Comments & Reviews
Reviewed Ente PhotosI really like where Ente is going. It's open source, end-to-end encrypted, audited, and self-hostable, but at the same time has a clean UI, fairly priced centrally hosted cloud storage (across multiple servers), and incredible cross-platform support (across mobile, desktop, and web). It even has quite decent on-device machine learning (face and concept identification) and geotagging. It has basic image editing support. The team behind it seems friendly and transparent. I heartily approve and am...
Reviewed XTwitter was pretty fun. X is paywalled in all the wrong places, bloated, and AI-infested. That's not to mention the degraded quality of its content and the somewhat cultish culture of its biggest fans. It's moderation is a joke, amplifying extremists and possible bot activity while seeming to go against journalism and peaceful dissent. And it's proprietary and centralized, which I think is kind of outmoded these days. Would not recommend.
Reviewed BlueskyBluesky is quickly turning into my favorite social media platform at the moment. It's open source, technically decentralized, and very fun. It has a good set of features – it lets you quote posts, unlike Mastodon, though I'm still hoping for the option to save them – and some of them are particularly enjoyable, such as the feeds. The default feeds are excellently sensible (a discover feed and people you follow, for example), but you can follow or create others at will. The look and feel is...
Reviewed KDE PlasmaKDE Plasma is an incredible take on the traditional desktop metaphor. It is at once lightweight, feature-complete, and aesthetically pleasing. What's more, it is arguably the most customizable and flexible desktop environment I have come across. Add to that its solid integration with modern technologies, quality of life features like external device battery monitoring, and the vast KDE ecosystem, and it's really hard to beat it.