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OP bringin’ out good memes, this run

TrailSense, an easy to use, comprehensive wilderness tool.

The goals of the developer are fun to consider:

Goals

• Trail Sense must not use the Internet in any way, as I want the entire app usable when there is no Internet connection

• Features must provide some benefits to people using the app while hiking, in a survival situation, etc.

• Features should make use of the sensors on a phone rather than relying on stored information such as guides

• Features must be based on peer-reviewed science or be verified against real world data

Likewise, the features being developed under those goals are great for getting outside:

Features

• Designed for hiking, backpacking, camping, and geocaching
• Place beacons and navigate to them
• Follow paths
• Retrace your steps with backtrack
• Use a photo as a map
• Plan what to pack
• Be alerted before the sun sets
• Predict the weather
• Use your phone for astronomy
• And more

I have owned the Light Phone 1 and the Light Phone 2 – both were built with the intent to stay connected in a handful of ways without needing to have a full-spec’d, app-heavy, typically-sized smart phone.

If the intent and the vibe make sense to you, then it is a wonderful approach for a more ‘minimalist’ device: you can go outdoors, travel, hike, camp, etc., without having a smart phone to pick up and play with. I dig it.

If the intent and vibe don’t make sense to you, the Light Phone may not be a good fit.

I really like the device, and use it often enough as a daily driver on weekends. Always glad to see some public attention on it.

I have looked around, myself, but not found a FOSS alternative. There are typically compliance issues like PCI DSS for certain banks that prevent trust and cooperation from those banks outside a larger entity like Google, Apple, etc.

Aside smart phones, Flipper Zero can clone some cards sucessfully. But that’s an entirely different device, not an app for a phone. Best of luck!

Dang. On a quick web search, it looks like that service provider has, in fact, capped their upload speeds to about 35mbps.

Because of this cap, uploads are going to be even worse when not on your network directly, in some cases – say, attempting to upload something from a coffee shop.

That may explain the poor speeds, although there could be other factors. Sorry to respond with bad news!

Upload speeds, on many internet connections, have been known to be capped – typically a provider-enforced cap. What type of connection are you using remotely? Fiber, cable, hotspot, etc.?

A chemical compound causes the cloth to turn blue when polishing an iPhone, green when polishing an Android. It’s only a subtle difference.

NC Password works well, but does require the server to be up – that can be a painpoint. Keeping an encrypted CSV/spreadsheet backup of your passwords for offline use is one option. Another option might be to see if this Linux Desktop Nextcloud app is still functional: https://gitlab.com/j0chn/nextcloud_password_client

A rational enough research endeavor – until it begins to lean into some racially charged, off-hand remarks about the nature certain of donations. But that’s Lunduke for you. Realized who I was reading half-way through.

For those who want some context: Lunduke is a conservative IT pundit, and his video and article content tends to read a bit like post hoc justification for his conservative views, when the reality tends to be that his conservative views have more recently been a kind of justification for creating content the way he does.

Know that he is like this in much of his content now. This is just a ‘reader, be aware’ statement, if you find yourself going down the rabbit hole.

Yes, beach does rock

Good bot.

I suspect it may be a bit more along how you’re describing here – we expect some user experience patterns to already be in place, if not considered, like not being able to select inappropriate handles. Former Twitter folks should know ‘better.’ From the outside looking in, it tracks.

I wonder if the Bluesky team, right now at least, is more engineer / dev heavy, and they have not brought on UX folks to help drive a product design that considers patterns we’d be used to experiencing. They may be operating pretty lean.

An idea, at least.

Only the Taco Bell distro will survive.

Check out Cory Doctorow’s post on a term he coined called enshittification. Good primer to some of the same patterns we are seeing.

I believe there is another comment that breaks down a supposition for Reddit’s enshittificationw, too, in this thread.