For less money than some gaudy gaming wireless router that you end up replacing every 3 years, you can grab a Mini PC with two NICs, a wireless access point, and install OpnSense.

Your life will be irrevocably changed for the better.

I am Cargon’s complete lack of surprise.

Oh boy… it’s just a single staple now!

So I actually bought the f(x)tech Pro^1x thinking that it was going to be great having a physical keyboard that slides out again. But I found that I rarely actually used it. Using it required that the screen be in landscape mode. I’m actually much happier just using a different touch keyboard layout. I use Thumb-Key specifically now. It took some time to retrain my brain but I quite enjoy it.

Gets drenched in liquid nitrogen

The Matrix

This is ChatGPT to me:

I tried the F(x)tec Pro¹x earlier this year in the hopes that it would unlock some writing productivity for me with its built-in keyboard. I managed to get one really cheap, but it (like many other “exotic” phones) had so many cellular network connectivity issues that I gave up. I now have a Samsung Galaxy A54 with GoogleFi. The typing experience sucks but at least I can make / receive calls…

This post really shows how old I am, because I immediately thought “does anyone actually compose on a mobile device?” The experience is so bad I limit my own mobile compositions to message responses like “k” and “lol”.

I wrote this comment on my phone and it was an awful experience 🙃. But hey, at least my keyboard app suggested a silly emoji…

I’ll continue to do my “real” writing on my desktop for now. Integration apps like KDEConnect have been enough for me to get by, but they aren’t perfect either.

Apple is still tracking you, they just aren’t as donkey-brained as Microsoft.

You know, like the Gavin Belson Signature Box III.

For some of them. The others say “Not officially supported”.

Looks like Framework has a Linux compatibility guide and the fingerprint reader is probably the thing that won’t work out of the box for most distros.

I think it’s usually things like trackpads and WiFi modules that typically have compatibility issues with Linux.

What sort of Linux compatibility can we expect with this generation?

I wonder why this person has an issue with… too much choice? I find it hard to relate to that mentality, despite being very busy with work and family myself.

Everyone keeps repeating that defederation should be a last resort. Fine, but we should also acknowledge that the list of resorts is very short:

1. Server admins talk to the admins of the server hosting the offending community, in an attempt to get them to clean their house. If they don’t;

2. Defederate.

There really isn’t anything else for server operators to do that isn’t just letting the offending community continue unabated.

Offloading the responsibility to individual users to block users / communities is lazy. Most of us don’t want to spend our limited time playing whack-a-mole.

I suspect we’ll see user accounts shuffling around so that they land on a home server whose defederation policy matches their preferences.