Price.

That is what they do better.

Many many MANY people would sooner buy something for 5 dollars 20 times then something for $100 once whether financial necessity or not feeling guilty for buying the super expensive thing.

How dare you suggest tech journalism isn’t just trying to sensationalize a nothing burger without doing more than 10 minutes of research??

Hey there!

This is a job for Handy. I recently started using it with the Parakeet recommended model. It works very very well. Whisper packaged with Wyoming that I run is pretty much unusable for dutch but Parakeet in Handy seems to work quite well. Direct input of text into whatever program you want. Downloads a small local model and works only on your computer. Push-to-talk or toggle, tons of customizations.

Note that this just speech to text and the models aren’t made for post processing. So it will dictate exactly what you say, umms and everything. If you want cleanup, formatting, etc… Then you have to rely on a much more general model, but the makers are experimenting with an opt-in for that for various external AIs.

Hell, Runkeeper was a thing with a social network before strava and still exists.

It even gives cadence which strava doesn’t do (at least not the free tier), but the Apple cult picked up Strava and it became the runner’s status symbol as Apple devices are yoany people in America/Sweden/etc… and then that spread over the rest of the world.

Personally I have only a hundred notes or so and really only the basic plugins and it still takes up to 10 seconds to load and become usable on my phone.

It is definitely not fast loading up but it is very fast in most other use cases I have seen. At work I use it with getting more towards 1000 notes and it works fine there usually, though there is some windows+ electron weirdness

Sorry but I have to disagree.

Holy failed updates batman. After I update some games, I have to fully restart heroic or it is an endless loop of “installing update” -> “Update available, click to install”

That commenter was using an example of something very bad that could happen if the fork got handed off to someone else again but worse, not something that actually happened

Drip is also On android

ICE “detainees” are dying by “suicide” at an “alarming” rate, and AP “investigation” finds.

The whole thing is pretty bad

• Domain 15€/yr
• Music 8.50€/month (trying to convince my girlfriend to move from Spotify to Qobuz

That is it I think. I don’t consider internet/water/electricity subscriptions as much as utilities.

Can’t really afford anything else right now because my girlfriend as a cafe owner only brings in around 1200€/month or so working >60hr/week and we have a full renovation to pay for.

I want to dedicate like 10-20€/month to FOSS I use once the situation is better.

It depends, the EU is owned by the banks instead of every corporation like America. If Deutsche Bank decides it is worth their while to implement this like capital one just did in the US, it is over and the European Parliament will immediately capitulate like they always do to the banks.

Hell, in central Europe like here in Belgium, banks (pushed by corpos like Bancontact) are literally taking away people’s ability to use cash by silently removing all cash accepting ATMs so business owners need to travel sometimes 30-60minutes every day if they want to deposit cash and the EU and Belgian governments are sucking off bank lobbyists instead of tackling it.

They are strict against big tech, which is why in the past year, big tech has moved to the #1 position of money spent bribing lobbying politicians, second to banks, because it works so well for the banks.

Oh yeah those E-inks have like a 10 second refresh timem they are meant for static art, images, signage, etc…

That is why for clocks and dashboards, I think RLCDs like the https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-rlcd-4.2.htm which is an older tech, but nowadays much better reflection to be closer to e-paper, 60Hz and none of the epaper downsides, but much higher power use.

Probably not because legally nothing happened to them…

It all got “dismissed with prejudice” so they got off completely consequence-free at the end of 2025.

That means it is pretty much legal and free game to do it, at least in the shithole USA lol. Hence why everyone is now doing it. Capital one just made a browser clone that does the same thing too.

Probably will quickly come here to the EU too…

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Like Afterglow (Photo) or Twilight

For this application, I am hoping reflective LCDs make a comeback or transreflective LCDs. They are much better for typing than e-ink and still easy on the eyes.

Early apple devices were quite decent out in the sun with the glass screen and transreflective LCDs. I remember my old devices were quite usable even with the not great brightness if I angled it to reflect the sun nicely.

Waveshare just released a fully reflective monochrome small one with an integrated ESP32 so I am hoping that catches on in the hobbyist communities and people can start building tech decks with bigger screens that aren’t 800€ and a 1Hz refresh rate.

E-paper is amazing for static text, images (see pimorino screens with E-Ink 6color), labels, and status things, but fast typing and drawing makes them outrageously expensive for hobbyists and even very expensive at large scale like Boox and Remarkable.

How is this different than Nearby Glasses except the license is less copyleft?

We print with PC at work because we need the best resistance (inside a hot motor). It has significantly better heat resistance than ABS/ASA (113°C heat deflection or higher sometimes vs ASA 93°) and not crazy expensive.

It also doesn’t warp nearly as much as ABS just in a little tent or enclosure. Glue stick for release on a smooth bed.

Does Plex? Have they ever been security audited or are we just taking the word of closed source software because they make it easier? Like Microsoft who just got caught adding backdoors into billions of computers and (pick one) closed source software company who has had major security breaches in the last decade.

Not a gaming distro but OpenSUSE has Aeon and Kalpa that are arguably more secure with more volumes also being encrypted, focus on btrfs snapshots being reliable vs rpm-ostree style images, etc…

I used it before bazzite 2 years ago or so but it was a worse user experience in most ways even if there are technical benefits for it (steam via flatpak needing hours of figuring out non- documented modifications to get working, GRUB decryption that is not only slow and prone to errors but also doesn’t show characters typed for a long passphrase and fails after the first try, volume mounting errors every other boot so booting would fail, and layering being worse than Fedora at the time, etc…)

And nobody can argue that openSUSE doesn’t have the most fun mascot/logo haha.

Also good to note: RiscV is not open hardware, it is an open architecture.

The CPU’s/MCUs made with RiscV are still 99% proprietary and they can put just aa many backdoors into the devices as they want with little no no oversight, arguably less because you have orders of magnitude less external bug and penatration testers.

Definitely in support of RISC-V because like AV1, open standards are the first big step, but it is good to note that “security” may or may not be better as well as the company behind it.