@Unixbigot FPGA development is a constant tension between chips which are easy to make work with open source toolchains but require hardware knowledge to integrate into a design you can connect to anything, versus designs which are relatively easy to obtain in preconfigured devboards but use proprietary IDEs so horrific they become a primary roadblock to your plans
It feels so good to not have to wait for a bunch of ads and "Recommended" content to load every time I load my homescreen.
I had my local LLM use ADB to figure out how to connect over wifi and override the launcher when the default one kept taking over.
Just installed this open source launcher for my #android TV and it's SO much nicer than all the BS in the default launcher that Google made me use.
That phase of software development when you're preparing for an initial release is crazy. It's like packing for a trip when you don't know how long you'll be gone and the weather forecast for your destination keeps changing wildly. It always seems like there's something else to do, and just when you think you've got it all taken care of, you think of something else. There's also this feeling of foreboding, like am I forgetting something?
@elebertus all browsers had to do is not fucking deprecate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_manifest_in_HTML5 urrrggghhhhh explodes
@hank exactlyyy
@FranceskaMann I was thinking a brick would double as a way to exercise my arms and I could decorate it with stickers and stuff.
conspiracy theory
another tangent (this may actually exist, let me know):
how come the UN (or some other multinational entity) does not offer a search engine that is not tied to any state, to any government, to any corporation?
how come there isnt a search engine that is a public good, a public service?
and dont mean the code... I mean a fully funded entity committed to indexing and cataloguing the internet with no profit motive.
I will happily accept the parts of this proposed legislation that requires social media companies to reduce or eliminate algorithmic timelines, endless scrolling, functioning visibility restrictions and other controls that benefit everyone.
I actually think that such legislation would be widely popular, and would eliminate like 80% of the harmful effects of mainstream social media without any of the catastrophic impacts of forcing identity verification everywhere.
@ticky Congrats! I'm debating whether to get it right away or wait to see reviews from regular consumers once they actually get them 🤔
@vampiress It's super annoying if you use a privacy preserving browser or something without JavaScript. There's also the proof of work based things that are less sketchy and make it more expensive for bots to scrape carelessly.
@kepeken The ones I'm looking at are in the 300-400 CAD range. The value would be more in the data on the phone and camera quality than pure retail. I'm on a Samsung S21 as my daily driver right now. Unsure which eink phone I'll get but I'm gonna find the cheapest one that works :P I can ping you when I figure it out if you'd like.
Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.