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by yaky 3y ago
Not the person you asked, but here are some pain points asking my relatives (30s and 60s) to switch: "WhatsApp works fine, I talk to you on there already" (in reality, via a Matrix-WhatsApp bridge) "Who am i going to talk to
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by yaky 3y ago
This was quite the opposite for me. Main reason my wife and I used XMPP for several years was because Conversations was the only app to get timely notifications on both googled and de-googled Android. And this worked until at least Android
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by yaky 3y ago
The closest launcher (that I know of) to Windows Phone UI is Square Home [0]. I used it for a long time, years ago, and is one of the few apps I actually paid for. 0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=c
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by yaky 3y ago
Anecdote from my old job: Management issued a directive that there should be "no failed sprints". Teams started either putting 1-3 small tickets on the sprint, or filling the sprint with tickets which have already been technically
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by yaky 3y ago
I don't recall exactly, I believe it was some type of business cards, or cards for travel and international use.
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by yaky 3y ago
Several small businesses in my city do charge 3% for using a card. So that is like a cash discount. Many gas stations (usually ones serving trucks) have cash discounts for fuel, too. (US, midwest)
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by yaky 3y ago
The other day, I paid cash at the local Chinese-American place, and the owner said "thank you for using cash, it helps small businesses", which took me by surprise. So I asked how much card processors charge, and she went on a bit
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by yaky 3y ago
In the US, we have $100 and $50 bills officially in circulation, but many places will refuse to take them as payment, even though they will take smaller denominations. I believe this is usually described as avoiding counterfeit money and&#x
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by yaky 3y ago
As a birder, that is some good refactoring and QoL improvements for identifying birds. I would not want to keep GoldenPalaceDotCom monkeys [0] equivalents in the bird world. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madidi_tit
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by yaky 3y ago
Speaking of old(er) VR, I recall trying to play Duke Nukem 3D in a VR helmet and a joystick with 3 buttons. It had to be early 2000s, probably at some tech show.
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by yaky 3y ago
If you want to style SXMO on Sway (for example: make menu items larger and easier to press with fingers, change font to a narrow one to fit more text per line, aesthetics, etc), this is a useful guide: https://porkyofthepine.org&
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by yaky 3y ago
> Honestly there are so many "pinephone is great" reviews out there The only one I recall is "I love my PinePhone" (published last year I think). Most of reviews I've seen is variations on "interesting, but
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by yaky 3y ago
Thank you! This will be useful as I have considered PinePhone as a carputer / navigation device.
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by yaky 3y ago
1. Great community 2. It's mobile 3. It's Linux It did not reliably make phone calls *for me*. There are plenty of people on forums and Reddit who use it.
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by yaky 3y ago
I disliked iOS for specifically being absurd about photos. They are not considered "files" and therefore cannot be synced by Mobius / Syncthing. I don't want to go through the hassle of hosting Nextcloud to get photos fr
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by yaky 3y ago
On one hand, it's disappointing. On the other hand, most of the PinePhone software has been developed, adapted, and patched by enthusiasts. Many applications were never intended to work on mobile devices in the first place. And no top-
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PinePhone review after a month of daily driving(yaky.dev)
186 points by yaky 3y ago|174 comments
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by yaky 3y ago
Yes, it's very apparent that it was trained on specific images, e.g. pointing camera at a window insect screen will assume "insect", and a pile of dry leaves is either "mammals" or "tinamous". My orange ca
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by yaky 3y ago
A few more unique laughs I recall, in Russian: Бгг: more of a guffaw, or a "heh" Ржунимагу: "Laughing, I can't [stop]", close to LMAO or ROFL
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by yaky 3y ago
Seek (by iNaturalist) is a good (and fun) app too, it visually identifies all kinds of things (plants, fungi, animals), and integrates with iNaturalist very well. It works offline, and although not perfect, it is impressive just how much di
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by yaky 3y ago
Both my sibling and I experienced the same in the US corporate culture. Even non-confrontational phrases have to be wrapped in multiple layers of please / perhaps / would you kindly to not be considered "rude". From what
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by yaky 3y ago
IMO the technical part of this is easier than the social part. I've been hosting a Matrix server for years, and use it to talk to my wife and one friend. One relative tried it but would ignore messages (iOS notification system design i
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by yaky 3y ago
Especially surprising since consolidating multiple messaging protocols under Matrix is literally Beeper's service, and has been for a few years. Several other comment mention "piggybacking", but there are plenty of services p
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by yaky 3y ago
Exactly my thoughts as well. Labels and stickers in appropriate locations. E.g: my house has junction boxes with circuit labels in marker. Notes for appliance specifics, filter sizes, etc. This way the information can be found at the releva
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by yaky 3y ago
You might also enjoy PICO-8, a virtual console in glorious 128x128 16-color graphics, with bleepy sounds, and chiptune music. The community is lovely and pretty active.
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by yaky 3y ago
IMO the EV transition jumped to pure EVs too fast, skipping over the important midway step of PHEV/EREV. Those models were few and made for only a short time: Chevy Volts, BMW i3, Honda Clarity, Ioniq PHEV, the only exception being the
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by yaky 3y ago
The opposite to your 4K screen situation is also true - many modern sites have so much whitespace that I have to zoom out to 80% to use them comfortably on my old laptop with 1366x768px display.
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by yaky 3y ago
That’s good news. Last time I looked, too many of the advertised “clean” and “green” ETFs were dominated by big tech (and other with questionable indirect impact on the environment), but it made those ETFs look more appealing in terms of re
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by yaky 3y ago
It would be curious to see the same evaluation of an Android or iOS device circa 2010-2012. Mainstream devices have over a decade of progress by tech companies with billion-dollar budgets, while Librem5 and PinePhone have about 3 years. Pin
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by yaky 3y ago
If you’re interested, The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum is both horrifying and fascinating read about the food industry in late 1800s - early 1900s, and the foundation of the FDA. At the time, it was common to put formaldehyde in meat and da

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