kamen

@kamen@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For things that you’re using by yourself, sure, it’s doable. However, for content creation, it’s pretty hard. Some of those alternatives just don’t have the critical mass yet. Maybe it would be an option to do both in parallel for some time before switching completely, but might not work for everybody.

  Practical example: I’m a hobbyist photographer. Small timer, less than 1000 followers. My livelihood doesn’t depend on this, but I’m still serious about it. I mainly do concerts and sport events (so a lot of things involving other people) and my main outlets are Facebook and Instagram. Switching to something else would mean either 1) that no one will see my work or 2) that people will see my photos on the alternative place, they’ll copy them over and they’ll still end up on Facebook and Instagram, but this time without my creative control (thus badly cropped and recompressed several times - so even if I pay special attention to those things when publishing by myself, the effort goes down the drain when someone else does it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Off the top of my head:

  • complex gestures (tap + swipe, two finger swipe/rotate)
  • frequent/recent/new apps in app search
  • app drawer tabs
  • icon customisation for folders
  • creating home screen shortcuts for activities (or if that’s possible, I couldn’t find it).

  Of course this shouldn’t sound as a blame - I know Lawnchair is relatively young - those are a bit more advanced features that I grew used to over more than 10 years with Nova. When I manage to get a development environment running and some knowledge about Android, those are some of the first things I’d try to implement in Lawnchair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried it, but it’s missing some things I’m used to - both functionally and visually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang… I saw this a while ago, but thanks to this post I looked again and it turned out that mine had automatically updated to the new version on Play Store. Went ahead and uninstalled it and then installed the latest Beta from before, and I was lucky that my email license still worked - don’t know for how long though (not sure if the check is hardcoded in some way or if it makes an API call).

  It’s had a great run, but it’s just sad that it has to end like this. Would’ve been spectacular if it was open-sourced as promised.

  I started looking into alternatives and it seems like no other launcher is quite there yet, but Lawnchair looks promising for my use. The whole situation started looking like the appropriate time to learn some Android development; a while ago I was thinking of forking the AOSP launcher and trying to implement some stuff by myself, but now it seems like contributing to Lawnchair would be a better idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bit late to the party…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s very much in the spirit of “Stop being poor”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Opera had this 20+ years ago. Once you get used to it, there’s no going back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad I bought a bunch of 20 TB ones some months back. I’m good for a few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huh?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speakeasies were still a thing last time I checked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how greedy he is, you’ll have quite a lot of contributing to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… it depends on the language too. I’m not a native English speaker, but I would use 12-hour in spoken English too - often without even appending “AM” or “PM” because it would be obvious from the context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, we get it, Bezos. You want us to shove more and more money down your throat.

  Reading the article, the analogy with an own generator and the power grid kind of makes sense at first… until you also make an analogy with broadcast and cable TV for example - you don’t get to choose what’s on, and in the latter case you’re practically paying for ads and some programming in between. So… how about no.

  My fear is that those shortages (artificial or not) might at one point really drive us in a different direction. My only option for now is to vote with my wallet and use my stuff for as long as practically feasible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EU fella here. I’m strongly pro-Metric and yet don’t see a problem with 12-hour time. 24-hour is kind of clumsy to use in informal speech or chat/text, but I would use it in all other instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Care⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Earthquake detection kit.

  On a serious note, my issue with these is that they’re plastic and when they eventually fall off they’ll become litter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of those with printing on them would fade pretty badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speak for yourself. You’re probably a native English speaker and have it easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mafs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but 4:20 originates as a time. The problem happens when you want to put it into a date as well.

  Time is the only exception where I agree that the less specific part can come before the more specific one - just because more often than not one does not make sense without the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mafs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least 1st of May is a date that can actually happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please the Beans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SASA LELE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Common scenario to collect gullible people and scam them later - or just get them to like a certain page and then sell the page with the likes.

  Local supermarket chain is giving away free cars, just like and comment this post. Oh, and by the way the page was created two days ago and has 15 likes - must be legit!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why Is Every Word Capitalised Though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"i can hear the difference"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Directional cables kind of make sense in an analogue, single-ended connection if it’s about the shielding being connected to ground only on one side… although I haven’t tried it in practice. Still, it has nothing to do with signal directionality, just noise rejection. The ground lift switch on some devices does the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be a final solution too if you’re not careful…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be an allergy. I used to have something like this with some foods some years ago. What’s interesting is that now I don’t seem to have it any more with the same foods; it might be true what they say about allergies - that they come and go. Not a medical professional - just speaking from my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Context is everything.

  “When are you guys coming over?”

  “We were thinking 20th, but I couldn’t get off work then, so 21st it is.”

  If you’re in that conversation, you’d be perfectly clear of what’s up. Imagine having to append “of December” to both dates (or also the year for that matter).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the language honestly. In my native language (that’s not English) it sounds somewhat clumsy with the zero in front, but it’s still sometimes used. Depending on the context it might be a simple number (zero two) or it might be an ordinal (zero second). From 2010 and on it’s been easier because you just say the equivalent of “tenth”, “eleventh” and so on.

  In writing it also depends on the context - if it’s something ambiguous (that could be 1925 or 2025), then sure, write the full year, otherwise two digits are fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So they don’t have the resources to check returned goods or what? Or they simply don’t care enough?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foot In The Door⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, okay, I’ll somewhat agree on that one, but I was commenting on the “failed” part - it’s not like someone else (or you) was unsuccessful in masking it - it was deliberately masked enough to mess with automated flagging systems, but not enough to even start being ambiguous or unclear (like it would be with actual censorship). So… “task failed successfully”? I dunno.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foot In The Door⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s not censorship, just intentionally masking it like this, probably to avoid it being immediately flagged by OCR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s been mechanical keyboards as of late.

  Maybe I should start stocking up on GMK sets - those seem to resell nicely.