault" of truefans. Using Fountain to try and stream or boost shows not hosted on truefans.
probably should not have included not using truefans anymore in the original post.

2026-04-03 21:30:40 CEST

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yea i kinda assumed that. which is why i started with react native from the start. or. not really. i had similar problems with the shitty old bouncepad version too.

2026-04-03 21:27:22 CEST

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the pause and unpause buttons in that media player on the lockscreen would also not work. so i would have to unlock the phone and then it would either start playing again on its own. or need to press the button and wait for it to buffer again.
that was my dealbreaker. and im so sad because of it. i really wanted to like it

2026-04-03 21:25:19 CEST

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genuine main reason why i stopped using truefans. part of it was i found the layout really confusing. it always felt i couldn't just see newest episodes. but that was ok.
the big reason was, i walk around listening with airpods on iphone. with the app store version of truefans. press the airpods to pause the podcast because i need to think or someone talks to me.
and then press them again to unpause and it never ever does. it works if you pause and unpause within couple seconds.

2026-04-03 21:22:19 CEST

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well no i was using fountain for this. and neither podcasting 2.0 or podnews are hosted on truefans right.
i tried listening live to 2.0 on truefans but i realised i didnt have sats on it anymore. but i couldnt charge sats onto it. so i tried boosting with fountain.

2026-04-03 21:16:25 CEST

This weeks “how dead does boosting/streaming feel”.
Idunno. Didn’t fully work for podcasting 2.0.
What’s weirder though is on podnews it’s showing 40 splits. And every address is in it like 8 times.
That’s better than last week where it refused to stream sats to pwr entirely.
Yes my attempt at using TrueFans as daily driver podcast app has also failed.
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2026-03-28 10:53:32 CET

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through Claude code? The terminal app? Or again with copy and paste?
ChatGPT annoyingly is better at code than Claude. Claude is better at design.
Claude is not incapable of doing good code but it’s just drunk. Friendly and does its best but just forgets stuff and confuses itself.

2026-03-27 19:01:11 CET

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claude has a 20, 100 and a 200 usd plan. you get 20x the value with the 200 usd plan. so actually its subsidised by the cheaper tiers and you get way more. Anthropic sucks though. opencode used to have a oauth integration with claude so you could use your claude max sub inside of open code. but they got threatened and turned that off in opencode. even though it says you are allowed to use for stuff, just not for business reasons.openai explicitly allow using your sub in opencode

2026-03-06 18:51:04 CET

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man jusr say "Claude please remember to not let me do changes on master"

2026-02-15 15:02:56 CET

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yes. evidently you are doing a good job with it. The new bouncepad is also set up to handle feeds with more than one liveitem. the old one would just bug out and play a random one.
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2026-02-14 22:17:52 CET

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thanks. i saw that now. good. interesting you hide that away. i guess it makes sense if you want to abstract away the payment layer being lightning btc.
in my non functional mocks of super comments on the new bouncepad i have a little switch similar to that but in the super comment creation ui itself.
assuming sometimes people want to send "2 USD" or some numerology sats value other times.
ill try dailying truefans.

2026-02-14 21:54:56 CET

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I would not know how to change it to sats. at least not in the super comment sending ui. nothing looks pressable there and i tried it doesnt seem like i can.
iphone 16. with truefans installed from the app store.

2026-02-14 21:28:31 CET

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my main problem was i didnt read the euro sign at the left of the value field as meaning i need to enter a euro amount. so of course i cant boost 2222€ worth of sats if theres like 3€ worth in it.
thats my fault i think.
and on PC now i was able to put in money through stripe. it still doesnt work on my phone though

2026-02-14 21:25:16 CET

oh no im leaking again.
triggered by james saying he searched himself on whatever it was and it didnt find him.
the search on new bouncepad is called Composure. it just works and is a nice, calm experience.
i hate crap, unpolished software. (Like the current, soon-to-be-replaced Bouncepad).
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2026-02-14 18:05:35 CET

Getting cross with podcasting 2.0 apps. Can't send boosts from fountain still.
Truefans kinda works but I can’t send a 2222 boost because I only have 4100 sats (???) and trying to add money I guess crashes the app. or whatever is happening. And no topup from strike but that's fine.
Castamatic looks like it only works with alby. Which I don't use anymore.
I just wanted to get on a walk and listen and boost 😭
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2026-02-11 13:31:41 CET

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that would be the seemingly easiest way to get non podping feeds into the new bouncepad. I have my own database and parser for podping enables shows. That's fine. But I'd also like to have non podping shows on there too.
And taking stuff from your api and converting it into what my db needs almost seems like more work than just getting a list of rss feeds it doesn't know about and just parsing them twice a day or so

2026-02-11 12:36:13 CET

Is it possible that i get only podcast data from Podcast Index of feeds that don't use Podping? and Preferably id almost only want the feed URLs then anyway actually.

