Not sure about UI font color, but user style tweaks can change book font colors.

:root {
	color: yellow;
	background-color: navy;
}

Definitely not on a phone, but Android tablets with a keyboard can make decent typing devices.

It works fine in (Android) Firefox, and supports loading from/saving to local files.

Semi-offtopic, but the one feature I wish was more common is (good) equation support. Whenever I try to use a new word processor, no matter how great, I always find myself crawling back to LyX for anything with maths.

VMs have their own drawbacks. There are some projects to integrate a Windows VM with Linux (WinApps), but it won’t quite integrate fully. Graphical performance is bad without a GPU to pass through (Intel GVT-g kind of works, but is a massive pain to get working).

WINE and Proton are great, but it really depnds on what programs in particular are needed. Even one unsupported application can be a dealbreaker when no alternatives exist or are acceptable substitutes.

As someone who hopped over to the Linux side of the fence… same. Dual-booting somewhat eased the transition though, since I could do it more gradually and fall back to Windows whenever I needed it. Now that I primarily use Linux, I love how swapping to a new computer is 99% done by just copying homefolders. Even apps copy over, using user installed Flatpaks.

In the EEA, much more is on the way:

Bing’s web search from the Start menu and the Edge browser can be uninstalled Third parties can add to the Windows Widgets Board feeds Third parties, like Google or DuckDuckGo, can provide the built-in web search results that Bing once had exclusively Windows users who choose to sync their Microsoft accounts will have their pinned apps and preferences synced, seemingly keeping their EEA-enabled choices Windows will now “always use customers’ configured app default settings for link and file types”

Good to see Microsoft just blatantly confirming that these are anti-competitive measures rather than any sort of technical limitation.

The FBI recommends using an ad-blocker for this very reason.

For Linux I use Evolution.

The number of bytes per image doesn’t necessarily mean there’s no copying of the original data. There are examples of some images being “compressed” (lossily) by Stable Diffusion; in that case the images were specifically sought out, but I think it does show that overfitting is an issue, even if the model is small enough to ensure it doesn’t overfit for every image.

Strings work fine, the problem is the (single) quotes:

~ $ foo="echo 'hello world'"
~ $ for x in $foo; do echo $x; done
echo
'hello
world'
~ $ $foo
'hello world'
~ $ eval "$foo"
hello world

The splitting is by whitespace, so the single quotes remain in the arguments. Using eval (and double quotes to preven splitting), it gets processed correctly. That said, don’t use eval; use functions or aliases instead.

I’m not sure what OneNote’s feature does, but in Logseq you can make a whiteboard and embed other pages and text boxes.

Flatpak does try to account for storage size by using shared base images. The main problem is that some Flatpak apps don’t update to the latest base, and some use different base images altogether, meaning most of the time it needs to have several bases anyway.

Interestingly, the OSI seems to argue that noncommercial is a violation of the 6th clause, rather than the 1st or 5th.

Discord had (has?) “unclaimed accounts” which were essentially guest accounts with a custom name. Not sure how the system works nowadays, but I suppose using them would be fine for one-off visits.

This is what I hate about Discord. It’s another account. If you don’t have Discord (or do, but would rather not tie all your identities together), you need to register. What I like about Matrix is any Matrix home server can join, and it can then be used to access bridged Discord rooms, the problem of course being that many projects don’t bridge to Matrix.

Firefox uses Marian, if I recall correctly.

I like to sometimes just open up other interest-focused instances and check their local feeds for anything interesting. A “subscribed instances” feed would provide a decent balance, in my opinion.

Bobby “Alt-d g g Z Z” Tables