BlogFlockYesterday I placed a delivery order which was served through Uber. Uber gave the driver a dropoff location several blocks away instead of the address I’d put on the order. I think it may have been remembering the last ride I booked through Uber, however many months ago that was,…
★★★★★
Great local electronics repair shop. I’ve taken two devices in for repair over the last couple of months: a 2020 Pixel phone that needed a new battery, and a 2019 late-Intel MacBook that had…
★★★★☆
Out of all the Linux distributions I use regularly, only Debian still has a dedicated Gopher client in its standard software repository.
apt install gopher
It took some, well, digging (sorry) to determine that the text-mode gopher client included in Debian’s apt repository is the University of Minnesota’s classic…
When I started re-exploring Gopher last month, I was surprised to discover that Debian still ships a terminal-based gopher client! And it’s the original University of Minnesota client, updated to keep compatible with modern Linux! And it’s surprisingly user-friendly.
Just install it with apt.
sudo apt install gopher
I hope you’ll excuse me for saying that “The Secret of the Candlesticks” is a bit of an odd duck. It starts out as a comedic adaptation of Les Misérables with Uncle Scrooge as Jean…
★★★★☆
I checked out Open Camera again after however many years because /e/OS uses it as the base for its camera app. Most of this review applies to both versions.
It’s actually pretty good! (Much better than Fossify Camera.) Automatic settings are fine most of the time, and…
As I’ve been ahem digging into Gopherspace this past month, I of course wanted to see how I could get there from my phone. I already had Lagrange for the Gemini protocol, and Lagrange handles Gopher in a Gemini client better than Netscape ever did in a web browser.…
I use the Syndication Links plugin on my blog to link to social media posts that link back, or that I’ve incorporated into the blog entry. Or to mirrored photos on Flickr, or posts on Tumblr. As part of exploring Gopher, I’ve been cross-posting more, and decided I should…
The Syndication Links plugin is great for linking out to social media posts related to your WordPress or ClassicPress blog entry. It can also send out those posts to some platforms. But it can’t possibly know every social network out there, or every Mastodon server, and so a lot sites…
★★☆☆☆
An extremely minimalist Gopher client for Android. I kind of like the text-based toolbar, though I had to experiment to figure out what each button does.
^S does search, settings, adding a page to bookmarks, etc.
|^| shows your bookmarks
@ lets you enter a new URL
^R reloads
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