Ahh. Bone Apple Tea moment.

This reaks of chatgpt. All the way down to the milktoast ending.

I’m sorry. I can see how someone with very thick fingers might struggle.

My father has a similar issue. I watched him write a message on his phone and I think I found the issue with him. He cared very much about the accuracy of each letter. Doing so made him slow and caused a lot of unhappiness.

My advice to him was to stop caring and just trust autocorrect. It will autocorrect away mistakes and enables people to write quickly. But if you try to get everything letter perfect as you go there is no point to it. It’s a different mindset.

As for programming yah I understand the discomfort here too. I slow down a bit when at the command line on my phone too. Particularly with the flags and such. I recommend the fish shell though. It has an amazing autocomplete set of features above and beyond even zsh. It’s not just looking at histories. It looks at man files and gives autocomplete recommendations. Just Ctrl-F to complete.

As for programming, I have to ask, do you program on your phone? I would use my laptop here.

My “raw” error rate is quite high. My actual output error rate is quite low. I can’t speak for swipe keyboards though. I just use the standard tap keyboard. For me the in context predictive autocorrect works wonders.

With my old keyboard phone things were slower because I had to press down on physical buttons. With a touch keyboard I just lightly touch type without the need for effort or rechecking. It all just works out.

As for me I could never go back to a slide out setup. It was very klutzy and thick. Like 2cm thick. Crazy.

I’m happy with touch keyboards because they are faster for me and enable things like folding phones. But to each their own.

Thanks for showing me how passionate you are here. :)

Edit: the ellipsis leads me to believe that you might have been into tech while the n900 was around. You write with the passion of a n900 user. Did you have one?

I can type faster on my keyboard free phone then I could with my old phone with a qwertz keyboard.

Plus when I’m not typing I get more screen real estate. It’s a total win win for me. Not bad at all.

I do most of my cad stuff on openscad and I will say that is impressive!

Particularly since the openscad language is purely functional and side effect free.

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I really appreciate your super stark pro libre software attitude. I want to support you here. You should know that the approach you are taking is ultra abrasive and would probably cause more harm than help.

People would just associate libre software with militant weirdos, if all they saw where your posts.

If you want to make meaningful change I strongly recommend taking a softer less abrasive approach.

We want libre software to be connected with safety, friendliness and personal autonomy, not militarism, chanted phrases, and dogma.

Even on Lemmy the ultra pro libre software social network (relative to non federated networks) your current approach is off putting. I want you to succeed and I think a different approach may be better.

Just my two cents.

If that’s how you feel about it, then it may be a cudgel against you. But I am certain you do see and have seen people who proudly self label as tankies.

Nothing wrong with that.

I’ll take that as a yes for you. If you are a Tankie you should stand up for your values and be proud!

The only reason why you would deny it or hide it is if you have an agenda.

True. But for 99% of people baseline is what they use. Windows can be made very secure by experts but the fact is 99% of people just use windows as is.

You are preaching to the choir.

When it comes to privacy: GrapheneOS > iOS > android with Google.

Android itself is good. It’s just android with Google that’s the problem. (Aka 99.999% of all phones sold outside of China)

But that’s not a no.

Compared to any android phone the privacy is substantially better. Apple is in the business of selling overpriced phones. Google is in the data collection business.

It’s ok. I would go with “user hostile” in this case.

Fair. But in that case best use a more appropriate word.

I get not being a fan but no toggle switch. But in this case it literally isn’t “enshittification”. Is it anti choice? Yes. Is it enshittification? No. Enshittification does not just mean “thing I don’t like”.

Here is a quote that describes what enshittification is:

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two sided market”, where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

More info can be found here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

I know “Enshittification” is the Lemmy word of the year but you can’t just call everything you don’t like enshittification.

This clearly isn’t it.

I agree that’s why most of my systems run btrfs. (Maybe soon bcachefs).

But XFS is in the same tier of “datedness” as EXT4, just with more performance. Some apps like ScyllaDB actually require XFS performance crazily enough.

Btrfs or XFS.

No idea why people are into EXT4. XFS is more performant by far.