2026-01-16 19:25:53 CET

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you could build a merch store website into truefans hosting and then using that storefront proposal show some items inside of the RSS feed, in other apps.
the proposal matches your idea, without changing how the funding tag works. which i don't think would be a good idea. its simple and probably should remain that way.

2026-01-16 19:22:29 CET

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im talking about the storefront proposal though. because i had not seen that until just now. and the apps getting affiliate revenue for parsing and displaying the json items.
your idea of merch inside of truefans could be done in other apps, with the storefront.

2026-01-16 19:16:29 CET

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you might have payments figured out and a future ability to sell merch. But most apps won't do that.
that storefront proposal looks like it could enable what youtube had for at least 2 years. where you can directly link to products on a tab on a channel or under a video or livestream.
That would be cool, but can we figure out some kind of affiliate revenue system to standardise on. or add into the tag. to hint to apps if/how they can get a cut of the revenue?
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2025-11-08 11:08:36 CET

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full because of what though? Do you know

2025-06-03 12:59:43 CEST

Skip a week @npub13cg…ck4q thats what my vote is for

2025-05-19 12:07:22 CEST

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someone’s text line on the podcast show app

2025-05-19 11:25:20 CEST

New least favorite combination of words I ever read.
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2025-05-15 21:42:09 CEST

https://bouncepad.live/
I made a thing. Let me just drop it in here for all of us running with scissors before putting it out to other places.
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2025-04-25 08:21:28 CEST

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yes that is what i am referring to. Lets just make any website that use cloudflare or vercel i
IPs unreachable is insane.
I believe La Liga is owned by Telefonica. Big isp. So they could do whatever they want anyway already. But convincing a judge to legally ban ip addresses ks nexr level.
The judge didnt even listen ro what cloudflare or vercel had to say apparently .

2025-04-22 17:46:47 CEST

I hope next board meeting is going to talk about spain screwing with the Internet

2025-04-21 18:57:10 CEST

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2025-03-28 18:08:12 CET

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France and Poland are doing things too, and one of the scandinavian ones at least. i dont remember

2025-03-25 18:01:36 CET

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i pretty much only want to use hetzner to run icecast servers and nothing else.
The general code is gonna live on scaleway or ionos. Maybe DigitalOcean but probably not.
I'm working on 2 things, kind of 3, at the moment. And I want to provide live audio as easily and cheaply as I can.

2025-03-24 22:01:18 CET

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Also for the question of "not everyone can listen to an opus file" idunno..at least for browsers it looks like every single one can, except for safari which basically can in a preview.
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2025-03-24 21:32:16 CET

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I counted when the data received fell under a average amount as a failure, usually that was when i heard it choppy too, and saw bandwith fall in the hetzner UI.
The script is not smart enough to show that, it just looks for basically anything above 0 sent. really i just wanted an output.
Is this a perfect test? not really. as i didnt use the icecast numbers. but this is good enough for my i think

2025-03-24 21:29:12 CET

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Tested from another more powerful VPS running that test script, in the same datacenter.
I also tried with batche sizes of 100, 200 and 500 at once before too but that was too slow and the traffic with +1000 at once seemed working fine.
I also forgot to take a screenshot from the mp3 so there. new test.
It is not 1to1 with how many more listeners it can handle, but it does have a limit with what it can trasmit in terms of data. less data = more listeners.
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2025-03-24 21:24:45 CET

I have now done better icecast-kh testing.
With a 2 Core Ampere VPS from Hetzner for 3,79€ A month, i can get the foillowing max listener numbers consistently:
12000 at MP3/160kbps
25000 at OPUS/64kbps
30000 at OPUS/32kbps
and that 30k only got hit because i forgot that was what my icecast config was.
Tested with a script i have made where it spins up a new wrk command with 1000 connections, and then an additional single one to see if data is sent or not.
So, it is like what i expected.
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2025-03-22 15:07:46 CET

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I have been testing with regular icecast 2. And actually it doesn't seem to have that much variance with different Codecs and Bitrate as I thought. Still mp3 is the worst but the difference is like a couple hundred.
I am going to test with kh now.

