Lka1988 @ lka1988 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Ok, I wasn't sure. There is some site out there that wackjobs love to reference to reinforce their beliefs, and it sounds similar, but I cannot remember what it was called.

And no, I'm not thinking of praeger...

Isn't John Hopkins the wackjob college that RWNJs always reference for their horrendously incorrect medical "assessments"? Or am I thinking of something else?

Edit: well fuck me for asking a genuine question. There is some school or at least a website with a similar-sounding name that RWNJs love to reference, but I cannot remember it. Yes I tried searching. Hence the question.

Settings -> Text prediction -> Blacklisted Suggestions -> Block offensive words (turn it off)

Yes, I am painfully aware. Unfortunately, this doesn't actually help.

XP was the first real consuner version of Windows based on XP.

On NT you mean

Whoops! Yes, NT.

But before ME there was Windows 2000, with its particularly gorgeous spin of the classical design, and other than appearance - being kinda same as XP, but faster.

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and no, W2K was a consumer system.

W2K was most definitely not built with consumers in mind; the base edition was "Professional" and was meant to be a workstation OS. It was a bit of an oddball in that a not-insignificant amount of power users preferred it at home over 98/Me - but it was a business-oriented system first and foremost. XP added a lot of features over 2000, including more consumer-oriented tools and applications. That's why I specified XP as "the first real consumer version".

Personal anecdote: When I was in jr high, the "family PC" was a Toshiba laptop loaded with W2K, and compared to the W98 system we had before, 2000 was certainly not meant for "regular" home users. That's what Me was supposed to be, but we all know how that went... IMO, I'm almost certain that the downfall of Me, paired with W2K being as good as it was at the time, was part of the driving force for MS to base future consumer versions on the NT kernel.

Bingo.

And even then it's difficult to find shit, like for instance, finding the working directory for crontab when run as root. This answer on Stack Exchange is the embodiment of my second example in the other comment. The answers go into great detail, yet still don't answer the question in any reasonable capacity for a "standard user" like myself.

Nice. I've got a SJW account as well, but that's for more political and social stuff. My db0 account is more focused on the tech side of things.

Man pages tend to assume a lot and overload the user with information.

Forums are full of "duh, haven't you read the man pages, idiot?" kinds of people.

Web searches are full of AI/garbage (same thing) articles that focus on distros/programs that are either horrendously inaccurate, out of date, or simply don't exist anymore.

Therefore, I utilize the tldr man pages, and use extremely specific terms for web searches.

Idk, it was horrendously insecure, would freeze a lot, and missing creature comforts like window tiling.

It was significantly more secure than it's DOS-based predecessor of the time, Windows ME (that's a whole other rabbit hole; if you wanna talk insecure and buggy as fuck - look no further). That's what people don't realize, they look at the past through a modern lens. You gotta look at it from the time it was released. There's a reason mainstream consumer-focused Windows editions dropped DOS and moved to the NT kernel. XP was the first real consumer version of Windows based on XP NT.

If they kept refining Win7 it would've been great.

They did, it was called "Windows 8" and nobody liked it.

Not even GNU - just Linux.

Yeah yeah, something something GNU/Linux blah blah copypasta....

Not wrong, but still.

1. Don't listen to anything the fans have to say. It's well-known that the worst thing about SW is the fans. Especially their opinions.
2. I suggest watching them in release order, including the sequels. That's how the rest of the world experienced it.
3. I didn't hate the OT remasters. I actually liked the continuity with the prequels. CGI is about what you can expect from a 2000s remaster of a 1970s-era movie.
4. I liked the prequels, I grew up with them. Jar Jar is funny. #1 is a bit more slow-paced and deals with politics more than action, but it's enjoyable (and quite relatable at the moment).
5. Disregard anything the fans have to say. The worst thing about Star Wars is the fans.
6. Fan theories are an absolute waste of time, and if you go down that rabbit hole, you'll get more hate than you've ever experienced before. SW fans suck.

Play store is a privacy nightmare. Apps you get from there are not quite the same as their non-play store equivalents, even if it's technically the same app. Nextcloud, for example, just went through this with their Play store version. Google recently forced them to remove the "all files access" permission.... You know, the entire point of Nextcloud? But the non-Play store version that you can get from F-Droid still had that permission intact.

Luckily Google backed down from the totally-couldn't-forsee-this backlash, but still. Google puts arbitrary limitations on what can be uploaded there, and FUTO keyboard is no exception.

Rule #1 of the internet: If you post it on the internet, it'll never go away. Like Joel Michael Singer

The swiping needs to require less precision IMO. There's a training thing on FUTO's website somewhere that will give you a string of words to swipe type (accessible only via mobile). That's how they improve the swipe feature overall, but I think some people may have been too careful with it. Be sloppy, be imprecise, make it learn how normal people swipe.

Personally, I prefer a bit of sloppiness when it comes to swiping anyway - because if I wanted precision, I would actually type the words. GBoard is pretty good at figuring out that swiping s m w or a m s was probably supposed to be "and"; and other such words that aren't super accurate when swiped. FUTO keyboard is not very good at that, at least at first haha.

I would delete that and get it either from F-Droid (I just learned about the F-Droid listing last night), or grab the APK from FUTO directly.

Try to stay away from the Play store when it comes to privacy-related stuff like this.

That's a good question to which I don't have an answer. I'm very much a single-language person.

Autocorrect will either "fix" common words into something else, or outright refuse to fix super common typos. You have to delete suggestions that you know you will never use, and add words and abbreviations (I use "appt" a lot, for example, the keyboard used to correct it to "and").

This may be common knowledge for a lot of you, but some people don't realize that you can tweak those things.

Not really. I saw the warning as well, but just went for it. Haven't noticed a difference.

I put this in another comment, but you should see it, too:

If you go with FUTO keyboard, do these as soon as you download it:

1. Turn on the machine learning feature for swipe typing (entirely local - nothing about the keyboard phones home)
2. Allow curse words
3. Make autocorrect your bitch, and I mean really force it

If you do these things, it will - eventually - figure out your typing habits. But it’s worth it. I’ve been using it for a month or so and, outside of some odd quirks, it’s working pretty well. Even has a clipboard manager and a “paste” button (for fat-fingerers like me), among other neat tools.

Oh, and don’t forget to drop it into Obtainium so it can be updated, as it’s not offered through any app store.