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Which smartphone is the best?
The one with the best camera, the sharpest display, the fastest SoC, or maybe the biggest battery and the latest shiny features?
No.
The best smartphone is the one that respects its user, the one that gives you control and freedom.
And that’s any device that can run postmarketOS, or Mobian.
Does anyone know of a good modern FOSS IDE?
I'm trying to switch away from VSCode. I mainly use it for C++, Rust, C# with Unity, visualizing git histories, and occasionally refactoring GDScript (I usually use Godot's built in editor).
I've tried Neovide/Nvim/LazyVim and Helix, they're both really nice, but I feel like with both I'm just getting stuck constantly when I need to use a random feature I only use occasionally. Or kludging through tons of terminology and configuring I just didn't need to do with VSCode. In VSCode when I need to do something odd, there's usually a plugin for it or it just already works.
Zed seems really nice, it even has a Vim & Helix like modes, but it's pretty clear their thing is gen AI, and Co-pilot being forced into every nook and cranny of VSCode is one of the big reasons I want to ditch it.
Am I just sleeping on Kate, emacs, kakoune, or something? What else is out there? Maybe someone is working on a Godot based modal-inspired text editor? Do I just need to grind the modal editor skill curve more?
#vim #programing #foss #helixeditor
JayVii posted Sep 19, 2025
Dear #Mozilla, please seize the opportunity and go the other direction than #Google #Chrome. We need a truly open, #FOSS browser for and by the people, not corporations.
https://blog.google/products/chrome/chrome-reimagined-with-ai/
As of GNOME 49, GNOME Settings will feature a button for configuring the Orca screen reader!
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/3215
#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #Orca #ScreenReader #ScreenReaders #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
JayVii posted Mar 2, 2025
A truly inspiring blog post on transparent, trustworthy and independent #tech for #Europe. Particular in times where the actions of US politics & tech billionairs and their slippery slope into a fascist oligarchy finally stir up perspectives in Europe:
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/28-prosthetics-that-dont-betray/
JayVii posted Feb 28, 2025
Because I am making some use of #S3 #ObjectStorage for both file storage and smaller backups, I am looking for #FOSS #Android Apps that can not only sync/put files to S3, but also gather data from there.
Is there anything like that out there? On #FDroid I only found two apps that can put data on S3 in a backup-style fashion. But I have not found an application that can download from there.
JayVii posted Jan 27, 2025
It has been a while since I worked on #serci, but here is a new feature, I've been thinking about for a while but didn't have time to implement it until today: Extended options for search engines.
https://src.jayvii.de/pub/serci/commit/4a990c43d256913923eed1acc1c206e470b54df2.html
This is actually quite a small (but IMO useful) feature that let's serci parse additional text to the search engine, besides the search term. Or, as another way to think about it, it gives the user more options to tell serĉi your intent. Options are added to the keyword with the ":" separator.
Say, you want to search explicitly on the German version of Wikipedia. You can do that now with !wp:de
Or you want to translate from German to Italian with DeepL. Just use !deepl:de/it
JayVii posted Nov 10, 2024
The newest episode of @parismarx 's #TechWontSaveUs with @tante is brilliant. Besides a tl;dr summary of the #Wordpress issue as of late, this gives important insights on how we should organise #FOSS projects and the fact that a libre software licence alone is not enough https://techwontsave.us/episode/249_the_corruption_of_open_source_w_tante
JayVii posted Oct 16, 2024
I have been adding quite a few more search engines to #serci today, including #Fireball, #SearX/#SearXng, #eTools, #TigerCH, #WolframAlpha and #DBLP today. All new additions are already live at https://search.jayvii.de.
With 64 search engines in the default configuration, I feel like the webfrontend has to present all the options in a better way. But I am really out of ideas on what that could look like... Suggestions are very welcome! #webdev #php #foss #search