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It’s SO bad. It makes me not want to use my phone anymore and physically go get my laptop if I’m chatting/messaging someone.

It’s probably the worst typing experience I’ve had since resistive-touch screens on PDAs. At least with them you could still type what you intended to though, just slowly.

That's very cool.

I have a few ePaper picture frames that don't use any power, and when you tap your phone to them it uses the power-over-NFC to boot itself and update the photo you send to it. It's such a cool idea and something I always felt like could be used more for displays that don't need to update very often.

Technically you could use a keyboard with any modern phone, so it’s not “wrong”, it’s just… extremely unlikely anyone would ever do it.

When it comes to Google it’s not being pessimistic, it’s just being realistic.

One of my kids just got a $13 “smart watch” which has a touch screen, camera with filters/editor, microSD storage, plays MP3s, records voice memos, has games, and more I’m probably forgetting.

It absolutely blows my mind how cheap tech is these days.

This is so much fun, and some an awesome idea. Playing around with it gives me that same feeling as playing with MSPaint as a kid, exploring different brushes and seeing how they interact.

That’s already a thing. Infill. There’s lots of variations of infill that all have different strengths and weaknesses.

I used to consider it a form of flow-state when you’ve played Descent/Overload long enough that up/down stops being a thing.

It always took a while each session to get to that point, but once you were there it all just starting flowed so damn well, and manoeuvring the tunnels became so much faster/easier.

Overload VR was one of the most intense VR experiences I’ve ever had.

It also really helps immerse you in the “there’s no up/down” feeling.

Sure, you start feeling sick after a few minutes, but it’s such a fun few minutes that you can’t wait to do it again.

OP site only has 2 posts, both about OpenClaw, and “About” goes to a fake LinkedIn profile with an AI photo.

Welcome to the future I guess, everyone is a bot except you.

Oh it's not just me?

Typing on my iPhone in the last few months (~6 months?) has been absolutely atrocious. I've tried disabling/enabling every combination of keyboard setting I can thinkj of, but the predictive text just randomly breaks or it just gives up and stops correcting anything at all.

TheOldNet runs a decent WebRing that still gets new sites added to it pretty regularly, and is almost always just personal websites/blogs. I quite like it (and my site is on it)

https://webring.theoldnet.com

There's also geekring.net that is similar, and a few others that are still actively updated.

I still prefer WebRings for finding good personal sites, it has that old-web "exploration and discovery" type feeling that makes it actively satisfying to find new sites.

I’ve done multiple projects that use 20m+ of WS2812s.

I deliver the main power in segments from a single large PSU and run 5v signal (despite being designed for 3.3v signal most will handle 5v fine and works better for longer strips).

Running segments with connectors also makes it easier to swap out failed segments.

I searched for that exact phrase out of curiosity because I haven’t used Google in years… and it’s even worse than you say.

I got an AI summary that takes up half the screen, which doesn’t even give the right answer, then 5 YouTube videos with thumbnails and extra crud (most not even related to the question but just mention “ArduPilot” somewhere on the title), then half a page of “Other people searched for..”

Then about 3 “screens” down the page I get the ArduPilot homepage and then a bunch of embedded Reddit/Facebook discussions about ArduPilot in general, none about setting up GPS.

Google has *completely* lost the plot.

That’s implied by the fact he was on the Joe Rogan show.

I’ve blogged on and off since the late 90s when it was more “update the /writings.html file with a new addition every now and then” and I learned pretty early that I don’t actually care if anyone reads the stuff I like, I just like the act of writing.

Getting thoughts out of my head and into writing is very therapeutic, as even though I know it will probably get zero views, the fact it might get views makes me think carefully about how to word and structure it all and how to turn the jumble of chaos in my head into something the general public could comprehend.

Or compression that makes a streamed 4K video look worse than a 1080p video played locally.

I’ve been griping over this for years now. I get pretty bad RSI so like using a split mechanical keyboard for coding, but I also use long/complex passwords so I like using Touch ID too. It dumbfounds me that you can’t get a Touch ID pad or even a numpad with Touch ID to sit next to aftermarket keyboards.

Leaded is easier to solder with, lead-free is less bad for you, but inhaling any fumes from burning stuff isn’t good for you, so use an extractor/filter no matter what.

The ability to highlight/copy/etc text on Macs/iOS these days is such a killer feature. I use it almost every day, both for copying/translating text in screenshots or taking photos of text to then copy it into my notes later (eg school notice boards or event posters etc).

My kids (pre-teen) have Pi400s. It lets them play around with basic graphics apps, write stories, write and print letters to family, play simple games without the kid-hostile world of modern “mainstream” gaming, watch movies from the NAS, etc.

More than enough to keep them entertained and teach them the basics.

Yup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XK5-n4rR7Q

This is very very cool, and unlike a lot of other "hobby" OSes actually looks usable as a daily driver if your needs are basic (kids, elderly, older/cheaper hardware, etc).

While for nerds computers have become these monstrously powerful things that can do everything under the sun, there's definitely still plenty of people who just want a computer to write down notes, keep a calendar, use the calculator... eg the things home computers were originally made to do.

Missed opportunity for the virtual Sphere to work on mobile via the keyboard in the graphics!

Godot is pretty awesome. Easy to learn, can do 2D or 3D, and can export to HTML5/webasm that works across all major OSes and browsers including mobile.

It’s far from perfect but I’ve been enjoying playing with it even for things that aren’t games and it has come a long way just in the last year or two. I feel like it’s close to (or is currently) having its Blender moment.

Kensington make multiple trackballs that are ambidextrous. I use both the wireless and wired (on laptop and desktop respectively) versions of their “Expert Mouse” model for a fair few years now.

That was relevant when you were learning to search through “information” for the answer to your question, eg the digital version of going through the library or digging through a reference book.

I don’t think it’s so valuable now that you’re searching through piles of spam and junk just to try find anything relevant. That’s a uniquely modern-web thing created by Google in their focus of profit over user.

Unless Google takes over libraries/books next and sells spots to advertisers on the shelves and in the books.

I'm just using this zsh plugin: https://github.com/yuhonas/zsh-ansimotd

I have a folder of .ANS files I’ve collected from this site, and when my terminal opens it loads a random one from the folder. It’s a silly little things but it gives me that “connecting to a BBS” nostalgia feeling every time I open the terminal.

Definitely all 3.