• chirospasm@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    TrailSense, an easy to use, comprehensive wilderness tool.

    The goals of the developer are fun to consider:

    Goals

    • Trail Sense must not use the Internet in any way, as I want the entire app usable when there is no Internet connection

    • Features must provide some benefits to people using the app while hiking, in a survival situation, etc.

    • Features should make use of the sensors on a phone rather than relying on stored information such as guides

    • Features must be based on peer-reviewed science or be verified against real world data

    Likewise, the features being developed under those goals are great for getting outside:

    Features

    • Designed for hiking, backpacking, camping, and geocaching
    • Place beacons and navigate to them
    • Follow paths
    • Retrace your steps with backtrack
    • Use a photo as a map
    • Plan what to pack
    • Be alerted before the sun sets
    • Predict the weather
    • Use your phone for astronomy
    • And more
  • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    VSCodium is the open source part of VSCode, so I prefer to use that.

    Mull is firefox on android without the proprietary parts. Heliboard is a good android keyboard.

  • Fargeol@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Jitsi - Open-source and self-hosted video conference platform. You can even try it directly on their website.

    IPFS - A distributed file sharing technology which is wonderful for file or site hosting (edit: wether it is uncensorable is open for debate)

    Rust - A programming language and a powerful compiler that creates compiled memory-safe programs and can be used nearly everywhere

    Fedora + KDE - A combination of a stable modern OS and a complete desktop environment

    Wine - launch Windows programs on the latter

    Lemmy

    Bonus : AlternativeTo to find good open-source alternative software

    • chirospasm@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Love me some Jitsi. The app, and website, make it easy to just start a secure, anonymous call with pals. No weird AI models running in the background like Teams or Zoom.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    2 months ago
    • Thumb-Key — A flick keyboard for mobile phones; a FOSS alternative to MessagEase created by Lemmy's own Dessalines. It's not perfect, neither was MessagEase, but for what it is it's pretty damn good and definitely beats using a mobile QWERTY keyboard.
    • Ibis — A federated wiki created by Lemmy's own Nutomic. It's currently pretty barebones with little activity, but I'd like to see more interest in the project so that it can grow and improve. I think it has a lot of potential.
    • squeakycat@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      I've been slowly trying thumbkey but seem to be struggling to get to the point where I feel comfortable using it over qwerty. I love the concept as I also hate using qwerty.... Yet I still seem more accurate using the crutch of autocorrect. With thumbkey I have to go back and correct more than I thought I would. I can kinda touch-type at a decent rate now but I definitely need more practice.

      All of this is to ask: is there a point where I will be so comfortable as to not need to fear misspelling something without this crutch of autocorrect?

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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          2 months ago

          The key just to the left of the # key, i.e. the A key in the default Thumb-Key layout, should have a ▲ for the upward swipe. That swipe is how you get into shift mode. Swipe up on that key again to enter caps-lock; swipe down on that key to release the shift/caps-lock.

      • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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        2 months ago

        is there a point where I will be so comfortable as to not need to fear misspelling something without this crutch of autocorrect?

        I can't speak for how long it will take you specifically, but yeah, I absolutely think you can get to that point. I don't really remember how long it took me to learn, but it couldn't have been more than a few weeks, and I think I had some factors which were working to my advantage, anyways. Have you adjusted any of the settings?

        • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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          2 months ago

          I mean it's a massive legal risk to instance admins. Its not shitty due to not enough resources. Its shitty because they intentionally focus on stupid features and ignore (and scold) their community of users when they ask them to work on actually important bugs

              • radiofreeval [any]
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                2 months ago

                It's just derivatives of one issue about exporting and deleting data

                • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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                  1 month ago

                  There's like 8 issues about separate bugs where users get stuck in a situation where they can't delete their data. That is a massive violation of gdpr with horrible legal and financial penalties.

                  See how long they've been open?

  • archchan@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Universal UnifiedPush support so we can manage our own push notifications through something like NextPush on your Nextcloud. At that point I could completely remove Google Play Services from my phone without much trouble.

    • hungrybread [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Woah, definitely need to check this out. I wanted to slap guix system on an old laptop but had issues with proprietary drivers, very curious to see what workarounds people have had luck with. Otoh I barely touch this computer, and NixOs is running fine on it..

    • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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      2 months ago

      I kinda wanna try this, Google is messing up the android open source project to a point I don't really want to tolerate

  • AgainstTheGrain@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Claude 3. Most people don't even know what it is, let alone the fact that it's as good and better than GPT4 in some ways.