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Not sure Jolla deserves to be trusted, you'd be much better off with GrapheneOS. In any case, try out SimpleX for a messenger. You can also take a look at https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/an-overview-of-privacy-focused-dec...

I agree, it's by far the best mobile keyboard I've ever tried. I especially love the shortcuts for copy/paste/select all/cut which send the actual Ctrl-C. I can finally use terminals! :-P

I can't see what's wrong with that (you choose whether to accept suggestions or not), but you can always blacklist predictions by long-pressing on them.

FUTO keyboard actually has an option for this (enabled by default) called "Smart key-hit detection". It adjusts hitboxes based on dictionary predictions for what you just typed.

I'm using Colemak on my phone, but can't get used to it on my desktop, so I'm stuck with QWERTY! :D

Back when I was using QWERTY with Microsoft SwiftKey, I used to swipe a bit, but it never really felt comfortable for me. I've tried swiping again after switching to Colemak on my phone and everything is so close together that the accuracy is very low. I wonder if this model will help improve accuracy on other layouts too (or even languages!).

I hope FUTO does start caring about language support, because for example their AI powered text prediction is only available for English. I'd happily train a model for them in my native language if they provided instructions on how to do so. And I'd help with swipe typing too.

I'm Greek too and I got 81 (well technically I misclicked one in a hurry, would've been 82). It did help a bit though. Surprisingly enough I've learnt many of the more advanced words from technical blogs!

Yep, I've used both. Desktop mode isn't exactly there yet, but hopefully with the general availability it will get with Android 17, it'll smoothen out. As for the Linux terminal I ended up sticking with a fork which provides a few extra features (https://github.com/outlawsanzhang/koiTerminal)

Depends. One of the reasons I stopped using Spotify was because its offline mode refused to work when my device had all radios off (who even thought of this?). Once I turned on Wi-Fi, even without connecting to a network, it would load immediately.

Yes IPC is definitely a security hole, but because the two apps communicating need to both explicitly support it (I really doubt there'd be an exploitable vulnerability here of all places), it's a much smaller concern. Here I'd mainly worry about apps like Google Photos talking to Google Play Services. GrapheneOS has mentioned they'd like to implement IPC scopes to isolate apps, just like contact scopes and storage scopes.

Funnily enough, the Huawei P30 Pro I was using previously (back when these things could run Android with GMS) had network toggles for all apps. They weren't in the permissions menu, as they were meant for data saving purposes but you had the additional granularity of choosing if an app could access mobile data or Wi-Fi separately.

That solved the problem of ads in games much better than DNS :D

I guess that makes sense, since it's pretty new. OpenSnitch is great software in terms of functionality but I find the UI lacking. If LittleSnitch can keep the same functionality, while improving the UI, I'm switching. My other current concern here is that the LittleSnitch UI is just a Webview and I think it would be much better if there was a native option (ideally GTK-based for me, but Qt would also be acceptable). Webviews are slow and full of bloat.

This is excellent, both educationally and from a UX standpoint! I've tried multiple times to read explanations on how transistors work and bounced off, but this time I think I've finally understood how to use them, at least practically. I feel like this is a great continuation of https://nandgame.com which taught me quite a bit about how small circuits combine to form something big (although I never finished it, I hope to finish this one at least). Another thing that I find interesting, is that while it is clearly developed primarily by AI, the result is exceptionally better than nearly every other AI-assisted project I've tried.

Some suggestions: - What I miss from NAND Game is the challenge of optimizing for efficiency. You'd build a component and it would let you know if it could be built with fewer NAND gates and you'd try to simplify the circuit. For example, while I did "NAND it" with 4 transistors, I did "The dual" with 5 and given the explanation I got afterwards I could have used one less. - This definitely needs to get better on mobile - The description for the first level using BitLine and BitLineBar (I think that was the Sense Amp?) doesn't really explain what it's supposed to do and I had to deduce it from the truth table.

Yeah, my old MacBook got really laggy and the fans were spinning hard. Still worth it!

If that's what you call a democracy, sure... I don't think most people will agree with you though.

The same argument could be said for other age verification methods. Nothing stops a kid from getting their older cousin to verify their identity for something and it will never be possible to prevent this.

Owned by Russia? How'd you reach that conclusion? Just take a look at the sanctions imposed on them and the US support for Ukraine in the war. Also: it seems you've fallen into the "Russia is our enemy" propaganda trap.

IMO ever since the EV3, LEGO's robotics hardware has been on a downfall, being much less open and more focused on "connect it to your tablet with Bluetooth to do some basic programming". They also offer less ports and sensors and I think there aren't any custom sensors either. If you can find an EV3, it's the best thing you can get.

By far the best part is how tied to specific versions of Ubuntu each ROS release is, just getting all the packages installed and running requires sacrificing a cat while chanting Hail Mary backwards in Latin.

100% this. I had a very, very miserable time setting up two systems and trying to get them running a version that was supported. The worst part is SBCs that stop getting OS updates and become permanently locked in to a specific version. Which also forces the rest of your hardware to use the same version. Using a Jetson Nano with Ubuntu 18.04 in 2022 was lots of fun...

Last year I met a couple of university students working on a robot and out of curiosity I asked what they were using as a microcontroller and the software stack. They were running ROS. When they said they still hadn't upgraded to ROS 2 yet, I could feel their pain...

As someone who has been learning robotics as a hobby for a decade, my advice is: forget all the buzzwords and what the industry is using and start small instead.

