As a random internet user, I want to remind you, are we sure even if humans are that intelligent to begin with? All those steps you give, are not needed for intelligence.

We keep moving the goal post for what intelligence is, and last I saw we have started to divide intelligence into different categories.

LLMs are just “imitate as closely as possible human responses” for good and for bad. And now we are trying to fix that to be as right as possible, when the flaw is that we as humans are mostly always wrong.

Not OpenAI, please! Do not attack the servers! Save the ram first!

That looks like someone messed up the vector graphic icons. It doesn’t look like an AI problem.

I hear ya, I used Nova for so many years, always trying other things but going back to it. And like you, I dropped it as soon as it got sold. But I struggled to find a good alternative. The most similar in usage and capabilities was lawnchair and I settled with it for a long while. Nearly all other options were too simple or lacked something I really wanted in a launcher (some quick gestures, proper folder handling…)

For the first time I have found a different approach to a launcher that I find genuinely useful aside of the Nova style.

But of course buddahriffic! Let’s see how I can explain it, it is quite a different approach to other more classical launchers. There’s no option to put icons on the launcher, there’s no paging or anything. In fact when I found it out it couldn’t even have widgets. But the Dev has been hard at work it seems and has been making really nice changes. Now it allows to use widgets, so at least you got that going. But otherwise the screen remains rather empty and clean.

Then the usage goes with gestures, but I’ve found it is less about gestures and just about straight lines of movement with your finger and how long. So when you start it it has nearly nothing set up to be used, you need to make a long click (I think it is like 3 seconds long and you see some UI feedback) to bring up the settings. In the settings you can see one of those screens with multiple rings in the screenshots on FDroid. On those rings you can manually and one by one add icons for apps or actions (and in the last version even more rings nested). You can set as many as you want, in as many rings as you feel like (maybe there’s some limits I don’t know). The customization options are quite nice, including distance to move the finger for each ring and area of no effect (if you want to cancel the action, I keep moving my finger in the screen quickly, browse the options in the rings and cancel it in the center where I started the gesture, it’s kinda satisfying, like a fidget thingy).

So in the home page, you can’t see the rings (maybe there’s an option for that) and wherever you press will set the center of the rings and then with the same gesture always you can reach the same action/app. The result is quite clean and easy interactions, once you learn your own setup. The apps I use less are a bit harder to find if I forget where I put them, but in those cases you can open a list of all apps just like any launcher. And at the beginning I was struggling to get used to it, but now I find it very convenient and fast for my most used apps. Getting the right place for the icons in the rings is also a bit of a learning process of where you want things.

Well, I hope I made it clearer and not more confusing :) maybe with the description and the screenshots in the app store you can get a pretty good idea of how it goes.

I’m enjoying a lot using Dragon Launcher, it’s a bit more complex with a bit of a learning curve but really nice once you get used to it. It’s less known so I’m trying to increase its visibility because it deserve all the love it can get.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.elnix.dragonlauncher

I haven’t tried calibre-web, but has been on my long todo list for a while. If I’m not mistaken, it is not a better UI, it is a better UI for a web server, calibre’s web server is… Well, barebones. So it is meant to replace it when you want to access the library mostly remotely. That’s what I have understood, maybe I’m wrong so take it with a pinch of salt. The other comment had a link to an alternative open source free software library manager, might be worth checking it.

Not the OP you asked, but I back his comment fully. At this point, I don’t even know how long it has been that I have used calibre. I started when I bought a Chinese e-reader back in the day when it was that or the first kindle that had a full keyboard.

At this point, after so long, for me ebooks go hand in hand with calibre. Why choose calibre instead of that alternative? Habits probably, the fact that calibre has filled that role since I ever used a screen to read. I don’t particularly think there’s any other reason. Back in the day when the formats of ebooks were all over the place, the conversion abilities of calibre were priceless. Now everything seems to be epub or cbz for comics. The transfer to the reader was also a breeze with calibre, now with WiFi in every device it doesn’t feel so relevant. Not to mean calibre doesn’t help, it has moved with the times allowing remote direct connection with the readers and so on.

