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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • -Organic maps

    Beautifully designed open source navigation alternative. It’s not perfect, because I still have to do some auxiliary searching occasionally, but I’m really enjoying using it instead of Google

    -Quickweather

    Another beautifully designed app. Not perfect, but just really nice to look at because of how well it was done. I still use myradar as my main driver, admittedly.

    -ViMusic

    Again, one of the most beautifully designed apps I’ve ever seen. It has a few bugs, but I really enjoy using this one. It uses YouTube music as the back end.

    -Newpipe and freetube

    Either of these work pretty good as a better way to watch YouTube videos. I’m glad people are fighting back against Google’s bullshit…

    -Eternity

    This is currently my favorite Lemmy front end. I’ve tried many so far and this one seems to have the best functionality and customization too.





  • Not to sound negative towards those groups who use precision date work, but I think they should probably be using their own solutions anyway, and are probably more than capable of figuring out good solutions on their own. In my opinion, that definitely isn’t a reason why the rest of us shouldn’t have an agreeable (automated) standardization.

    Are the potential difficulties that these specific groups could face so drastic/detrimental that it just wouldn’t work for some reason or another?


  • I would like to ask a question, and hopefully someone much smarter can explain why it is or isn’t a possibility.

    Why is it that an automated DST couldn’t be implemented? In my head I’m imagining a time keeping ability that automatically adjusts, every day, to capitalize on the amount of daylight that is in a day during any given time of year. The amount of adjustment would be so incremental as to not even be noticeable really, to one’s everyday routines.

    If clocks auto-adjusted each day, by milliseconds or whatever micro-amounts necessary, I feel like that would be so much easier than an abrupt 1 hour difference which throws everyone off because of how jarring it is.

    I don’t like DST, but I can’t help but wonder. If we HAVE to have it, then why can’t it be better. I feel like we have the technology to be able to figure out a superior way of doing this.