Hoyl crap Sengi actually renders quote posts now! Awesome work @sengi_app !

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Future of my Asahi Linux set up

So, having some problems, nothing major, and they might be of my own doing, at least as far as things not working right.
As to what I can do with it, that's a bigger problem, and not #AsahiLinux 's fault. I do wonder why there's so little support for ARM on Linux. I mean there's not that many devices out there, but it is growing, heck I think Tuxedo is bringing one out.

Ideally any Linux system I use would be running only native software and nothing Electron, but that's rather unrealistic. Still, things are really bad over here, no DropBox at all, ditto for #sengiapp and #fedistar , Telegram and Signal are via Flatpaks and Snaps IIRC, while still more is thanks to Copr. I can switch to MacOS, but that's clunky and a bit of a pain to do.
I will be redoing things, using Gnome as the system as the other choice, KDE I don't like. Well, I don't like either, I tried Gnome back when 40 was new, and it felt more like Android or IOS than a desktop OS, while KDE I find too hard to figure things out, so many options, things in so many places. Mind you Wayland only makes things worse, many things handled by X11, have to be handled by the DE, and I've inflicted Cosmic on m'self of course. I suppose I should give Gnome a shot, and if'n I don't like that, Cosmic again on a system that is purer than this mess.

Failing that, not sure what I'm going to do. I will be installing Fedora on the Craptop to try the X64 version, after all Asahi is based on it, and I do like Asahi. After that... Dunno, maybe fix my old computer, or maybe by a tiny system, and run either Fedora or Mint:DE on it.

#Linux #linuxmint #Fedora #debian

Was there some kind of Fedi outage...

or is @sengi_app web version just found a new way to act weird?

The weather bots have been hyperactive, but still, my home and federated timelines shouldn't be just those two things, and yet that's about it for my Mastodon, or at least was for most of the morning. Of course the other errors are still going, I have it set to slow where I have to click to load new posts, and some how my home timeline is getting more posts than the federated according to #sengiapp , though the count is obviously wrong.

Asahi Linux Cinnamon anyone?

Did I mention that I kinda dislike KDE? I don't hate it, but... Well, gotta have my Cinnamon, so...

Yep, I installed it, and it's running nicely. So far the only problem I'm having is that the system doesn't like to wake unless I tap the power button, but that's minor. Oh, and I can't install @sengi_app , I suspect that's not an option, ditto for @fedistar , so I'm not sure what I'll do for Mastodon over there, maybe Sengi web, not sure. Telegram was a big challenge, but I found a Snap pack for that. I would've preferred a Flatpak or AppImage, but the person that fixed Telegram so it works only chose to do a Snap.

So, aside from setting up @thunderbird and getting everything logged in on the web, it's up, running, and prolly by Monday, maybe Sunday, I'll give it a week as my day to day system and see how it holds up. Oh, I do have to get the download sidebar installed, that's a bit tricky as the extension for Firefox no longer exists, so I either have to pull it from my profile here, or I might've already set aside a copy that I can side load into it.

#AsahiLinux #Linux #Apple #mac #sengiapp #fedistar

I have just noticed that Sengi has LibreTranslate built in to translate text from different languages to the one is selected as the default language in the settings 😎. Kudos 👍 for using an a FLOSS solution for translating instead of the more mainstream google translate. 😄
Edit: Later me, the choice to use LibreTranslate for translate is thanks to my instance's admins. I was assumed wrongly it has anything to do with Sengi. 🤦

https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate

#Sengi #sengiapp #libretranslate

Oh 😮 I'm pleasantly surprised that Sengi can play back videos directly in the app, I'm only tried an PeerTube video, but probably can play back YouTube videos too. How cool, that's a really good feature and as far I'm aware only Sengi have it, there's no need to copy the video link and open up a browser just to watch it.

#mastodonclient #Sengi #sengiapp

After using it again, I remembered how much I liked #Sengi. I now confirm it as my favourite desktop GUI client. The only I dislike is that it doesn't allow for font customization, so I cannot use it with my beloved EB Garamond, unlike in #Tuba and in #TheDesk. In any case, that characteristic alone is not important enough for me to not praise and recommend Sengi. By the way, it's also a #Pleroma client.

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