I'm confident his announcement to "leave social media" was an April Fools' joke.

Well that's some news. If they're good news we will see. I'm a Beeper user but never heard of Texts (stupid name) before, which seem to share the same misson as Beeper. Texts was purchased by Automattic last year (according to the Beeper blog).

What does that mean? Automattic punches with some weight in the chat space now. In general I don't like it if big companies buy small products. However Automattic still seems to bet on the Fediverse, so maybe if the teams from Beeper and Texts can work together on a Matrix-based, open source chat application, we could get something really good.

I've mixed feelings about this whole thing, some shy optimizm, some less shy pessimism.

Well, time will tell.

My recommendation? No. Don't.

I'm an ex Windows user, current Linux and Mac user. Keyboard shortcuts on Linux are much closer to Windows conventions compared to macOS. I wouldn't recommend using a Mac keyboard with Linux. I'd only recommend it if you want to use both Linux and macOS with the same keyboard (you will be happier in this case, because using macOS with a Windows keyboard sucks, vice versa).

If you don't like the Windows key design, get a keyboard with a custom one.

They can't possibly judge what is trivial to achieve and what's a serious, very hard problem.

"We're going to clean up that code later."

While this chart certainly shows how dominant mastodon.social in the Fediverse is, I like this chart. It also shows how diverse the Fediverse is. For any other social network this graph would be a simple circle. For the Fediverse it shows 38 different servers, and apart from mastodon.social, the distribution seems quite fair.

Very good!

Time to ungoogle my phone once again. Did it before, reverted it in a stupid move to try out Monster Hunter "Go"; should've never done it in the first place. Bye, bye, Google. Go fuck yourself.

It's not like they'd develop a new engine for iOS. They already have one which can now be used for iOS as well -- but not everywhere.

It's not in the linked article, but it was part of it in the beta release notes. Now it's on the dedicated Android release notes page ():

• Firefox for Android can now be set as the default PDF reader.
• Firefox for Android now supports enabling Global Privacy Control. With this feature, Firefox informs websites that the user doesn’t want their data to be shared or sold. This feature is enabled by default in private browsing mode and can be enabled in normal browsing in Settings → Enhanced Tracking Protection -> Tell websites not to share & sell data toggle.
• To reduce user fingerprinting information and the risk of some website compatibility issues, the OS version is now always reported as "Android 10" in Firefox for Android's User-Agent string.

Should I approach the team about this?

Yes, certainly. It sounds like some/most members of the team don't understand the stylesheet architecture of your project and it's vital to sort that out ASAP. The more time passes, the harder it will get to get everything back on track.

Try to avoid finger-pointing and this shouldn't be a very hard conversation (assuming they aren't super stubborn).

As a side note, the fact that you first address this issue on the Fediverse and not in your team makes me think that maybe there are some underlying issues regarding trust and open communication. You might want to further look into that. Take it with a large grain of salt though. I don't really know anything about your team so it's likely that I overdramatize the situation.

Personally, I'm not interested in the type of posts you mention. However, I don't mind it. In general I think it's great to tell the world if you ditch Windows for Linux, because it shows other (Windows) users that they can do it, too.

Though I have to agree that for a dedicated Linux community, it doesn't add too much value. If I think a post is a bad fit for the community, I vote it down.

uBlock Origin would be my number one, but they don't take donations. So my list would roughly contain:

• Organic Maps
• Thunderbird
• Internet Archive
• Codeberg

I'd like to donate to Firefox as well, but Mozilla spends too much for the wrong things and AFAIK it's not possible to only support Firefox development.