Cosmic_Frog

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I've been using Bitwarden for a long time and I'm mostly pretty happy with it. I know that, other than the platform's level of security, there's not much to compare when it comes to something like a pass manager, since it only has to do one thing. But does this one have or do something that would make me move to it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just two months in and it's your first time in the job? You're good my man, your doing exactly as expected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No story, but I just found knotwords and it's pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, power consumption is never talked about enough when talking about that type of hardware. I do have an old PC I could use as a server, but I don't need more heating at home. Mini-PCs are cool, but how cool are they?

But anyway, I haven't been able to buy a RPi at decent price in years, so 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love widgets! Ugly as they are, I love to have a bunch of info at a glance, and most act like shortcuts too. I'm still rebuilding since everything got deleted, but from memory, I got widgets for gmail, whatsapp, todoist, keep, a few music and podcast players, tv time (a tv show episode tracker), toggl, feedly, and something google made called action blocks that let you make button widgets that run predefined actions with google assistant. And I'm sure I'm forgetting at least a handful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I finally ended up going back to Nova too. There's only one feature I'm missing from Microsoft Launcher, the feature that made me move from Nova to it in the first place, the scrollable wall of widgets. But I guess I'll have to live without it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing is that I use a bunch of screens, so I want to have some stuff at the left, some at the right.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The one thing that made me not use the Pixel launcher is that you can only add screens to the right. Even if you disable that stream of clickbait trash they want you to have on the left of your homescreen.

 

I was a Nova Launcher user for many many years, but then Microsoft Launcher came with basically the same features as Nove and a few new killer features, so I moved to it.

But today I woke my phone up and everything was gone. My screens, widgets, folders... And even if I wanted to set everything up again, I can't because Microsoft Launcher won't start.

So... yeah, fun times. Won't be using Microsoft Launcher ever again, even if they fix it.

What are you guys using? And what killer features does you launcher of preference have that make you use it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As a UI/UX designer myself (non-hobbyist), there's UI and there's UX. What differentiates a good-looking design from a crappy-looking design, most of all, is space (or padding). There are many other factors, of course, contrast being also very important for example, but space is number one. But that doesn't make a design good, just good-looking, which is a very different thing.

Adding steps to take a common action (turn off wifi or whatever) because you used to have a certain number of buttons and now you have to hide some to add space... That's bad design. Good looking, good UI. Shit UX.

Space should be added when needed. And you need it, when you do, to make thinks clearer. You shouldn't add space to make it look better if that's gonna make the experience worse.

The number one rule of design is that form follows function. You should make things as pretty as possible until you find the wall of functionality, and then you stop. Going from six quick access buttons to four was breaking that wall. You wanna be just on top of the wall. Go to one side, you get a great looking interface people hate to use. Go the other side, you get an interface that's dense and full of things you want, but looks like a piece of nerd shit.

I'm also tired of people repeating the same copypasted ideas about any new design system out there (as I'm sure most people are when hearing people talk about their area of expertise), but they are not wrong on that regard when it comes to material you. Shit name by the way.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. It's never an issue to fill a message board with memes and cats, the hard part is filling the niche communities. I hope it gets there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm... that's interesting, I didn't think about that. Definitely not gonna proxy, that's for sure, I wanted it to be serverless.

Welp, I don't know how it could be done then. I would ping Dessalines or Nutomic, but I haven't really decided to start working on this, so I won't bother them. But if anyone feels like going for it, I'll be happy to lend a hand.

Edit: I just saw there's an open PR to allow CORS. I guess we'll see how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I took a look at lemmy-ui, but I'd much rather work on something more static and detached.

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