2025-03-22 13:25:44 CET

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what i didnt like about that was it didnt even get close to filling up ram or cpu time. it just stops working and doesnt send more data to new connections

2025-03-22 13:24:05 CET

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I am going to run more test still. but so far with 112kbps mp3 in stereo it seems like it breaks around 1000 listeners connected. tested on a 2core 2gb ram vps.

2025-03-22 10:07:15 CET

Let me advocate for something that won't happen anyway.
i think we should use opus instead of mp3. especially for live audio.
its way better.
less data to transmit, so its better for the listeners, better for hosting companies bills. if they have a live server and better for podcasters.
from my testing at least, the higher the amount of data is an icecast server needs to push out, the less listeners at once it can handle.
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2025-03-15 16:00:54 CET

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we could make a podcasting 2.0 token. not a shitcoin, a podcoin. yea its shitty and stupid but think about the money.

2025-01-28 15:17:10 CET

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that's what im doing. It's just barely not ready to show.
This post was like a suggestion I guess.

2025-01-28 09:13:48 CET

Every live podcast using irc for live chat should be using a server with irc-over-websocket enabled.
Please.

2025-01-25 23:04:31 CET

Do we know how many people listen to podcasts live at this point? op3 doesnt seem to have data about live vs on demand shows. at least from a quick look at a couple shows. Does it even track that?

2025-01-21 15:28:45 CET

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I don't even remotely have the ability to imagine what is going on with this.
I would be mad at the stupid slow load times but the random direction generator is a novel concept.

2025-01-15 09:18:00 CET

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put the Facebook robot on your face, Cridland

2025-01-14 08:43:22 CET

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that looks way cooler than it has any right to. Yes not sarcastic. It looks really cool.

2025-01-07 18:25:55 CET

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its not? arent there email tools that use LLMs to sort out LLM generated phishing and spam?

2024-12-29 13:03:54 CET

I am upset by PWAs when all they do is put a manifest in and then call it a day.
Only making your website an icon on the users home screen does not make it feel like an app.
Write good serviceworkers please.
And actually make it feel like an app.

2024-12-24 12:22:42 CET

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that's kind of what I thought. Medium = Radio and then you only put in liveitems, some kind of schedule and maybe like podroll to podcast feeds if you publish radio shows as a podcast or something.
I would hope that not an entirely new namespace is needed for this.

2024-12-24 12:08:14 CET

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if you got a podcast index like thing pointing to radio stations using RSS feeds, preferably close to modern podcast RSS feeds, that would be really good.
It's amazing how well that would fit with what I am making.

2024-12-24 09:43:20 CET

About my proposal for liveSchedule. I haven't had time to do so but I want to look at XML and json ways of formatting a standing schedule.
I am not gonna get to that in the next days either though. Maybe on the weekend.
I kind of dislike the idea of RSS feeds becoming just a file that points to other places. But if there is some sort of standard radio stations use Already, and especially if the schedule changes often I see why that would be better.

2024-12-23 10:15:53 CET

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do you ever stop being busy, Sam?

2024-12-21 08:47:07 CET

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I thought about using lit items for schedule too. But if you do one show a week you would have to remember to already put the next liveItem in after the current one is done. That just seems. Bad. And then the app can't decide what scale it wants to show you because it fully relies on someone preemptively putting X amount of pending liveitems in the feed.

2024-12-20 13:36:11 CET

While in the process of making a schedule/timetable view to show what liveItems would happen in a day or week i believe to have run into a limitation. So now i wrote a proposal.
Neither updateFrequency nor liveItem itself can do something that i think we should have.
Please let me know your thoughts. I wrote what for now seems like a okay solution but maybe people smarter than me know a better one.
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/683

2024-12-18 13:45:10 CET

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90 seconds is already too long if it's live.
About prerecorded I am not sure actually.

2024-12-18 08:28:14 CET

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I think he's just salty. You make open source code and then another company becomes more successful than your own.
Boo hoo oh no. Don't make open source code (with licenses that explicitly allow this) if you can't handle it.
Instead of being proud how much WordPress has grown he's doing all this crazy shit.
This has been a super long process it is wild.

2024-12-18 08:24:38 CET

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is there secure RSS for liveitems too? Is that in the picture

2024-12-17 17:19:17 CET

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I have a very specific naming scheme since I got really into coding. Aldgate, Baker Street, Canada water, Dalston junction.
Rafferty doesn't fit into this system.

2024-12-17 10:17:28 CET

I just realised I did a crime. I didn't give this current project a code name.
I love codenames.
Maybe it's fine though because it's an offshoot of Baker Street

2024-12-17 07:02:53 CET

Oh yea I forgot to say it @npub1thg…zq23. yesterday I got my PTO form for next year back. Yes I am gonna be at Podcamp.

