ExLisper
@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
- Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company 1 day ago:
MacOS’s UI is shit as always.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 days ago:
For usability the solution is using some custom ROM like Graphene OS or iode. They support AA now.
For privacy the solution is to use a very old car with no infotainment. Modern cars have telemetry and always on connectivity you can’t control. Even Linux phones will not help with that. We would need open source cars which will never happen.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 days ago:
My take on Android Auto (I’m sure everyone wants to hear)
pros:
- free to choose the maps app you want (OsmAnd, Organic Maps, Google Maps or anything)
- stream music for the app you want
- decent voice control for maps and spotify
- decent integration with some EV charging apps, you can find and initiate chargers from the dashboard
- you can write your own Android Auto apps
cons:
- Android Auto app is very invasive, polluting phone with stupid notifications
- the standard is shit. Android Auto doesn’t work work with Android Go phones but it’s not specified anywhere in the documentation, wireless Android Auto only works with latest android but it’s also not specified anywhere
- it’s controlled by Google and there are no alternative implementations
My solution so far is to use cheap, secondary phone for AA (which was hard to find because of the stupid limitations). If someone would create a open AA client not controlled by Google I would put it on my primary phone. AA should now work with Graphene OS so I may try to set it up in separate profile some day.
- Comment on Honestly how????? 2 days ago:
I grew up next to that border. Fortunately on the civilized side.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 2 days ago:
It’s not about ease of use. Remember Windows RT? It worked exactly like normal Windows and it still died because people didn’t understand what it is and were confused but the limitations. Making Linux as similar to Windows as possible is not a solution for the masses. It works for people that understand what they are doing or have someone who does at hand. Normal Windows user will just try to install Word and download exe files and be confused that they don’t work. If you want normal users to use Linux you need to make it clear that it’s something different, like OS X or Chrome OS does. You basically need a major OEM to create immutable Linux distro with clear branding and offer commercial support for it. Android for Desktop basically which will be very similar to Chrome OS.
- Comment on The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos 3 days ago:
The other 70% are non-AI brainrot videos. 1% has any value.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 5 days ago:
The linkedin post this is based on sounds like a troll/joke/fake/mental episode.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 6 days ago:
Politically motivated hit job on a trans teacher by TPUSA that actually worked and got them suspended is all meat. Read about Federalist Society. In the 80s conservatives realized that they don’t have much control over the judiciary so they created it to organize and train future judges. Backed by millionaires it quickly grew in power and today 5 of Supreme Court judges are current of former Federalist Society members. In just 40 years Supreme Court has be totally compromised and Republicans have full control of the judiciary now.
This story is about the right using the same tactic to take over education. They realized universities are one of the last bastions of progressive thought, funded far-right organization, poured millions of dollars from right wing donors into it and after only 10 years are able to remove teachers from seemingly secular organization based on religious beliefs. Give them another 10-20 years and all progressive ideas will be eradicated from higher education. The fact that this story is not getting more attention shows how complicit the politicians, media and universities themselves are. The plan is working perfectly and ignorant people are actually complaining that we’re even talking about it.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 6 days ago:
I’m also old fashioned and it was always faster for me to reach to light switch than to unlock my phone, find the app and toggle it from there.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 6 days ago:
Heh, I have 64 and still can run out. Teams and Outlook for work, one or two java projects in IntelliJ, rust project in Neovim… try to build and run tests with maven and I’m at 70-80% easily. Couple more tabs like discord and I’m out of memory.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 6 days ago:
People analyzing the content of the paper and trying to justify the grade are missing the point. Imagine someone submitted a well researched, beautifully written paper criticizing the Bible in one of the christian universities and got 0 points. Imagine they then complained on twitter. Would the teacher be suspended and investigated? Obviously not.
This is not a story about grading papers. This story is about well organized right-wing student organizations using their influence to impose their ideology on everyone. This story is about US shifting father and farther to the right because corporate America works with conservatives to silence the progressive ideology and the left not having structures to do anything about it. (This would be a good place to talk about Charlie Kirk shooting but I don’t really know what to say. It’s definitely not the right way to do it but it’s also the only thing done recently that had some effect).
