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- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 6 days ago:
It uses layers, the same way a phone keyboard has a separate layer for numbers and symbols. Holding down one of the three thumb keys on either side activates a new layer. Since you can use your thumb and fingers at the same time, there’s no lose in typing speed. Indeed, the layout puts numbers and symbols closer to the home row on a layer than using a physical number number.
For all symbols, you would have needed a shift-modifier to access those before. With this design, the symbols are closer but use a layer switch key instead of a shift key to access them.
Everyone who uses a phone keyboard has learned a new compact keyboard layout. It’s not so hard.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 4 weeks ago:
To your list add that new Tesla sales are also competing against an increasing number of Tesla owners who now want to divest themselves of the brand.
More used Teslas on the market will only push down the market rates and thus profits of new Teslas even further.
- Comment on Are there any self hosted news aggregators? 4 weeks ago:
You could self-host Lemmy and use RSS to Lemmy services to post to your personal communities.
- Comment on Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose. 4 weeks ago:
The opposite of VPS is more like “home lab”.
Managing a VPS yourself still counts as self-hosting.
- Comment on Uline turned to Mexico to staff warehouses, but paid them a fraction of US workers, sources say 1 month ago:
Wow, from the same company that sent me a 500-page catalog unsolicited.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 month ago:
What’s an example of a place with conflicting names in different countries that handled differently?
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 month ago:
There are other big players for maps that are less visible to end users.
Esri is a GIS firm hired by governments at many levels for map tech.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 month ago:
From the article:
“When official names vary between countries, Maps users see their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. That applies here too,” Google said.
Nothing exceptional is happening on Google’s end. They are following their policy on names as they have before.
- Comment on Looking for personal cloud storage alternatives 1 month ago:
The requirements asked for a web UI. You are right though, except for that, other kind of shared folder solutions might work.
- Comment on Ghost blog adding activitypub 1 month ago:
Wordpress has become an all-purpose CMS known security vulnerabilities via unsafe plugins.
Ghost has APIs instead of plugins for nearly everything, so it eliminated a lot of security and maintenance headache that way.
Ghost focuses on just a few features centered around independent content creators: blogging, email newsletters and subscriptions.
So features for sending bulk emails and accepting payments are built in, but you won’t find native support for other things like podcasts or recipe markup.
Ghost meets my need, and I love not dealing with 30 plugins at risk of being exploited if I don’t upgrade them promptly.
- Comment on Self host websites 1 month ago:
Exactly. It’s not just downtime to worry about, either. It’s disks filling up. It’s hardware failure. It’s DNS outages. It’s random DDoS attacks. It’s automated scans of the internet targeting WordPress. It’s OS, php and database upgrades. It’s setting up graphing, monitoring, alerting and being on-call 24/7 to deal with the issues that come up.
If these businesses are at all serious, pay for professional hosting and spend your time running the business.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 months ago:
Ironically, when I tried to load Wired’s story about this travesty, Wired quickly hid the content with pop-over asking me to subscribe.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 3 months ago:
Looks like it might have been dark and foggy. The government failed to block the extremely dangerous situation— a standard practice when a bridge is put in other places.
- Comment on Is there any front end YouTube that can allow me to still comment? 4 months ago:
At one time there were browser extensions that allowed you to comment on any web page and allowed other extension users to see your comments.
The comments were hosted through the extension and not on the pages themselves.
Something like that would be possible but I don’t know anyone offering it now. I presume no one wants to moderate that.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 5 months ago:
- Comment on WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contacts 5 months ago:
Is this deshittification?
- Comment on Honey 5 months ago:
We do need bees, but that doesn’t mean the honey industry is sustainable.
- Comment on In Arkansas can my brother sue the public defender for pressing him to take a deal and was told don't tell the judge you were pressed into this plea because I will jail you mom? 5 months ago:
You could likely have a free initial meeting with a lawyer to confirm a law had been broken and get a general idea of their fees and your odds of success.
Sounds like it would be your brother’s word against the public defenders. Sounds tough.
Yes, you could file paperwork for a lawsuit. Affording the legal help and winning the suit are different matters.
- Comment on The purpose of podman quadlets? 5 months ago:
I like to manage services maximally with systemd so it was a natural fit for me.
It did not seem difficult to set up web and database quadlets so they are properly networked.