2024-12-13 20:41:54 CET

👀
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2024-12-13 17:24:33 CET

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what did you mean by that though

2024-12-09 13:02:27 CET

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when is Australian christmas

2024-12-05 15:39:23 CET

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streaming or not streaming. I hadn't downloaded the episode.

2024-12-05 15:38:57 CET

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oh yea that works. With my brain I could never remember to open an app before I exit mobile network coverage.
But good you are working on it.
Is it gonna keep state of when you listen? When I used it last time it didn't do that.. I saw streaming though in an area with super crap coverage

2024-12-05 15:24:15 CET

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well I turned off the Internet connection and opened it and it just shows the truefans logo and nothing else. For like 2 minutes and the I turned Internet on again and it loaded normally.
Same thing as last 2 weeks I think when I tried using it on walks.
No pressure or negative feelings from my side.

2024-12-05 15:20:21 CET

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I can't even get it to open without internet

2024-12-05 14:28:00 CET

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I need to learn about PWAs I guess. Is truefans supposed to work without Internet? Maybe Thats a dumb question. I don't know yet if or how like a webapp can be stored on the device itself.
Most of the time when listening to podcasts I'm in a random forest or the edge of town with no or super slow Internet and whenever I tried using truefans it didn't load or didn't work well. Presumably because of the Internet connection

2024-12-05 14:19:01 CET

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I did disagree but now I get it. There's another boost for you to respond to next episode.
I will see what I am gonna do. For my actual project I need to make a player page anyways. So getting some general overview or library view, following shows and notifications set up maybe payments set up.. Yes that's a lot of work. But almost it's a logical thing to do anyways.

2024-12-05 08:02:33 CET

Had a very busy week and wrote almost no code at all this week so far. 😠
I changed my plans again though I think. Because of @npub1thg…zq23 telling me to do a podcast player myself.
My current project already is one feature split off from another project. And I realised I can make a player webapp myself by again splitting out and modifying a feature from the thing I am working on now.

2024-11-30 15:34:35 CET

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how is the nostr boostagram payment notes stuff working. is that implemented? i dont know the way nostr works. does information from fountains relay propegate to other relays automatically or how can i also get all of that data.

2024-11-30 10:02:00 CET

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I don't want to run very complex code because I think even now still a busted Gnome extension will rip someone entire session down. I don't want that.

2024-11-30 10:00:51 CET

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so I think an optimal solution is I set up some open source repo for a docker image. That then I can run on some 5 dollar VPS. Or someone else can get the image and run it themself.
And the Gnome extension just runs a get request to get a list of updated shows and what happened with them. To see if any of the shows you added to a list has gone live and send a notification.

2024-11-30 09:58:34 CET

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hm. I'll have to look. What I want to do is an extension for Gnome to send you notifications when select shows go live. And yes those are written in js but they have their own GJS runtime and I don't think you can just import random other things. Plus i dont think I would want to run Really heavy big scripts in that anyways.
What many Gnome extensions do is hit some fully free public APIs.

2024-11-29 15:48:08 CET

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not at all yet. I want to put put it in a docker container and use it with a gunicorn server to store the last couple whatever number of events cached and return them with a get request.
Dont know if that is needed at all. And I haven't really tried to use it because of being unsure in general.

2024-11-27 14:05:37 CET

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James on open public transport
Why is that so cheap. That is great. Where I live you have like one bus every 30 minutes and just one way costs 2.20€. Also most lines shut down by like 7pm

2024-11-19 18:27:56 CET

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I haven't tried that or known about that because no one I ever asked answered. On umbrel forums or their discord.
How do you even get on a terminal in the ui

2024-11-19 18:22:41 CET

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umbrel keeps doing this though. I thought it was nice now. Or I was hoping it would be but is it??
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2024-11-19 17:31:00 CET

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I don't even know if I want to run my own node due to the liquidity for opening channels.
That is really crap user experience.

2024-11-18 19:41:14 CET

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reminds me of when one of my viewers installed Linux and id didn't work for him because he installed the few programs he wanted the windows way. By getting them from random websites. And not the package manager. So obviously it didn't work properly lol.
"that's how I always installed apps. I'm not learning package managers"

2024-11-18 19:29:46 CET

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idunno. I grew up on windows xp until Windows 10 came out.
And now I think default Gnome is the best. Where it hides everything until you press the super key. I like the global menu bar of Mac because yea that's tolerable amount of lost screen space. As well as a dock or task bar on the left. Horizontal space isn't used much compared to vertical.