@lain Chromium has been bloaty for at least 5-6 years. I remember when 5 tabs with JavaScript heavy sites would freeze my whole OS (I had 4GiB of RAM, 8GiB of swap) within a few hours and I'd have to hard-reboot. I could run Firefox with 100+ tabs for days or weeks before that happened.
@lain Unless this is like 25 years old, the waiter/waitress wouldn't even look at you for five dollars. When your bill is exceeds twenty-five dollars (which it will for a two-person meal), five dollars is less than the percentage they expect to receive from every guest.
I don't get it... this #efail / #gpg / #pgp / #smime thing is all over German media (e.g. here: http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/e-mail-verschluesselung-101.html) even though it is totally irrelevant for 99% of people, as almost no one is using PGP encryption for his/her mails anyways and the few that do will most likely have disabled HTML emails (or at least loading of remote content).
It would be much more proportional to write a *shocker* article every single day about how almost all emails are sent with no e2e encryption at all.
@dwmatiz@roka you guys keep saying this over an over, but a $4000 dollar per month freelance job when you pay two other people and pay for server costs isn't a lot at all. I know he could earn a lot more if he just stopped doing mastodon.
I installed a bunch of @fdroidorg apps on my phone last night.
I'm impressed!
Simple Calendar, Simple Gallery, Simple File Manager ... very nice! Also Tasks and Omni Notes and Orgzly. Phone Saver, PhotoBackup, Vinyl Music Player... My phone suddenly feels like a useful computer!
These apps may be simpler than mainstream alternatives, but no ads and no spying is a HUGE feature.
The Google Play Store is so full of crapware, I dread using it. F-Droid is very refreshingly better in that regard.
@lain For over 40 years, my #1 answer would have been Elton John, but a year or two back, I suddenly realized that I like most of his music far less than I ever have before. Some of it I dislike, some of it I just don't care. But only a few songs still please me (and even those aren't as enjoyable as they used to be).