27-year old from Liguria, northern Italy. I’m a conlanger (creator of Chlouvānem and Dundulanyä), I like linguistics, literature, '70s electronic/post-rock/art rock/experimental pop music. [he/him]

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Di solito alterno pizze non semplicissime, ma neanche troppo cariche (non amo le pizze speciali con sopra un po’ di tutto…), in realtà alterno alcune un po’ classiche come diavola, tonno e cipolle o Bismarck o con le acciughe ad altre con un’ingrediente in piú o due, ad esempio la pizzeria da cui la prendo di solito fa una “messicana” che è in pratica una diavola con i fagioli.

    La taglio subito in quattro o sei fette (di solito quattro) - a casa con un tagliapizza, omaggio della pizzeria di cui sopra e che si è rivelato essere inaspettatamente comodissimo - e la mangio piegando le fette a metà. Rigorosamente mangiata con le mani, sia a casa che fuori.



  • I agree, also the holding back of packages just for the sake of waiting probably doesn’t make it more stable, despite what the devs say; also having 300+ packages updated at the same time might make it worse for troubleshooting in case something goes wrong.

    As someone who actually started with Manjaro back in 2020 before moving to EndeavourOS after 9 months, I would say that there is indeed a steeper learning curve as you don’t get for example a GUI package manager (Pamac is awful and even as a newbie I used it for maybe three days before I started to use the CLI, but a Linux beginner might want one) and the fact it is a true rolling release means you need to do some more research and maintenance, so I wouldn’t call Endeavour a distro for absolute beginners, unless one is determined to learn a lot about how a computer works… but again one shouldn’t probably use a rolling release then; Manjaro just tricks you to believe it is easier, but it probably is only if you don’t use the AUR.

    Maybe Garuda is more beginner friendly than EndeavourOS while avoiding most of the problems Manjaro has? Although I’ve never used it as I don’t see any advantage over Endeavour, and I’m not a fan of excessive out of the box theming and Chaotic AUR enabled as default…





  • Ci provo, probabilmente i più tecnici qui inorridiranno visto che non è nemmeno il mio campo, comunque: per i siti che lo supportano (fra cui Lemmy) è possibile installare la versione PWA che è una via di mezzo fra un’app nativa e la visualizzazione tramite browser (ad esempio “eredita” dal browser le impostazioni di blocchi o temi scuri/chiari ma non è una semplice scorciatoia perché per il gestore attività è come un’app a sé stante). Andando nel menú della pagina c’è una voce “installa” (su Firefox e fork vari) oppure “aggiungi a schermata home” (su Brave, Chrome e credo tutti i browser Chromium, direi che il testo qui è uguale sia per PWA che per scorciatoie) per appunto installare la PWA che comparirà come se fosse una qualsiasi app.



  • Devo dire che notizie come questa mi stanno tenendo completamente alla larga da Reddit: è vero che su Lemmy non c’è ancora un’attività paragonabile, ma il pensiero che laddove ora su Reddit c’è attività è perché sono utenti che hanno in qualche modo accettato il nuovo corso mi intristisce abbastanza. E dire che avevo iniziato a usarlo solo nel 2019, quindi quello degli inizi non l’ho nemmeno conosciuto.





  • Motorola Edge 30 Pro (aka Motorola Edge+ 2022 for the North Americans here), which I got back in early November last year. I did research for a while before buying it (and got it with a huge discount) and I’m mostly happy with my purchase, it’s a nice phone with a clean near-stock Android experience (although I’ve since changed launcher to Kvæsitso) and it’s extremely fast, although I must say I’m not a heavy smartphone user.

    Worst things are that the Android 13 update took nearly three months long than planned to come (and here in Italy apparently we were among the first to get the update) and Motorola is not that fast with security updates; while the only really annoying thing is that sometimes it stops the internet connection usually after giving the command to download/update apps, whether from the Play Store or from F-Droid; the connection somehow is still there as it’s enough to cancel and tell do download/update again and everything works.

    This is my first Android phone: my first smartphone was a Nokia X6 running Symbian which I got in 2011 and then I used iPhones for a decade (while having been a Mac user all the time), first an iPhone 5C in 2013 and then an 8 Plus which I got in 2018. Clearly the newest was the best of the bunch as it was a quite major upgrade from the 5C, which in turn came when Symbian was an abandoned OS; the last two phones both lasted me just short of five years, and I changed back in November mainly because I could hand it down (refurbished) to my mom, otherwise I would have waited perhaps another year.

    This time I decided to leave iOS for good as I was increasingly unsatisfied and worried with Apple’s walled garden ecosystem - for the same reason I had already left macOS for Linux back in 2020 (never had any other Apple products nor subscriptions except for a few iPods over the years) - and even after the novelty has worn off I vastly prefer Android. Right now I have this Android phone and my laptop I’m writing from, which only runs Linux, specifically EndeavourOS, although my old 2009 iMac still works - thanks to a SSD swap back in '17, although it hasn’t gotten newer updates since High Sierra - and I tinker with it from time to time. At work I use Windows 10… but that’s not my choice.


  • Brave Search on all my personal devices, even though I’m getting worse results than up to a few months ago, so as much as it pains to admit it I sometimes use Google as a fallback (and the last time I actually used Google as my main search engine was back in 2012!). I probably should use metasearch engines more, though, but have been procrastinating learning how to effectively use them for a while now.

    Aside from that, I have about a dozen sites saved with search keywords on Firefox (four of them are Wikipedia in different languages, though) that I use all the time.



  • I use the following ones (on Firefox), except for uBO the others are just for conveniency:

    • Bitwarden
    • Gesturefy (for some time from early 2021 to late 2022 I used to use Vivaldi as my primary browser and now if I’m using a mouse, not having gestures in a browser feels odd…)
    • LibRedirect
    • Plasma Integration
    • uBlock Origin (middle mode and with some additional lists)
    • User-Agent Switcher and Manager (if I find a site that says it doesn’t work with Firefox).

    • AntennaPod (podcast player)
    • Authenticator Pro (2FA)
    • Aves (gallery)
    • Bitwarden
    • Catima (for stores’ reward cards)
    • Etar (calendar)
    • Geometric Weather
    • Infinity for Reddit… as long as it works
    • Joplin (note-taking software, synced with the desktop client)
    • K-9 Mail
    • Kvæsitso (launcher)
    • Mull (Firefox fork)
    • NetGuard (works in the background as a VPN to block network access to certain apps, for example I use it to block every network connection by Gboard)
    • NewPipe
    • Simple File Manager
    • Tasks.org