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I'm extremely skeptical of any company that does as much advertising as PCBWay, but they seem to legitimately do a good job. From what I can tell, it seems every single order is reviewed by a human who sends you an email if something is off. Quality is as good as you'd want and the price is reasonable.

Their website is an atrocity but I guess that's fine.

I've been using them for the last few months and I have no complaints.

I'll have to try OpenBoard. Right now I'm using ASK and I really want to like it, but it's just slightly too janky and rigid. The customizability is nowhere near good enough. There's too many behaviors that seem hardcoded and impossible to change. Like when my battery is below 15%, autocorrect and haptics are turned off. Who thought that was a good idea?! Now my phone is almost useless for typing when the battery is low.

I really miss Swiftkey :(

I'm actually rather surprised that we're still using qwerty layouts on touchscreen devices.

Of all the possible ways to input text with your thumbs, this is undoubtedly one of the worst.

I'm sure plenty of people have tried to come up with alternate keyboards, maybe a radial layout or something, but when I look, I don't see a whole lot of activity in this space.

There's got to be a better way, surely.

I've seen a ton of press from Mozilla recently and none of it has been about Firefox. It's all been shitty virtue signaling like this.

I don't give a shit about Mozilla's lofty ideals when they aren't actually doing anything to achieve them.

I disliked Mozilla enough years ago to switch to chrome and now that I want to get rid of chrome I have no other options.

It seems clear that Mozilla doesn't care to or feel the need to actually improve the product. They'll continue to exist because they must so why bother with a product? Yeah sure, just blow a ton of money on some modern art exhibit why not?

God, it's bad enough that we have a chrome monopoly. Does Mozilla really have to be actively shitty in response? Why can't we have an actually good alternative?

It can but that doesn't mean it's a great idea.

Unless your chip has a hardware floating point unit, you're stuck using software float operations. They're slower, though not extraordinarily so. But the main drawback is the floating point library can massively inflate your code size to the point that it no longer fits in available memory.

If you can get away with it, it's fine, but when you can't it's a huge problem.

The sperm cell is absorbed into the egg. The genetic material is taken into the nucleus and the rest of the cell is broken down and absorbed. The egg then turns into a more normal type of cell and starts dividing.

I suppose it's possible that that original cell will break down within the gestation period, but it would be in the center of the foetus and would be reabsorbed.

So, yes, probably

Unity recently forced us to upgrade to their Industrial tier. We had to cut back on the number of licenses we use because our costs went up at least 10x.

Fortunately the rest of their pricing changes don't affect us, but it's still a real pain in the ass

That doesn't really add up. The core problem of GPL is that it's viral and takes away freedom from downstream developers in favor of upstream freedom.

My Dreamcast has been my one and only PC for decades!

They're way, way too cheap and low-spec to even consider as a daily driver.

I'd love to pay like $500 for a pinephone with hardware from 3-4 years ago.

I have some compression underwear by DEVOPS brand. It's very mildly amusing every time I see them in the laundry. Also the worst compression shorts I've ever seen but I guess you kind of have to expect that

Copyleft was a good idea, but its real world utility is a lot less than anyone would like.

I once inherited a GPL project, but I couldn't muster any community interest in working with it. Plugin authors would have been compelled to use GPL and no one seemed interested. We had to burn the project to the ground and start over with a new MIT licensed project. Now there's a flourishing community of plugin authors working with it.

GPL being a viral license is the core problem, I think. I get the intent behind that clause, but developers tend to not enjoy being mandated to like that.

I don't think GPL is bad, but it's not exactly pleasant either.

I think it depends on the use. The kind of AI you're suggesting wouldn't need to ingest the entirety of every book and movie you've seen, it would just need to store a summary and a location for the original file.

It's legal for me to make digital copies of copyrighted works I own so long as they're not redistributed. If I have a local AI maintaining my personal data for reasons other than generating competing works, that shouldn't involve copyright at all.

Kagi is as good as google used to be. It doesn't have that same 'wow' effect because we've all experienced what good search is.

It feels like turning on your ad blocker. It's what web search was supposed to be all along. It isn't that it's better than Google, Google is just so much worse now.

I'm extremely happy with it. Just the ability to block Pinterest from my results forever is worth the price.

I'm kind of shocked to see a company in this day and age making their service more affordable as it becomes more popular.

