Pretty sure the user experience folk are screaming for a path to be built there but are getting ignored.

20 years ago, if someone said ‘u’ for ‘you’ then I assumed they were young. These days if I see someone use ‘u’ for ‘you’ I assume they are 60+.

I think Searx is a good suggestion. Can be a bit slow to return results because it runs the search on a bunch of search engines and compiles the results, but that helps to make sure better stuff rises to the top.

It’s 1996 and we have plans for a new telescope game!

2021: finally launches

OK maybe the software industry already operates like NASA.

Wait, so you get a 4 day week but everyone else has to do 5 days so you can go to your appointments?

I’ll put up with it but has their ever been a person who wanted the document to open as a modal window inside Teams where you can’t even go back to the chat of the person who sent it without closing it?

So you have to open in browser and then open the browser version in desktop.

I don’t really hate Teams but that really triggers me. Otherwise I feel like Teams and I have a lot in common (like the whole tried to do too much and so does nothing well thing).

I can easily search up people talking about both the Windows and MacOS system wide spell checks. While for Linux you just find people talking about how dumb it is everything uses different implementations: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/hu4ktg/does_systemwide_autocorrect_and_typo_flagging/

As for NZ English words, it would mostly be words that have come from the Māori language including place names and people’s names.

In theory having multi-language spell check would solve most of the issues, but I’ve never seen Māori as a supported language on Linux.

For some examples of words, there are place names like Taranaki, Te Anau, Te Awamutu. People’s names like Hone Harawera or Apirana Ngata. And common words and phrases that have made it into English like Kia ora (mostly used in English as a greeting) and Aotearoa (a name for New Zealand). There will also be company and product names as well.

Haha I get that I can’t really expect better than “English”, or maybe “US English” and “UK English”, but having a system wide dictionary I can add words to by right clicking and choosing “add to dictionary” would be nice.

As I understand it, each program keeps their own.

Linux in general has good language support.

I’ve yet to find a distro with NZ English 😆. I’d love to just start a new dictionary and add words to it for all the spell checks, but I’ve never worked out how to do this. I’m not sure there’s even system level spell check.

Well, every time assets get split between their 3 kids, you reduce the assets accumulated in one couple.

FYI, a Lemmy dev confirmed this setting doesn’t actually exist in the database anymore. A relic of times gone by, and it’s going to be removed in the next version.

I have to admit I was surprised I couldn’t find anything. It seems like the technology should exist, like it should be a relatively common thing people want, and it doesn’t sound overly complicated.

I found a reddit post talking about it and most people used a spread sheet or a notebook!

Perhaps the Energise app might be enough? https://codeberg.org/epinez/Energize/

It’s on F-Droid, but is an app and not self-hosted. It also isn’t really what you’re looking for I don’t think, but I’m not aware of anything like what you describe.

How long is it taking you to eat your burger!?

If you don’t want to keep running a service, yeah it limits your options.

According to this, the Floccus browser addon is not able to (continuously) save to a file due to restrictions on what browser extensions are allowed to do.

However, if you’re on Windows of MacOS, it looks like you can use the tool LoFloccus. It hasn’t been updated in a couple of years, but the Floccus dev was recommending it only a month ago so maybe it still works?

I guess there’s nothing stopping you actually using KeePass for this.

What is the outcome you’re looking for? Are you trying to avoid an account for privacy reasons? Trying to sync between different browsers? Something else?

You could take a look at Floccus and see if it might meet your needs, though it’s not exactly what you asked for.

Ah right. Because I think you could build it into a frontend or app and anyone using that app would be able to see a feed of joined up communities.

I’m not sure how a different implementation would work. There is a lot of public/private key stuff happening in ActivityPub so you can be sure that the federated posts are actually coming from the community you subscribe to and the users it claims wrote them.

If you work it out I’d be interested to see!

Yea … but then each front end would need to implement it.

The mods/admins would just have to use the one with the functionality. Isn’t that the same as your proposal? I’m not sure I follow what makes it different.

There are a bunch of tools already! Some of the alternate frontends have extra tools to help, plus there are auto-mod tools as well. See this page:

https://github.com/dbeley/awesome-lemmy?tab=readme-ov-file#tools

I would expect a multi-reddit type function could be built in an app or frontend without needing core Lemmy changes too. Isn’t it just a matter of pulling the data from each community and displaying it in one combined feed?

It would be nice, but remember we are in a position where there is no way for a user to report something to admins. If someone sets up a community and puts illegal things in it, they can just quickly close the reports and they will disappear from the admins report view.

Lemmy also saves images for thumbnails in full resolution, and has no clearing of this copy, meaning the image storage just grows and grows.

Multi-communities are way down the list!