riccardo

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[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It supports exporting, yes. The thing is... I'm going to be on the road for some time and the only tech equipment I will have with me is my phone, so I would like to set it up on a device I can easily access

 

Hello, I'm looking for an app (or some other solution) to periodically backup my local calendars, possibly daily. No cloud sync needed, I just need a local file

My current setup is: remote calDav calendar server that is synced locally via DAVx5. I would like the local calendars that are synced locally by DAVx5 to be exported every day, with no manual interaction from me needed.

Is there any app that does it?

[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not enshittification, just good ol' data harvesting :)

[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At my company we have been using AI very heavily to write code lately, and if that sentence was used to justify a 10k+ diff, whoever wrote it/vetted the change would have their access to the codebase revoked

[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Same thing in Italy. We act like our traditional dishes are something we've been eating for centuries while almost all of them became a thing after WWII, during the economic boom, when a lot of people became able to afford a larger variety of ingredients, the cold chain became efficient, and we started to import recipes and food from foreign countries, and anyway the original and popular version of some classics was completely different from what we eat today and consider traditional. It is still true that many dishes are peculiar of our traditional cousine, but the way we act about it is just patriotic nonsense. Pasta itself might be historically considered more of an us italian-american thing than an italian dish

[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago
[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That is the only thing I like about chat-based communities. It is nice to have a way to catch up, if I want to, from where I left. Cannot be done with modern links aggregators

[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

One of my favorite facts is that while the first pyramids were being built, there were still Mammoth roaming some northern European regions (never checked whether this is true or not but I've heard it so many times that I want to believe it is true)

[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If chapters are available for the video, yt-dlp has a command line argument that will split the video into different files, one for each chapter. Quoting a reddit comment:

you need ffmpeg.
how to convert to mp3: wiki
split chapters: --split-chapters
example naming files after chapters: -o "chapter:%(section_number)s %(section_title)s.%(ext)s"
available chapter variables:

section_title (string): Title of the chapter
section_number (numeric): Number of the chapter within the file
section_start (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds
section_end (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds

as i recall, i don't use this myself, it will also keep the original file, which naming depends on the regular -o (use in addition to the -o line with chapter:)

--split-chapters will also work with the timestamps mentioned in the description

[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Nice, thanks for the suggestion :)

[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right, I will try to look for some options in the developer settings

Edit: there are a bunch of bt-related settings in the Dev options menu, most of them are about audio codec, AVRCP/MAP versions, Bluetooth LE, and other options, but unfortunately nothing that sounds like what I'm looking for :')

[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm that's weird. I bought my Pixel 5 in 2023, the bluetooth devices I own are the same I was using with my previous phone (mostly, four devices: the car's bt-aux adapter, bt speaker, headphones, cool headphones), and they all used to re-connect automatically. Now none of them does lol so I assumed it was an issue with the phone

 

Hello everyone,

I have a Pixel 5 running Android 14, and I've always had this issue with Bluetooth devices (any device): after the phone disconnects from a device because of proximity (eg. going too far from the device), it never re-connects automatically when I get back into the device's Bluetooth range. I have to manually enter the Bluetooth settings and tap on the device name I want to connect to

This is something that always worked on my previous phone (which was running LineageOS)

Is this supposed to work this way? Can it be fixed? I've tried to look around in the Bluetooth settings but there isn't much to tweak there

 

Hello everyone, some time ago I broke the screen of my Pixel 5. I brought it to a repair store, which replaced it, but apparently they did a bad job because since then the proximity sensor started to misbehave (it was working even with the broken screen, unfortunately they refuse to acknowledge that and won't repair it for free, and it costs too much to repair it again).

Well, this sensor is driving me crazy. It works kind of good for calls, but it's almost impossible to play voice messages: the screen continuously flashes, turns on/off every second because of the sensor, and voice messages constantly stops, restart, switch from speaker to ear speaker... it's incredibly frustrating. For some reason Telegram and Signal work good, but on whatsapp and other IMs, it's almost impossible to listen to voice messages without going mad.

I have a Pixel 5 running Andoird 14 (stock, non rooted), and I'm looking for a way to disable the proximity sensor just for one app, or entirely. Searching for a solution on the internet, I've found this 2020 reddit thread describing an Android 11 option to disable all sensors entirely, but apparently it got removed because I cannot find it, or the quick setting tile the post is talking about (it would be a perfect solution!)

I'm sure there's some root/magisk app ops solution that can help, but I would have to root the phone or install a custom firmware, but I'm trying to find a solution that doesn't require that. Unfortunately I have apps that require perfect device integrity and right now I'm stuck on stock android. Any tip on how to solve this?

 
 
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submitted 5 years ago* (last edited 5 years ago) by riccardo@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

Keyboards are probably one of the most sensitive apps on our phones, having access and handling practically everything we type. I've stopped using keyboards that require network access and started using only opensource apps a few years ago. What are your favorite, privacy-respecting android keyboards?

So far, I've found these alternatives:

  • AnySoftKeyboard. I've used ASK for years and I've always been very happy with it. Probably the autocorrect could use some improvement. It's definitely the most mature opensource keyboard out there, with the most features and configurations
  • OpenBoard. The one I'm using right now. Easy and fast to configure, quite good auto-correct
  • FlorisBoard. Haven't had the time to try it out extensively so I don't have any opinion about it
  • SimpleKeyboard. It offers the bare minimum one could ask from a keyboard but sometimes you don't actually need more than that
  • AOSP keyboard and LineageOS' fork, that is, the keyboards that come with some ROMs out of the box. They're probably what a lo of people use

These are the alternatives I've been considering. If you know about other opensource keyboards to extend this list, pleas let me know


Pros/cons of each one of the keyboards I've used, based on my usage and preferences:

AFK

  • + the copy/cut/paste tool that I could invoke by swiping up from the space bar
  • + configurable input shortcuts
  • + smaller extra top bar being (and configurable, not just with numbers)
  • + the ability to backup your settings, shortcuts and dictionaries
  • + plenty of themes
  • - maybe the settings are a bit too overwhelming

OpenBoard

  • + it's better at predicting words in my experience (maybe just placebo?)
  • + "drag to delete" gesture on the delete key
  • + configurable input shortcuts
  • + "swipe to move the cursor" gesture on the spacebar
  • - no select/copy/cut/paste tools

FlorisBoard

  • + theme editor
  • + select/copy/cut/paste tools (maybe hidden behind too many taps)
  • + ability to show the numpad using the "dialer layout" instead of having all the numbers on the same row
  • + "drag to delete" gesture on the delete key
  • + "swipe to move the cursor" gesture on the spacebar
  • + actively developed
  • - no autocorrections (yet)
 
 
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