Just downloaded it to give it a try! So far missing autocorrect a little bit, but, honestly, I’m optimistic about how the keyboard can improve my typing (and diction). Much slower but also more well thought out. Auto lets you type fast, maybe too fast.

I will have to get used to typing apostrophes again though…

I refused to give up my headphone jack, so for my latest phone I switched to the Moto 5g Stylus

It’s an OK phone. It often has performance issues, but the battery life is massive and I expanded to storage to nearly 500Gb. The phone is long though - they increased the screen size and avoided increasing the width, so it’s just comically tall. That’s good for scenarios when you want to see more of the screen while keeping the keyboard out and for split screen apps and games, but mostly it’s a burden because you can’t effectively use the phone one handed. For its price, I’d say it’s probably worth at least a year or two of service, but I find myself wanting more power again like the Pixel 3a (my last phone).

I’m interested in a couple of the phones they listed in the article, but definitely will have to double check performance in the future. It’s the most annoying part of this phone

Oh one pro tip for the 5g stylus - the camera is good, but only when using their “Ultra-rez” mode instead of the default mode, and the preview looks a lot worse than the actual picture. The picture will preview as blurry and pixelated while you’re taking it, but once processed it will look great

I was thinking about this earlier this week, in a sense. Not quite insurance but throwing away money.

The federal government is going to be providing aid and assistance during and after the hurricane, and I couldn’t help but think about how the more mild, less disaster-prone parts of the country are effectively subsidizing people to continue to move to Florida, despite how unlivable it really is. As Florida grows more the rest of the country has to pay too, it doesn’t just affect Floridians

I think the hate for Andromeda was a little overblown. I enjoyed the heck out of the game, regardless of any weird facial expressions! It of course was never going to live up to the original trilogy but it stood out on its own in a lot of positive ways

I’m interested in this. I want to host my own Lemmy, Bookwyrm, Matrix, etc. servers but I find that not having access to appropriate password resetting is a deal breaker for not only me but for anyone I would like to join. I looked in to some email services but couldn’t find one that wasn’t charging more than it would cost to run the actual website

With a Lifetime plan, at least it’s a one time purchase and I don’t have to have yet another subscription eating away at my bank account

How do you like the service so far? Any issues with emails being marked as spam or being undeliverable?

How long have you been running it so far? Any issues?

Everyone outside of the U.S. almost assuredly still has SMS capabilities, it’s just not common utilized because everyone is already on WhatsApp or Telegram. It’s where their friends are, locking them into the ecosystem, which is exactly what I just said. And I would be willing to wager the only reason WhatsApp really got huge was because SMS hasn’t always been free to use and may still not be free in some countries and with some plans.

Telegram, Signal and WhatsApp are fine, as for privacy how exactly are SMS better?

I wasn’t speaking to privacy specifically, but where all your friends are.

If you want privacy, then you shouldn’t be using Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp anyway, considering both are owned by Meta and their privacy track record is shaky at best.

Signal is a great choice, but we get back to the main point where not everyone is on Signal, and once you are on Signal you’re locked in to using Signal and must have their app to participate in the conversation.

My point wasn’t that SMS is better, but it’s simpler and more widely available and doesn’t require a standalone application to use.

Ideally we would use an open standard like the Matrix standard to communicate, that way you can download whatever application you want and have all the privacy you could ever desire, but not have to download some random messaging application just to catch up from Gary from primary school

If you’re technically savvy, it looks like you could self-host the application. https://github.com/beeper/self-host

It sounds like a too good to be true situation. Definitely an interesting concept though. Sounds like they use remote servers to connect to the third-party apps using your credentials and then transcribe the messages using the Matrix protocol to the app. Source here and snippet below

Beeper consists of two main components:

• A client app that runs on your devices.
• A web service run by Beeper.

… Beeper’s web service consists of a Matrix homeserver and infrastructure to run open source bridges that connect to 15 different chat networks.

