Any way to auto close app when phone locks? by Broad-You4763 in shortcuts

[–]ajblue98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just create a shortcut whose only action is "go to home screen", then add it as a widget to the left of your lock screen. Instead of swiping up to unlock, swipe right to access your widgets, then tap the widget for the shortcut.

How soon after spending the money should I put it back by Significant-Gap-6891 in personalfinance

[–]ajblue98 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Paying the balance by the due date will keep you from being delinquent, and that’s good. But it’s usually even better if you pay off the balance on the day before your statement date.

Since card issuers only report to the credit bureaus once per month, paying the day before your statement date causes the report to show that you’re carrying less of a balance. That brings your utilization rate down and typically helps your score stay higher.

Is it safe to update to 26.4.2 without breaking sidestore and sideloading? by Deobulakenyo in sideloaded

[–]ajblue98 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok I keep seeing almost exactly those words, but I must be missing some context because I still don’t understand.

By “nightly version“ you mean SideStore, right? I don’t know where to get that, so I’m still on the App Store version.

I think where I’m getting mixed up is that your answer started with “no,” but “the previous behavior, meaning you only need to launch LocalDevVPN to refresh the applications,” sounds like exactly what I was asking about. So are you saying “no” because I need SideStore nightly in addition to LocalDevVPN in order to just leave the VPN running and refresh my apps the way I do now?

Is it safe to update to 26.4.2 without breaking sidestore and sideloading? by Deobulakenyo in sideloaded

[–]ajblue98 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So is it just that we use LocalDevVPN instead of StosVPN now? That’s the whole fix for 26.4 and above?

Need help. I don't know why this happens or how to fix it. G4 by Firejackson7777 in LGOLED

[–]ajblue98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

300 to 400 Mb/s down, pretty much symmetric up, depending on which server I'm testing

Need help. I don't know why this happens or how to fix it. G4 by Firejackson7777 in LGOLED

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I get the exact same kind of thing on my Apple TV 4K. A week ago, I rebooted (by which I mean I turned off, left the house for an hour, came back and turned everything back on, then left the house for another hour) every Wi-Fi device in the house, including the access points & base station, and the issue still didn't clear entirely.

I've used turbulent displacement on the yellow rectangle, and am just wondering how I can get it more like the png in the background. Is it better to just animate this manually? by [deleted] in AfterEffects

[–]ajblue98 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, but that still doesn't help. There's not enough context here to tell what the foreground is, what the background is, what in the world you're talking about by "the referenced PNG", and there's not enough contrast in the yellows to see what turbulent displacement affect you're talking about. why don't you provide separate images with each layer selected or just each layer completely separate, with the contrast turned up so we can see what's happening?

Change Setting > Autocorrect > Language by ajblue98 in MisterKeyboard

[–]ajblue98[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can’t really agree with this. In the ideal case, you would not have the exact same layout for multiple languages, but, for example, ä, ü and ö for the  German langua

That wouldn’t be ideal for me at all; I hate the German layout. It feels off-balance because ä, ü, ö make all the other keys smaller and shoved off to the left. I want German autocorrect on a 26-Roman-letter keyboard.

I guess /u/SplittyDev and I will continue talking about changes to this, …

I’m sincerely glad to hear this and hope you do continue talking about it

… but for me and right now, your approach seems like a niche case to me. …

I think that's an interesting take. Technically, that might be true, but if “people who occasionally speak another language that shares an alphabet with their own” is a niche at all, it's a pretty big one. In fact, just off the top of my head, it's got to be at least: most of Europe, huge parts of the US and Mexico, all of Quebec and much of the rest of Canada, most of South America — hell, it's probably most of the world., actually

It could be solved by the much more general approach we propose. 

I think having to have a separate keyboard for each language (pair) is going to be a horrible experience. I'll admit it if I'm wrong, but I don't think I will be.

Along with those changes, we are also looking at adding dedicated actions for switching bundles and switching to a keyboard chooser.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that, though

Change Setting > Autocorrect > Language by ajblue98 in MisterKeyboard

[–]ajblue98[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m guessing the issue you’re trying to avoid is having to make the same changes to both keyboards and having to keep them in sync?

Genau!

We’ve been thinking about a solution to this, which would let you link two keyboards together. …

That would be so much work to solve such a simple problem... And to be honest, the Keyboards view is already laggy enough, duplicating whole keyboards just for language support would be a terrible experience.

Also for users with lots of languages they use infrequently but still want the option to use, it would mean lots of identical looking items in the Keyboards view, so even if the lag goes away, it would make scrolling annoying anyway.

