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I'm rebuilding my small web / community software toolkit on my new laptop.

I need suggestions for software that's worth using! What's the graphical gemini client of choice these days? The tui client?

What's your preferred tui music player? I've been a cmus user for years, but I'm willing to entertain other options.

Jared Jennings

@jaredj@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied · last week

@ajroach42 i used mpd for a minute, a long time ago. heard of emms (emacs!) but never used it. i use elpher (emacs!) on the computer and buran on the phone, trying lagrange on the phone.

MrCopilot

@mrcopilot@mstdn.social replied · last week

@ajroach42

Still my preferred tui music player: mp3blaster

DHeadshot's Alt

@ddlyh@topspicy.social replied · last week

@ajroach42
Might be worth including #Dillo for basic web support?

DHeadshot's Alt

@ddlyh@topspicy.social replied · last week

@ajroach42
Graphical Gemini client is probably still Lagrange as it supports stuff like Spartan and that Gemini extension thing for forms too. For a command line/tui, I tend to use Astro (or rather, "Ashtro" - my fork that works with busybox ash instead of bash).

jeSuisatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

@jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de replied · last week

@ajroach42

I ended up with ubuntu studio 2022.04lts, as it's probably the most used multimedia bundle. from there the idea is to create tutorials and comunity projecs via the @studi0 channel.

Andrew (Television Executive)

@ajroach42@retro.social replied · last week

So many of my gemini bookmarks from 1 - 2 years ago appear to be entirely offline.

😦

What's out there now?

DHeadshot's Alt

@ddlyh@topspicy.social replied · last week

@ajroach42
Did bubble exist back then? (That's the Gemini BBS if not).

Andrew (Television Executive)

@ajroach42@retro.social replied · last week

@ddlyh it did not. I'll check it out.

DHeadshot's Alt

@ddlyh@topspicy.social replied · 6 days ago

@span ajroach42 I tried also replying with this, but it seems federation with instances not contacted before is a bit glitchy: https://hd.206267.xyz/post/019949ae-4455-7bae-9cbf-64797ca2d7ca

Andrew (Television Executive)

@ajroach42@retro.social replied · 6 days ago

@span ddlyh I can't seem to make that link work. I get an error that says I need to register and then another that says oops.

DHeadshot's Alt

@ddlyh@topspicy.social replied · 6 days ago

@span ajroach42
Try searching it through Mastodon - that seemed to work...

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iooioio

@iooioio@fosstodon.org replied · last week

@ajroach42 @lagrange for "graphical" gemini.

Andrew (Television Executive)

@ajroach42@retro.social replied · last week

@iooioio @lagrange I *love* lagrange. It's what I was using on my last machine.

I'm currently trying Kristall. I really like that it has basic http/https support. If LaGrange handled that more or less the same way, or I had a good web to gemini proxy, I'd probably do most of my leisure browsing from gemini.

DHeadshot's Alt

@ddlyh@topspicy.social replied · last week

@ajroach42
Have you tried #Offpunk?
@iooioio @lagrange

Andrew (Television Executive)

@ajroach42@retro.social replied · last week

@ddlyh @iooioio @lagrange I haven't!

Albert Brandl

@albert_brandl@graz.social replied · last week

@ajroach42 Amfora (https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora) is a rather nice console-based Gemini client. The keyboard shortcuts are well designed and it's quite stable.

notptr

@notptr@mastodon.sdf.org replied · last week

@ajroach42 I use benben for my tui music player. Right now it is linux only

https://chiselapp.com/user/MistressRemilia/repository/benben/home

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