PotatoesFall @ PotatoesFall @discuss.tchncs.de

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sounds like a modern approach

IMO flatpaks are the future of installing linux apps. The comment you replied to lives in the past. System package manager should be for system binaries, not for applications.

I still don't get it haha

did you understand the joke OP was trying to make?

Chef Cooks Dream Omelette

do they not? That is disappointing

good point

True! fairphones are at least okay-ish there too. They actively cooperate with devs that make open source android OSs. But yeah Google still has way too much power in the entire android ecosystem. Many banking apps don't work without Google Wallet, which doesn't run on degoogled OSs.

agree 100%. One way to buy less phones is to buy a repairable phone.

for me the point about being locked into an ecosystem is reason enough.

Some more on that:

• Apple has actively resisted efforts by the EU to standardize
• iPhone doesn't allow you to install apps they haven't approved.
• Apple devices often refuse to interface with non-apple devices despite being physically capable.
• You cannot easily install other OSes on Apple hardware.
• Apple software is almost entirely closed source, and they likely have backdoors everywhere.

I just want to own my phone man

use whatever phone you like

wrong. Use a fairphone

This is not propaganda against poppy seeds, read the article

Dvorak was designed a long time ago for typewriters, i.e. it tries to alternate hand movements, which some people like but many find it makes them slower.

Colemak is meant to be closer to qwerty and was designed for computer keyboards.

Then again I'm sure Dvorak is already miles better than qwerty and the differencesneith Colemak are minor. I think the reason I chose it originally was because of some youtube video but I don't remember what it was called.

Also I really like the Colemal DH mod.

Tbf most of my layer toggles are happening with a thumb, which isn't possible on a normal keyboars because they give you a 10x wide key for your most flexible digit, and no other keys in reach.

I recommend a keyboard with at least 3 keys in the thumb cluster. Once you figure out what you like and get used to it, it's like a superpower

It was a real game changer for me. If you combine it with layers for accessing numbers, arrows, symbols, home/end etc without moving your hand, it makes typing so much comfier and faster

Funny enough I use Colemak with my ergonomic (split, columnar stagger) keyboards only, and qwerty on mobile (and on my laptop since it has qwerty keyboard labels).

I recommend, in order of increasing effort:

1. briefly learn touch typing but then develop your own style with a more relaxed wrist position that de-emphasizes excessive hand movement, uncomfortable movements and crazy pinky stretches
2. get a columnar stagger, split keyboard
3. learn colemak (I like Colemak DH)

I used to switch back and forth between qwerty and qwertz on two different computers, and the laptop unlock passwords had a z in them. That was tough times.

I don't know if they do but if they do I doubt they've improved. The technique taught by many touch typing courses is a recipe for a wrist injury. It blows my mind that regulatory bodies aren't calling for keyboard layout reform. The "normal" row stagger keyboard as well as the qwerty layout should be in museums, not on billions of "modern" computers around the world.

£4 sounds pretty cheap if it's a decent meal

American politics focussing on the important issues first as always