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Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? I'm on ios and macos but would like it to also be usable by my spouse who is on android and PC. We do a fair amount of inviting each other and other folks to calendar entries, but don't use a lot of other features. Motivation here is to get away from big G and theoretically find something with better privacy/etc.

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I'd love to know from book fans on Fedi, who are the really hot *contemporary* noir novel writers who you love? Especially noir thrillers (vs mysteries), and extra especially from Ireland?

- noir writers, expec. thrillers
- Irish noir writers
- novel writers (vs other media)
- contemporary (publishing within last 5 years)
- popular and successful

*Based on specs for a particular project. Ta.

@bookstodon

#Bookstodon #AskFedi #IrishWriters #Noir #FictionNoir

Is there a Fedi service that aggregate all the links posted from my followers into one RSS feed that I can subscribe to for the times that I don’t log onto the Fediverse? I did find mastodon to RSS but that uses an algorithm to only show the links that are most clicked, and I want a service that shares every link that my followers post even if no one clicks on it.

I am not looking to self host. I’m looking for a fully managed service.

#AskFedi #Mastodon #Fediverse #RSS #Tool

hey #askfedi

does anyone know any female characters in any folklore or mythology that are invincible, in the sense that they shrug off lethal wounds and come out of situations that should have killed them, and can survive anything? i am writing a poem about a person i know who's like that and need some inspiration. thank you

<3

#mythology #art #poetry

The Basics of Being Human

Created by a human

What do you think of these? What do you think should be added/taken away/adjusted?

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Cc @actuallyautistic

sooo it's been a month of me on the fediverse, and i'm enjoying my time very much. what are some tips you have to boost my experience?

#askfedi #fediverse #tips

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How do I configure #XFCE to use a different window manager?

I've been dipping my toes into FVWM, TWM and OpenBox to make my system more responsive and customizable: but always bounced off becaue I'm so used to XFCE's taskbars and widgets (along with my shortcut keys).

End goal is to make my Intel HD 4000 laptop hooked up to a 2560x1440 panel more responsive.
(disabling compositing has worked well enough to this end, but I also want a window manager where I can set my own color schemes like it's Windows 3.1 again).

#lazyweb

Mastodon users who have autism, which books would you recommend reading to people who are neurotypical or allistic and who would like to learn more about this topic?

It can be fiction or nonfiction.

I’m especially interested in books written by folks who are women or members of another minority group as well, but all suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thank you. 💜

#Autism #Books #Nonfiction #Fiction #AskFedi

@bookstodon

#AskFedi inactive account question:

What happens if I reactivate an old account on an instance I migrated away from? Not to move back, just to have an alt account.

I don't want to migrate my current followers to the reactivated account. I don't want to reactivate it if it would somehow mess up my current account. I'd just like to have accounts on both instances.

UPDATE: I did it! Reactivating just unlinked the accounts so the username is live again. Easy as pie. Thanks to all who shared.

has anyone made an XXL size N95 mask, or at least something that can comfortably fit my pretty fat head? i already have a mask that does the job but it (1) gets pushed up due to my double chin and (2) pushes my nose down so it's less breathable

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Ok, I think this one is a stretch, but I have to ask.

Are you an #autistic / #AuDHD bald man in the northern hemisphere, who wears a hat indoors as the weather moves towards winter?

I know everyone is different, but pls, recommend a comfy, not too warm hat that my sensory sensitivities can cope with. I live in Scotland, so has to be something I can easily get here or online from a UK/ EU based retailer.
I don’t get on with stiff labels and seams and absolutely do not enjoy or use real wool at all.
lol 😂

@autistics #Autism #Bald #ADHD #Hat #AskFedi thx! 🎩

Anyone know of a guide to fixing an HP Color LaserJet 500? It’s the paper sensor in tray 2 and the info online is very vague. IFixIt don’t have a guide to this one.

The pre-enshittification printer seems to be having the issue since I started using the new HP Office paper, mind. Perhaps I should use a cheaper brand. #askfedi

hello,
ou est ce qu'on peut acheter un téléphone sous lineage os ou graphene os pas trop cher ?
c'est pour un ami.
#askFedi #lineage #grapheneOs #Android

Team vélo, le haut de mon guidon est tout collant... Le plastique a surement souffert de la chaleur et le vélo est plus tout jeune.
Il y a moyen de nettoyer? Ça se change? Ça se recouvre?

