I’m interested in knowing what you guys are using to access this community, whether or not it’s via mobile phone or via laptop or desktop.
If accessing via a laptop or a desktop, what is your OS? Windows, MacOS, or Linux? And if Linux, what distro are you using?
If accessing via a mobile device, you can add in some details about the app you are using or if you’re using it via a mobile browser.
Of course, you guys can add more details.
Just to provide a bit of a background behind the question: I’ve had this preconception that the ones here are among the more technologically-inclined (whatever that means), and thus, I’m curious about the make-up of devices and software used to access and interact with this community.
UPDATE:
As promised, here’s a link to the compiled data (with some rudimentary stats). I will be adding more onto them this weekend (if more replies come in).
First of all, thank you to all who’ve responded. While my preconceptions haven’t been shattered, I’m also pleasantly surprised to find out non-techies, refugees from Reddit, who have jumped in to the Threadiverse despite it all. I dunno if that’s indicative of the dumpster fire that is Reddit right now, or the tenacity of those who’ve sought refuge here. Maybe both.
I will be expanding on my thoughts, and others, on a separate reply.
I’m using Mozilla Firefox on both smartphone and Windows. I’ve been using Firefox since an on-and-off usage with Chrome in 2017. I knew Firefox’s throne a looong time before Google took over the web.
Tried Linux Mint, but my essential app (Fade In) fucked my writings’ formatting and it’s frustrating to edit +100-page works.
document editors on vim and emacs = 🗿
But dude, this ain’t no coding. It’s a screenwriting software.
Huh, here I am with the other odd solution: Latex, lol!
Seriously though, I am guessing may special formatting considerations for that kind of thing, but I won’t be surprised if someone out there have already made a plugin or an extension for that kind of a usecase.
However, for professional work, I’d rather stick with the ones that are used by other professionals in the field (at least until feature parity).
haha you need to learn further
Do emac and other text editors can format screenplays? Know what my use cases first.
as far as I know neovim and emacs have extensions that extends their functionality by adding more features like templates, but even if there was none a some vim and emacs user will probably do it manually haha that’s why I called them based
extensions
Ahh, figures. With Fade In, I can just generate a screenplay template in seconds, write a plot, add characters and settings, and start “wondering.” It’s my most therapeutic and out-of-the-world session I have that I can “waste” my time before finishing a spec.
Woah are you writing a novel? Book guy pa naman ako
Okay lang yung Lemmy sa mobile Firefox? Was considering using it but I chickened out. Besides, I have a bunch of tabs permanently open in there anyways, lol!
Too bad about Linux Mint. It has always had a special place in my heart for the distro that introduced me to Linux way back early 2000s’ when our school replaced all our Windows machines with Linux ones. Also, I am kinda sad about the poor state of Linux support among some apps/programs, kesyo 2% lang daw ang gumagamit ng Linux or whatever.
Linux Mint is fine for Windows replacement. It’s just my essential app fucked by it, but everything else (playing CSGO, web browsing etc, media consumption) are fine.
Lemmy on Firefox Mobile is more than fine. Kung ano ma-eencounter na “something” sa desktop, yun din maeencounter mo sa mobile browsers.
Ahh, that’s too bad about the essential app.
I see, I’m quite okay with Jerboa now, but I did consider using just Firefox Mobile. Glad to know I’d just be fine with it.
baka gusto nyo try, another script para mag look and feel old reddit style si lemmy using a browser
I’ll start with mine.
I mostly use the desktop. My OS is Arch Linux and I use LibreWolf to access Lemmy.
Below is my fetch output:
On the times I use my (Android) mobile phone, I use the Jerboa app, which I’ve gotten from F-Droid.
I feel kinda ashamed at how smug I appear here. Also, yes, I’m currently at my work account.
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You forgot to add “btw”
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wow 16 gb ram hehe 8 gb lang akin
Basically, 16GB is enough for long term. I have my laptop here (Ryzen 5 Pro, 1TB NVMe, 16GB 3200Mhz RAM) na napaka-overkill for writings. lol
Since ang talagang target ko sa build na ito is for a workstation kind of a build, akala ko tama lang ang 16GB, but recently, mejo nagsisi akong hindi nag-32GB, lol! Ang lakas kumain ng VScode ng memory eh! 🥹
sa mga projects using A.I. example stable diffusion or lalo na sa LLM ubos yung memory eh hahahaha
@megane_kun Pinoy Linux user! Huli ka!