I'm very happy with this service. Worth every cent and then some.

Click any link on the lock screen or in the system settings menu.

Microsoft is the complication. Windows won't respect your default browser choice and will forcibly open Edge in some situations. It will also take any opportunity to nag you into changing your default browser to Edge.

'We' is the subsection of the fediverse that federates with the server I'm on. It's a sentiment that I see everywhere on mastodon, not from any particular instances.

The fringe-er instances are more likely to block by default. It's almost an issue of fediverse fundamentalism. A lot of people think large instances like .social are antithetical to what mastodon is trying to accomplish. We have huge, enormous centralized servers in the middle of a decentralized network. I think you can see how that sentiment would come about

Mastodon.social is one of the riskier places to be if you're concerned about defederation.

There's a very large segment of the mastodon population that thinks servers ad big as .social are very bad for the ecosystem. A lot of instances defederate them out of principle.

The argument is that .social is so big that it's not possible to moderate effectively. It also presents a very large and inviting place to launch attacks from. We frequently see waves of spam, abuse, and just bot accounts originating from .social.

A lot of severs are already defederated from .social for these reasons

Sorry, what does it even mean for a random number generator to have a backdoor? Is it leaking your generated keys to the NSA? Does it have some arbitrary code execution vulnerability?

You use a lot less than you think. I pay $10/mo for 1000 searches and I typically use about 300-400

Besides that, it's worth it to me to get the results I'm after instead of SEO spam. Plus Boolean and literal operators that actually work and the ability to permanently block Pinterest, Facebook, and other cancerous sites.

Note 10+. It was their flagship model 3 or 4 years ago.

I can't decide what phone to replace it with. I love the idea of the pinephone but it's way too cheap. The other open source options are way too expensive.

The best option seems to be a Pixel device with a custom OS, but I'm loath to give google money.

Under no circumstances will I buy another phone that I can't run a custom OS on.

I started playing with a LLAMA variant recently and it loves to explain "as a LLM created by OpenAI, I can't do that, but here's some text anyway...."

I find it really amusing

It really hurts my head to even think about how that works. Does google offer some proprietary email api that isn't IMAP? Why would such a thing exist? Why would you make an email app without IMAP?

My Samsung phone has forced updates even worse than this. It will download an update silently in the background and will nag me with a new notification every couple of hours. It will let me delay the update for a random length of time before just rebooting on its own. The last update let me delay for something like 10 hours, but I've also had it reboot in the middle of the day while I was using my phone to show something to a customer.

This has also soft-bricked my device more than once. I use a custom launcher, and Samsung apparently doesn't like that, so the system updates can get me stuck in a loop where the launcher repeatedly crashes.

There is no way at all to disable auto updates or stop the process once an update has been acquired. I've even tried blocking IPs in my router, but it seems to change addresses now and then. My only option is to just always keep WiFi off. It thankfully won't download over the cell network.

I'm never buying another Samsung product. I hate this phone more than I have any other piece of technology.

The idea that some company can at any moment force my device to download gigabytes of unknown data and run anything they want on my device without my knowledge or consent is just reprehensible. I paid over a thousand dollars for this piece of crap and I don't even own it. It's utterly ridiculous.

Every few weeks I get a new notification that the Samsung EULA has updated. I just dismiss them. It's not like it matters if I agree or not.

Everyone in this thread needs to take a long, hard look at their life.

Especially the men trying to ascribe some sort of motivation to all women on the goddamn planet.

Framing it this way implies that men are owed attention from women and a lack thereof is punishment.

When in reality women are people and nearly 100% of all people ever wish to not be harassed by a stranger that feels entitled to their time.

Women want to be able to go about their daily business without some dude trying to talk to them because he thinks he deserves something

I don't think you understand what FUD means.

Hint: it does not mean "things I disagree with or don't understand"

They added Bing to goddamn Notepad

Huh, maybe I'm weird, but I use the same 'voice' in all forms of communication. With the exception of the shorthand I share with my husband, I always text in full, properly formatted sentences and paragraphs. I use the same style for texts, mastodon posts, and long hackernews comments. It's also the same style I typically speak in normal conversation.

Now I think about it, that's probably an autistic trait. I kind of have to carefully construct what I'm saying in any context, and it looks like this.