quickenparalysespunk @ quickenparalysespunk @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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kana flick was non-negotiable for me so, while im not proud of it, for now I'm using ms swiftkey in incognito, no Google play, network permission revoked (capability of Graphene OS).

another reason i chose it is handwriting input for Chinese.

anyway this is just until fcitx implements kana flick, per below issues.

• https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android/issues/375 merged to
• https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android/issues/377

other kana flick options:

• i also tried Simeji keyboard but deleted when i found out it was owned by bytedance.. or was it Alibaba
• another is Takt (タクト) keyboard which is closed source but claims to have directly adapted Mozc code for modern android. YMMV... personally i couldn't use it cuz the flick sensitivity and other ux elements were too far out of my comfort zone.

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Uncharted 1

this is why polygon got sold and laid off the staff......

that's not news..............

sell valnet! every one of those! sell nyt and wapo and Google and Yahoo!

sell everything!

sell the verge too! all those crappy vox family sites!

seems like you're the one who understood best what I was getting at. thanks for your opinion.

i do hope they have enough budget

i went out of my way to avoid stating any hope of FF becoming the most popular.

like you said, i actually was thinking of them capturing about 5-10% more of the market. i think that would be a significant and worthy goal. it's enough to increase interest from potential large donors, at least slightly.

I've been feeling that they were getting ready to turn FF into something more commercial, and if that didn't stabilize/increase funding enough, to shut it down entirely. so a slight and sustainable increase of users and funding is the best near term outcome, in my mind.

i went out of my way to avoid stating any hope of FF becoming the most popular. i used "stable" (as in user numbers) multiple times.

true that

here are my 4 non-Foss apps, out of 27 total on dock (yes on the dock, using folders)

• 🚫nordvpn
• 🚫obsidian (sync disabled)
• 🚫@voice aloud tts
• 🚫MS Swiftkey settings (true privacy threat i know, but Asian lang. support is essential & it runs w/o internet perm., w/o play services, and kept in incognito.)

i thought Firefox translator didn't have and East/Southeast Asian languages besides Vietnamese (because of Roman characters) so far

not sure exactly what features you need but there are

• losslesscut
• avidemux
• mkvmerge and mkvmergegui

if command line is OK, ffmpeg is the most versatile and customizable and tons of support docs and question forums (superuser, stackoverflow, askubuntu) for every conceivable niche one-off operation

apparently Uk govt has never played watch dogs legion, nor seen Equilibrium (C Bale movie), nor Minority Report, nor Richard III, nor read Brave New World, nor the billion other movies, novels, games, poems, songs, Banksy art, social videos, cave paintings, etc that specifically warned UK not to (re)become the villain (over and over again)

it's like the 2nd most popular culture topic.... after "love" or something

but noooo, just had to be edgelordsandladies.gov.uk

.........

those ceos and rich ppl who as kids get away with saying "the dog ate my homework"

they're probably so used to that, the "underperformance" was probably part of the original plan. cuz they're so accustomed to the shareholder hype cycle, they just plan cyclical hiring and layoffs in the same meeting.

they're economic cannibals

hang 'em by their toes!