[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Still kind of sad that the transflective display technology demoed in the $100 laptop project from a decade or so ago never took off.

https://youtu.be/CGRtyxEpoGg?si=50jL24kRA22-X_Bo&t=1470

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

If you already have a similarly sized tablet, you could just buy a dummy HDMI plug, a few dollars, to add a second virtual desktop and then simply cast that screen to the mobile device.

There are pretty nice Android tablets now with 2.5k 120 hz HDR OLD screens. You can just connect it directly to the computer via USB, enable USB network tethering, then use something like the Moonlight client app with Sunshine screen casting server. With the wired connection, and a high bit rate such as 150 Mbps, you can get single digit millisecond latency and hardly tell the difference from an native HDMI display.

Tablets like those might be on the high end, but at least you'd have nice secondary display that's a bit more multifunctional. Or just go with a cheaper LCD based tablet or old iPad, if color accuracy, refresh rate, or resolution isn't a priority.

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[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Call it WebOS or something.

Kind of off topic, but webOS was in fact a thing, but more of mobile OS alternative to android and iOS, first developed by palm, the bought by HP, then sold to LG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS

It had a small but active homebrew community, with the HP touchpad being one of the early tablets on the market with an unlocked bootloader and Linux support.

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1894165

Looks like @phiresky@lemmy.world is looking for reviews on their latest optimizations to the Lemmy backend. Figured folks here might be interested in taking a look.

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[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I don't know of many recorded audio books, but you could also use a Text to Speech engine to listen to any technical blogs or articles. I use Android apps like Pocket or T2S to queue up a backlog of TODO read items, then when I'm out for a long walk, I can just press play and let the TTS do it's thing. Of course, I curate this list for longer pure text reads, devoid of code snippets, equations, or visual graphics that TTS would have a tough time conveying over audio.

Looks like I may need to find a successor to pocket. They do a great job scraping connect via readable mode, but I'd like to find a shelf hosted or mobile+offline app equivalent for queuing up web articles, just in case pocket gets cut from further development by Mozilla management.

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So, a recent skit about agile development from Striped Giraffe reminded me of this silly parody that my CSE PhD colleagues did back at UCSD in 2016 for the holidays. The solo in the middle hits hard, so check the subtitles for the lyrics if you can't catch the jokes as they fly by so fast.

Related:

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ruffsl@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Now, I know this isn't quite a meme, given the bad UI here is being used to troll scammers, but this video relates to a popular post here from two months ago, and I thought folks would find this just as humorous in watching others struggle with the same password checker as we all did before:

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[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised there isn't a community on this intense for this language already.
I'd suggest those who interested to make a post over on !community_request@programming.dev .

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks so much for your hard work and the terrific beta release!
Here's to the success of Lemmy, Sync for Lemmy, and the rest of the Fediverse,
Cheers! 🍻

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I think if the local and remote instances are federated - for posts submitted to remote communities that have subscribers from the local instance - posts to the local instance can be annotated with cross-posted to: links, whenever the local instance is aware of other federated posts that have a matching URL in other OP posts.

A single OP can manually cross post to other communities using the cross-post button next to the title of a post, although that will auto populate the body text of the new post with quoted text from the original, as well as an embedded hyperlink to the original.

So coss-posts can be both auto detected by Lemmy, or manually created by OP(s).

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Cool! Could you share that link with the !cobol@programming.dev community?

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Also, be sure to checkout this community: !learn_programming@programming.dev

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Hope the SREs can get back to a quite workday soon.


Looks like you linked to the !devops@programming.dev post directly. You can also use the cross-post button on the original post, just next to the star/save icon. That'll reuse the original URL that the original post used, then also auto populate the body with a link directly to the original post, along with quoted markdown of the original body text.

The nice thing about using the same URL for cross-posts is that Limmy-UI will also include hints below the title of posts with names of the communities cross posted to, allowing readers to discover even more cross-posted locations to jump into other threads, even from other instances.

Not sure if the Lemmy community has established a consistent etiquette for linking, as I think currently the URLs have to string match exactly for cross-posts to be highlighted. URL parameters and shorteners can throw a wrench into that feature. Would be nice to support aliasing across common variants, such as YouTube share and time parames.

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

My captcha included an invalid chess move, so a had to regenerate a different captcha: Hunter 913 VII April Shell bdg84 about He 🌔 Venezuela

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Found the full transcription for the video from OP author:

Note to self: use youtube.com instead of youtu.be
for better cross post detection and lemmy integration

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