Pirata

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[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wasn't Google in the middle of an antitrust investigation?

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee -1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

China does everything better than the US. iPhones are made in China.

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For my Americans across the pond, I ask earnestly:

What could Russia do today that would cement themselves as an unparalleled oligarchy where just a few people control everything with no regard for anybody else in their country, that the US isn't already doing?

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yep, this is the explanation. People are still trying to rationalize "why do this in months, its all gonna collapse!" not understanding that collapse is the actual point.

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried talking to customer support? I hear they are quite responsive.

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I 100% agree. Whenever these companies start with their own projects I immediately get suspicious that their goal is to enshittify down the line with vendor lock-in.

The only reasons why I'm seriously considering a Tuxedo are 1. European brand and 2. Double SSD.

Not a lot of laptops seem to be offering double SSD while being Linux compatible, so my hands are kinda tied.

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Nice. Cheers!!

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Understood 🫡 thanks for that. I am generally happy with IONOS however their DNS propagation seems to take forever. I have a new domain I bought a couple days ago and my email provider's DNS still hasn't propagated... I thought we were past the 72h propagation era, but I guess not with everyone.

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Doesn't Migadu work for calendars? Its a bit finicky, but I used these instructions and it worked for me.

Not sure about contacts though.

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Wow. They offer that? Do you know how it works?

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Good alternative? Hum, I'll have to disagree with you there.

Firstly, Heliboard it is closer to Gboard than to FUTO, which is closer to Swiftkey. Its actually the reason why I went with FUTO, I need that split keyboard.

Secondly, prediction on Heliboard is just not there. Like, at all. It was absolutely maddening to use, it would predict completely unrelated words even when using custom libraries.

And it actually got worse over time because it started saving nonsense words like "GRT" or "hafe" directly onto my personal dictionary. At one point all I would get was nonsense word after nonsense word. I had to abandon it, it was borderline unusable after a certain point.

Like the commenter above, I too want to sponsor FOSS projects as much as possible, but the offers simply aren't quite there yet.

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