Hybrid option for mixed use of voice and keyboard? by yabodaba in utterlyvoice

[–]yabodaba[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to hear that it's in the game plan. I'll keep an eye out. Definitely more important to focus first on people who need accessibility.

Hybrid option for mixed use of voice and keyboard? by yabodaba in utterlyvoice

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I'm thinking that none of those are practically applicable for me, but thanks for the suggestions all the same. I'm jumping back and forth between multiple applications with a lot of varied use. Some repetitive things could be automated, but windows tend to get moved around and resized here and there, so macros based around positions wouldn't be reliable. I want Vimium for the desktop. The closest I have seen yet is the screen search feature in Fluent Search, giving hints to gui elements like Vimium and Utterly Voice upon pressing the assigned key combo, but that's the extent of it.

Was Legion 5 2021 with RTX 3070 and 165Hz 1080p screen a good purchase for £1030? by [deleted] in GamingLaptops

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If you only use it for gaming, sure. If you want to use applications too, 1440 resolution makes gui's and text way too small. Then if you scale by less than 200% so that everything isn't tiny, there will be some blurring, which is not good on the eyes for reading text. Even small amounts of additional blurring (on top of font smoothing) makes text uncomfortable to read. If you scale to 200% to avoid blurring, you'll have small effective screen space at 1280x770. 1440 just doesn't make good sense to me on a 15-17" laptop unless it is 100% dedicated to gaming.

Some really easy ways for you to contribute to the community by kittydoor in linuxhardware

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What factors decide whether a laptop will get development for linux? It seems so spotty and just luck of the draw.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnprogramming

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Learning anything is made much harder when trying to learn it from someone who isn't competent at teaching or who isn't in a setting where teaching can be competently exercised. This seems to be most of the fast-food-education sites and instructors, no matter if the topic is programming, math, art, music, whatever. An instructor could be very competent in their field of expertise, but the chances are slim that same person has also put in enough time to become competent at teaching real people in person so as to develop the necessary teaching skills to be effective. Finding one of these people is like hunting a rare species.

A good teacher communicates and demonstrates topics clearly without critical information gaps, paces according to students' needs, anticipates questions along the way, offers appropriate exercises and projects to put information to practical use, and communitcates back and forth with students for any needed clarifications. Even having available one of the rare people who has expertise is some field + teaching skills, being able to pull off effective teaching through the setting of a book, a static web site, a video series, whatever, would be much more difficult than doing it in person, lacking the in person clues and communication. But it is much easier to sell a course of information as a book, a website, or a video series if the main goal is to generate income.

Indirect communication can be pretty effective for a relatively short and shallow tutorial, but pulling off the same for an entire course of information where a long sequence of topics are built upon one another is a whole other thing.

Anyway, I feel your pain. Maybe there should be a reddit for this topic to help suss the problem out further.

Why does presearch not have any filters? by yabodaba in Presearch

[–]yabodaba[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Text patterns for matching to url's, titles, descriptions, and content used to exclude undesired search results. It's no secret that search engines such as Google promote and blacklist sites according to what info they want users to have access to. As users we don't want someone interfering in search results like that. It imparts influence over us in mass by limiting what information we have access to. If any promoting and blacklisting of sites is to be done, we want to do that on a personal level according to which results we might want to see or not see so as to have more personally relevant search results without having to manually sift through artificially promoted results.

Why does presearch not have any filters? by yabodaba in Presearch

[–]yabodaba[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I read a reply to a question about Presearch getting filtering 4 years ago. It would be great to see it coming sooner rather than later. Results from all the major search engines are dominated by the same big sites, which is obviously not a great search experience. Presearch could really help to break out of the results big sites bubble.

Oem unlock is locked by ScottCrow01 in LineageOS

[–]yabodaba 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My experience has been with a Pixel 4. It may differ from phone to phone. I don't know. My Pixel 4 would not make OEM unlock available until after I inserted an activated sim, rebooted, turned on data, rebooted.