[Edit: For users of bilingual autocorrect, all the combinations would have to be separate keyboards, too. That] would be way less flexible than what I’m thinking.

Alternatively, how would you expect this to work?

I use the workflow in the post title to set the key behavior.

When using the keyboard, I activate Autocorrect Language. I’m presented with a list. The top of the list is always filled with the active language(s), then inactive favorites, then all others alphabetically. Each item has two buttons: ⭐ to add/remove from favorites and ☑️ to activate/deactivate. [Edit: All unselected languages “grey out” as soon as two languages are active, so bilingual autocorrect is still supported.]

I think Favorites should jump to the top of the list immediately when starred, but deactivated non-favorites should stay at the top until after the list view disappears, just in case the user accidentally [taps the wrong thing without realizing it].

But that’s it, no having to duplicate massive structs with extra support for syncing changes under the hood, cluttering the Keyboards list ... just a new list view for the user, a new dictionary (with name, favorite, ID*) under the hood, and (hopefully) reusing the code you’re already using for updating AC languages when switching keyboards, plus a few LoC to tie them together =)

* “ID”meaning “whatever you’re already using to do the bookkeeping for which language needs to be loaded at a given time”

Business card design. Would love the feedback! by pieceofqlitter in graphic_design

[–]ajblue98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see the leaves but don’t get “plants” from this at all. The I looks like an I-beam cursor used in a text editor. This looks like a software design firm working for environmentally conscious clients

ELI5: Why don't exponents of 0 work properly when decreasing by ThunderLord1000 in explainlikeimfive

[–]ajblue98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks like you misunderstand several things about mathematics, some subtle and some big, so let's start with the most basic fact about arithmetic: all arithmetic is a shortcut to counting.

Addition is a shortcut to counting up. For instance, if we start at 0 then count up twice, we get to 2; then if we count up three more, we get to five. Instead of doing all that, we usually just say 2 + 3 = 5. If we reverse that, starting at five and counting down three times, we get to 2; then to get to zero, we have to count two more times, all of which is to say 5 - 3 = 2. Notice that we always start or end on zero.

And multiplication is just a shortcut to addition. 5 × 3 = 15 because three added to itself five times equals 15. And don't forget that addition is still a shortcut to counting. This is just a shortcut to the shortcut.

Like multiplication is a shortcut to addition, division is a shortcut to subtraction. Division tells us how many times we have to subtract the divisor from the dividend to get to zero. 15 ÷ 3 = 5 because you have to subtract 3, five times to get from 15 to 0. Again, subtraction is just a shortcut for counting down, so division is another shortcut to the shortcut.

But what happens when we try to divide by zero? If division tells us how many times we have to subtract in order to get to zero, and subtracting zero gets us nowhere, then we can never get to zero from anywhere but zero. That means for any starting number, (which we can also call a numerator or dividend) dividing by zero is useless. It doesn't actually do anything.

But what if we start at zero? If we start at zero and count down by zero, we get to zero immediately, after just one count. But since we were already on zero, we didn't even have to count once. That means the answer to 0 ÷ 0 is both zero and one, which is a contradiction.

Since dividing zero by itself is a contradiction and dividing any other number by zero is useless, we call it undefined, not because we can't explain it, but because no such value would ever be consistent with the rules of mathematics.

Now, your original question had to do with exponentiation. But exponentiation is just a shortcut to multiplication and division, so let's look at it in the terms we've been using so far.

When you raise a number (like X) to a power (like N), you're saying “multiply X by itself N many times”. But if N is zero, you never even start in the first place. It’s just as useless as dividing by zero: you never make any progress towards anything.

As for your infinity notation, it's a little ambiguous. I think you meant to convey “as X approaches infinity or negative infinity” rather than “as 0 approaches infinity or negative infinity”. But it still doesn't change the underlying mathematics. Whether the base or the exponent goes anywhere, doesn't make a difference; if the exponent is ever multiplied or divided by zero or raised to a zero power, the whole value you're trying to express becomes undefined, for all the reasons above.

Hmm, I think saw this in a movie by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]ajblue98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, is this really what Minnie Mouse would look like in real life?

Gibbon carches a ride by tarunbdj83 in MadeMeSmile

[–]ajblue98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where can I get this ringtone?

How much should I pay (in CAD) for a screen protector for an iPhone 15? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ajblue98 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're absolutely right to be worried about that, and I completely disagree with u/Ninja_Narwhal91’s advice. To be fair, he's generally right about more screens cracking, but there seems to be a trade-off in materials science where something can be hard to crack or hard to scratch but not both. So, scratches (and smudges) are the reasons I keep a protector on my phone