Yeah, that ship has sailed.

I have Waydroid set up on my postmarketOS OnePlus 6T mainly so I can use the Discord app. Waydroid still needs some integration issues worked out (access to location, access to Bluetooth, access to calls/texts, ability to forward notifications to the Linux side) but otherwise it runs quite well. Performance feels pretty similar to native. I also have a OnePlus 6 running stock OS for my main phone tasks as pmOS doesn’t have VoLTE support for the 6T so is kinda useless as a phone right now.

Hacker’s Keyboard is a good Android keyboard for doing terminal stuff. It adds a lot of the keys you need to efficiently work in terminal. Only Android keyboard worth using.

Sodium ion sounds like a very promising battery tech for a lot of things due to sodium’s abundance and ease of access, but it’s less energy dense than lithium so I still see lithium battery tech being king in most applications where battery size and weight matter - portable electronics and EVs mostly. Sodium ion tech sounds best suited for grid-scale energy storage, home backup/solar batteries, and other such applications where cost is more important than size or weight.

I’m in the middle and I don’t always like it. 100% coverage is mandatory for the industry I work in though. I get that module testing is important but it can be such a chore to work on. I got pulled in to help write tests for another project this month and that is somewhere between watching grass grow and watching paint dry in terms of level of excitement.

Also fork the repos. Git makes duplicating a repository simple, and preserving history with a fork is way better than uploading a zip snapshot. For best results fork to GitLab, Bitbucket, Codeberg, etc. as well.

Hacker’s Keyboard on Android and I created a custom Squeekboard layout for my Linux phone.

I make a point of using smartphone onscreen keyboards that have these keys. They are too useful!

I mean, they have the money. They could build their own fiber network. They already have the permits, pole access, equipment, maintenance network, distribution network, utility boxes, etc. that they could leverage to build a truly modern network infrastructure in parallel to their outdated coaxial one if they wanted to stay relevant in this century, but they don’t. They stick with their shitty cable and its shitty uplink limitations and let much smaller third parties spend all that money to get their own permits, equipment, etc. and build their own fiber networks that can actually deliver the performance people want. Then Spectrum cries like the crybaby they are when everyone abandons their ancient infrastructure when competition arrives. Hell no I don’t want to stick around for your lame “gigabit” cable with a pathetic 20mbps uplink.

I had to yell at them on the phone to cancel when I switched to symmetric gigabit fiber last summer after over a decade of 200/20 Spectrum. They said “but wait we can offer gigabit too” and I said that what they were selling was theoretically impossible to match what I had. Garbage company selling inferior product. I’m glad they’re starting to see real competition in more and more places from smaller fiber companies.

But it’s way easier to find a phone with a micro SD slot than either of those. Mini SD was a thing and it was very short lived.

Overwatch.

Oroginally I dismissed it as just being a TF2 clone, and being a very loyal TF2 player at the time I didn’t want to play it as I consodered it a blatant ripoff. However, I started going to a LAN party group at work in 2017 and Overwatch was the only FPS they played so I got it. It still does feel similar to TF2 but the variety of characters got me hooked and it became my most played game for many years until OW2 came out and ruined everything. Getting back into it now though and they’ve toned down some of the bad decisions of OW2 since launch. Now I’m dating a girl who plays Overwatch as well and we’ve been playing constantly so I’m back into it completely now.

git reflog, you can get your old commits back

Strange, I have two of the 39W Switch adapters and have used them many times with my Steam Deck, including with dock. I have a third party dock that works with both the Switch and the Deck too that I’ve powered with the Switch adapter.

The Steam Deck charges fine off of the Switch adapter, and most of my phones do also. I don’t think devices without active USB PD chips will work though as I don’t think the Switch adapter outputs anything until a device asks for it.

Lemmy is guilty of this too. I have a giant 4K monitor, why is all the content squashed into a teeny tiny sub-1000 pixel column in the middle of a sea of white? There is no reason I should ever have to scroll on a 4K screen to see a standard Lemmy homepage. Old Reddit got this right (same with mlmym) but default Lemmy UI needs the option to stretch. I have a userstyle installed that does this but it’s not perfect.

I use it a lot for data and often for texts, but calls are broken for the most part. Only works in 2G mode and sometimes the audio is broken. When ot works, it works well, but it osn’t reliable. That’s why I got a second SIM and am carrying an Andrpoid phone as well for now. Once calls and camera work I’ll drop the Android phone again. Waydroid works pretty well for the few remaining Android apps I use.

OnePlus 6T with postmarketOS, default browser for the Phosh version is Firefox but I use LibreWolf instead.

OnePlus 6 with stock Android, default browser is Chrome but I use Fennec F-Droid (mobile Firefox fork) instead.

It was mlmym but then mlmym.org shut down. Too bad lemmy.ml doesn’t run it under the old.lemmy.ml like some other instances do. I don’t want to move instances and lose my history to get it back and I don’t want to trust random third party ones. Maybe I should self host it at some point.

Seriously, there are a lot of things to hate but self-checkout is not one of them. Not having to interact with humans, being able to make sure everything is scanned correctly yourself, and being able to scan at your own pace is great. The only problem is when they don’t have enough self-checkouts. Sure beats having a one or two conventional checkout open out of the 25 or so they have in the store. I would prefer they pass the savings on to the consumer, but that’s the only fault I can find with self-checkout, well, that and the stupid weight sensor but more and more stores aren’t requiring that stupid “place item in bagging area” thing anymore.

Seriously, seeing these proprietary locked down garbage products die the death they rightfully deserve makes me happy. Sucks that people lost their jobs, but there are other ebike companies that don’t make horribly anti-consumer garbage that they could work for. Shitty tech companies who prioritize anti-repair and lock-in strategies simply need to go away. It’s bad for consumers and it’s bad for the environment.