I wish I could have more hope that Android will ever decouple itself enough from Google to be useful/practical as free software. Unfortunately, it looks like it’ll end up going the other way, and freedom-respecting Android ROMs will likely be niche and only supported on a narrow range of hardware.

I imagine the Linux phone has better long-term potential, as it’s not tied to a proprietary ecosystem.

Can confirm, I have an EQ12 I’m using as an HTPC. Performance is great and sound is minimal (aside from coming out of suspend, the fans fire up for a moment).

I see Google is amply funding their fun-ruiner division.

• Low coupling, high cohesion
• Sometimes it’s better to use a less optimized solution for clarity or simplicity
• A simple solution is usually better than a “clever” one
• Allot time for refactoring during development, don’t assume it will be done later (spoiler: it won’t)

If only I could remove OneDrive… IT expects us to use it for everything.

When I was getting a PC upgrade, I explicitly told them that I had already handled backing everything up (as they repeatedly said I needed to do). Most of my projects are synced with our version control, so I have a projects folder with a few hundred GB in it that I didn’t need to explicitly transfer to my new PC (I would check out projects as I needed them). I wrote in the ticket that they didn’t need to transfer any files, I had already handled it. And I told the IT person who took my old PC. They said my new PC would be ready the next morning.

Lo and behold, it wasn’t. I called and asked, they said they were still working on it. The following day, I went to pick it up and the IT person explained that it took so long because they had to transfer over hundreds of GB of files. And they reminded me that if I had been using OneDrive, I could have had it a day sooner.

You know, because they had to copy over my files. That were already in version control. A system they admin. And that I told them about like 5 times. After they said they wouldn’t be responsible for file transfers.

Ah well, guess I got paid for their ineptitude. I wish this was the worst they’ve done, though.

Appwy liberawy!

Gotta get that tat freshly burninated!

Watching Homestar Runner on YouTube doesn’t hit the same

;)

• waiting 20 minutes for your PC to boot all the corporate bloatware before it’s usable
• quarterly 4-hour-long all-department meeting that could have been an email
• “incorporating” the latest tech buzzword into your process because that one manager has nothing better to do
• “celebrating” things like Company Culture Week™ and other BS stuff imagined up by people with nothing better to do

Imagine if the antagonist in your game messed with the game menu and save files…

LOOK AT HER BOOOOONES!

Most mobile games. They follow one of a few basic formulae, they rarely have anything original, and they’re full of bloated ads and other garbage. But they know how to give that dopamine hit.

I already know I’m bad at taming alligators.

Gotta get my dumbrella, it’s stupid out there

I use a Logitech K400. Small and has a built in touch pad. I even designed a wall mount for it so I can keep it out of reach of my kids.

There are even smaller devices as well, but the keyboard works fine for us.

Yeah, I’ve still got all dumb TVs, with small PCs connected. Best possible setup.

I’m using VoIP.ms and yeah, they do SMS and MMS ($0.0075 per SMS, $0.02 per MMS). They have both an online portal and an Android app. There are a few limitations, but it seems to work pretty well overall.