People, shall we read the full article first?

Meanwhile, this is not the case with the Ryzen 9000 series desktop parts as the spec sheet of that says:

OS Support

Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition , Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition , RHEL x86 64-Bit , Ubuntu x86 64-Bit

So the new Ryzen AI chips that most people don’t care about won’t support Win 10, but Ryzen 9000 (the real deal desktop chips) will.

To be frank, the article title is misleading at best.

From the project’s GitHub page, this is the link: https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/tree/46fdf2b550035ca69299ce312fa158e7ade36967/app/src/main/jniLibs

(If you have a modern phone, you’ll want the arm64-v8a build)

The latest release hints towards F-Droid availability: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/releases/tag/v1.2

Just updating 1.1 APKs would have created issues with incoming F-Droid build.

HeliBoard has been my chosen SwiftKey replacement: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

Features I value:

• Multilingual typing (as someone who writes EN, PT and dabbles on DE and NL daily, having to check which language I’m on and switch keyboards/layouts every time sucks)
• Glide typing (with optional closed source library)
• Clipboard history
• Comprehensive layout customization
• Autocorrect (with customizable level of confidence)
• Emoji selection and history

It does suck to see an app that I loved and paid for (yes, I used it for THAT long) get enshittified and try push AI* down my throat.

Not to mention M$ owning my typing history (which I kinda could live with).

RIP SwiftKey.

Out of curiosity, which is the launcher you chose?

I froze the stock launcher at the last version without Ads. It works, but I guess some entries like “continue watching” could be bugging out now because it is out of date/never patched.

It seems they are in the middle of the road of merging SimpleLogin and Proton Pass.

I have Mail Plus (~$4/month) and SL (~$2/month) subs, as they’re the only services I need and cost less than the ~$10/month for Proton Unlimited, which is what I would need to pay for if I used both services from Proton.

Right now there’s this Proton Pass feature gray area, where I have Pass free, so I’m limited to 10 aliases, but the aliases I create on Pass have the custom domain I setup on SL, and show on my SL dashboard too. Weird.

Trying to make real and good use of AI generative models are cracks in the magic.

My experience with the last Nvidia GPU generations is the opposite, the fan curves are too conservative temp wise. Your card will get very loud trying to maintain a ~70C temp target. This of course changes with manufacturer and model.

With a 3090 I suggest an undervolt (even a modest one works miracles for the power hungry top tier cards). And after doing that, you can also dial in a slower fan curve.

While finding a good undervolt is time consuming (please do test, stress the heck out of it, with different apps/games), it was a god send to me. And it helps a lot with keeping the memory cool, which is something I worried a lot with the ram chips on the back of the board that the 3090 has.

Does Nvidia have first party software for OC, fan curve, undervolt and OSD?

That’s what I use Afterburner currently for.

On handling downloaded songs and offline playback, my personal (but informed) opinion is that there is:

• some licensing reasons for it to be more complicated than strictly necessary
• lack of interest of supporting an app feature that doesn’t drive numbers immediately up (sure, I agree that a better offline experience would improve the product and help user retention, but it isn’t easy/quick to measure its impact), and
• lack of ownership with many teams having to support a functionality (keep the app working offline) within all the various app features they own.

So, just as a dog with multiple owners, it goes neglected and starves.

I’d say that they’re “cooking the books” as in: making it look like they’re in better shape than they are by cutting costs, but causing irreparable damage to themselves that will manifest in the long run.

I’ve survived 3 layoffs at Spotify last year alone. Once I started working there It didn’t take long to be proud and feel happy about it. Now, although people still find it cool when I tell them and I still do the same job (no workload increase), I know it is just like any other greedy corpo and I feel compelled to care less and less.

https://c.im/@matdevdug/111828583287417134

I haven’t used it, but it is on my bookmarks for when Feedly stops working for me: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

“cheat”, “lie”, “cover up”… Assigning human behavior to Stochastic Parrots again, aren’t we Jimmy?

OC so it drops frames less often?

I mean it, Zelda BotW and TotK both benefit a lot from some OC. Specially yours being a V1 Switch.

Even simple games like Sea of Stars drop less frames with a simple CPU OC.

You can also get the device keys to be able to run a Switch emulator (but I heard that if one really wants, they can find that kind of stuff online).

I’ve heard about running homebrew software but never looked into it.

Now, you can always go full tilt and start sailing the high seas.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

When your phone becomes unusable and unrepairable, buy a Fairphone.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

When your phone becomes unusable and unrepairable, buy a Fairphone.

No fees when users choose to pay via Spotify (which had been the case and only option since the beginning, until User Choice Billing was implemented).

If users choose to pay with Google Play Billing, Google keeps 4%.

Even so, what I find hypocritical is that Spotify got this deal and seemingly agreed to keep it under wraps, without advocating for it to be extended to all other music streaming services in the platform.

Because… having a deal with the platform holder that gives it unfair advantage over the competition is exactly what they accuse Apple of doing with iOS.

Sauce: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-android-billing-commission-secret-deal

Interesting… I have an OG Shield, also in the Netherlands, but have seen no ads (that being said, companies A/B test and do gradual rollout of this kind of BS).

But I also kept my Android Home in the version without ads by disabling Play Store updates and instead manually going over all apps (except Home!) every month or so (or when I have an issue with any app I use).

I feel confident that I’ll be able to hack my way around this new form of ads.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

For apps that don’t disallow regular backups (like WhatsApp does), Lineage OS and Calyx support Seedvault, which is a 1:1 alternative to Google Drive, except it saves the backup as an encrypted file.