Your comment posted 3 times so I’m guessing there’s something with your internet haha

I’m still deciding how “serious” the project is going to be, but if all goes well I will definitely add support for other formats. I’m already looking at adding Pandoc for document conversions.

The choice of Godot for a UI library is an interesting one; how big is the program in the end?

Not small but not huge either, the app itself will be within 25MB uncompressed (<10MB zipped) - but it doesn’t matter that much since most of the file size will be the dependencies used to convert stuff. I have a blog post talking more about Godot for GUI apps if you’re interested.

The rest of the feedback is appreciated! I was just about to add some text showing which file was being converted when processing.

Appreciate the feedback!

It’s a heavily modified and upgraded version of source 2, but yeah.

You can help by writing to Apple CEO Tim Cook (tcook@apple.com) and letting him know that you won’t buy Apple devices because of their proprietary software and DRM.

There really has to be a better call to action than this:

Microblogging has always sucked IMO. It’s always been more geared towards shouting your opinion and leaving, and it actively discourages any discussion by hiding reply threads and making it a nightmare to follow. Most people aren’t ready for this take, though…

I don’t know what weird-ass stawman you built, but it’s obviously not from anything I said

your position seems to be “we won, everybody drop your weapons and party, google is good again”

No?

and you follow by bashing linux phones in your subsequent comments…

“Bashing” Linux phones by saying they’re buggy and won’t be ready soon, which is literally true. Even PostMarketOS says the same thing on their website. I guess you’d prefer I gaslight people by saying Linux phones are awesome, let’s all switch to phones that barely work, lack any phone apps, have a terrible battery life, etc.

Deluded or in bad faith for sharing official news?

The Linux phones that exist today (including Pine Phone) are more like early dev kits. They have really weak specs, are incredibly buggy, lack all sorts of features you’d expect, and I’m not totally sure if you can even make calls through them because phone carriers require a verified device and proprietary tech to work.

There are efforts to get things in order but these will take maybe 10 years at this rate.

I’m guessing they’re going to hide it in developer tools with a bunch of warnings and no explanation on how to get there so regular users don’t turn it on by accident.

That’d be nice, but Linux on phones is still a pipe dream.

At first I thought ehh, another Minecraft clone, but the more I watched the video the more this seems kinda awesome.

Procedurally crafted tools, no restrictions on build height, a massive view distance are all very cool. It has the same problem all Minecraft clones have though… It tries too hard to be Minecraft. The textures and UI are almost 1:1 that at first glance I could swear it’s Minecraft. I hope it becomes its own thing as it gets developed more.

Man, that was an incredible video. As someone who occasionally dabbles in designing and creating programs, the rant about selection modes was eye-opening. It feels like I understand UX a lot better now.

Love what LibreOffice is doing but I’m praying they get a UX designer to do a full pass of the program. I try to use it every few years and just can’t. Browsing the settings is a nightmare. The UI is too compact and it’s hard to tell where anything is.

What problems does discord have?

Huh, I’ve done it a couple of times with no issue. Updated the above comment to remove that recommendation, then.

There aren’t any alternatives that are as good or feature-rich. If you’re willing to settle for less there’s Revolt that’s trying to be a 1-to-1 clone but is still in alpha, then there are apps based on Matrix which somehow makes using a chat app 10x harder.

Yeah Discord has been wacky on Linux lately, they pushed maybe 4 different updates the past week that forced you to update the package immediately.

Pro tip: Sync the package manager database before trying to update. It could tell you there are no updates when it’s just pacman being out of date.

This has huge potential and I already love the UI they have, but it’s still in very early alpha if anybody is wondering. There aren’t any transitions or animations or anything yet, and the export button just rick rolls you (yes, really).

I forgot about this, but AFAIK you’re still better off with fstab to give yourself all permissions for everything to work properly.