CalcProgrammer1

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This is the norm for the "X as a service" market. Since it's a recurring revenue stream you can offer your "product" below cost to entice people since they're going to have to keep paying up to continue using it. Then once you've hooked enough people you can dial up the pricing and dial down the costs/features. Fuck everything about this. I want to pay once and own for life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same. I'm happy to pay for Patreons or other donation methods to creators I really like, but no way I'm giving a cent to the big tech monstrosities that have monopolized the Internet. They deserve nothing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same, best keyboard of all time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hacker's Keyboard has arrow keys, shift, ctrl, alt, and escape. This isn't a limitation of phone keyboards in general, just the poor design choices of most stock keyboards.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

On Android, I've used Hacker's Keyboard since my earliest days on the platform and still use it to this day. It provides a full 5-row layout including modifiers, control keys, and arrows. It works exactly like you'd expect it to work. I can't stand the default keyboards.

On mobile Linux, there is a keyboard called squeekboard that lets you define the key layout using .yaml files. The default layout is pretty limited, but I created my own portrait and landscape 5-row layouts also with modifiers, control keys, and arrows that makes the experience so much better. I'm typing this on my custom portrait layout. I often edit code and use the terminal with this layout too. phone keyboards are bad because of bad design choices, not because touch keyboards are inherently bad.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I would pay for Amazon Prime if they offered purely a free 2-day shipping only version, but I refuse to pay for Prime if it supports the media companies, so I don't pay for Prime. I have zero interest in DRM-filled "you will own nothing and be happy" streaming bullshit, and I have negative interest in the same thing with ads. Enshittification at its finest.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How the hell do you expect a screen to keylog you? This is a stupid argument. Even if the screen did know when the onscreen keyboard was visible how tf do you expect the logged data to go anywhere? Are you seriously worried that aftermarket iphone screens are including hidden LTE modems (and thus paying for illegitimate service) just to potentially log your keys? Do you realize how difficult and ridiculous this would be?

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (3 children)

By that logic pencils are banned since you can plagiarize copyrighted text with them. Can't teach kids to write, because writing is a tool of piracy.

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