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I’ve never had a contract that didn’t say that. I always pushed back. Without exception, the response was that hobby projects and open source stuff is fiiine as long as you don’t use company machines, time, resources, or compete with their market.

Would you please explain about the fifty ways four layers?

Notification led that is separate from the display. Custom per-app colour and blink pattern.

Yup. Screw thinness, I’d love to have one that’s twice as thick as any modern phone, but with a two week battery life. You know, like we used to have.

Stick a 5G phone into a Psion Series V or Psion Revo and I’d buy them for the whole family.

She poly bombed me, came out as narcissist, and made derogatory remarks about me making a solid effort to understand poly and maintain our marriage.

Now, she’s still extremely mad at me, still very much acting like a narcissist would, and I’m the one in a harmonious poly relationship.

It’s hella tough, making a split family work when she absolutely refuses to communicate directly with me. My poor kids are stuck in the middle of this mess which will likely never mend.

But apparently that’s better than giving me just a couple of weeks to get to grips with her desires. It’s hard to forgive.

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That’s Hanlon.

Said stupidity in this case shall be applied to your autocorrect.

Futo is great unless you constantly switch between several languages. 🥲

SwiftKey also does this!

I really, really want to switch to a less, uh, commercial keyboard but none of the ones typically praised here (for good reason) support multilingual swiping.

Even if you only tinker with OS installation occasionally, Ventoy is a damn godsend!

Forget about “burning” ISO files to a usb stick, just put a bunch of raw ISO files on the stick and Ventoy will give you a nice boot menu to select from them - and a separate USB partition for user data as well. It’s glorious.

I would recommend you visit distrowatch.org as they have reviews of a great many distros over a long period. That would prepare you to form an opinion on what kind of experience you want to have.

Example - UI, ie. Desktop Environment: chose Gnome if you like Apples way of making things very polished and giving the user few (visible) options to tinker. Choose KDE if you like a “busy” UI with *all* the options exposed and a ton of desktop widgets. Choose MATE or LXDE if you like a snappy and minimalist approach.

Possibly the biggest differentiator between distros is their native package manager. You can take any distro and swap out eg. KDE for Gnome, but the package manager is fundamental and probably(?) impossible to replace fully.

Example: All the Debian based distros use DEB packages. You’ll find a ton, though dine distros lag behind the most recent versions. Others use Redhat’s RPM system, while still others build everything from source (which is slow as fuck but gets you to the cutting edge with all the knobs and dials). There’s also the Snap and Flatpak systems which strive to supply platform agnostic packages, but do so with very different approaches.

Good luck!

A phone with the charging port on the upper side instead of the bottom

Why don’t you simply allow your phone to rotate 180° by sensor? Granted, the camera and speakers might be at odd positions but that’s still closer to your goal right?

I’m just running a pain Linux with the MATE desktop, with increased sizes of mouse cursor and UI elements.

The big thing is using VLC with a wireless keyboard, and using a white sharpie on the keycaps to show the quite customised VLC shortcuts.

It’s been years since I tried Kodi et al, and I always found the actual media playback to be lacking some customisation (eg. audio or subtitle timing offsets).

In lieu of a media database, I simply mark the movie folders with file emblems when I’ve watched a movie or episode (VLC keeps track of partial viewings, resuming where it left off).

I haven’t seen Our Groceries listed yet. I don’t know Grocy so I don’t know how this one compares, bells-wise, but it’s pretty straightforward, you can share a list with any number of users, and manage/add/edit/remove lists and items via a web app or mobile app.

I’ve sent the devs more than one feature suggestion / bug report, and they were impressively responsive and forthcoming.

I’m not an artist, I just need the occasional hack job or screenshot annotation.

I loved the simple programs (this love stems from all the way back to MacPaint v1.0) and MS Paint has largely been ok for me apart from its lack of png support and only 90° rotations.

On Linux, Pinta has been fantastic but these last few years it got increasingly more crashy, to the point where it will now consistently crash within 10 seconds or two clicks, regardless of Linux distro / laptop/pc / version of Pinta. (insert “whyyyyy” meme here)

I’ve tried Krita, but it’s simply too much. Don’t even want to try installing Gimp. I am sad.

Good for you! Seriously!

For the rest of us, a few notes on how you accomplished this would be sha-weet! I think sketch up is the most approachable 3d program, but all my “post Windows” attempts have resulted in crashes and freezes. 😥

Not an alarm, but a timer app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.persapps.multitimer

MultiTimer is brilliant for having a dashboard of purpose made timers that I use all the time (weekly baking, laundry, tea timer, etc) and ad hoc timers.

Hey, that sounds very interesting. It’s there anything not working as it should work that hw/sw combo?

Honestly, this is the most heartening thing I’ve read about US politics in recent years. (PS. Am not American, and not in America)

I’m honestly pleasantly surprised to see that this project seems to be rather actively developed.

Which is completely separate from having a meaningful user base (near you), so 🤷