Meta, Hyper, and Super were all originally different keys. See this lisp machine keyboard from in the 70s that had 7 modifiers, including all of those. Most of the time Hyper or Super are mapped to the Windows key. With Meta it varies more from program to program. A lot of desktop software maps it to the Windows key. In Emacs its usually mapped as Alt or the Esc key.
It usually implies it’s weird in an old-fasioned way though.
I’ve had it freeze up on me several times, where I had to reset the app to get it working again. It works most of the time, but I wouldn’t recommend it yet for general use.
Hacker’s Keyboard hasn’t had a real release in about 5 years, so it can be slightly buggy.
Unexpected Keyboard is pretty good. It’s got the complete keyboard layout available including stuff like Control and Function keys, so I think it’s an acceptable replacement. It uses swipes to type other keys, which I’m not sure if I prefer, but it works well enough. I set the swipe distance higher because I would accidentally swipe from time to time.
If you check “I’m an advanced user” in the settings, then hit the “More” button in the dropdown a few times it’ll show the more advanced interface that lets you choose which third party domains to allow. It doesn’t work quite the same since it blocks both content and scripts per site, but I find it good enough for my usage.
edit: You can technically block just scripts per 3rd party site, but it involves manually editing the content type for your rules in the settings. It’s not part of the main interface, so I never bother using it.
GoToSocial is designed for small / single user instances. There’s more with similar goals like snac, seppo, pub, ktistec, tapir, shuttlecraft, activities.next, and microblog.pub, but I haven’t really looked into them so I’m not sure on the status of each. There’s a nice list of activitypub software at delightful fediverse apps if you want to look at more options.
Most philosophers think free will and determinism are compatible.
The creator of pixelfed is working on a tiktok alternative loops, although for now it’s in private beta.
For a starting point that is available now, you could look at Pixeldroid, an open source pixelfed app.
Besides the ones already mentioned:
The FSF has some channels at https://framatube.org/a/fsf
There’s a bunch of KDE related channels at https://tube.kockatoo.org
Blender has several channels at https://video.blender.org
https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/a/shichimi has Krita tutorials from the creator of the Pepper and Carrot webcomic.
https://tilvids.com/a/martin_owens from someone who works on Inkscape.
https://tilvids.com/a/togglejam looks at the science behind fictional games and shows.
https://diode.zone/c/andrewtropin has a bunch of scheme and guix related videos
There’s some anarchist channels on https://kolektiva.media like CrimethInc and subMedia.
A couple of gaming related accounts/channels:
There’s also sepiasearch.org for PeerTube videos.
Thanks, I didn’t know about that. I looked into this a bit more and there’s actually a bunch of techniques, and shift right click only gets around some of them. There’s a tester tool at https://webbrowsertools.com/test-right-click/ with examples of blocking right clicks, text selection, and copying/pasting text.
It looks like a good extension, but I feel like my setup works better for my workflow. Tab groups with auto tab discard has a similar effect, and there’s an archive option for when I really want to unload the whole group.
Tab groups are really handy for multitasking if you use multiple desktops. I have a window open on each desktop, and switching between tab groups switches to the relevant desktop.
This question gets asked pretty often, so I’d been meaning to write something up for a while. Browser extensions were one of the first ways I got interested in free software, and there’s a lot of really useful ones out there.
If you want even more options, here’s some I have installed but disabled.
I use firefox, so I’m not positive if all of these are available for chromium based browsers.
Each extension varies in how big it is, so there isn’t an easy rule for how many extensions to use. Also, if you’re trying to increase privacy, many extensions can make your browser fingerprint more easily identifiable.
uBlock Origin - I have it set to block everything by default like NoScript, whitelisting sites as I use them. I used to use uMatrix for this before it was discontinued, but this works well enough.
Tridactyl - Advanced vim-like keybindings. It has more features than something like Vimium, but I’ve had it occasionally break sites so I had to change the noiframe settings listed on the troubleshooting page.
Midnight Lizard - I’ve been using this lately instead of Dark Reader. It has much more customization, but I’ve occasionally had it mess up on some sites.
CanvasBlocker - Sends out fake info to make your browser fingerprint different each time. This doesn’t fully prevent fingerprinting with how I have my add-ons set up, but it at least makes the job harder for trackers and gives them less real data.
Local CDN - local copies of common libraries, so you don’t access a bunch of 3rd party sites to download javascript. This sends your data to fewer sites, but if you’re trying to stay anonymous it makes your fingerprint more unique.
AutoTabDiscard - This unloads inactive tabs, which comes in handy if you have a ton of tabs open. You can disable it for any sites you always want to keep active. You can also tweak how many tabs to keep open and how long before it tries to discard them.
Leechblock NG - Set time limits for how long you want to spend on each site. If you use it right it can help break addictions to certain websites.
Stylus - I use it for a couple of sites that just have really terrible styles or don’t work well with dark mode.
AutoFill Forms - Handy for if you have any repetitive forms you need to fill out.
DownThemAll - I don’t use it often, but really useful when there’s a bunch of links to download.
ViolentMonkey - Per site custom javascript. I don’t use this much, but occasionally comes in handy to make a website do what you want.
Tab Reloader - for sites that you want to keep refreshed.
I’ve got a bunch for integration with various websites and software:
I’m pretty sure these are Firefox only, but I’ll leave them here for anyone else who’s interested.
Simple Tab Groups - I like using this to organize my tabs into groups. There’s probably better ways to not have so many tabs open but it’s convenient to have a bunch of open tabs when I want them.
Multi-Account Containers - Helpful if you have multiple accounts on the same site, or want to keep your cookies separate for different tasks.
Firefox Translations - adds more language options to Firefox’s offline translation.
It hasn’t had a real release in about 5 years though. It uses a very old API so it’s slightly buggy.
I’ve been using Unexpected Keyboard lately instead. It’s the only modern keyboard I’ve found that has stuff like control and function keys. It uses swiping on keys to get more characters though, so it takes some getting used to. I had to set the swipe distance higher so I don’t have as many typos.
Most states in the US have separate lower minimum wages for tipped workers, with a federal minimum of $2.13/hour.
Schildichat for now. I like some stuff in Fluffychat better, but I find it’s a bit buggy.
I like Fedilab. It’s open source and supports other accounts like Pixelfed, Peertube, Friendica, and is planning to add Calckey. I also like how it has colored lines to show deeper threads.
I’ve also tried out Tusky and a couple of forks of the offical app like Moshidon and Megalodon and they all seem pretty good.
About 20k are probably from hexbear, which migrated from their own distant fork of lemmy to the current version, so now they show up in a lot of trackers. They still haven’t enabled federation yet though.
I’m not sure if it’s directly mapping the input. I think it’s getting the other keys input and binding it to the same commands. Also, Emacs was around even before the X windowing system, so they probably came up with the mappings before a lot of these common defaults came about.