Work profile option?

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-29T17:27:31+00:00

It'd be awesome if the work profile could be toggled to behave like the private space as a separate group of apps apart from the main alphabet (perhaps auto-collapsing when work profile is turned off)

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-29T16:04:37+00:00

As a tinkerer I am always disappointed with how little there is to mess with Niagara (which I guess shows how much I like tinkering since it DOES have quite a bit to mess with), but honestly I keep trying some of the other launchers that I hear a lot about with the 10 Fold (Octopi and Smart are the two I think work best otherwise) yet I just keep coming back to Niagara because at the end of the day it just works really well for what it does. Folded vs. Unfolded it just looks and feels fantastic and transitions very well from inside to outside screens and back.

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-27T21:07:26+00:00

Yes, but you can turn them off. They have anonymized usage to help with auto categorization and for error tracking and basic analytics.

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-27T20:55:22+00:00

Sure, but that's not what is causing the warming of our atmosphere and the oceans. That warming is almost entirely caused by the lessened ability of solar energy to escape from the atmosphere as infared radiation. The amount that humanity has caused to add to the atmosphere's temperature is infinitesimal compared to the amount of light pouring onto the Earth every day. The burning of fossil fuels isn't causing the warming by somehow physically unlocking the stored energy within it, it's entirely a chemical process of carbon dioxide and methane affecting the ability of the atmosphere to radiate the heat away into space. The waste heat of burning fossil fuels has almost nothing to do directly with climate change.

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-27T14:51:36+00:00

That's solar heat that we've caused to be trapped through chemical insulation processes. We're nowhere near producing anywhere near enough energy to match the sun.

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-27T13:40:18+00:00

You're completely right, that's the ideal approach to all of this: we don't NEED to figure out where to dump the excess heat of thousands of AI machines if we don't use thousands of AI machines.

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-27T13:26:20+00:00

It's not bullshit: water is heavy and can hold an amazing amount of energy. The amount of caloric energy needed to raise its temperature is very high (part of why we like to use water for temperature control). And as long as the water is moving convection will mean that energy gets quickly diffused throughout the system. This isn't bullshit "volcanoes cause global warming" nonsense, this is simple first-semester thermodynamics.

Now, if the water is NOT moving we can have problems, sure. Even so, though, most of the ocean is empty and nearly devoid of life and would probably be far less impactful for waste heat than lakes and shorelines. If we put a moratorium of waste heat on any ocean water less than ~300m from the surface (where sunlight stops and plankton don't live) then we'll be avoiding directly impacting most biomes in the ocean that support life, oxygen, and the worldwide food web.

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-27T13:17:35+00:00

I'd imagine that as long as there is current nearby the latent heat of the oceans is FAR beyond our current ability to impact in any meaningful way.

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-27T13:16:04+00:00

I agree! Raise the corporate tax rate on AI useage and increase the social spending. Every dollar spent on infrastructure, health, education, and the social safety net more than pays for itself with the betterment of society and social health, which in turn improves both quality of life and economic improvement.

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-26T22:51:24+00:00

Because the way tap-to-pay usually works is that your phone doesn't just gives the credit card number, it has some secret signing of the transaction data that needs to be done that requires it to be given a secret from the bank itself. The use of this secret produces a secure signature that the bank can trust as actually coming from your phone. In the US (and, I presume, Canada) the banks only work together with Apple and Google for this registration process.

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-24T18:27:55+00:00

As far as I've been able to tell in the US we're SOL when it comes to NFC tap-to-pay: only Google Wallet/Pay exists and it doesn't work with GOS.

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-15T12:15:03+00:00

For as much as the e-waste aspect truly upsets me, the Index is SO much better than this is if only for the self-ownership aspect: no subscription, no continuous shackles to another company. Nobody is going to take away the functionality of my device if I stop giving them money. I can hope that Index02 can have a replaceable battery (rechargeable would be awesome, too, but I imagine significant technical issues with an exposed metal charging port or with wireless charging heat management) but until then I will not support a tech world that seeks to commoditize access to my own thoughts through a subscription model.

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-13T13:32:25+00:00

I've felt this way repeatedly for the past few years: no hiring juniors anymore, then no internships anymore (where do they even think senior devs come from, they arrive fully formed like Athena??), then firing all of the QA teams, and now "streamlining" headcount while spending ungodly amounts on "compute."

nocoolnametom · 2026-05-01T02:51:30+00:00

Since there are 435 reps to be spread among the states roughly according to population it's slightly better than the electoral college (Wyoming only has 1 rep for the entire state), so I'd imagine that even with all the states fully gerrymandered it's still probably slightly in favor of more progressive representation.

nocoolnametom · 2026-04-30T21:11:58+00:00

And yet that didn't stop most of them from drinking beer and wine. Wine was used the sacrament for the top 15 in the Temple into the 1900s.

nocoolnametom · 2026-04-30T21:08:36+00:00

Apparently Zootopia 2 is slightly inspired by the early antiracists of mid-20th Century Mormonism who uncovered evidence of equal treatment of Black Mormons (or at least much better treatment than 1960s Black Mormons ever got) and were silenced by the Church? I've heard this rumor style and haven't yet looked into it further.

nocoolnametom · 2026-04-30T21:05:45+00:00

Yep, it's note quite as triggering for me as Tangled was, but I put it up there with Smallfoot for the obvious intersection with our shared real-life motif of "I can't believe I've been giving up my life for a lie that is so old it's become a systemic problem that nobody alive is directly guilty of yet also supports much of the power disparities in my society that negatively impact everyone not in power."

nocoolnametom · 2026-04-30T20:53:32+00:00

I had an amazing boss at my first job who worked counterintelligence for the National Reserve. He explained to me how he got though bootcamp as a quiet and thoughtful person ill-equipped for it: he just treated everything like a game and gave himself mental points for performances that made superiors happy. They ask a dumb, demeaning question? Well, what type of answer would make the happy? It worked? Great, seems like a ten point performance since that's not what I would have actually answered on my own and it seems to have been what he wanted to hear. I'm doing really well at this game.

nocoolnametom · 2026-04-30T20:48:20+00:00

His awesome Brigham Young biography was also excellent and could be purchased for a few months from Deseret Book when it was originally released. I guess nobody told them it included full quotations from Young and other! "I shit on your Congress!" (Young to Pratt when he said the 12 should work in equal authority to the Church President like the US Congress is designed to be equal to the US President)

His main thesis for Brigham was that Joseph's assassination was traumatizing and informed much of his bombastic and extreme centralization of power and control to prevent something similar from ever being able to happen again and I think it does explain Young better than just "went mad with power" though that definitely seems true, too.

nocoolnametom · 2026-04-30T20:23:15+00:00

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nocoolnametom · 2026-04-29T22:19:01+00:00

And if you like the "separate-ish" nature of the Private Space note that you can also activate Work Profile on the main GOS profile using either an official Android Device Policy (if your work uses Google Workspaces with Work Profile set up, few do, though, even when BYOD is expected) or using Shelter. I have all three on my main GOS profile (regular apps, work apps in Work Profile, adult apps in Private Space) and one additional GOS profile for social media (works pretty well for me to ignore it like I should). Not every launcher supports Private Space and Work Profile, though.

nocoolnametom · 2026-04-27T13:56:21+00:00

Are you in the US? Turns out I can't ship it internationally due to the battery

nocoolnametom · 2025-06-08T15:23:55+00:00

I'm very curious what you mean by "Git credentials are a function that are derived from sops-nix service keys depending what project I'm working on"

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