xycu

joined 1 year ago
[–] xycu 3 points 4 weeks ago

Wow, that is a startling shift over a relatively short period.

[–] xycu 7 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

Consumers aren't gonna be happy when all their Amazon and Temu no-name made-in-china garbage becomes dramatically more expensive.

[–] xycu 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been using solid black desktop background since the 90s!

[–] xycu 4 points 2 months ago

Heliboard for normal communication (glide typing) and Hackers Keyboard for shell/remote desktop/programming type usage. Generally i find the keys too small and typing on a touch screen is slow and annoying, so i use a real computer to type whenever i can.

My typing accuracy is much better with gboard, but I don't use it because google...

I have never used voice to text nor voice controlled assistant etc. as I have no interest in doing that. My phone is muted 99.9% of the time, I prefer to operate in silence...

[–] xycu 3 points 2 months ago

I had a 256GB phone and after 1 year had used less than half the space, without ever deleting anything, so when i upgraded this time I saved money and got the 128GB model. I sync my photos/videos to my NAS so can purge those from my phone at any time to save space. That's really the only thing that takes up any significant storage.

[–] xycu 3 points 2 months ago

Gentoo. Literally the entire system is a build environment. Imagine a single environment that's capable of compiling thousands of different packages and managing dependencies etc.

[–] xycu 4 points 3 months ago

I have pixel 7 and it always takes 3 or 4 taps in the corners for it to register my touch

[–] xycu 6 points 3 months ago

I have a bunch of different old consoles and vintage computers (not "444" of course) and used to try to have them all hooked up, it was such a miserable rats nest of wires. I eventually settled on just using one at a time (I am only human, after all).

Whatever I'm playing gets the prime hookup spot in front of the TV, everything else gets stored neatly on a shelf or in a box. Cables and controllers are in individually labelled zipper storage bags, in bin drawers, out of sight until they are needed...

Of course, hooking them all up is a hobby itself... It's easy to go down a rabbit hole of scalers and SCART switches and RGB mods and then you suddenly find yourself a couple thousand dollars poorer.

[–] xycu 1 points 4 months ago

When IBM killed OS/2

[–] xycu 18 points 4 months ago

And more money, too

[–] xycu 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Looking-glass.io is what most use for that

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