i also use lemmy, btw

Meeting up with some old friends. Otherwise I have a backlog of tech odds and ends I should work on. Docker seems to have crapped out on my NAS but the disks checked out, so I should probably look into that…

I mostly spent today being tired at work after getting sunburned yesterday and having one too many beers. Nothing too awful, though.

This weekend I might play around with LlamaIndex (in Arch of course) or attempt once again to get a comfy Neovim setup.

haha this arch theme is great, ty

For all of their faults I admire Apple’s commitment to product design a lot. They really seem to center the human use case and mold the technology around that. This kind of focus on design (not just aesthetics!) brings the benefits of technology to people that might not have been able to access them otherwise due to knowledge, time constraints, etc.

How does this relate to FOSS? Well to be blunt the UX on a lot of FOSS technology is bad. It conveys freedom and privacy to technologically inclined people like us who can make sense of it, but it does very little to liberate people who don’t find this stuff easy or can’t devote enough free time to it. Ease of use is not a weakness to be mocked. It can be an extremely powerful force if done correctly. Personally I would love to see more UX designers getting into FOSS development, but unfortunately I can’t really help myself on that front.

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