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Re: Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android

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> if you use OpenBSD you will become a cynic because of bad documentation most places elsewhere. I found it the other way around, I feel inspired to write better documentation. > things like Bluetooth for some people (not me) may be a deal breaker. I'm spoiled by Apple. It must either work really well, or otherwise indeed I won't mind it not being there. > Bluetooth sound works perfectly. What do you mean? The whole…

>Or are you using some sort of a 2.4GHz dongle that just shows up as an audio interface? Yeah, stupid me never ever thought of that;-) >So I tend to stick to minimalist solutions such as dwm. I tried my hand at tiling WMs with pop!OS, I just couldn't wrap my hand around it (pun intended). I really admire people who work through all the keyboard shortcuts. It's just not for my capabilities.

> I tried my hand at tiling WMs with pop!OS, I just couldn't wrap my hand around it (pun intended). I really admire people who work through all the keyboard shortcuts. It's just not for my capabilities.

I think Windows actually did a great job of making tiling more mainstream - the way windows automatically snap to the left/right half of the screen. macOS could use something like that - I've hacked something similar using Hammerspoon[1] but I think Windows does it better: it's very discoverable for regular users, and has a very intuitive shortcut for the power users (win+left/right/up).

The world of minimalist tiling WMs suffers from the elitism factor. It's a shame that you can't get the right dose of minimalism, without making this huge leap. I think people making most of these WMs misunderstand good UX design: it's not about accommodating non-power users, it's about lowering the barrier for everyone, hackers included.

[1]: https://github.com/rollcat/dotfiles/blob/master/.hammerspoon...

Re: Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android

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I'm a happy radicale user too but I haven't been able to get it to work w macOS mail and contacts. I use EMClient with it which works great.

https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/issues/1217

Thanks, that's very helpful. I'll have to see if importing a Letsencrypt certificate works?
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