Using Fedora Sway Atomic has been the most consistent Linux experience I’ve had.
Using Fedora Sway Atomic has been the most consistent Linux experience I’ve had.
This is what I use (with zsh):
yt-audio() {
yt-dlp --no-playlist -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 $1
}
yt-audio-playlist() {
yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 $1
}
It takes the best quality available and downloads it to mp3.
I do exactly this for downloading music, I aliased my preferred options to ‘yt-audio’
And the hardware is great IMO. Pixel 6 was my first Pixel after only buying iPhones, and I swear the thing survives so much abuse. (Although I heard the 6 in particular had many issues, I love mine)
Seems to me (and that doesn’t mean much) to be the most secure / well updated option. GrapheneOS on a Pixel runs GREAT for me, I honestly expected a buggy experience from a custom ROM.
Also, my grandmother could install it (this was especially enticing, I was worried about having to flash an OS, didn’t want to brick a phone).
You get a lot of flexibility when it comes to installing Google Play Services. What I do is install any app that needs gplay services to a separate user profile with them installed.
I honestly don’t have any cons, I’m completely satisfied with it, I can’t see myself switching back to an iOS device or trying stock Android.
I can think of two cons, although they don’t bother me (not sure if this applies to every ROM available):
You miss out on some features / apps that come with stock android, such as AI features.
AOSP apps are installed out of the box, but aren’t wonderful for day-to-day use IMO. I recommend Fossify and You Apps
Pixel with GrapheneOS for me.
+1, displaying in a Emacs buffer solves any issues I could have. If you’re already ‘in’ Emacs, this will be more frictionless than shell scripts around man
My bad, v tired when I replied. That is an interesting feature the only similar solution I can think of is using something like Fossify Dialer (a fork of the now ad-ridden and proprietary Simple Dialer) and use T9 dialing. That could achieve a similar speed / memorization as a gesture.
You could definitely get good enough at T9 to at least call people without looking at the screen.
Just tried it and really enjoyed, but the contact sources just don’t seem to work? Two options, one from sms and one from com.android.contacts, and neither are correct (missing / duplicate contacts). Confused as to why the dialer can’t just pull from my contacts like every other dialer, or I’d probably switch!
I use fossify dialer, not familiar with Drupe, but works well for me.
Emacs find-file with vertico and orderless achieve this nicely.
If anything I use them for everything because I find it much easier / faster.
-/…/.-/-./-.- --./—/-… ./–/.-/-.-./… --/.-/-.-/. -/…/…/… ./.-/…/-.–/.-.-.- …-./…-/-.-./-.- -.–/—/…-/.-.-.-
Standard Notes
Worth mentioning that I could not for the life of me get Jami to work in any way the last time I tried it; I’ve seen many guides and overviews, but couldn’t find a single one where it’s actually successfully used. Cool idea, though
I love Fedora Sircea, however NixOS seems like a better solution (albeit with a larger learning-curve.)
EDIT: Just looked it up, I guess it was renamed “Sway Atomic”, and iirc they’ve also released a Budgie Atomic version with Fedora 40!
Lucky new-age shell bastards.
Thank you for the reply! Just figured that out and its awesome! Love CTRL+T for file names and ALT+C for cding.
orderless achieves the same sort of thing in emacs, but I also use an fzf zsh alias to see my shell history all the time!
alias hf="history -100 | fzf"
Fedora. Specifically I’ve been using Silverblue recently, very stable system for me.