I use Calibre because I already know it, it is open source, and it has proven to work extremely well over all these years. It can be trusted.

But now with all that said, why I wouldn’t use calibre. Calibre comes with its own web server but sincerely it is sooo limited i just can’t stand it. I know there’s calibre-web but I haven’t gotten around to set it up. Plus it doesn’t get along well with calibre itself running if I have understood correctly. It seems where calibre is lacking is in the editing of a library from multiple sources. So its main use seems to be meant on one computer and… That’s it. Now that I am setting some self hosted services, I wanted something similar for calibre. Many times I want to edit the library from my phone when I want to add something I found or whatever. But I appreciate having the full app on my computer to do big complex operations on my libraries. But I’ve never loomed for an alternative, why would I, calibre is incredible… Well, maybe I should. Thanks for that link! It looks promising!

I’ve been using lawnchair (which is a great substitute) ever since the news of the buyout from an ad company was announced, but that was a long time ago… Not sure why this is coming up now.

Anyway, a few days back I found out a new launcher and I want to spread the love for it. It requires more effort to configure it at first but I’m really liking its UX and the simplicity of the screen. It is called dragon launcher and I am having a nice time making small incremental changes to personalize it more and more and has been working great for me: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.elnix.dragonlauncher

Calling it softbrick is such an exaggeration though. I can’t tell if you faced a bug or if it was just that the launcher is very different from others and you missed some detail on how to use it.

I faced a similar issue, I saw the black screen and thought something was wrong, but I had read that long pressing for 3 seconds was supposed to open the settings, so I did that and everything was alright. It is strange enough to make it odd at first, the fact that they make it full screen as default doesn’t help it, but swiping from the top or the bottom (as with any other full screen app) will show the system notification and buttons or gesture navigation. With any launcher I want to try I don’t make them default right away, so using the home action of the system will bring me back directly to my default one. Using the launcher as an app will open it anyway to test and configure until I want to make it the default.

Anyway, anyone reading this and specially the above commenter if he wants to retry, there was nothing wrong and it is a very interesting novel idea. I’m actually liking it more and more as I start setting it up.

Hmm kando looks very interesting… I’m gonna need to check it out on the desktop at some point.

My wife also hates my phone, she can’t even use it, between the gesture navigation, the custom launcher and the custom theme and icon pack…

This launcher will probably make her throw the phone at me if she tries to use it.

Here in Lemmy, in my experience, this goes nowhere. You put it very clearly on your second paragraph. The small crowd with a strong opinion that thinks all AI is terrible in Lemmy is a bigger or at least more active group than the opposite. And with no ability to consider opposite points of view.

As a developer, most others I know of actually like the ai technology and use it as a way to analyze big amount of data quickly or as a starting point, while at the same time basically all hate the corporate AI side of things, specially idiotic managers and ceo-like asshats that keep pushing AI for all the wrong reasons and in all the wrong ways.

And fire the CEO :)

Sincerely a selfhostable service to create memes using a base image you choose from like a dropdown or something, some text, and some basic positioning could be nice, with the option to add new images on the fly. I’d definitely use it, so that I don’t upload my own photos to someone’s server.

It might just be that if there’s an OpenSource option they prefer to use and support that, no need to have a threat to use something open.

Alternatively, maybe they want to create memes with their own personal images or text that they rather not upload anywhere. The reason for why they prefer some OpenSource option, maybe something to selfhost, is irrelevant to the question by OP.

Watch Firefly

Shit, putting things in perspective is always tough… Can you give me a more specific name for the title 7 and 9 thing? Not from US but want to search and learn more about it.

So does this asshole have kids? Because if so, it would be sooo surprising if they are accepted into said private schools and get all good grades. If he has kids they should be forced to attend the public schools, see what is what in reality.

Ah… Very good point! I have to check if the OpenSource keyboard I use allows it… But I guess I would need to learn very well how to draw them to use them or the keyboard won’t recognize it. I would need something that allows me to learn slowly the patterns and drawing directions specifically. Something that starts giving you a pattern to draw on top and then slowly make it more difficult.