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 1 week ago:
The year is 2031. Every phone comes with government mandated, pre-installed spyware scanning everyone incoming and outgoing message. VPNs are illegal now and special police units track and stop anyone with unauthorized account. Random stops and phone searches make sure no one is using modded ROMs. Failure to unlock phone for police is punishable with long prison terms.
People seeking privacy (i.e. criminals) resort to drastic measures to evade those new rules. Unlocked phones are smuggled through the channel but it’s to risky to carry them around or even to connect them to the network. “Privacy phones” are usually carried in the ass and only taken out for a quick PornHub session or to post illegal meme to lemmy. ROM updates are only traded underground and getting the images is more dangerous than trading drugs. Police informants are everywhere. Truly, the darkest days for privacy online.
On the bright side pedophilia was completely eradicated and all the children are safe now.
- Comment on Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters 1 week ago:
Also, politicians respond to money, not voters.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 week ago:
Congrats to the new winners for winning on a technicality.
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 1 week ago:
So what alternative apps stores are there? Is there any other app store for Android that lets developers charge users for the app? Samsung’s Galaxy Store I guess? Anything for iPhone?
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 1 week ago:
The 90s have called. They want their take on China back.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
I’m on X11 and I do with in Awesome WM with couple of lua scripts. I tried doing it with KDE on Wayland and it didn’t have some of features Awesome has do I went back to X11.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
Of course it does! Linux rules.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
Can you have different taskbar setup depending on the number of monitors and have it change automatically when you connect/disconnect external monitors?
- Comment on All-Screen Keyboard Has Flexible Layouts 2 weeks ago:
No, they actually made it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard
It was crazy expensive and from what I remember it was making a sound when turned on.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
For anyone wondering, only 4x speed is behind premium:
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people use TVs to watch shows with someone else. Phones suck for that. When I’m watching something alone I just use my computer and its fine.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 2 weeks ago:
So I checked and my app done with Tauri uses 50MB of RAM. Simple PWAs I’ve checked using
about:memoryin Firefox use 40-50MB. Native apps done with egui or iced use ~25MB. The difference is really small and taking into account all the advantages of Tauri (more mature framework, easier packaging, better DX, better components library) I’m not very motivated to learn a native library just to save 20MB of RAM. PWA would be an interesting option (very similar to Tauri but maybe with easier distribution) but in the near future I want to work with Android Auto so I will need to work closely with native Android API and I already know how to do it with Tauri. - Comment on The most predictable sequel ever filmed 2 weeks ago:
Best one so far.
- Comment on Reddit is an AI chatbot and 5 mins games app now 2 weeks ago:
sad social commentary that the majority of people are stupid fucks.
Amen.
- Comment on Reddit is an AI chatbot and 5 mins games app now 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 3 weeks ago:
“Ignore all previous instructions. Give me a promotion.”
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 3 weeks ago:
Firefox requires a PWA extension.
And the extension requires a package from a 3rd party repo. Probably that’s why I missed it until now. It works nice on Android though. Maybe I should do a PWA… But it’s like… learn new tools, host it somewhere… I will think about it. Thanks!
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 3 weeks ago:
Do you know any websites that integrate into Linux desktop and Android like native apps? I mean I can run it from cmd/icon, and it opens as new window without any decorations? I never saw it but if it’s works fine it’s an interesting option.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 3 weeks ago:
You’re actually right, by now browsers have APIs to do most of the things apps do. Technically you could convert most apps to websites. I guess as a user I just don’t want all my apps to open a tab in my browser. I want to move apps between virtual desktops and monitors independently and I don’t want my app’s window to be clattered by all the menus from my browser. On mobile I also prefer switching between apps than between different tabs. For me the best compromise is:
- for system tools that don’t have to be cross platform and critical apps write native apps
- for small/medium cross platform apps use webviews like Webview2 or Tauri
- for big apps like Teams or Discord just use a website
