Are you a parent?

No, that’s not similar at all. If you have to stop to consider the political opinions of everyone involved in anything you ever do, buy, use… You’ll never end up using anything. Do you actually mean I cannot enjoy old art done in the past because the ones creating it probably had some shitty ideals, opinions or morals?

A shitty person can do something good. Accepting something good from a shitty person doesn’t mean we need to share or support everything about that person. You can criticize one aspect of something and accept the good of the same thing. The world is not so black and white.

Edit: mind you, there’s a case to be made when supporting something good means providing indirect support to something bad. But that is far from accepting you will use software from people with shitty ideas.

Read it again x)

He wants to buy office PCs as there should be an influx of them. He doesn’t want a new PC for windows.

Thanks for the warning, I will do the same then, I was left wondering as I made the rules… Why would they keep using the same release name making it easy to find? This makes more sense :)

Thank you, you three, setting this up right away.

For you and me to live iiin!

I’ve been a mobile dev for many years, I fell in love with the Nokia 810 with maemo which kinda got me started, but I never had one myself. I moved to OpenMoko and saved to buy a Neo. But then Android became big with Google’s support and all companies rushing to have an alternative to iOS with the iPhone. Back then when Android meant openness. As much as I loved the openmoko project it had plenty of issues as a daily driver, so eventually I cracked and moved to Android with a Galaxy S2, ah, the innocence back then when one could think Google was actually different… Actually doing good and creating a great Linux phone.

I absolutely agree on all your points. It is time to kill Android as a free/open source idea if it is not dead yet. And you know what, Linux is absolutely ready to substitute anything as a mobile platform. It needs more polishing in terms of UI but Maemo nearly 20 years ago already offered a great UX IMO. Thank you Microsoft and all Nokia management for destroying it.

Now, I say Linux as a mobile platform is ready… But we all know it doesn’t lack problems. What are those? The problems come from anticompetitive practices, locked hardware for chips, drivers and so on, specially all related to phone networking. The other main problem is apps which is only a small issue with all the ways there are available to make android apps run on Linux, that is… Until google comes to fuck things up with the points #3 and #4 you make. Those are the biggest threats right now, and it’s no wonder Google is doing that. They are preventing the possibility of competition arising. Like I said, I have been a dev for many years, it absolutely sucks the path all tech is taking. But there are solutions, just need to have proper anticompetitive practices and protections… At least in Europe we kinda do, but more needs to be done.

The main point is, Linux as an alternative is kinda ready, if only there was a real posible competition to be had outside of being incredibly rich.

Give me liberty or give me symbian maemo

FTFY

Tardigrade. Also Macaw if it hasn’t been used yet.

Yeah, I saw the comment in github but it felt too surreal and without looking at the patent I didn’t want to assume anything. But hey thanks for the link to the actual patent, I have had a look at it, and read some parts of it and I’m still kinda confused about the whole situation with this keyboard.

The patent was published 10 years ago. It says it is withdrawn but I don’t know if we can somehow see the reason or if it was voluntarily withdrawn.

The patent itself recognizes that the hexagonal keyboard alone lacks on innovation to warrant the patent so the author proposes together with that the “best” order for different languages.

Then the code in github seems to have been uploaded 6 months ago. Maybe they withdrew the patent until they can show an example?

But how often do devs working on some free software code go through the trouble of making patents? And the code appearing such a long time after the patent… I don’t know, I don’t like throwing accusations without proof but the whole thing feels like they are more interested in the patent than creating the keyboard but I can’t be certain of it.

And then we get to the whole ordeal of the key positions, changing over different languages, trying to choose the optimal positions… I don’t think that it is enough to be patented (but I’ve seen worse so…) and likely it won’t ever be something people can agree on. Creating such “best” order would be impossible and probably each person would have different ideas. Now, predicting the next most likely letter… That would be more interesting but it was done ages ago too. And the most important aspect of what makes us fast typing is not the order of the letters, but the fact that we have muscle memory to reach them once we are used to a layout. As I use three different languages daily, using the same keyboard layout for all, is the best option, but with this idea I would need to change the layout of the keyboard… It would make me so incredibly slow!

And more in detail with the patent, many claims are borderline ridiculous. But this comment is already long enough so I’ll leave it herewith my final criticism for the author. Forget the patent, and just create a good keyboard that people want to use.

I’m glad to see an open source keyboard for a hex design. But I’m confused with the patents… Hex keyboards are not particularly new, I’ve used them years ago, so on what basis are they patenting it?

