Ah, good catch.

Never mind AI, MRIs are more important.

At least we have the US Helium Res— dammit, Biden!

The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried

Helium is needed for MRIs.

Sites can just use CSS.

I’m on PopOS Cosmic, I should make a feature request, but I’ve been busy.

Idk, it had emoji and Unicode and search by name. The Win11 made it worse though. EmojiMart is fine.

I can’t use Proton Pass and some other apps because they still use xclip. It’ll straighten out with time. Just an irritation.

I bound super+e to Emoji Mart, which is ok, but copies it rather than typing it.

WinKey+period to enter emoji and other Unicode characters. I’ve got some workarounds, but they are all just slightly kludgy, especially with the Wayland clipboard.

Louis Rossmann does a pretty good job of covering the choice between complying and going out of business from his own experience. https://youtube.com/watch?v=eCtWeNwOb9w

That made me think of this very old Tom Scott video.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E

Yeah, I never really used it for handwriting. That seems basically unverifiable sometimes, when I can’t read it myself.

Always worked well enough for me.

I buy direct from the manufacturer whenever I can.

The prices outside of Amazon will be higher though, that’s the reason for this enforcement, the “Amazon tax”. Cory Doctorow has been talking about it for a while. I’m glad to see someone that can do something heard it.

Finding stuff outside of Amazon isn’t easy, though. Search engines barely show results for anyone outside Amazon, Walmart, and ebay. Too often I’ll find a retailer for a while only for Amazon to buy it later or otherwise destroy them (I miss Woot and Jet and Fictionwise and Bookpool, &c).

I’m experimenting with the LILYGO T-Deck+ on MeshCore for messaging and thinking about the Mecha Comet for other stuff. I’m really hoping to leave the corporate stuff behind.

Weld quickly first so you have time for the cement to cure.

Keep in mind that changes are coming even if you stay on Windows or Mac or Android or iOS. AI in particular is going to require everyone to relearn everything in non-deterministic ways, so you end up begging the system to do what you want in new creative ways. Also, the UI will be radically reworked over and over. There’s really no way to avoid learning new ways to do things on an invention that’s less than 50 years old.

Yes, it’s work that we don’t usually have the energy for, especially now, but the best we can do is look for a community to support each other through it all.

Wait, does it not work on your hardware, or are you using it frequently enough to be bothered by passwords?

I’ve been using the Dvorak layout for typing and swiping on my phone for many years. It’s actually set to be multilingual, even: I can swipe either language or toggle to Azerty for French (I probably should switch to BÉPO, but I don’t think I have that option yet). I don’t tend to swap phones enough for that to be an issue, and I work remotely so I don’t have to use other workstations, so my use case is probably more suited to this.

Where’s my Dvorak phone?