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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • Well, I’ve tried all of them that I’ve run across.

    Aside from jerboa, liftoff, connect, and thunder are the furthest along. They’re all great in their own way.

    Summit, slide, and lemmedit, or whatever the abandoned one on the play store is, are all quasi functional. Summit can’t log in that I could find.

    Slide is working overall, and the double columns in portrait orientation is awesome to have back. The tabbed interface only lets you switch between all/local/subscribed rather than through your subscribed C/s, but it should get there eventually.

    Jerboa is pretty much the most functional overall. Anything you can do via web, you can do in app. And, you can usually do it from your feed rather than having to tap through. Subscribing is the exception there.

    All of them can be a bit pissy with links sporadically. You may or may not get taken where you think you will, no matter how the link is formatted.

    I think it’s connect that does the “everything” feed, which is cool as hell. Great feature that nothing else has as of yet. But, connect isn’t open source currently. Which, on a system like lemmy, that’s going to be a hard sell long term, though I believe the dev said they were going to open eventually.

    The first app to figure out multi subscription function is going to end up the default though. Everybody wants to organize their communities into sorted feeds like multireddits.

    I’m eager to see what sync and boost bring to the table, since they’re waiting to release until they’re beyond alpha, from what I’ve heard. Two extremely experienced devs with a long history of excellent UI, aesthetics, and functionality. There’s no telling what they’ll be able to add on top of the lemmy API basics.

    Overall, I end up using jerboa the most because I use the all feed for discovery a lot, and it’s easier to subscribe and block from jerboa with minimum tap throughs. The feed also works well with the header above links/images, and good division between posts

    But I like liftoff the most overall. It flows the best for me until slide and its multiple column display is backed up with more of the basic features as well. I mostly accessed reddit from tablets, and it’s the same with lemmy. Being able to make use of the screen real estate better is a killer feature for me.






  • Overall, probably strawberry rhubarb, despite the fact that I’m otherwise not a big strawberry fan.

    However, I make lemon meringue pie from scratch every now and then, and my lemon meringue pie is my favorite pie of all. I’ve gotten my crust recipe dialed in, and I’ve gotten my curd making tuned for exactly the right consistency. After I got mine down, I don’t like other people’s as much as I used to.

    But key lime pie? It isn’t my favorite, but damn is it good :)


  • Oh yeah, while I won’t do subscriptions as a matter of principal, if mr Dawson wants to issue a new version every time there’s a significant code rework, I’d pay every time with a smile on my face. I do it with paprika (the best recipe manager out there) on all the platforms. I’m kinda expecting a new version in the next year or two from them, tbh.

    I much prefer that model of monetization. Buy the software, you own it and can use it as long as there’s hardware and OS that can run it. Want the next version? It’s just like buying a different program. It worked very well for decades. Shit, I could (if there were a point beyond having fun) crank things up and run word 98, I still have the discs lol.

    And I still use the old paprika on my oldest tablet, as well as the newer version on newer devices. Which, it’s cool as hell my old nook is still running.

    I’d do the same with sync. I want to buy it again. Sync for lemmy is not the same software, even if it’s heavily based in the old code. I want developers to be able to make a damn living so that we can have great apps. I just hate software as a service in principle. Like, the fancy extras that Apollo and sync did with premium is a different thing entirely! I’m talking about paying every month just to use an app when I object to subscriptions

    Hell, Mr Dawson could charge way more than the pro version of sync was, and I’ll pony up for damn sure. I dunno if anyone here ever had reason to talk to him on reddit, but he’s such a good dude. Devs like that are bloody rare, and need to be cherished.


  • I mean, the limits of the human body are fairly fixed in terms of what we can do with them. And, you’re better off just slightly tweaking things. Like, my arthritis, I’d want to dial back the inflammation and immune response for, but if you cut those back too much, it hinders other things.

    I’d definitely regulate the bowels though, make sure things stayed regular and smooth, as much as possible. IBS is a pain in the ass, so being able to adjust that down to minimum hassle would be life changing, literally.

    But most things? You don’t wanna fuck with day-to-day operations. You really only want to adjust when things are going wrong, and even then, not as much as you’d think.

    You’d think the switching off the internal triggers for depression and anxiety would be great, but everything is connected. You start fucking with that outside of major events, and you throw off everything else because the dopamine, oxyticin, serotonin, norinephine, and other neurochemicals affect each other too much.

    So, the key would be to delicately adjust all of that, a little bit at a time, so that you get relief without leaving you unable to process emotions at all.

    I think that’s where the “power” would be best directed for most people. Keeping mental shit from being overwhelming.

    The obvious exception is stuff like my arthritis, autoimmune disorders. The ability to just say “nope, don’t attack that at all” would be bonkers. Think about it, Crohn’s, MS, all the horrible shit that can happen when the immune system is out of whack, that’s within the scope of what you’re asking.

    Hell, if you want to stretch it, most cancers are part of the function of the organ they’re in. It’s the normal cells going batshit and replicating out of control. So you’d never have to worry about cancer.

    That would be incredible.