Yeah, I saw the comment in github but it felt too surreal and without looking at the patent I didn’t want to assume anything. But hey thanks for the link to the actual patent, I have had a look at it, and read some parts of it and I’m still kinda confused about the whole situation with this keyboard.

The patent was published 10 years ago. It says it is withdrawn but I don’t know if we can somehow see the reason or if it was voluntarily withdrawn.

The patent itself recognizes that the hexagonal keyboard alone lacks on innovation to warrant the patent so the author proposes together with that the “best” order for different languages.

Then the code in github seems to have been uploaded 6 months ago. Maybe they withdrew the patent until they can show an example?

But how often do devs working on some free software code go through the trouble of making patents? And the code appearing such a long time after the patent… I don’t know, I don’t like throwing accusations without proof but the whole thing feels like they are more interested in the patent than creating the keyboard but I can’t be certain of it.

And then we get to the whole ordeal of the key positions, changing over different languages, trying to choose the optimal positions… I don’t think that it is enough to be patented (but I’ve seen worse so…) and likely it won’t ever be something people can agree on. Creating such “best” order would be impossible and probably each person would have different ideas. Now, predicting the next most likely letter… That would be more interesting but it was done ages ago too. And the most important aspect of what makes us fast typing is not the order of the letters, but the fact that we have muscle memory to reach them once we are used to a layout. As I use three different languages daily, using the same keyboard layout for all, is the best option, but with this idea I would need to change the layout of the keyboard… It would make me so incredibly slow!

And more in detail with the patent, many claims are borderline ridiculous. But this comment is already long enough so I’ll leave it herewith my final criticism for the author. Forget the patent, and just create a good keyboard that people want to use.

I’m glad to see an open source keyboard for a hex design. But I’m confused with the patents… Hex keyboards are not particularly new, I’ve used them years ago, so on what basis are they patenting it?

I agree with you and your proposal with the exception of 5 figure income having no income tax. At a billion level it might not be so important the difference between one or two billion. But on the 5 digits salaries, the difference of someone making 30k or someone making 80k is definitely meaningful. And as someone being in a comfy point in between there I do think everyone in my bracket should be paying taxes. Not high, but definitely something. Then lower incomes then yes, definitely 0% tax. But the amount of people on 5 digits salaries that are on the higher end is definitely worth having some tax, even when a small amount it already helps support the system with so many.

What do you like most, being kicked in the balls or being hit in the balls with some object?

I was studying abroad in a place where this kinda trust exists, while on my original country is not that kind of place you would leave a tablet or a phone visible (or anything alone at all). I decided to join the university gym during my studies. After the shower I go into the changing room and there were a couple of guys talking in my mother language, but you know, people get naked and it is not the kind of place to be making friends or start random conversations, so I mind my own business and I hear one of them say “hey man I got my laptop with me, where can I put it to keep it safe?” And the other answered “nah don’t worry man, just leave it there no one will touch it or know it is there”.

They proceded to go into the shower, I was left alone, of course no cameras, I could have taken a free laptop and leave. But I just thought how interesting that we are willing to trust others being abroad and in our own place we would never do that. Those guys never knew I understood all they said. But I rather not get the free laptop and feel like I can live in such a country where I can trust others to do the right thing.

Nah, it’s greed that will do that. Apathy is just a symptom for people that feel like they can’t do anything against the greediest bastards. And it’s also pushed as a control system to be able to get even more by those.

Definitely number 4, I’m tired of map applications overusing the directions marker. I feel the compass is an improvement in that sense.

That’s a terrible way to put it and sincerely misguided in my opinion. I have a handful of public indexers, they work fine in 99.99% of the cases for my needs. In fact, never before I’ve had this issue until recently, with two unreleased episodes that were fake files. For me, not allowing the unreleased episodes is just another layer of security. In other words, using your example, I don’t want the water filter for my car to use the bad gas station, I want to get the water filter to make sure that if there’s ever some water by accident or not then it won’t get to the engine… If I see the indexers or trackers start publishing a lot of fake stuff it will get removed, but from public indexers I understand if there’s something ever getting past, and I don’t want the devs of some software deciding that me requiring that a show has been aired before I even try to download it is dumb.

Precisely, just make it optional, hell even just apply the way it is now as default, but give the option to those that prefer it. But each time it is requested it gets shot down immediately and when people ask why not make it optional no one answers.

