Local-first peer-to-peer GNOME people… if I wanted to make a GNOME app similar to those party games where you enter a code and then all join one host's game, then compete for trivia questions or something, is that relatively straightforward to do with our current tech stack? What would I use to do that?
I'm tempted to make a FOSS Kahoot-alike game in Godot, but it could be fun as a GNOME app, instead.
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One reason Skeleton Crew works so well is due to RESTRAINT.
There was no shocking reveal. The story lead to a natural—yet still exciting and satisfying—conclusion.
There’s no secret Jedi order living beneath At Attin (lol). Plot points set up earlier are resolved. No, Wim doesn’t use the Force. Somehow Palpatine doesn’t return.
And personally, I love how it leaves itself open to more stories—whether canon or our own legends.
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Great analysis of the Skeleton Crew finale by Star Wars Explained. He gets it. It's a great recap and look at the storytelling choices.
The creative team behind this show did such a great job. I literally want to read essays about this show!
https://youtu.be/Mxgb3JHPewE
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Skeleton Crew!!!!! I’mma say it, this is the best Star Wars since, well Andor. But completely different. In a good way. Give these people (writers, directors) more Star Wars, please.
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Oh hey it turns out ADHD meds actually do work for me. I was off them for about a month with the holidays and travel and took them for the first time again today.
My brain feels like Armstrong from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
✨💪🧠💪✨
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Notably, Meta deleted their blog post that included:
“Messenger is committed to building the safest private messaging experience that gives the growing LBGTQ+ community and its allies a trusted space to open up with confidence.”
They are all but telling LGBTQ+ folks and anyone the right wants to vilify that they will not provide a safe, private, trusted space for you.
@404mediaco https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/113805164817030243
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What ended up happening is that we kept the unique model names but still used the categories, which was better than before (they had an “UltraPro” laptop when I started! 😅). I think at best we narrowed down to something like:
• Gazelle 15" or 17"
• Galago Pro 14"
• Serval WS 15" or 17"
But at times we also had the Lemur (which is now Lemur Pro?), Pangolin, Bonobo WS, Darter, Oryx Pro, Adder WS… all of which I couldn’t even tell you why you would buy one over another in the same category.
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Imagine shopping for a laptop and you have three choices:
• Galago $999
• Galago Pro $1299
• Galago WS $1799
The base Galago might use a bit more plastic, an entry level processor, and integrated graphics, but is super portable with great battery life; 14"
Galago Pro is all metal with a higher-end display, a bit more compute/graphics but about the same portability; 13" or 15"
Galago WS is a thicc boi with a desktop CPU and dedicated GPU that runs laps around other laptops; 15" or 17"
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Within each category you differentiate by size (which used to be entirely different products). It never really panned out the way I’d have liked with just one mainstream, Pro, and WS model w/different sizes. Part of that is due to working with a supplier that designed drastically different looks for e.g. a 14" and 17" model, but the biggest recurring barrier was a lack of focus with the product lineup. Sales people wanted to offer like 12 barely-differentiated models to hit all the price points.
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For reference, I pushed for the mainstream, Pro, and Workstation monikers at System76. The idea was that you would have:
• Mainstream: no moniker; great product; entry level
• Pro: for people who use their computer for work (or want the nicest option); best combination of power and form factor
• WS: beefiest option for the highest end; trades portability for raw power; for the ML, automotive, 3D animation, science-y stuff
You still see some remnants of this scheme, but it’s not as clear cut.
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This seems so close to the right scheme, but fails hilariously by confusing people with plus, pro, premium, and max which all effectively mean the same thing.
Soon after I started at System76, I pushed for simplifying our product lineup and naming scheme and it stuck for a bit, but wound up having a similar problem as this: too many models, which the sales and marketing people all want to say are “Pro” or whatever.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24325799/dell-pro-max-premium-plus-ces-laptop-pc-rebrand-announcement
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Designing for the Digital Age is a great one that is dense like a textbook but extremely comprehensive; it's what we used at Visual Logic and taught me most of my formal UX knowledge (in addition to the actual internship and excellent mentorship from the designers there).
I still have a digital copy but don't ever find myself flipping through the physical one, so I'd love someone else to be able to.
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I have some physical UX/design books that I'm getting rid of; I've had them for years and honestly just never reference them anymore. Most of my education is from a specific internship and then real world experience—and lots of blogs and ebooks rather than these physical books.
Is anyone in the Denver area interested? Or I could mail within the US. I’d rather give them to someone who is getting into UX than just donate or sell them to a generic book store.
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I finally watched the 3D animated Lion King (because the five-year-old loves everything Lion King and finally asked to watch it).
It is basically a shot-for-shot but not line-for-line remake, and it honestly loses nearly all of its charm.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s very pretty and impressive as a technical showcase, but entirely unnecessary (and actively worse) from a storytelling perspective.
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Google is the world’s largest advertising company with hundreds of billions in annual revenue—about $50 billion from their Google Play Store, the only practical option to get apps on Android, the world’s most widely-used consumer OS. They charge every developer $25 to be able to publish apps, and then similarly take a 15–30% cut of every paid app purchase and in-app transaction. They dictate a lot about what apps are allowed to do, and are able to negotiate paying lower payment processing fees.
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Let’s compare.
Apple sells expensive, luxury tech products with massive marketshare that can largely only use apps from their store. The app store rakes in $100 billion/yr of revenue, meaning they can dictate lower transaction fees w/payment processors than anyone else.
Apple charges every app developer $100/yr—including for free apps—plus 15–30% of every app purchase and in-app transaction. They dictate what apps are and aren’t allowed to do, including what copy they can put in their apps.
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How do I help people understand that for an indie app store, taking only a 30% cut of each app purchase is literally not even sustainable on its own?
And suggesting that 10% is too high and that it should be 5% for proprietary apps and 0% for FOSS apps is just… literally impossible??
We’re not talking Apple or Google here—we’re talking a small, indie open source app store that doesn’t collect personal data, respects and protects privacy, prioritizes FOSS apps, and does everything openly.
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I'm thinking something along the lines of "Exemplar" but that sounds maybe a bit too fancy/out there. Paired with a laurels icon, though… it could work. 🤔
Any thoughts?
For context, these are the guidelines: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/quality-guidelines
Apps that meet them make Flathub look better and are also eligible to be featured in the big weekly rotating banner and as the "app of the day" on the flathub.org home page (among a few other things).
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I'm still brainstorming, but rather than inconsistently using "quality guidelines," "quality checks," and "high quality app data," I think I'd like to align on something more specific—plus some sort of consistent iconography. Even consistently using "Flathub Quality Guidelines" and e.g. a ★ icon would be an improvement, but I think people are still tripped up by "guidelines" and it still doesn't convey that these are criteria to be featured as an app of the day or in the weekly banner rotation.
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I’ve been thinking through a lot of the feedback on (and things I've learned about peoples' perception of) @flathub's MetaInfo quality guidelines. I think I'd like to iterate a bit on how we present/talk about them; it could be helpful to make them more "branded" in a way to help make it more clear that they're really more of an opinionated, almost editorial thing.
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