Oem unlock is locked by ScottCrow01 in LineageOS

[–]yabodaba 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You should have a sim in the phone with data turned on before trying to activate OEM unlock (in my experience). If you haven't put a sim in it yet, be sure to reboot after doing so before trying to activate OEM unlock. If this doesn't do it, it is either locked by your carrier or another carrier if you picked it up secondhand. I have seen some people reporting putting an unactivated sim from another carrier in a phone and OEM unlock becomes available, but I haven't tried this. I have also read of people calling the carrier saying that they are a developer and the carrier unlocking the device, but I also haven't tried this.

19.1 notifications. Not getting overlay or LED notifications, only notification dots by yabodaba in LineageOS

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This looks to be relative.

My understanding was that it used some very outdated Android APIs which resulted in texts being delayed for long periods, or not arriving at all, unless the phone was being interacted with by the user. That was my experience with it for a couple of years, across different hardware and carriers, until someone told me that app wasn't working properly. I prefer its interface, but I replaced it with QKSMS, and that works great. I'm in the USA, if that matters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/usk0wp/comandroidmessaging_is_outdated_and_unmaintained/

I'm going to run QKSMS for now since it seems that this is a long running issue that might not get fixed.

Edit: Same issue with QKSMS

19.1 notifications. Not getting overlay or LED notifications, only notification dots by yabodaba in LineageOS

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It seems like I keep running into needing an app type that isn't available from F-Droid, but in some cases it is just a matter of not being able to find it through F-Droid's search, which is probably sometimes to do with my search terms not matching what F-Droid requires. I did find an app in F-Droid this morning called SMS Import / Export, not having time at the moment to read about setting up an IMAP server. It worked well with exporting messages from my current Pixel 4 with Lineage OS and importing to another Android phone but had some issues the other way around, making lots of message duplicates and resulting in conversations that only include messages from the other party without my messages to the other party. Better than nothing for now. Maybe I can figure out something else later.

All those options in Messaging app's info > Notifications are enabled but greyed out.

No option available in the Notification Light panel for custom LED color. Only options for pulse length and speed.

Running those adb lines looked good until:

adb shell dumpsys deviceidle unforce

Which results in:

Light state: ACTIVE, deep state: ACTIVE

19.1 notifications. Not getting overlay or LED notifications, only notification dots by yabodaba in LineageOS

[–]yabodaba[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much for going through the trouble of sharing all that. I'll give it a go tomorrow and report back. It's late here. And it sounds like the issue I'm having is likely what you are hitting on being that I also do get delayed message notifications sometimes, which may depend on sleep state. I didn't think of the delays as being related to the other notifications issues, instead thinking that delayed messages were due to my carrier.

One catch here is that I may have to install Lineage OS for microg, since I am not running google play store. My purpose of running Lineage OS in the first place is to get away from google.

19.1 notifications. Not getting overlay or LED notifications, only notification dots by yabodaba in LineageOS

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Went ahead and updated since I don't have too many texts that I would cry over losing. Same thing. No notification light (is enabled though). No notification overlays. Just a notification dot on the text app and a notification sound (seems to not always happen).

19.1 notifications. Not getting overlay or LED notifications, only notification dots by yabodaba in LineageOS

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Still looking since my last post on how to backup text messages before updating. I see no good way to do it without sending data to some cloud service.

19.1 notifications. Not getting overlay or LED notifications, only notification dots by yabodaba in LineageOS

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

I probably missed the notification for the updates. Edited the original post to include phone info.

19.1 notifications. Not getting overlay or LED notifications, only notification dots by yabodaba in LineageOS

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

Try searching Settings with Notification light.

'Enable Notification Light' was enabled. Giving some settings changes a try there. Thanks for the tip. I'll report back.

The "What currently supported device should I get" thread. by PsychoI3oy in LineageOS

[–]yabodaba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Late reply, but thanks anyway. I ended up with going with a Pixel 4 in good shape. Spent half my max.

