the off-topicness/disorganization gives me anxiety 😥

bonding with a total stranger is extrovert supremacy.

if i can be in the room with an existing friend, I’d do it.

but i would guess that invalidates the test.

kana flick was non-negotiable for me so, while im not proud of it, for now I’m using ms swiftkey in incognito, no Google play, network permission revoked (capability of Graphene OS).

another reason i chose it is handwriting input for Chinese.

anyway this is just until fcitx implements kana flick, per below issues.

• https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android/issues/375 merged to
• https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android/issues/377

other kana flick options:

• i also tried Simeji keyboard but deleted when i found out it was owned by bytedance… or was it Alibaba
• another is Takt (タクト) keyboard which is closed source but claims to have directly adapted Mozc code for modern android. YMMV… personally i couldn’t use it cuz the flick sensitivity and other ux elements were too far out of my comfort zone.

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I’m also really really really good at “keeping” secrets…

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thanks for the eBay recommendation. unfortunately my financial anxiety is much much much more easily triggered than that. I’m working in myself for now.

i do plan to start using docker if i ever get started on projects again.

i wish i could get my home lab efforts (re)started. the memory of corrupted sd cards and pi hole config mistakes is debilitating…

not to mention financial anxiety about possibly needing replacement components regularly…

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exactly. thank you. this is the whole impetus for the conversation of what happens to Firefox and consequently its forks.

underlying assumptions:

• many privacy-minded users use Firefox forks on desktop and possibly mobile. Without Mozilla the organization, said forks may or may not be able to continue individually on their own. However, it seems hard to argue that they would fare better if a “main” Firefox continued, possibly under the umbrella of some pre-existing group like Canonical or Linux Foundation. Better yet if Mozilla were to reverse course from its user data cash-in moves and increase its long-term stability.

seems like you’re the one who understood best what I was getting at. thanks for your opinion.

i do hope they have enough budget

i went out of my way to avoid stating any hope of FF becoming the most popular.

like you said, i actually was thinking of them capturing about 5-10% more of the market. i think that would be a significant and worthy goal. it’s enough to increase interest from potential large donors, at least slightly.

I’ve been feeling that they were getting ready to turn FF into something more commercial, and if that didn’t stabilize/increase funding enough, to shut it down entirely. so a slight and sustainable increase of users and funding is the best near term outcome, in my mind.

i went out of my way to avoid stating any hope of FF becoming the most popular. i used “stable” (as in user numbers) multiple times.

true that