Not to mention the fact that there’s still Android devices that have bootloaders that can’t “just be unlocked”. Looks like this is now changing but the Canadian model of the LG G6 couldn’t be rooted for a long time, and while I wouldn’t have bought it if it was up to me because of that, it wasn’t up to me because it was just a hand-me-down to replace a phone I had that was way older.

In fairness though that’s just a UI for git in the same vein as things like GitKraken or GitCola atm if I’m not mistaken

• BlueSky (if you can get an invite and want to see Twitter with less Nazis and more sex workers).

It sounds like Twitter with more Nazis (and other adjacent groups) from what I’ve heard to be totally honest

Bolding, italicizing, I think lists and headers I recall being a thing too

Both very helpful, thank you! I can probably see about setting up joystickwake manually anyhow, would be worth it even if it’s a fiddly process just for something like this.

Notepad++ doesn’t have any form of formatting though, so it’s like underkill for the few narrow things I’d use WordPad for

Honestly, even as someone who’s big on only ever using Linux and never having to use Windows as my actual operating system ever again, I’ve spun up VMs running Windows so I can run Photoshop or something, because the Linux alternatives like GIMP really pale in comparison. Like, I actually hate using GIMP for some stuff at all.

At least in the case of Windows I can understand it, since its stranglehold on the OS market makes it so it’s legitimately very, very difficult for people to switch since they’ll often rely on Windows-only software that might also work poorly in Wine on Linux, if it works at all. My mom uses many such pieces of software for her job. Chrome though, it feels like there really is no real reason to keep using it other than plainly being stubborn and/or afraid of change. Chrome doesn’t even barely have any real killer features other than Google having intentionally made using some of their services slightly worse to use on Firefox, which I would hardly call a “feature” either.

That kinda blows. I won’t pretend I was making heavy use of it when I used to use Windows or anything, but definitely I’d bust it open on occasion when I wanted something with mild enough rich text formatting, but felt LibreOffice Writer felt overkill for whatever I was doing.

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