Currently free but also will be a Plus version eventually rolling out, according to the FAQ

For now, everyone has access to all the features of Beeper Plus for free. At some point in 2023, we will begin charging $5-10 per month for Beeper Plus.

Also, no humor is lost on the fact that it is dangerously close to Wuph from The Office…

It’s exactly what social media platforms, particularly Facebook, want. They want you to feel locked in because your friends are there

I don’t know why people don’t just use more SMS. You don’t need all the fancy bells and whistles, it shouldn’t change the conversation you’re having, especially with the gradual rollout of rich messages, and it has a wider audience than Facebook will ever have. More people have SMS than have Facebook

Python calculations run in the Microsoft Cloud, with the results returned into an Excel worksheet.

Weird choice, so it has to be due to wanting to Paywall it (they mention that at the bottom of the article). Otherwise I’d rather have the option to install python locally and speed up my queries when working on large data sets

Neat. I may give this a go at work. My company decided not to buy an enterprise license for Docker Desktop so we’re locked to older, free versions.

We’ve also been using Podman (via buildah) in our pipelines with great success. It’s seems to be a pretty great drop-in replacement for Docker

Probably the hardest part of React, for me, was getting used to the callbacks. Passing data up to the parent component using a function. It’s a little difficult to get used to if you haven’t encountered it already

Here’s the GitHub which links to ModDb

https://github.com/Ravo92/Patch-2.22-Launcher

Funniest part was that it was originally posted to “TerribleFacebookMemes”

Right? This is just a wacky line of thought. 99% of cases are “prejudged” that’s why we have a trial process with arguments and counter-arguments. To show evidence and convince the judges of your opinions.

Sad that impeachment is continuing to be wielded as a weapon more and more. It should be reserved for extreme situations. Not just because you want an excuse to get rid of your opponent

There is a bit of irrationality with FOSS. People claim they work better, but I almost universally find that they work significantly worse and have much worse UX.

Granted, I still use and prefer FOSS alternatives a lot of the time, but I’m not using them because they’re functionally better, and pretending like they are in many cases is just disingenuous

How is this not a misallocation of resources that the shareholders should be upset about? They really don’t want the company’s money going to more value add instead?

I am interested in trying Podman and Rancher for alternatives to Docker, but I don’t think this article is very good at convincing anyone… Two of their three points are VERY weak

The ease of creating pods is unmatched by any other container engine, whether CLI or GUI.

I would definitely challenge that opinion. For starters, I use the Docker CLI for 99% of my use cases, so really I don’t care about the GUI but about how the CLI commands are designed. Secondly, if I am going to use a GUI for Docker, I just use Portainer which is the best GUI I’ve found so far for container management.

This point is extremely subjective.

Unlike Docker, you can pull an image while in the Podman Desktop application

This is just incorrect, and I don’t know why they couldn’t just look at the Docker Desktop documentation for two seconds to find the truth

The strongest argument they have is for the rootless containers, which my company’s shared pipeline runners are now beginning to enforce. We use buildah for that (which I believe wraps around Podman) and I appreciate the increased security and lighter load on the system

Overall, this wasn’t a very convincing article. I’m interested in Podman but if I weren’t I think I’d find it pretty easy to dismiss this one

I know a lot of people don’t care for Sync because it isn’t a FOSS application. But it’s genuinely the best app out there right now by a huge margin. It’s extremely polished and it works so much more reliably.

I use Jerboa mainly, and I’m constantly having to switch instances or restart Jerboa because something breaks. Sync doesn’t have the same issues, seemingly, it just works.

For example, Jerboa makes it really difficult to “restart” the infinite scroll when something does go wrong. You hit the bottom of the infinite scroll and can’t scroll any further and the only way to recover is to either (1) scroll all the way back to the top of the feed so you can refresh or (2) restart the app. With Sync you can easily just press the home button again to go to the top of the feed. But honestly I never have to do that because it’s broken, I only ever do that to start a new session

Overall, I’m a little stunned by the difference in quality. It’s actually remarkable