WolvenSpectre

joined 3 weeks ago
[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but for those on a budget that subscription is a pain point. So long as you can afford it easy it is good because you are no longer the product, but that will keep allot of people at bay.

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago

From someone where poor alcoholics drink Listerine to get drunk despite how hard it is on their body, it is nothing like bourbon and a scourge on humanity. My city took it off of user shelves and behind the counter at stores and pharmacies until lobbying got their way.

Oh and btw it only works short term and doesn't even cover half the causes of bad breath.

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Startpage is good, anonymized, and respects privacy. You will encounter ads and cards, but they can be blocked. Fully usable and functional with or without an account. It is also themeable with a dark mode. Results are pulled from Google, but DDG's results were pulled from Bing and anonymized.

Since I started using it I raaaaarely open Google's search.

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Food is food. Do what you want to do to your food because you are eating it. Other people aren't eating it so they don't get a say. If most people saw what the original pizzas were they wouldn't recognize them and some wouldn't like them, including modern Italians.

Tabasco, in my opinion, is just like eating a pizza with peppers or a bunch of pepper flakes on it, or as I sometimes do, ground cayenne pepper.

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Take my begrudging up vote.

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Actually my 54th Birthday is comming up in a couple of months. Good job but sooo close.

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am younger than Woodstock and "The Summer of Love" but older than Disco.

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

I would like one with GIF and Meme support as well. I can live without it though, but it would be nice to have!

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

FUTO swipe isn't there yet, but last I looked it was damn near what I was looking for, but the Swipe was useless. I should check it out again. And I don't like using beta software for something as important as the keyboard. I don't think I have tried Anysoft Keyboard before... I will have to check that one out.

Update Anysoft Keyboard doesn't have swipe typing and it obviously wasn't developed with English in mind. Typing in some of my secure passwords would have had me hopping between multiple screens. Great for some people but not for me.

Nice try and thanks for the suggestions. Futo is is still in Alpha and my old phone is still down so I won't be testing it either. Thanks for the suggestion.

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

To quote the Features; "Glide typing (only with closed source library ☹️)"

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

I find that people who come from the old days of linux will often respond "you have to use terminal", or "learn the operating system", or even balk at people saying you can just use the GUI Interface/Desktop Environments. And then when you get help from expirienced users you get allot of terminal commands, which makes people think "I can't use Linux without learning the terminal first". In actuality it is just easier to show a person a command and ask for the results than it is to walk a person through getting the same info otherwise.

"OK, which Desktop Environment are you using?".

"Desktop what?".

"Which version of OS did you download and install?".

"Cinnamon.".

"X or Wayland?".

"What's a Wayland?".

"OK, X. Is your system up to date and which kernel are you running?".

...and so on. It is faster to just help working in the terminal. The Desktop Environments are fairly far along and most that I have worked with you could get by completely in the Desktop and not touch the terminal.

I would suggest Linux Mint, but for now I would stick to the non latest version of 21.3 as they bit off ALLOT in 22 and while it works for allot of people there are driver bugs they inherited from Ubuntu and have not implemented the fix for yet and allot of other pains in the toukus so if you want a version with the minimum of troubleshooting and stable Desktop Environments I would stick to 21.3 (If I had any sense I would be switching back to it from 22 myself).

If you want another option it would be Ubuntu and its Different Desktop 'Spins' to see which you like the most. Some people prefer to start off on Fedora and I am told it has a good DE, or some people recommend PopOS which had its own spin on a DE but they have let development lag on it as they developed their Cosmic Desktop for the Wayland project (the project that is superseding the X.org project for making windows).

Which ever you choose, good luck. I am in the same boat and I am trying to learn what I can before it is too late.

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

SwiftKey Keyboard. There are OS keyboards and even swipe predictive text keyboards but I wish there was one that had the skinability and functionality that learned from my typing without monitoring my clipboard and reporting it to Microsoft. Yet every other keyboard I have tried has left me disappointed.

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