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moopet moopet @kbin.social

The muppet at Heartspring's centre.

I do tech things, but I don't often talk about tech things except in my role as perpetual curmudgeon.

I'm generally moopet most places: DEV, IRC, ewtoo, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.

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People who prefer light theme over dark/night theme.. Why?
  • Some types of application I prefer light, some dark. But the premise is wrong:

    Saves your battery

    Only if you're using OLED, which most people aren't, and by very little. You could save more battery by using a low-power mode when you don't need all the bells and whistles.

    Easy on eyes

    Debatable, different for different people.

    Dark theme is just nicer

    That's not objective, it's personal taste :)

  • People who prefer light theme over dark/night theme.. Why?
  • It's not even that. Applications should ask the desktop environment to present information, and not need to know about your colour choices. There's no reason to have separate "modes" in different applications.

  • Where did all the Twitter users go?
  • So it's a like-for-like replacement of Twitter then.

  • What password manager do you recommend?
  • 1Password has some nice features (like it reads QR codes off the page and automatically handles 2FA for you, which is clever, but not necessarily the "2" in "2FA" you were hoping for) but it also has a lot of weird UI decisions that make it confusing to use, especially in a shared company environment.

    It is a lot better than it was before though, now it's cross-platform (it used to be exclusively AppleSuperiorityComplexWare), but it's still not open source.

  • Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?
  • In my experience which is worth one (1) datapoint, people talk about all sorts of stuff.

    Yes, people do talk about the fediverse as part of it, but usually it's about how we can make it better rather than how our corporate overlords have made it worse.

    And I'd say that fediverse metacontent is less than 1% of my feed, so it's not universal, it's very much down to how you set things up.

    Places like kbin will get more because they're newer. I'm not on Threads or Blue sky or whatever but I imagine a lot of the chat there is about their own shiny new thing as well.

  • kbin should correct its "+18" label to be "18+"
  • Where does the 18 come from? Depending on the content and the location, "adult" would be more useful, wouldn't it?