I started robotics at a young age and began with small builds with LEGO motors and sensors, getting a feel of how each one works and how to interact with them with code. Then I got to much more advanced programs with LEGO Mindstorms EV3, learned about things like PID controllers practically and even started taking part in some competitions. Next, I went to writing actual code (as opposed to block-based programming) on microcontrollers like the micro:bit (and a few years later the Raspberry Pi Pico). I deepened my knowledge of how electronics work and learned how circuits work. I eventually got into a team with a few friends and we built a human-size robot combining 3D printing, a bunch of circuitry, ROS, 2 SBCs, Arduinos, a LIDAR and OpenCV for face/object recognition. This took years of learning step-by-step to achieve.

This is obviously not the path you'd take, robotics was what brought me into programming and you're probably going for the opposite.

You're not going to build a perfect robot or electronic device from the start and you shouldn't try to either. Get a microcontroller that's newcomer-friendly and play around with it. A micro:bit mostly emphasizes on the end result, with a built-in display and sensors and many plug-and-play modules to get you going. A Raspberry Pi Pico is much more flexible, but also requires you to learn about wiring and doing more things yourself. If you prefer coding in C, go for an Arduino. An ESP32 is also a good choice. It's a good idea to get a 3D printer and learn CAD in parallel, as it's a great way for a hobbyist to create actual tools that are more than a bunch of wires.

Once you get enough experience and confidence in your skills, you'll want to get into more advanced projects. Use your knowledge to plan them out, research and learn the technologies you're going to use (you can't learn everything beforehand and each piece of hardware is something different) and enjoy the journey from prototype to finished project.

And by the way (you didn't mention it but other comments here are so I'll give you an opinion on that), ROS is nearly always overkill for hobbyist robotics projects :D

I hope that helps you start your journey!

I agree. I've seen quite a few AUR packages built that way and I'm using a few myself too. The end user shouldn't be expected to do this though! :D

Guess what people usually use to cool water vapor...

It does make sense that datacenters would be cooled just like your water-cooled PC but that's probably not very sustainable given the fact that they don't do so.

I totally agree. This is the fundamental reason I've stayed off there until now. I'm not about to tie my permanent identity to a domain which I might not own tomorrow. And did:plc is not an option for obvious reasons.

It should be noted that AppImages tend to be noticeably slower at runtime than other packaging methods and also very big for typical systems which include most libraries. They're good as a "compile once, run everywhere" approach but you're really accommodating edge cases here.

A "works in most cases" build should also be available for that that it would benefit. And if you can, why not provide specialized packages for the edge cases?

Of course, don't take my advice as-is, you should always thoroughly benchmark your software on real systems and choose the tradeoffs you're willing to make.

I wish I knew about this when I lived in a house without Ethernet sockets! I needed it in the attic for my PC and servers and all I had were slow, unreliable TP-Link Powerline adapters. My first speed test gave me 37.1Kbps (after painfully loading Cloudflare's test page). On a really good day I could get 3MBps. I'd get disconnected multiple times a day and I had to try all sorts of methods to get the adapter to connect again. I had to write a program in the end to tell me if I didn't have internet because the Powerline broke or my DNS server broke (normally it's always DNS but turns out it wasn't) :D

I had a phone socket in that room and I had already discussed the possibility of converting it into an Ethernet socket but decided it's not worth it because everything ended up in a cupboard far away from my router. These adapters would have solved the problem nicely!

By the way, I have more fun stories. The cabling in my current house (which has Ethernet sockets) is still miserable. I spent a year working with my PC over USB tethering to my phone until I finally called an electrician to find which of the 11 dangling cables in the cupboard went to my office...

One day some wires in there were slightly moved and the internet got disconnected because they were badly crimped. Nothing was working so in the end I got an RJ45 connector and managed to get the wires in there.

I do this like... every single time (although with a shorter and slightly more common ancient Greek word). It's quite fun actually!

Nope, it doesn't contain zeta (ζ), xi (ξ) and theta (θ).

It will be much easier if you learn modern Greek first. Keep in mind that it's very hard, even for native Greek speakers. Be prepared to spend a few years doing that ;)

I think both of you are correct.

LLMs do empower you (and by "you" I mean the reader or any other person from now on) to actually complete projects you need in the very limited free time and have available. Manually coding the same could take months (I'm speaking from experience developing a personal project for about 3 hours every Friday and there's still much to be done). In a professional context, you're being paid to ship and AI can help you grow an idea to an MVP and then to a full implementation in record-breaking time. At the end of the day, you're satisfied because you built something useful and helped your company. You probably also used your problem solving skills.

Programming is also a hobby though. The whole process matters too. I'm one of the people who feels incredible joy when achieving a goal, knowing that I completed every step in the process with my own knowledge and skills. I know that I went from an idea to a complete design based on everything I know and probably learned a few new things too. I typed the variable names, I worked hard on the project for a long time and I'm finally seeing the fruits of my effort. I proudly share it with other people who may need the same and can attest its high quality (or low quality if it was a stupid script I hastily threw together, but anyway sharing is caring —the point is that I actually know what I've written).

The experience of writing that same code with an LLM will leave you feeling a bit empty. You're happy with the result: it does everything you wanted and you can easily extend it when you feel like it. But you didn't write the code, someone else did. You just reviewed an intern's work and gave feedback. Sometimes that's indeed what you want. You may need a tool for your job or your daily life, but you aren't too interested in the internals. AI is truly great for that.

I can't reach a better conclusion than the parent comment, everyone is unique and enjoys coding in a different way. You should always find a chance to code the way you want, it'll help maintain your self-esteem and make your life interesting. Don't be afraid of new technologies where they can help you though.

It's interesting to see another use case for passkeys. The demo doesn't work with Bitwarden though :(