The needed change is not even that complex and someone provided the link to the pull request for radarr that implemented the similar function (actually even more complex as it has more options for movies). I’ve even considered trying to do it myself, but its quite the effort to prepare the dev environment, make the change, test it and make the pull request just to get the same dev shoot it down just out of spite. If the feature request was still open even if the usual devs don’t want to do it then it would show that they would accept it…

The main devs are rejecting the feature with really bad excuses. Basically, it comes down to two reasons:

• if you get those lnk files and what ever, then you are using a bad tracker and you need to do better.
• episodes are often released early and with such a setting you would miss out on them. The thing is I don’t care about early releases, but when a show arrives officially.

I went down the rabbit hole on this the other day as I was trying to find a way to block unreleased episodes. It’s unbelievable to me the resistance they put against such a simple feature. Like no one is requesting to force it that way, just give the option to make it so.

The two reasons I saw for canceling the feature request over menu duplicates is the “use better trackers” mainly but also that shows are so often released or leak early they this setting would block you from getting them faster… Those are the dumbest reasons ever to not provide a setting that people are literally asking over and over again for.

The change is done for radarr so it might not be terribly hard to adapt into sonarr. Being open source I would have expected someone to do the change already but if they fight against it so much as a principle who would expect them to approve the change…

This has been my path so far, nearly to a T. Got an old laptop, installed endeavour with a very light DE and attached an external drive and started messing with *arrs and jellyfin and bunch of other things.

The only downside is that my family now relies on that for watching so I’m more careful of not breaking the stuff that works.

Got another laptop that had no use so I started playing around on it. Installed Debian and CasaOS on top to test if that would be a nice alternative.

The only real issue is the lack of time to spend on this.

Yeah, there’s legitimate complains against GAI and most of all the companies trying to lead it. But having a community where the only point of view accepted has to be direct and absolute hatred including towards people trying to look at adequate and ethical usage of the technology is just plainly bad and stupid just like any other social bubble.

I guess it is inevitable that self centred ego-stroking bubble communities appear in platforms such as Lemmy. Where reasoned polite discussion is discouraged and opposing opinions are drowned.

Well, I’ll just leave this comment here in the hope someone reads it and realises how bad these communities actually are. There’s a lot to hate about AI (specially companies dedicated to sell it), but not all is bad. As any technology, is about how you use it and this kind of community is all about cancelling everything and never advance and improve.

Me too, the problem is how many have to suffer him until that happens. And I dont mean just having to read his every damn comment.

Really? Ah wow, never thought it would be that hard… That’s sarcasm by the way, since we are stating the obvious. Also you forgot to mention, one does nothing against FElon and the other ends FElon.

I anyway hate the idea of inciting violence (but sometimes you just need to get it out) and can’t really wrap my head at how many people are in comments in Lemmy out for blood (well, I kind of understand, the situation is bleak to say the least, the issue is how many think violence is a good solution for real, there’s a discussion for violent revolution, but violence alone is useless, but I digress), I’d rather he rots in a cell somewhere and all his money is taken away to do something useful with, he’d probably hate that much more than anything else. Same with Amazon Dickzos… Well that’s lame, couldn’t come up with a good name for him yet. Bezos anyway.

But anyway, if the first lady trump is still free and worse, in a position of power in the government, after all he has done (literal treason, rape, …), I’m not holding my breath for the nazi asshole to get to prison.

Why so many people are cheerfully cheering for burning teslas owned by random people when it seems it would be easier to burn this fucking nazi asshole? Just get rid of the source of the problem…

Ah… Mikrotek sounds interesting, would love to support a small European company. They seem to have nice hardware…

Yeah, the other site x) since I removed my accounts is a pain to visit, if anything at some point I’ll do some search on the laptop to browse more comfortably.

Thanks for that other link! I have some reading to do… Lots to learn. Networking was never my forte, but alas, can’t trust any company and need to build things on my own… So be it.

Ah thanks! That’s a great idea! I entirely forgot about the existence of openwrt, and anyway would have never thought that the google devices could accept it… I’m definitely going to try that and then slowly plan and learn about what I would need to start using the MoCA network and reduce the dependency on WiFi.

Alright! Thank you so much for the detailed answer. This has led me in the right direction, I had an inkling that given the old installation in the house I might be able to use something more adequate than WiFi. Now I finally know how to call it, MoCA. So I am going to spend some time checking where can I get in the house the wired access using this MoCA stuff, try and set up a couple access points or like you say just one good one. I guess I have a lot to consider now :)

So I was checking the whole line of ubiquiti, when you said you don’t think there’s a lot of positive feedback on those products, where you referring only to the Amplifi one?

Again, thank you so much, I finally feel I got the key knowledge I was missing to go forward.