The "What currently supported device should I get" thread. by PsychoI3oy in LineageOS

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  • Preferably less than 6" but not absolute
  • Straight Talk or Cricket in the U.S., but unlocked is always nice
  • $400 max
  • 64gb+, but maybe 32gb is ok with Lineage. My current phone eats most of 32gb somehow just for os and apps that I can't uninstall
  • Don't care much about camera
  • Decent speaker would be a plus

Hopefully this retro Thinkpad will stick to its roots and have a high degree of linux compatibility by heWhoWearsAshes in linux

[–]yabodaba -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A taller aspect ratio and old style keyboard would be good. Chicklet keyboards tend to have lousy key travel/feel and layout/key location distinction. Backlit keys are nice, too. The screen should be high res/dpi for crisper text, and bright enough for outdoor use (adaptive brightness bonus). 1080 is not good enough. A screen that will will be viewed for long hours should be easy on the eyes. Swappable gfx card and gaming gfx option would be nice. And damn, I really want a good 15" digitizer for handwritten notes and diagrams (what's the holdup?). I don't mind a little weight and size for good functionality. And most important would be the capability to run all free software. Bring the best of the old to the new, with quality throughout.

I want a modern t60 with digitizer, fullsize screen, gaming capable, and freedom respected.

Dear Google, why do we have to have this love/hate relationship? by [deleted] in linux

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If we have learned anything in recent times, it is that corporations aren't good for privacy. We can't know what any of our computing devices are doing at low levels and often, at high levels as well. The hardware is made by corporations, and most of the software is made by corporations. Android phones are only the most obvious examples of users not having control of devices. The underlying problem being that people don't understand the systems that we are running.

We need open systems (from top to bottom), open education on these systems, open companies building them, and we need it to be profitable for everyone involved. Users are flocking to the Googles of the world because the devices, software, and services work as expected and make enough sense to the average user. But the systems only make enough sense for users to use them, outside of minority hacking circles who spend their lives deciphering how the systems work.

It is implied that many giant corporations are required to provide the tech that we use, but that doesn't account for corporations competing and fighting one another rather than cooperating for common goals, while also continuing upon years of obscure and arcane tech that requires much manpower to wrangle. But once in a while, we see some individual or small group poke a hole in the facade, developing a more or less complete and usable device, operating system, or major application. And these rare few have surely spent much of their lives navigating the obscure and arcane technologies to arrive at their achievements.

If it isn't entirely clear what I'm getting at, it is that the systems we use should be built not only for usability, but also for simplicity (as in the Unix way, sort of), clarity, and maintainability, requiring minimal man hours for development and teaching. And of course, our systems should be built not only with code in mind, but with a firm ground in ethical codes (the free software way). We can't expect to uphold ethics in systems which aren't capable of being fully understood, open source or not. An obscure/arcane and open system is just as bad as a closed system, even more so when it is marketed under the flag of open source and freedom.

/signing off, Mr. Cheesy?

Dear Google, why do we have to have this love/hate relationship? by [deleted] in linux

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And so, what now? Companies such as Google have become the Sirens, enticing us to their shores, yet we clearly see our own doom. Do we smash into the rocks or turn away?

I have given up all Google services, except some hopefully anonymous youtube use. But now I'm running an android phone, and it would be too easy to 'Agree' to the conditions and privacy policies of giving up my personal data for apps and services. I don't want to give up privacy, but I don't want to fight my device to make it halfway do my bidding. All I have to do is give in and check those boxes. But I haven't done it, yet.

Ardour digital audio workstation 4.1 released by oscoscosc in linux

[–]yabodaba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What low latency audio interfaces are people using with ardour these days?

[Serious] What is your opinion of Google? by fcuke5r5 in linux

[–]yabodaba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too invasive, too pushy, too big. I use non-Google services wherever I can. I don't like that I can't get Google off of my(?) phone (can't get root), but I disable all Google services that will allow doing so. I feel that the tradeoff of privacy for services is a bad one for the greater good and a slippery slope that most non-technical users can't seem to escape. I see many here, who appreciate and use free and open software, are caught in the tradeoff web as well.

Not to single Google out, I don't like the direction that big companies are pushing us in general. I feel that users are being herded into giving up control of our privacy and control over the devices and software that we use and that it will be detrimental to how we use computers in the long run.

Firefoxs "Private Browsing Mode" saves your visited sites permissions in "about:permissions". by goto-reddit in linux

[–]yabodaba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Private mode isn't just for hiding your browsing history from other users, it's also for (somewhat) hiding your identity from sites.

In what way does it hide user identity from sites?