ramjambamalam
@ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 weeks ago:
It also wasn’t common but there was a Samsung Folder which was a flip phone and a Motorola Flipout which was a swivel phone.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 weeks ago:
Check out Sidephone.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 weeks ago:
HTC Desire Z had swinging action which was pretty slick. Grit couldn’t get stuck in those sliders and it snapped open with a satisfying clack.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 weeks ago:
A QWERTY flip phone would actually be sweet. Are there a y examples from history, from the era when phones were fun?
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 weeks ago:
It’s amazing how homogenized phones have become: Apple or Google flavoured slabs with a 6" or 6.5" display.
Fifteen years ago you could get sliders and flip phones and BlackBerry style phones and phones that had game controls, and 4" slabs and 6" slabs (called “phablets” back then). There was so much more choice and it was so much more fun. Now you can’t even get a modern phone that’s less than 6" so it fits easily in your pocket.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 weeks ago:
I loved my Passport but the Titan 2 just looked frumpy in a way that the Passport didn’t. It’s not looks that keeps me from buying it though; it’s the complete lack of security updates which would prevent me from using it for work. Unihertz has promised better support starting with Titan 2. If that turns out to be true, then the upcoming Titan Elite will be an attractive competitor to the Clicks Communicator, which has promised 5 years of security updates.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 2 weeks ago:
By “inadequate” I don’t mean having room for improvement. I mean: lacking, weak, light-handed. By that definition, SO’s moderation is if anything, overdone, not inadequate. Personally, I love it as a technical resource.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 3 weeks ago:
I’m just using it as an example of what a Q&A site with inadequate moderation looks like.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 3 weeks ago:
Of course there’s a middle ground, that’s much closer in my ideal world to StackOverflow than it is to Yahoo Answers or Quora.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy isn’t a Q&A application in the way that the others I mentioned are.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 3 weeks ago:
If Stack Overflow is a 3/10 then Quora is a 1/10 and Yahoo Answers is -5/10.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 3 weeks ago:
If the alternative is the cesspit that is Yahoo Answers and Quora, I’ll take the heavy-handed moderation of StackOverflow.
- Comment on Which one and why? 3 months ago:
It doesn’t say we get a fork or knife, so I’ll choose 2 for it’s pointy/stabbing ability.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I was wondering if you’d get similar results for states with the letter R, since there’s lots of prior art mentioning these states as either “D” or “R” during elections.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 4 months ago:
Try it again. I bet their password reset service was swamped after sending the notice.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 4 months ago:
Response time is critical.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 4 months ago:
They say that passwords are hashed but we’re they salted?
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 5 months ago:
You missed my point. A prompt injection to fuck with LLMs would be read by a visually impaired user’s screen reader.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 5 months ago:
If a bot can’t read it, nor can a visually impaired user.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 6 months ago:
Use Firefox + uBlock origin for your own sanity. Don’t let big tech make you feel guilty for not going along with their game.
100% this and also, consider allow-listing specific sites which deserve your support, or better yet, contribute directly if you can. Your local bike club forum, your local newspaper, a blogger whose work you enjoy, etc., assuming of course, the ads are reasonable.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 6 months ago:
You haven’t changed your password for 30 days. Reset it now.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 6 months ago:
Temple OS?
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 6 months ago:
I identify as Linux and my pronouns are root/+u.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 6 months ago:
Would a UV filtering lens help? Do solar cells generate more power from certain parts of the light spectrum?
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 9 months ago:
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 9 months ago:
Serious question: what is a US multinational?
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 11 months ago:
That’s a weird flex by the United States of South Canada
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 11 months ago:
The change reflects Google’s policy of adhering to official government names for geographical locations.
OK, so why am I seeing Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) from Canada?
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 11 months ago:
Fairphone is also gigantic.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
didn’t vote
If you accept facists without objection, you aren’t much better than the racists.