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RL_Dane, to random
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Who's using ? What do you use it for? How's it going?

This looks pretty exciting, like a good sequel to :D

adr,
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@RL_Dane I'm a ham myself, but I've never done ham mode on Meshtastic as it would make communication with non-ham nodes impossible.

RL_Dane,
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@adr

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the info! :)

RL_Dane, to android
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Whoa, I'm surprised to see SAMTIME (somewhat) plugging @fdroidorg and

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OKctO-BavtI

RL_Dane, to random
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Me in 1990: "Man, I can't wait until EVERYTHING uses groovy, crisp vector fonts!"
Me in 2024: "Man, I miss how clean-looking bitmapped fonts were."

slembcke,
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@RL_Dane Eh, vector fonts look great at high res, and bitmap fonts look great at low resolution. There’s kind of a no man’s land in between around 800x600 IMO where I yearned for anti-aliasing before it was common.

RL_Dane,
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@slembcke

I think there's something comfy about a good bitmapped font at low res that you don't even get at very high DPI with good antialiasing, but that could partially be nostalgia ;)

Other than looking at high-quality photo and video, what do we really gain by having 4K displays?
All we're doing is rendering ginormous fonts with tons of white space.

I honestly think a good selection of bitmapped fonts would be preferable at 96dpi.

RL_Dane, to random
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I don't know why online git hosts don't ever show SLOC. I get really curious about code complexity in projects and will occasionally clone a repo just to run cloc on it.

https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc

@Codeberg, could that be a feature?

ianthetechie,
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@RL_Dane @Codeberg I think the only time I ever looked at SLOC was to give some vanity metrics to management about how much smaller a refactored Swift codebase was vs obj-c 😂 it’s more useful as a relative comparison between states. It’s not really a good measure of complexity. It CAN (with a lot of caveats) be a measure of relative maintainability though between two states of the same (or similar… maybe) projects. You can’t really compare across languages or frameworks.

ianthetechie,
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@RL_Dane @Codeberg glorified hello, world in Java vs nasm? 😜

RL_Dane, to random
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I gave up on using 24-hour time.
I just could never quite get used to it. I was always having to do the math in my head.

railmeat,
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@RL_Dane @slembcke

Would it have worked better if they were looking for kilo road?

I have memorized the NATO phonetic alphabet a few times, but I don’t use it enough to keep it front of mind. Usually I look it up after I fail to remember a letter, then forget it again before the next time I need it.

RL_Dane,
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@railmeat @slembcke

I also use it as my "lorem ipsum" when testing new fountain pens/ink. ;)

RL_Dane, to vim
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When you're in a web browser and and end an input form with [Esc]:wq

;)

gershman,
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@RL_Dane

Same, but C-xC-c.

mykhaylo,
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@gershman @RL_Dane check out emacs-everywhere package

RL_Dane, to random
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Once again, once of @joel's boosts/toots is crashing @tut. :P

(The one timestamped 12:12 CST)

joel,
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@RL_Dane @tut wait which one? :blobcatderpy:

RL_Dane,
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@joel @tut

I think it's the poll you boosted. Maybe tut can't handle boosted polls??

RL_Dane, to random
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Great, the new captcha involves looking for a combination of numbered and dotted 6-sided dice that total to a number given.

Now I'm actually having to THINK to solve captchas.

If they start using differential equations in captchas, I'm sunk.

enthusiast101,

@RL_Dane
Yeah, funnily enough there are extensions that auto solve captchas for you. I tried them out once and they seem to work decently quickly too.

These captchas are like anti cheat now, those sufficiently determined to be bad actors can still do so, but the honest users that have a slightly different setup get caught in the crossfire.

RL_Dane,
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@enthusiast101

Next time you're trying one, try it with Uber Eats. That was the one with the picture of the random dice.

RL_Dane, to random
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Not to be crude, but lately everything musky-boi does reeks of "tell me you're a p.o.s. without telling me you're a p.o.s."

BuT hE's A biLlIoNaIrE!
-- Actual comment from a sadly deceived human being on the internet once. Stupidity emphasis mine, of course.

RL_Dane, to ADHD
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burnout in 3... 2... 1...
Boom.

RL_Dane, to android
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Ok, this is weird:

The stock Messaging app lacks tons of features (like SEARCH), but it can send images via MMS very well.

The QUIK app (recent fork of QKSMS) does a great job of searching and even has a limited built-in backup function, but it totally fails at sending images over 300kb, and sometimes at all.

The Fossify messages app (fork of Simple Mobile Tools) does both, BUT it burns through battery crazy fast on my over-sized SMS DB.

Ugh.

Any FOSS SMS app recommendations?

RL_Dane,
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@enthusiast101

This looks pretty nice, thank you!

RL_Dane,
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@enthusiast101

Ok, tried it for a while and liked it, but it apparently doesn't support MMS, so I'm back to square 1. ;)

RL_Dane, to nerdfighters
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RL_Dane, to random
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Fascinated by @BrucePerens_K6BP's initial work on a post-open (source) license:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/30/bruce_perens_post_open_license/

RL_Dane, to random
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Man, when it works, is pretty darn magical.

Especially the SMS integration.

RL_Dane, to random
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/me opens
/me checks notifications
/me sees a hellthread that would make Genghis Khan crap his pants
/me closes polymaths

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