I am looking forward for OvertureMaps and what will happen to OSM with that.

Linus’ opinion on Nvidia

We all know Florisboard has no autocorrect or word suggestions yet. The whole post is about this exactly.

Why would I want to hide the smart bar if it’s actually useful, quick and modern, unline AnySoftKeyboard… which you have a set of options that either bring too little or too much.

No keyboard layout options in Florisboard? In fact, I can do something in Florisboard that I cannot do in AnySoftKeyboard in terms of layouts: I can pick a “spanish layout” for English language. Which is perfect because I hate having to change layouts and relearn key positions, something that AnySoftKeyboard forces you to do.

In terms of features that Florisboard has that AnySoftKeyboard doesn’t… how about a modern and useful top bar that does many more things than the static AnySoftKeyboard’s? How about left-right movement with spacebar? How about swipe deletion? How about good-looking password manager integration (and not AnySoftKeyboard’s aberration)? How about being able to separate layouts and languages? Clipboard support?

Many of the “cool” modular things that AnySoftKeyboard can do are:

• for niche power users
• things than can still be included eventually in Florisboard

The difference here is that for AnySoftKeyboard to include anything that Florisboard does right would require much more work, muuuch more work (basically a full rework of the app); whereas for Florisboard integrating a fancy layout would be… a simple, one file PR.

Once you use Florisboard you realise that even with all those options in AnySoftKeyboard, you cannot fully setup something as modern, well-functioning and organized as Florisboard.

There is one thing that makes me shut AnySoftKeyboard down everytime I come back and try it, which is that, when you hold down a key to show the alternative options… you have to really put your finger up over the options to select them… but only from the second row up. Makes no sense and no one seems to realise how wrong that is.

Maybe publish a new Mastodon post linking to this Lemmy post? Simply don’t answer the post with this weird thing that makes no sense under the Lemmy context.

Newish Kindle (basic) user here. Any issue aside from battery life to justify airplane mode always on?

Being able to translate or look stuff up on Wikipedia is amazing for me.

Never felt the need for microblogging when Reddit existed, and chats are a mess and I will never understand the appeal unless I spent 24 hours there. So now it’s Lemmy all the way… except for YouTube, of course, because that one is simply too hard to avoid, although I do mostly use Piped mirrors.

I find this one fairly useless nowadays, maybe except for a couple websites. But even Wikipedia nowadays has a native dark mode.

Although I totally get why lemmy.ml would want to do something like that, it’s not “being polite…”, it’s “enforcing politeness…”

I’ve been doing my research and I feel that opus should be the way to go? Can have chapters and compression is the best there is. I read that m4b keeps track of where you left… but I feel that that should not be the task of an audio file?

I am a big big big Linux fan, but I feel that after 30 years, it is time for a non-monolithic kernel. I know Linus hates the idea of microkernels but the era of Rust is finally here and it shows that safe microkernels are fully possible now, and I believe the advantages and modularity can be amazing for a new era of open source computing.

How sure are you that your view through NewPipe is getting counted on YouTube statistics so that the channel is getting a proper measure of reach?

Because I am not so sure the view is being counted, and much less the (not)viewing of the sponsorblock segment.

Who thought it was a good idea to have single torrents of multiple TB??

I don’t use Google Calendar, I use Samsung’s.

New thunderbird app please be good… FairEmail is the best there is, but every few months we hit one of these critical points where the dev is about to shut everything down… and I am afraid the end is coming.

If you have an ereader with an eink screen… it’s a no-brainer. Digital books are soooo good.

• virtually no weight
• virtually no space
• waaaaay cheaper
• your local library has probably a way bigger and more accessible catalogue of ebooks than physical ones
• tap and hold a word and get an automatic definition/translation
• adjust text size or font
• dark mode, if you into that (in some models)
• Text-to-speech (in some models)
• highlight text and write notes without f-ing up pages
• literally translate entire phrases or look particular information from Wikipedia or similar with a simple gesture.
• backup all of those and do crazy stuff like an automatic daily email to yourself with cool notes you took months/years ago.

Physical books nowadays are like vynil music… it’s for the artwork and having a physical “certificate” of something you love. Like… if I discover a book I really enjoy, I’ll probably buy a physical version so I can, you know, have it there on the shelf, like you have family pics or something.

Every Christmas, to the most used projects of the year (that are not rich already).

I read somewhere that those deja vu and precognition dreams are actually mostly your mind having a glitch, believing this present moment is also past. No dream or past event exists, you just think it does because it feels like it. Weird stuff.

There are plenty of studies suggesting that people are actually brushing too much. Kinda like with shampoo… we strip our surfaces from healthy bacteria and oils and it creates a vicious cycle.

On the other side, many foods we eat today are not healthy for our mouth environment, so I still believe there has to be a certain degree of brushing, of course. So, simply put… you should adjust to your use case. Learn when you feel your mouth needs some brushing or not, and move on.

I just lost the game. And now you have.