Might i ask, de-googled android phone?
For me, jerboa on (googled still) samsung A52. Pop!_os 20.40 on two laptops, linux mint xfce 20.3 on a 12 year old laptop. :) librewolf on all three.
Di ko pala nakita ito, sorry!
I didn’t go full de-google, but just opted for just a bit of de-bloating.
No worries dude. :) i don’t expect people to be attached to their social media. Thanks for clarifying though. Same boat tayo. Gusto ko man mag-full FOSS, medyo mahirap at marami pang hindi ko ma-give up. :) lalo na sa cellphone.
Baby steps, I guess? Little by little, we learn how to remove shit on our phones, then maybe we can do more as we gain more confidence.
does jeroba support kbin? I downloaded it but the app was kinda confusing
Hindi ata eh, but I’ve heard there is a Kbin mobile app incoming–but for iOS.
As far as I’ve read naman, mukhang okay naman daw ang kbin sa mobile browser, so maybe that’s an option?
EDIT: Wait, mali ata ako, it’s for both iOS and Android? Kaso mukhang beta pa lang siya.
mobile: android miui, im afraid to mod my OS wala akong 2nd phone eh, jerboa/firefox nightly
desktop: I’m dual boot but I rarely use my Win 10 so for me its ubuntu unity 20.04, firefox
So far… Poorly.
I’m not in the Philippines but found this post on All. I’m using the /kbin PWA icon on my phone mostly. Looks like this.
Browser lang ako, both desktop and mobile
Nag dual boot ako ng linux mint at windows 11 sa laptop ko. Firefox ang gamit ko kung mag lemmy ako.
Sa mobile jeroba ang gamit ko. Also guys may tanong ako paano mag switch ng server sa jeroba? Meron akong dalawang lemmy account pero iba ang server.
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kbin PWA through Safari on an iPad Pro here. If anyone here is building an app on iOS, please don’t do that thing where you only do vertical layout - it drives me batty!
Kbin PWA on a Pixel 6. And kbin PWA on a Lenovo Duet 3 Chromebook and kbin PWA on a Windows 10 laptop.
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I’m both accessing lemmy from mobile and desktop
I have 2 phones, Huawei y6p, and Sony Xperia C4(sira talaga to ang lala ng ghost touches at battery issues noon but from some reason lahat ng issues niya biglang umayos) I browse lemmy interchangeably from these mobiles, both are debloated.
Sa desktop naman Windows 10 at firefox with uBO ang gamit ko, but formerly Linux user tlga ako nagamit ko na ang Arch, Artix, Kali, Fedora, Linuxmint, napilitan lang ako mag Windows uli kasi nasira ko dati yung pc namin na may importanteng files nung ininstallan ko ng qubes os simula nun pinagbawalan nako mag kalikot kalikot, nakakalungkot lang kasi di ko na magawa yung mga dati kong nagagawa sa linux miss ko na i-customize yung dwm my fav window manager, miss ko na yung yt-dlp, basta marami pakong namimiss na nakalimutan ko na, WINDOWS IS TOO RESTRICTING pero alam ko may open-source na Windows OS nakalimutan ko lang ang pangalan atsaka nung last na ginamit ko yung open-source na windows na yun di siya pde as daily driver kasi maraming bawal sa kaniya, I also formerly used an open-source Chrome OS which is yung Open Fyde OS pero ginamit ko lang yun para mag laro ng alto’s odyssey and haven’t explored that much
Sa mga magtatanong nga pala kung debloated ba yung Windows 10 ko hindi pala kasi nga natatakot nako mag kalikot kalikot haha pero nagawa ko na siya dati baka kasi pag nasira ko ito yung pag debloat pa ang masisi
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I’m using kbin on Firefox on iOS.
I first joined on lemmy in the lemmy.world instance. Ok naman siya sa browser ng PC. But then the iOS apps for lemmy are on beta and have a lot of problems pa (mlem beta is even out of slots). Kbin doesn’t have apps on beta afaik, but the interface is better than lemmy to use on mobile browser apps.So I’ll probably be maining using my kbin account hahaha.
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