Photo pour illustrer mon propos (alt: gros plan sur la partie du guidon qui colle)
#vélo #AskFedi

#askFedi Do you know of speech-to-text live transcription models that:
1. perform OK for lightly technical English speech, in near-real-time,
2. have available (ideally libre/open-source) training data, libre/open-source training code, libre/open-source inference code, and/or libre/open-source weights (ideally some amount of freedom to use/study/modify/distribute; e.g. the Open Source AI Definition)

Glanced at:
april-asr: probably best candidate so far; somewhat below quality expectations on my laptop (tested with https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.sapples.LiveCaptions; quality/performance is configurable; maybe I should run it on a more powerful server and check if it's better?)
OpenAI Whisper: no training data/code
Vosk official model: not sure about training data/code, not sure about weights
Mozilla DeepSpeech: Archived
CoquiSTT: Looks abandoned

#Transcription #NeuralNetworks #NN #MachineLearning #ML #SpeechToText #STT #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #OSAID #OpenSourceAI #CommonVoice

I keep on subluxing my thumb, which is painfully inconvenient for cello. Just as it's starting to recover, I do it again, once a week, on repeat

Any tips on preventing that from my bendy fedi friends?

#askfedi
#HypermobileCripsUnite

So here’s the thing. My entire life is on Proton: email, calendar, documents, VPN, all my passwords, all my ID, all my important data.

My annual subscription is up at the end of January.

If they don’t oust Andy Yen by then, I’m out. The question is where?

Infomaniak seems to offer most of what Proton does but they also use AI.

What other options are there? I’m seeing people suggesting email alternatives. But I need a whole lot more than that.

#AskFedi #cybersecurity

What’s your favorite 120 film? I want to try a few.

I’ve only ever shot Ilford HP5+ 400 on 120.

On 35mm I’ve done that one, I love portra, I love the phoenixes. All recommendations welcome

#AskFedi #filmphotography #mediumformat #photography

Have you tried out https://columnly.social yet?

I don't have any means to track how many people use it, we don't use Cloudflare or any analytics, no logging or other metrics.

#askFedi #Columnly

#AskFedi : How to bulk download all emails in inbox from #Yahoo email? I confess, I do not have a good habit of archiving and backing-up my emails. Now my inbox is booming and reaching ~10k emails since I have subscribed to a few mail lists. I do have #Alpine set up locally on my laptop to read them once in a while. I tried Select All and Save in Alpine however it is too slow and easily fail simply because it took so long that remote server would kill the connection.
#FOSS #Unix #Linux

When watching videos on mobile or desktop do you use Picture-in-Pitcure mode at least occasionally?

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is anybody in #prague willing to welcome me as a roommate, fedi? i am getting desperate.

i am a queer asian student who fled my home country because of anti-queer persecution and i am stuck in an abusive dorm environment with violent and bigoted roommates. i am genuinely feeling depressed and suicidal and i need to move out as soon as possible to preserve my sanity. i need people i can be safe with. please help

#askfedi #mutualAidRequest #mutualaid @mutualaid #cz #czechia #czechrepublic

I still visit Bluesky once in a while to get information, mostly from ME/CFS organizations.

There are a lot of features Bluesky doesn't have, like editing posts and following hashtags. But recently I noticed a new feature that I really like.

Posts in Bluesky threads are automatically numbered! I would love to have this feature.

Has this been proposed for Mastodon? Anyone know?

Thanks!

#AskFedi #Mastodon #Fediverse

I want to really get into making my own website. What domain registrar and email providers do you all recommend? Preferably not using CloudFlare or AWS and No AI.

#askfedi #askmastodon #duckduckfedi #neverslop #webdevelopment

I wanna talk about the political movement of the Open Source community. If you spend enough time on fedi, you surely will have heard *plenty* of criticisms of what's going on in Open Source, and rightfully so.

So I'm curious, what do we think the Open Source community *should be doing* in order to achieve important progressive and anti-authoritarian goals? What should the next generation of programmers be thinking of and working on in this space?

A special rule: You're only allowed to say "don't X" if you have at least as many "do Y" recommendations. Preferably, I'd like to see more do's than don't's.

Boosts welcome

#tech #openSource #FOSS #progressive #programming #askFedi