Shucks, I was hoping we might get the survey results this week!

Ooh, custom shaders will let me properly dim inactive splits/windows - much better than my current solution which changes the alpha channel in a not-wholly-intended fashion.

Personally, I landed on using Kitty after...

• being a long time <whatever-terminal>+tmux user and getting sick of problems Ctrl+ or delete keys etc.
  • I addressed most of these but there was always gremlins and the whole stack felt hacky with tmux emulating essentially an entire terminal, inside another terminal
• I tried looking at tmux alternatives, but none seemed to entirely support fancier terminal features like graphics and have vim/tmux-like keybinds - looking at you ZelliJ
• I then started looking for a replacement terminal which would give me the necessary bits of tmux - splits, tabs, scrollback search & copy, vim keys. I don't need shells to persist between logins/SSH sessions
• I landed on wezterm, easily configured in Lua like my Neovim, but it seems its not really got the attention of the original developer and gave the impression of falling behind on features, raising questions of security issues
• kitty was the only other terminal I could see largely offering the tmux-like layer out of the box, needing just a bit of config for vim/tmux-like keybindings and using Neovim for fancy scrollback features.

I'd love to know of alternatives to Kitty - the main dev's attitude does leave me with some concerns, but he is a long time open-source developer with multiple successful and maintained projects, for now that keeps me onboard. It seems like he's pushing forwards with new terminal features like multi-font and image support, which is interesting if nothing else.

Perhaps I should go look at herdr as a tmux replacement and use ghostty or Alarcitty, but I'm not so interested in the AI features.

Gorgeous army, I'd gladly renounce Royal Dorn to join your Iron Legion!

Its an Opinion piece and the author seems Scottish by anyone's definition

Rory Scothorne

"Rory grew up in Edinburgh. He completed an undergraduate degree in History and Politics at the University of Edinburgh, briefly escaping for an academic exchange year in the United States at Washington University in St. Louis. After finishing his masters' degree in Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex in 2015, he returned to Edinburgh to work as a researcher for the Electoral Reform Society Scotland before beginning his doctoral studies in 2016. His studies are funded by the AHRC, and supervised by Professor Ewen Cameron and Professor James Mitchell."

My answer for this has been to use Gadgetbridge - its an open source app which can replace the e.g. Garmin app, connecting to the device and gathering activity and sensor data plus forwarding notifications etc as you'd expect the first party app to do. The data remains exclusively on your phone, no servers involved.

Its not perfect, the Garmin UI is slicker and some minor features may not be supported but overall it's really impressed me for a community effort.

I've been using this since March 2025 with a Garmin Forerunner 265 without any issues.

There are a wide range of supported devices, so you can buy the hardware you like/find a good deal and not worry about privacy based on the vendor.

Gadgetbridge Site Supported Watches

Hah, as of today there at 666 supported devices!

Cheers folks - very clearly communicated, appreciate all the work the CoMaps teams are putting in

Ace to see the confined development, I've used KeepasXC previously and will be happy to migrate back soon after a spell with Bitwarden - I don't see enough value over Keepassxc & Syncthing

This looks hilarious, thanks for the link

Sounds very appropriate, can't wait to play this, though I'm still chugging along through my Rogue Trader play through and loving it. I'll be very tempted to test the Radical sodd of things in Dark Heresy as I've gone the Dogmatic route just now, much fun to be had burning heretics with your witch powers!

I swapped to Fdroid Basic where they've been trialling many of the UI changes, today I reinstalled the main fdroid app and 2.0 was the default option, so no I don't believe theres any phased rollout.

If you're currently using a pre-2.0 version, you'll have to manually update the app, same as ever. From 2.0+ they default to auto-updating in the background.

I'm pretty pleased with the changes, especially search covering description etc and no longer just app names!

Thanks for sharing, that's a really good write up.

I realise they may have more of an interest than larger platforms in giving a positive review, regardless, it's reassuring to see a warmer resoonse than the few others I've read.

Its absolutely nuts if they launch this without the ability to stream from their own, Linux-based, hardware.

The article doesnt explicity state that foveated streaming is nor supported on Linux, but it does go.our of it's way to mention Windows in every instance it mentions streaming.