Like transform back and forth under my control? Study the physics of matter transformation and invisibility, maybe earn a Nobel prize in the process.

Is it though? Nearly 10 years ago they were going to sell them in retail for 200$, now it is 225$, and its going to be so much better. My time steel lasted for so many years… And it was wonderful, I miss it so much. After the battery started to get too weak I started the search for an alternative, there’s so little offering what pebble offers. Ended up with a Garmin, which is… OK, but the price makes me nearly consider it not worth it, around two years ago it cost me 350€, and it was the cheapest version. It’s probably great for super sporty people, but I just want a basic watch that helps me get notified and check a bunch of things.

In my opinion what pebble offers is incredibly good for the price, specially compared with what there is in the market currently.

I love the changes they have done. I loved the pebble time steel, and personally the design of pebble time 2 was not my thing and I was devastated that pebble time 2 was dropped. This new design manages to marry the pebble time 2 and the pebble time steel incredibly well. And the color options seem really great actually… It’s going to be difficult to choose.

And furthermore, it is a relief to have again the metal buttons. I’m going to have to dig out the time steel to see if I can use it to test the new version to see if I can get back to developing some watchfaces.

The art is not the artist. You may not want to support an artist based on whatever they have said or done, that’s all fine and good, but only really applies to current artists.

Art won’t stop being art and such pieces that are enjoyable won’t stop being enjoyable. Also people are complicated, they might be a piece of shit, and still have opinions that are worth listening to, or capable of creating something that is a positive influence.

Consider some old art examples, might be a concert piece, or a painting, a sculpture… Think about the artists. Depending on the time and society they lived in, they could have easily been racist, homophobic, sexist… If they had twitter back then we could probably have plenty of reasons to hate them. There’s plenty of art pieces that have been a positive influence to me in my past, and nowadays we unfortunately know how horrible some of the artists involved were. This happens more with current artists because now it’s easier to publish your shitty ideas in a public forum without the option to shut everyone’s mouths.

Some examples, Harry Potter was a huge influence to me and many around me, it was a positive influence that created a more inclusive point of view on us, it’s a pity the author is a piece of crap now, but the art still remains as a positive influence for many. Basically all works by Joss Whedon have been amazing in my opinion and his female characters have usually been some of the best examples of what good writing can be, alas he seems to be abusive and an ass to many people he has worked with. Neil Gaiman is another example, such a brilliant mind capable of creating incredible characters and stories and he is a piece of shit. Yet their art might actually have helped so many people that needed it. No matter what many might say, it’s never so clear cut when it comes to people.

Hi just old and cynical, I’m old and cynical dad. So yeah, I immediately started wondering what could be the angle here for the firms pushing it. It is not from the goodness of their nonexistent hearts, so what is there to benefit…

I don’t think it would be to have harder to detect anything, it would probably be easier to detect if anything.

I’d wager it is just the fact that these firms are crap at making software. They realize they are lagging behind, and don’t want to depend on 3rd party solutions that can fuck them over later on or reduce the value of their cars if the support is ever dropped or updates are stopped (by them or the 3rd party).

So by pushing for free software they are trying to remove the cost of licenses of 3rd party software, the cost of maintenance, and the cost of development. Any issues or problems, they can also shift the blame. They’d also be removing software as a factor to compare cars, which I’m sure is something making them look bad right now.

But at the end it feels like a net win for buyers, so it may just end up being the most sensible solution and at the same time profitable for these firms. And even if the general public is not really demanding for this, I’m sure the car firms using this will sell it as the more private option, and everyone likes it when they tell you google, apple or others won’t be tracking you.

That could be, but in a quick look I couldn’t see the scene the way I remember it. It is definitely the same style. Thanks for trying to find it though!

No, it wasn’t starship troopers, I love that movie. It was a kinda realistic monster-horror movie, in other words based in current time planet earth. The only unrealistic thing was the size of the spiders as far as I know.

I don’t know the name and it was only one scene I saw passing by, something about giant spiders, and one dude was getting into the car to escape and a spider was inside waiting. It probably was in the second half of the 90s and it was on TV, so probably released in late 80s or early 90s. And I don’t think it’s arachnophobia, at least I haven’t seen any scene that reminds me of my memory.

I’ve had phobia to spiders ever since.

If we consider watching the full movie, it did haunt me for so long and I still remember it with dread, critters. Fucking hate those puppets they used.

You are not wrong on that account, but it was still funny to me that they complained that the fine is unlawful… Like would that really fool anyone?