Curious Canid @ Curious_Canid @lemmy.ca

I am owned by several dogs and cats. I have been playing non-computer rolep

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I have added the swipe library to FUTO. It works, but not well enough for me. (That may be my clumsy swiping, but the issue remains.) I estimate that it gets about one word in four wrong. GBoard is still wrong about one time in ten, but at that rate, swiping and correcting is still much faster for me than traditional typing.

Circles are the worst possible shape in terms of making efficient use of the limited screen space available on a phone. The screen is rectangular and nearly everything we display falls into rectangular arrangements. Using circles just means there is less room on each key to show useful information, like the long-hold functions.

I'm not opposed to change, but change entirely for the sake of change usually produces bad results.

I periodically try FUTO. It's a great keyboard, except for its swiping support. That seems to be gradually improving, but it isn't quite there yet. Unfortunately that is how I do all my typing, so I keep going back to GBoard. I look forward to leaving it for good.

It has been getting steadily worse since Reagan. It's just more obvious now that it has become the majority case.

Every time I think GoDaddy has hit bottom they find a way to dig deeper.

Trump always makes up whatever story he thinks will do him the most good at that moment. That is always the case. Occasionally what he makes up has elements of things he vaguely remembers hearing, which he may or may not have understood. That is why there are sometimes elements of truth in what he says. Just understand that they are entirely accidental.

I think this is good advice. The trick is to find something you're interested in that involves other people. Given that you like to play and sing, look for other musicians to play with. Show up for open mike nights. Join a band.

...and the horse he road in on.

It sounds like they did it right. They used AI to identify things for the humans to examine in more detail.

I've seen kites that looked more convincing. There are now some real, functional flying cars, although they are still far too expensive to be practical. This is not one of them.

The whole Trump administration are operating like terrorists. They don't necessarily care about the results of any particular offense, the goal is to discourage anyone from standing against them.

I despise Meta, and always have, but the company I hate most is... ...the entire health insurance industry. UnitedHealth is the worst, but there isn't one among them that isn't ruining lives and killing people on a surprisingly large scale every single day.

It is probably worth noting that I am removing the DRM so I can read them on devices that do not have Kindle apps.

Nothing is certain, but it looks like you will still be able to download books into local memory so you can read them. As long as the apps still work that way, it will be possible to access the book files.

You do need a tool that can remove the DRM from the books files the Kindle uses. DeDRM used to do this nicely, but it has not been updated to handle the most recent version of Kindle DRM. It will not works on any books published since early 2024.

There are commercial options that can remove even the latest DRM from Kindle books. I use Epubor Ultimate. It was the first to handle the most recent Kindle DRM, but I'm sure there are others by now.

What sunset? All I see is a magnificent cat.

Not complete, but fairly close. Any background talking makes it difficult.

You have a very patient cat. Most would have shredded your hand at some point in there.

Well, not legally. We need to make that matter again.

I'm still looking for ways to work toward that, short of violence.

Blazing Saddles (1974) The Yakuza (1974) Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

All three movies are exceptional in their own right and all three broke a lot of new ground by blending cultural and genre conventions in new ways.

Television Announcer: And now, the penguin on top of your television set will explode. {BOOOM!} Watcher: How'd he know that? Television Announcer: It was an inspired guess.

The multiple layers of cognitive dissonance are wonderful.