Yeah, well, we are in mildly infuriating, I don’t expect to find big issues here… No one will come here to say “I can’t afford a house/food” or “I lost my job and will loose my house! It is mildly infuriating”

Give me liberty or give me symbian maemo

FTFY

No one is talking of old things that still work. Op just bought something new that still uses micro USB though, that would ruin my day too tbh.

Tardigrade. Also Macaw if it hasn’t been used yet.

Unfortunately I need an account to read it. But there’s a difference on the media you are exposed and the medium. Dreams in B&W are not related to old TV

Actually no, not technically, but I do get to use English most of the time. But that’s now in my late 30s, during my youth and childhood I would never use English really. The whole point is to give a counter experience to the fact that dreams are based on our upbringing. It’s based simply on whatever is in our minds.

As far as I know, Tesla never had any relationship, that is, with a human. But at some point he got obsessed with pidgeons and the story goes that he fell in love with one. But I don’t remember many details anymore, or the veracity of it. So take it with a grain of salt.

And the pidgeon too!

In a month? No way, concentrate on one task for a whole month? Nah… I can do in one day what others do in a week, but after that day (sometimes it can be up to two) the dopamine is gone and I leave that for a couple weeks at least.

At home we wanted to remove an ugly wallpaper and paint the wall, which is behind a bookshelf that takes the whole length. In one weekend we put the books in boxes, took off the whole shelf down, and remove half the wallpaper off the wall. Then a couple of weeks passed until we finished removing the wallpaper. Then the whole thing stayed tore down for a few months. Then finally in another weekend we painted nearly the whole wall (but needed another layer). Then a few weeks passed until we added the last layer, built the bookshelf and then started painting the bookshelf.

Any way, long story short, it took like a whole year to fucking finish it.

My wife has even stronger ADHD so we make quite a fun couple :)

I’m glad to see others sharing the best way to eat a hotdog.

I found it on my own, had tortillas from making tacos, but run out of meat, so I checked what else I had, and there it was, a perfectly nice sausage. So I made myself a Mex dog and I loved it, much better than with buns and a lot less messy.

Dreaming in color or black and white is more of a personal aspect unrelated to TV and probably something that can change even for one person over time. And dreams are not only based on your youth, they are based on your life and your experiences and can include just about whatever. You can dream in different languages depending on what you are using most (many dreams I have are in English and I’m not a native speaker).

Yeah, I saw the comment in github but it felt too surreal and without looking at the patent I didn’t want to assume anything. But hey thanks for the link to the actual patent, I have had a look at it, and read some parts of it and I’m still kinda confused about the whole situation with this keyboard.

The patent was published 10 years ago. It says it is withdrawn but I don’t know if we can somehow see the reason or if it was voluntarily withdrawn.

The patent itself recognizes that the hexagonal keyboard alone lacks on innovation to warrant the patent so the author proposes together with that the “best” order for different languages.

Then the code in github seems to have been uploaded 6 months ago. Maybe they withdrew the patent until they can show an example?

But how often do devs working on some free software code go through the trouble of making patents? And the code appearing such a long time after the patent… I don’t know, I don’t like throwing accusations without proof but the whole thing feels like they are more interested in the patent than creating the keyboard but I can’t be certain of it.

And then we get to the whole ordeal of the key positions, changing over different languages, trying to choose the optimal positions… I don’t think that it is enough to be patented (but I’ve seen worse so…) and likely it won’t ever be something people can agree on. Creating such “best” order would be impossible and probably each person would have different ideas. Now, predicting the next most likely letter… That would be more interesting but it was done ages ago too. And the most important aspect of what makes us fast typing is not the order of the letters, but the fact that we have muscle memory to reach them once we are used to a layout. As I use three different languages daily, using the same keyboard layout for all, is the best option, but with this idea I would need to change the layout of the keyboard… It would make me so incredibly slow!

And more in detail with the patent, many claims are borderline ridiculous. But this comment is already long enough so I’ll leave it herewith my final criticism for the author. Forget the patent, and just create a good keyboard that people want to use.

I’m glad to see an open source keyboard for a hex design. But I’m confused with the patents… Hex keyboards are not particularly new, I’ve used them years ago, so on what basis are they patenting it?

Actually, I wouldn’t even be mad about it… I doubt this post would give much royalties otherwise

I demand my royalties!

Like transform back and forth under my control? Study the physics of matter transformation and invisibility, maybe earn a Nobel prize in the process.

Is it though? Nearly 10 years ago they were going to sell them in retail for 200$, now it is 225$, and its going to be so much better. My time steel lasted for so many years… And it was wonderful, I miss it so much. After the battery started to get too weak I started the search for an alternative, there’s so little offering what pebble offers. Ended up with a Garmin, which is… OK, but the price makes me nearly consider it not worth it, around two years ago it cost me 350€, and it was the cheapest version. It’s probably great for super sporty people, but I just want a basic watch that helps me get notified and check a bunch of things.

In my opinion what pebble offers is incredibly good for the price, specially compared with what there is in the market currently.

I love the changes they have done. I loved the pebble time steel, and personally the design of pebble time 2 was not my thing and I was devastated that pebble time 2 was dropped. This new design manages to marry the pebble time 2 and the pebble time steel incredibly well. And the color options seem really great actually… It’s going to be difficult to choose.

And furthermore, it is a relief to have again the metal buttons. I’m going to have to dig out the time steel to see if I can use it to test the new version to see if I can get back to developing some watchfaces.

The art is not the artist. You may not want to support an artist based on whatever they have said or done, that’s all fine and good, but only really applies to current artists.

Art won’t stop being art and such pieces that are enjoyable won’t stop being enjoyable. Also people are complicated, they might be a piece of shit, and still have opinions that are worth listening to, or capable of creating something that is a positive influence.

Consider some old art examples, might be a concert piece, or a painting, a sculpture… Think about the artists. Depending on the time and society they lived in, they could have easily been racist, homophobic, sexist… If they had twitter back then we could probably have plenty of reasons to hate them. There’s plenty of art pieces that have been a positive influence to me in my past, and nowadays we unfortunately know how horrible some of the artists involved were. This happens more with current artists because now it’s easier to publish your shitty ideas in a public forum without the option to shut everyone’s mouths.

Some examples, Harry Potter was a huge influence to me and many around me, it was a positive influence that created a more inclusive point of view on us, it’s a pity the author is a piece of crap now, but the art still remains as a positive influence for many. Basically all works by Joss Whedon have been amazing in my opinion and his female characters have usually been some of the best examples of what good writing can be, alas he seems to be abusive and an ass to many people he has worked with. Neil Gaiman is another example, such a brilliant mind capable of creating incredible characters and stories and he is a piece of shit. Yet their art might actually have helped so many people that needed it. No matter what many might say, it’s never so clear cut when it comes to people.

You must be acting all offended on purpose… There is no way from his post that you get the idea that he wants you to work for him. And even if that were the case, if you don’t want to provide advice then why comment? Why are you losing your valuable time here instead of working?

Your comparison is flawed in so many ways… He hasn’t asked anyone to come and cook for him. Following your comparison, he has gone to a community called restaurantfood where there’s a lot of people interested in food and many working with restaurants asking for advice if someone has any to offer on how to improve his menu at his restaurant to provide healthier and better food to his customers.

Providing some advice, specially about free software is not the same as working. Why are you in a community of people sharing information and knowledge of Linux if your only objective is to earn money? Do you get paid for your help to other users? Do you think the only allowed people in this community are the ones that won’t profit off of Linux? Because it seems you do…