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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Funnily enough I still look for the Control Panel before even attempting to find a setting in the Settings app.

    The Control Panel is consistent, it works, and it hasn’t changed in years. Meanwhile the Settings app gets rearranged every 2 months, with constant design changes, and it’s also terribly slow on low end devices and VMs.

    It’s sad that Microsoft is “unifying” the Windows settings and killing the Control Panel in the process.



  • I use Unexpected Keyboard.

    It’s mainly made for programming or using Termux, and it makes some special characters more accessible than the classic keyboards. It also has a mechanic for typing special characters that makes it faster to type. And you can enable a compose key, which is something I love to see on a phone keyboard.

    Unexpected doesn’t have voice recognition though, but it can be enabled by installing a voice recognition app alongside the keyboard.




  • It doesn’t. It designs part of the chips that go into their phones.

    Google also designs chips that go into its phones, and Microsoft has also designed chips and security co processors that have gone into PCs.

    (Of course, I’d never consider a Microsoft “security co processor” secure, nor an apple or google one).

    [edit] I also do not see your point of apple being better (or more virtuous) than google or microsoft for designing their own hardware, for 2 different reasons:

    • Currently Microsoft and Google have immense control over the software of PCs and phones. Apple wants to have full control of both the software and the hardware, and making their own hardware is a big step towards that goal. It means they’re restricting you (the user) from using the hardware you bought for your own purpose.

    • Making custom hardware does not make a company more or less virtuous. Manufacturing/designing capabilities are just spending money in the respective industry. As I mentioned before, both Google and Microsoft have designed their own chips, and they also have designed chips for their servers. I would also argue that we should stop humanizing companies. They don’t have human traits, they’re not virtuous, they’re just there to take your money and go.