noughtnaut

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[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

In my experience, neither Slack nor other apps (that all blow Teams out of the water) can do that - except Discord, which isn't exactly a common office meeting app.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wait, that's a dumb design. On a (way) older phone I had some automation running and all that location triggering was done on the phone and only connected to my home when I was in fact near it. Google (or any role party) shouldn't need to receive live geo location updates.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm just running a pain Linux with the MATE desktop, with increased sizes of mouse cursor and UI elements.

The big thing is using VLC with a wireless keyboard, and using a white sharpie on the keycaps to show the quite customised VLC shortcuts.

It's been years since I tried Kodi et al, and I always found the actual media playback to be lacking some customisation (eg. audio or subtitle timing offsets).

In lieu of a media database, I simply mark the movie folders with file emblems when I've watched a movie or episode (VLC keeps track of partial viewings, resuming where it left off).

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for that information.

One might also say, with the dire current state of browser competition, it won't make much of a difference.

I'm just privately hopping that Firefox won't lose its last few percent market share and go the way of the dodo. 🤞🥹

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, I'm really confused about this article - isn't what you describe still in effect? Why on earth not? (I haven't used Windows in ages so I personally have never seen that.)

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I went directly from a dot matrix (ImageWriter II ftw!) to a laser. Except for photo prints, I find it immensely practical to be able to print stuff at home.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Good for you! Seriously!

For the rest of us, a few notes on how you accomplished this would be sha-weet! I think sketch up is the most approachable 3d program, but all my "post Windows" attempts have resulted in crashes and freezes. 😥

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Emoji passwords made me think of the Lotus Notes password prompt with their little images that changed as I typed (which never really made sense to me).

Yes, I'm old...

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

... Like what is not a very common skill? Touch typing in general? Or doing it under VR specifically?

  • The latter would be quite niche I suppose.
  • The former? I cry for the current and future generations. It really is not very hard to learn, realistic to master, and incredibly useful in daily (professional and personal) life.
[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey, that sounds very interesting. It's there anything not working as it should work that hw/sw combo?

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Asking because I've never had the experience: how does one write anything while wearing a VR set? Please don't tell me it's one-finger "Fliegender Adler" on a giant floaty image of a keyboard?

This would utterly kill the comfort, convenience, and speed of touch typing, would it not? Ahh, progress... Even in Minority Report they had (friggin' sweet-looking!) keyboards alongside their fancy futuristic FAUI*.

^((* FAUI - flailing arms UI)^)

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

New ~~fear~~ worry unlocked....

Seems like this was done by working out passwords based on figuring out where people were looking and gesturing, rather than looking directly at the keyboard.

As a person using an uncommon keyboard layout, I reckon this would make it harder to hack my typing.

IF I could even get such a layout on wherever VR system I would theoretically be using... 😬

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