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The most important feature is not handwriting recognition, but the fact that it is a large e-ink screen, where you can comfortably read and write. You don't get that with an iPad. If you read a lot of documents there is really no comparison, because it is a different category of device.

More like a German thing... This happens to me in Stuttgart, too. If I want to make a call when I'm at home, I usually just call with Signal over my wifi, because the normal cellular network is terrible.

I think that's why we have flatpack now.

I have just started using it today, but it seems to work pretty good. I want to use it to edit a latex file with a college (like Overleaf). I normally use git to collaborate, but merging branches and all that can become a problem some times.

Apparently it starts a server which shares the buffer, so you are not really accessing the machine.

NVC is a very good tool for solving communication problems and I think it is definitely worth practicing. However, it is not always easy, as it requires that we identify and express our _feelings_ correctly.

In the example you described, there is a problem in that you are _not really_ saying a feeling. "I feel that our relationship is transactional..." is not a feeling. The rule being: when you start with "I feel like ..." then you are not naming a feeling. This is the most difficult part as we are not used to talking with actual feelings (I am certainly not). For the case your described, one option could be to state it like this: "(1) When you put so much pressure on me, (2) I feel discouraged/uncomfortable, (3) because I need work relationships that are more than purely transactional. (4) Would you mind trying to do X next time?". And then you have the four required steps of NVC :)

(I literally need to look at a list with words that are feelings to try to see which is the one that corresponds for the situation when it goes beyond happy, angry or sad.)

(*edited some typos)

For me, Excel is a tool mostly for entering data manually. In the case you described, it would be good for that purpose. I suppose you would have a column for each volunteer and then just enter data. Then you can read the file with python (pandas) and make a sum over the columns and give the one with most hours. Of course this case is also easy to do in Excel, however, the idea is that if you know more powerful tools (programming in general), then you will be able to do other things that otherwise you would regard as more time-consuming. Maybe you want then to give different awards for age ranges. And if you have too many volunteers then it would not be so easy any more in Excel, but in python you would just know how to do it.

I've always thought that every highschooler should be taught the basics of programming with an easy language like Python instead. That really is a superpower in a lot more contexts.

I think this is great. I am an arch user at home, but at work I use Ubuntu. It is really difficult sometimes to get the latest version of a software installed in an easy way. I tend to use a lot of custom Makefiles for this, but I don't really like to not use the package manager. Being an arch user, I always wished it was as easy to build deb packages as it is to build packages with makepkg. I tried the debian way, and could successfully build some packages, but it is not at easy at using PKGBUILD files and I have to eventually. Now it seems to be possible to do this in Ubuntu! I will definitely try this!

I remember from my times at the university that the TI Voyage 200 (and probably TI89, too) had the option to program in different languages. I tried the Spanish version, but apart from being an interesting exercise, I didn't see much use in programming in Spanish. Furthermore, if I remember correctly, if you wrote a program in Spanish, then it would not run after you set the language back to English... so not so good if you wanted to interchange code.

Linfiny (a company created by Sony, E-INK and Wacom) seems very interesting. They will be releasing some new models this year, including color e-ink. These are the successors of the Sony Digital Papers, which I think are the best note taking devices. I bought mine in 2018 and use it almost every day. The addition of the Wacom layer will be great, because the original stylus was not so great (although it did the job).

[1] https://www.linfiny.co.jp/en

(edit: typo)

Too many electron apps? :P

Since Facebook bought Whatsapp I have been upset exactly because of this. I remember having read this post at the time and considered that that was exactly the right way to go. I started using Whatsapp and paying for it in that moment. I convinced many family members and friends to start using it because of this. Then, when they got enough users, they just decided that none of what they promised was important.

Since then, I have actively trying to convince my contacts to move away from WhatsApp, but it is really hard now. This clearly shows that no matter how much trust a company might inspire at a given time, nothing prevents that ten years from now, when everyone is dependent on their technology, they will not change the rules. And nobody will be able to do anything. (Next: Apple, maybe?)

But that is the thing. WhatsApp used to be a payed app, and the promise was that they would never sell our use your data for adds. Then they sold to Facebook and broke that promise. I used to pay for WhatsApp because I believed them then. And it got big because of many people did that too. That is the thing that I found the most insulting about WhatsApp now.

I disagree. This still happens today. I am a latex user but occasionally have to work in a word document and these kind of problems keep occurring.

What do you mean? Writing a document in html is not much different than doing it in LaTeX.

You can do this on-the-fly with Zathura... in Linux

Actually, yes. It is really a pretty cool thing in general haha

Thanks for sharing. Maybe you could add a more detailed Readme? What is the exact use situation of the script?

My friends can never understand my excitement when I realize that I can use a non-trivial scanner or printer utility in Linux. For example, I was really impressed that I could scan without problems from my brother ADS-1100W through wifi(!), or when I could configure the printer at work that requires some login credentials. Ah, the little joys of life :P

We all know that time is linear... except if you are traveling pretty fast :P

Alone from the name I thought this would have support for Wayland. Apparently that is not the case. Nice program though ;)

That looks nice. The only problem for me is that it is GUI-only (it does not expose e.g. a Python API, and apparently they are not thinking of supporting that in the near future [0])

[0] https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/375

What about Steam? They certainly need inputs drivers to play games.

Tikz maybe?

That happens to me too. You really thing you have something interesting to tell, and then bam, just a silly thought... good that I realized that before publishing it.

You know that Drew is the maintainer of sway, right? I don't think switching to Windows is an option here :P

You can access the filesystem of the DPT-RP1 via wifi, bluetooth or USB. There is a nice python library to do all that [1].

[1] https://github.com/janten/dpt-rp1-py

The only thing that holds me from considering buying the remarkable is its size. If they would offer a 13 inch version, then I would consider doing that. Right now I am super happy with my sunny DPT-RP1.

It does that since the last software update ;)

Meanwhile at the NSA: "The plan worked perfectly! Now they are disabling the security patches willingly. Everyone, back to work!" (: