Ok, that is pretty bad. As mentioned, I’ve had it happen once. I use the app search function a lot, which I’ve set to the swipe up gesture, and it just stopped working that day. Had to find a way to force reset the launcher. Having that happen every 2-3 days to multiple times a day would be a dealbreaker for me.
I think this is more tied with advertising analytics, but I share the same opinion. I don’t love it, but it’s not a killer. The fediverse tends to attract a more idealistic and paranoid crowd, which I don’t think is reflective of how most people are.
Hmm, I’ve had it happen once, thought it was odd. Are you on a Samsung too, like the other comment? How often does it happen?
Honestly, don’t care. Until it gets shitty (which it still has a good chance of doing so), I’ll continue to use it.
Ah, right, I don’t have AI on my phones. Can’t you just ignore them though?
Despite this community’s paranoia, I still use Nova. Can’t find anything that works as well yet.
Disclaimer that I bought the pro version for 99 cents way way back, so I’ve gotten my mileage out of that.
Also if you don’t mind Microsoft, the MS launcher isn’t too bad too. I’m using that on the work phone.
Huh, I’ve always updated and there’s usually not much change. There are some minor ones but they don’t affect my day-to-day. The biggest ones the major version changes, but even then it’s usually a new font or some minor display tweak more than anything. I haven’t felt like it’s been disruptive.
Technically, it’s easier, because there were 0 in the past. :P But yes, the variety of choice is dazzling!
Late to this, but you can’t call tactiles “brown” anymore; ever since Cherry’s patent expired some 10 years ago the market has exploded. Right now I’m typing on a franken tester board with some 30 tactiles of different make and model, and I barely have scratched 20% of the tactile switches available on the market, by my estimation.
I’ve missed this thread for a few weeks already (as in, I didn’t see it). Completed Disco Elysium twice since then, amazing game! Very sad that there’s not going to be a sequel; the world is fascinating, as is the style of gameplay.
What are the keyboards she is using now? Did she express any preferences about them? What typewriter is she using?
Budget and location might make things a little tight, HMRC really loves collecting their due.
SumatraPDF
NotePad++
Yea, the moment hotswap and a degree of customisability is called for, a lot of the mainstream “niceties” tend to be dropped.
Points 1, 2 and 3 are practically non-existent in the hobbyist mechanical keyboard space. You might get a few 100% boards but open floating design is not favoured, and passthrough is considered unnecessary.
To talk about the article instead of ranting on about niche wants:
Which Chinese phone does that? They were the first to copy Apple when they removed all that. The only ones that still have card slots and headphone jacks are all the low-end phones, and heck, even those are going away. Xiaomi has been removing the card slots on the higher-end Redmi Notes.
So so so many. Right off the top of my head:
It’s going to be loud regardless, especially since the Navies have a thicker bar AND you’ll be using more force to get past it and the heavier spring.
And yes, they’re heavy. I like heavy switches (really hate anything less than 50g), but even those were a little tiring to type on the first time. You will need to get used to typing on them.
Will echo the other suggestion made, get a tester pack first.
Oh! They’re the ways you can configure a key to interact with layers! The hover usually is quite self-explanatory. But yes, might want to do a search if some of them are not clear.
There’s actually a lot you can do; If you ever feel like VIA can’t let you do something, you can actually program strings directly with the “Any” key in the “Special” category. That lets you directly enter QMK keycodes, and you can set up pretty nifty functions if you want to. That’s definitely a long read or video for another time though.
Like I’ve said elsewhere, the fediverse tends to have a lot of paranoid zealots. It’s a bit offputting really.