but it looks like custom instances are disabled for a bit
I think its because the API the app uses isnt officially in the kbin code yet, so only the developers server supports it. Thats another great thing that only the fediverse can offer, spinning up your own server for your own versions.
Artemis should enter open beta in a few days.
Correction: It is in public beta!
I never used goodreads, but i basically do the same that you do on bookwyrm, so you should be fine lol. I mean, thats the bare minimum a book network should manage.
There actually is an app! Its on the F-droid store (or straight from github) though, not the Play Store (no idea about the apple store). But its basically just a PWA, so its up to you.
bookwyrm is great!
ODF has been supported natively by Office for years now, and LibreOffice is able to open .docx files just fine.
Open, yes, but the formatting will be terrible in my experience.
I’ve never found a PDF “broken by Adobes bs”.
It has happened to me. Wasnt impossible to solve in the end, but still.
I don’t use Microsoft Office, so I don’t know. Same with PDFs, I don’t use Adobe.
Same, and neither of us is having a particularly fun time when we get sent a .docx or a strange PDF that refuses to be opened and correctly edited without Adobe Acrobat (not joking, this happened to me once).
Regardless, OP said “it always ended up with the open standard not being used anymore.” Both of those standards are being used, and even if OpenDocument and PDF had been extinguished it still wouldn’t matter because any open standard still being used is sufficient to disprove OP’s position.
Fair point. But both of them suffer from being adopted and then maligned by the corporate entities that picked them up, which is a part of the cycle. First it gets adopted, then “slightly tweaked for features” and then its (usually) unusable on other platforms that dont want to adapt to the corporate vision. Granted, OpenDocument has a different history and both it and PDF are old enough to not actually fear that they will be replaced be corporate “alternatives”, but that they did generally follow the cycle but didnt finish it doesnt necessarily disprove it imo.
Emrace-Extend-Extinguish is something worth paying some concern to, but it’s not some kind of unstoppable boogeyman.
Absolutely. But that doesnt mean we have to attempt giving it a fair fight. They dont intend to either, its antithetical to the point of EEE.
OpenDocument
How compatible is microsoft office with it?
And how many PDFs are broken by Adobes bs?
“put in their place”?
To me that has always seemed to talk from people that felt the need to punish people for not pandering to their ego.
Small server (for now 👀)
Agreed. But while I enjoy it in the moment, Im a bit afraid we could lose it. And Im not sure what we have to do to keep it this way.
Edit: also hiiiiiii
And im a bit jealous of @0x. The grass is always greener on the other side.
Absolutely. And even if people stepped up, theres a ton of institutional knowledge that they would loose. This might even lead to some of the people that stepped up quitting, making the situation even worse.
Mom says its my turn on the account naming scheme!
Google Maps, Apple Maps, Organic Maps and OSMAnd+. Although Im very willing to admit that “best” is highly dependent on my rather specific personal preferences. Being FOSS gives OSMAnd+ a big plus (hehe), but I also have an interest in GIS, which it is quite good in, since its a rather information dense app. From the sometimes absurd categories that you can search for (e.g. “abandoned”, which is great to search for Urbex targets). I also love the bonkers level of personalization you can achieve with OSMAnd+, considering that the alternatives have very little options on mobile phones.
For some privacy/security features: “Warden” allows you to block Trackers and Loggers on individual apps, if you have root. “TrackerControl” or “Rethink: DNS + Firewall” basically allow you to customize a Firewall and in the case of Rethink also offer a good DNS service. I basically see no ads anymore, even in other apps.
Edit: and definitely check out OSMAnd+. Theres a paid full version on the Playstore but the exact same version is for free on FDroid. I suggest the paid version to support them. Its by far the best Map+Navigation app i’ve used, although the public transport navigation doesnt work that well for me. In those cases i use Transportr.
What year is it? 1576?