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JoshStrobl

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About JoshStrobl

BDFL / Lead of Budgie Desktop, founder of Buddies of Budgie organization. Creator of Fedora Budgie Spin and Fedora Budgie Atomic.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48555061

    My experience mirrors this as well. I was fully in on Cursor for a good chunk of last year, using Composer + Gemini Pro (via Copilot / GH integration). I really enjoyed Cursor's ta…

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    Comment #48529786

    That joke really went over your head, huh...

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    Comment #47763923

    As far as I know, it's their own in-house solution (not fltk, gtk, qt, etc.)

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    Comment #46172166

    WhatsApp works okay on my Jolla C2. Occasional annoyance with device detection (BT headphones) where it'll still end up outputting to speaker, but I haven't had that with any other…

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    Comment #45915692

    Same here, Helsinki Finland After attempt #4 at 1706 Europe/Helsinki, git push worked. So just keep trying.

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    Comment #45835670

    Cure. Ordered a shirt and stickers. Looking forward to being able to rep Firefox!

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    Comment #45181665

    Unless you have a specific reason to use Google Play Store (as in the app, not the distribution medium), I would highly recommend using Aurora Store (which you can handily get via …

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    Comment #45025305

    I'm not aware of your circumstances, but at least here in Finland I was able to get (and the bank was required to provide at my request) a cheap 2FA token generator device that can…

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    Comment #41149408

    Or Fedora Budgie Atomic: https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/budgie/

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    Comment #40943137

    File System API is a baseline feature supported across all major vendors. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...

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    Comment #38493278

    Funny to see Onyx be mentioned in the wild! :D

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    Comment #37005073

    Not sure why the post for Arch-specific item when we announced the temporary soft fork at https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/wayland , which will be used for X11 support while we bui…

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    Comment #35286360

    Please do an ortho or split ortho layout. I get that it'd be low volume but I'd be willing to pay a premium if it meant being able to keep my Helidox Corne at home while I travel o…

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    Comment #33919188

    Meanwhile as an American living in Finland, I just wish I could have my directions in English, use Metric system, but have the names of streets and the like use the Finnish pronunc…

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    Comment #29232946

    I ended up putting this in my .gitconfig (global) [alias] permission-reset = "!git diff -p | grep -E \"^(diff|old mode|new mode)\" | sed -e \"s/^old/NEW/;s/^new/old/;s/^NEW/new/\" …

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    Comment #26104732

    "Do I understand from a quick Google that you don't support Wayland (or at least Solus doesn't)? If you're using mutter you should presumably have the core of the capability availa…

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    Comment #26104590

    Thank you for fixing the items raised, much appreciated! Regardless of what operating system you use Budgie under, glad you are enjoying the desktop experience :)

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    Comment #26104550

    "but it's absolutely based on GNOME, the desktop stack. Just to clarify your clarification. :)" GNOME Shell is not the same as the rest of the stack. "Budgie can't even comfortably…

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    Comment #26104259

    I can't really speak to any sort of timeout, but I have since reduced animation timings and tied the "disable animations" option into workspace switching as well (so there is zero …

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    Comment #26104205

    Long time lurker, had to create an account to post about this though. Hey folks! "Budgie is based on GTK and the GNOME Shell." To clarify, Budgie is NOT based on GNOME Shell. Budgi…