Linux, Vim, Omakub and on being vendor agnostic | Eddie Dale:
The other aspect that appealed to me from Omakub, was the “us agains the mega corporations” mindset. Whether it’s Microsoft, Apple, Google or Amazon.
I keep feeling this urge. An urge to move towards more open standards.
I have a Kindle, but my next e-reader probably won’t be from Amazon.
I have an iPhone, but I’m not sure the next phone will be from Apple.
This is exactly where I’m at!
Spotify’s daylist is something different. I haven’t been that understood by a piece of music-related software. Honestly, it’s always on point and the suggestions are always wild (but good wild). But in terms of being understood by a piece software, recently I’ve made multiple changes to automations working in our home due to finally having time to sit down and take a peak into what Home Assistant allows. And since then I had thoughts like “it’s getting too hot” or “it’s getting too dark” and at – literally at this second, HA turned on a thing because it became exactly too hot or too dark.
Doing buttons, clicking them to do a thing is obviouisly an upgrade from manually doing things, but I think I finally understood what does it mean to have “the smart home”. My current approach is that whenever something happens or just annoys me (or the wifey) – I try to either make automation at this moment or I write down what happened and what could happen. Also now I get why would I buy light sensors, air quality sensors and – most importantly – occupancy sensors. Having that additional information about room being occupied is great. Even for that simple “room is occupied == true” condition.
Your boy made it to the credits of Frostpunk 2!
Sixth episode of Mad Men today. It takes courage to binge this hard.
Yeah not really
The keyboard.
I saw someone posting that they wanted to switch to Android but because they donât want to think about tech they will buy iPhone. Again. If thatâs you I have a tip – you donât have to buy new phone. You can use whatever you have, itâs probably enough.
It’s actually nice to live in a world where I don’t care about new iPhones. I know, I’m repeating myself, but this is a new thing for me and I’m trying to cherish every moment.
Last year’s iPhone 15 and this year’s iPhone 16 make me feel good about getting that Android phone. At this point – seriously – I’m waiting for a discount for either Pixel 8a or 8. I want to spend about $400 or less for one of these and I’m going to be golden. Seriously, I want to prove (mostly to myself) that great phones with great capabilties can be cheap enough. There’s no way in hell I’m ever going to spend $1000 and more for a phone. And thanks to our new flat – I don’t even need an iPhone to control it because of OS-agnostic Home Assistant. The only thing that is still keeping me glued to iOS is Apple Watch, but maybe I should just get that Garmin and call it a day? I’ll definitely miss the UI and watchfaces but I think I can manage with some mid-end Garmin that can show me the temperature and calendar event. These are interesting times, seriously. Even though not much is exciting for me in the news – the lack of this external excitement is actually making me excited about big moves.
Thanks Apple not really interested. Wojtek told me about event happening because I wasnât even aware that it is happening today. đ
Ok, im gonna check it.
Fortnite is great, but Epic Games Stores app on Windows is abysmal. Not sure if I’ve ever used slower software than this.
>Telegram clearly fails to meet this stronger definition for a simple reason: it does not end-to-end encrypt conversations by default. If you want to use end-to-end encryption in Telegram, you must manually activate an optional end-to-end encryption feature called âSecret Chatsâ for every single private conversation you want to have. The feature is explicitly not turned on for the vast majority of conversations, and is only available for one-on-one conversations, and never for group chats with more than two people in them.
Source: blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/2…
I’m trying very hard to move away from Telegram. I’ve already switched some conversations to iMessage, and I’m trying to get my wife to stick with Signal (though it lacks some crucial features for us). We’ll see how things go in a month. Ideally, I’d like to move everything to Signal or a combination of Signal and iMessage, but right now, I’m torn between Telegram, Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp.
WhatsApp is something I wonât be able to fully get rid ofâour entire family uses it, and since it’s encrypted, thatâs sufficient for now (Iâm aware of the metadata issues, but thatâs okay for the moment). iMessage will stick around since I’ll be using iPhones for the foreseeable future. I donât want to feel forced to use it, especially since I also use Windows and Linux, but itâs not a dealbreaker.
Life was easier when I didn’t care about Telegramâs encryption and privacy issues. Eh. EH.
Now I’m sitting and thinking if there’s anything I forgot to move from Windows to Linux (even though I didn’t “move”, I just installed it side by side and everything on Windows is still there). Also Windows is here to stay since I can’t play Warzone on Linux, so I will have to use Windows too and that’s fine. I just don’t want to use Windows everyday.
Tomorrow wil be my first day of using Linux only for Work. Not sure if it’s gonna work out but let’s see. I can always boot into Windows if needed.