This looks very exiting! I am a long-time Sony DPT/Fujitsu Quaderno user and love these kind of devices. My question would be whether you have plans in the future to make a 13.3" version. The 10" versions are just too small for my use (mostly reading scientific papers).
I started using noted (also a variant of neo2) [1] and I love it. I did change some things in the Layer 4 (mostly placed the numbers on the left hand and arrows arranged in-line, similar to vim). I really like how it works. I'm using a split keyboard, specifically the Lily58.
A new version of Typst has been released with a bunch of improvements. This is really getting closer and closer to being a definite replacement for Latex. There is still a lot to do for that, but it is a really nice project. I have been a Latex user for many years, and have done many templates, but doing templates with Typst is just very fun (and I actually understand what I am doing :P).
I use to use sprays but at some point just stopped, because they were nor really helping. For some years I just accepted that my nose does not work properly. There were always some moments were I could use my nose but then it would get blocked. It was only after I read a book (Breath by John Nestor) that I started really trying. And it really worked! I wouldn't say that it will work for everyone, since I have no data and this is not my field, but many things from the book make sense and it is worth a try.
That's what I thought too, but after reading the book "Breath" by James Nestor (as others have mentioned in this thread) I decided to try that. And it really works. I think that if you exhale to fast and inhale immediately, then you are not really getting rid of all the CO2 that you could/should. So, by doing it at a slower rhythm, then you get more efficient in getting air in and CO2 out.
I am (was) one of those people (allergies and slightly deviated septum). I started to really breath through my nose about two years ago. I always thought that it would not be possible, because I felt that I could not get enough air. I started practicing while cycling to work everyday. At the beginning it really felt super hard (especially since I have to ride up the hill, about 200m altitude difference), but after a few days of this, it was not hard anymore and I started to breath exclusively through my nose without problems. I think that allergies, although still present, are less intense and it doesn't impair me to breath properly. So, just try.
I think that the poor excuses are in the other side. Adding DRM to files to actively preventing the user to choose in which devices he/she wants to read the file and for how long the content will be available goes against the whole concept of "buying" a book. When I buy a book I expect to be able to open it in ten years in whatever device I'm using, running any OS that I want. That's why we have standard formats. And I also expect that the quality of a book for which I payed 50-90€ for (because that is normally the price range) to have a good quality and at least a table of contents. A few occasions I had to manually add table of contents for books that otherwise would have been unusable to me.
This is really an issue that should not exist. I have also bought textbooks only to be immediately disappointed by the fact that you have to use a specific app (like the adobe DRM thing... or just try to get your money back). Then you have to start figuring out how to remove the DRM and lose time with that. Sometimes the quality of the book is also pretty bad, e.g. they don't even include a digital table of contents, which should be essential in a digital copy of any book (this has happened to me with textbooks from Springer). In my case, this has lead to actually buying less textbooks and just pirate the books instead. I don't have the time to deal with all this customer-unfriendly behavior.
I love blender, but the Python API is really unpythonic. I really wish you could treat the different things as objects and not by referencing then by their names. Nevertheless, it's pretty cool to automate some things I have to do at work (I am a civil engineer working in research)
I think that Microsoft should train copilot with their own code (they own certainly enough lines of code after all). If they think that that would not be a fair use, then why should be a fair use to use somebody else's code?
There is surely a version for Linux. I have been using it in my computer with Archlinux [1] for a couple of years with vim (there are at least two plugins [2,3]). It works pretty good. The only thing is that when running it locally it kind of uses a lot of resources. So not so good when you are with your laptop running on battery.
I have the Fujitsu Quaderno A4 (13,3" screen). Great for reading scientific publications it whatever pdf. Also had a great Wacom stylus to take notes. I am great fan of these devices. Before the Quaderno I had the Sony DPT-RP1, which is very similar except the stylus is not so great.
I came here just to say this too. They don't need to reinvent the whole wheel again. In this case all it is needed is to change the screen and add the Electrophoretic Display Controller. That would be the most efficient approach.
I also come from Archlinux. A few months ago I discovered the mpr repository [1]. It is essentially the same as the AUR bit for Ubuntu. The syntax is also the same as the AUR packages, so it is super easy to port a package to Ubuntu. I highly recommend it.
I am really happy about this. Kinds should really learn basic concepts of programming and in general of how a computer works. They don't all need to become super programmers, but it would definitely help them in the future, if only to know what to expect from their IT co-workers and what is possible. I hope though that this computer science classes are really something in this direction and not only learn how to use powerpoint or word (I am convinced that many politics in Germany still think this is what is meant with computer science).
I totally agree with you. I use the python API in Blender to make some renderings of mechanical connections we are developing. As a python expert I am always a bit disoriented by how things should be handled. It would be really great if the python API could get some love in the future.
Not at all. Multiple workspaces was common in Linux way before it was a thing in windows or Mac. And Compiz really helped in bringing new fancy effects to the desktop.
For me, there is no IDE feature that can compete with the experience of editing in vim/neovim. When I use any other editor I just feel like I have a hand tied. The development of LSP and tree-sitter just makes the whole experience even better.