AZERTY is awful and anyone who uses it is a psychopath or even worse, french (québécois are fine though).

But jokes aside, I regularly switch between typing in French, English, and Spanish (so basically using all the accents and special characters including ñ) and even with all of it’s faults, QWERTY with international layout works perfectly for me:

• all accents are independent so you can capitalize upper and lower case and any kind of letter
• cedilla is basically just a c with an accent and that’s exactly how you type it (in Linux you might have to use a special key unless you actually mean “ć”), same for ñ
• English apostrophe doubles as the accent key, if you want an apostrophe just press space after hitting the apostrophe key

Our association between Christmas and those colors comes in part from:

• old traditions
• CocaCola marketing

Basically, those colors have always been associated with this time of year and festivities of similar nature ever since ancient civilizations. And in modern times, thanks to the fizzy drink marketing campaign and the influence of the US on the rest of the world, the red and green image of Santa Claus and other decorations they became the default colors for Christmas worldwide.

Here’s an article about it. The Wikipedia page also has more info and sources on symbols of the holiday :)

There’s a total of 3 LED on mine, I’m probably seeing an extra one cause I don’t have an enclosure on it. I checked the manual and the only one that’s on is the “standby” LED that’s supposed to show that there’s power going through the board.

The disk usage and normal “power on/off” LED are off. And I haven’t managed to get them to do anything so far.

Yeah I think my next attempt is gonna be to get a keyboard connected and mess around. But wouldn’t the computer LED turn on too even if it just boots to bios? Or does the power on LED typically only turn on when the OS is properly rubbing?

I haven’t tried to check for display yet, I don’t have any mini HDMI cables on hand. I’ll try to get it connected to a display.

I was hoping to do the whole setup process “headless” but I guess I’ll find a cable and keyboard.

I think it’s Logseq. Pretty good for taking notes.

After checking out some reviews on this one in particular I think it’s a pretty nice value. Good to know there’s still affordable phones out there. I do have some extra budget lying around so I think I’ll look into something a bit fancier this time.

That’s not a bad strategy lol. However from my experience with buying tech from China (a paper screen tablet for handwritten note taking and stuff) is somewhat troublesome and import taxes and other shipping costs, do add a non negligible amount to the final cost.

I don’t see myself doing this anytime soon, but maybe it will give someone else an idea, thanks :)

I remember a while ago I looked into this kind of phone and it did look pretty attractive to me. I might look for some more info on their performance thought.

Thanks for the suggestion :)

That’s great to know! Thanks

That’s true about “fun”, it’s very subjective but I’d say that bloat in my case strictly refers to software and not extra hardware, something like the difference between a ringtone store app and a couple of extra LEDs on the back.

On another note, I’ve seen a few reviews mentioning Pixels developing problems over time but nothing major AFAIK. Do you still use your Pixel? If not, what made you change it?

Aye

And there’s always Pogo Poutine ;)

Aye

Nay, This essentially turns this instance into an oligarchy. I don’t think other instances are going to appreciate this type of governance either.

Also, nothing stops trolls and bad actors from donating the bare minimum a thousand times to get a thousand voices. This would mean a high minimum investment should be required, which further hurts the common user.

I believe that a shitty/troll opinion has an artificial majority, the real users will catch on and act accordingly, however we still have to see an example of this.

I’m also certain that privacy people would rather not risk money transfers, cash or whatever (crypto is a whole other discussion).

In short, I think requiring payment, or proof of identity, or any other de-anonymizing measures would hurt discussion by excluding genuine users, even if it allows more trolls that would be ignored/dealt with by genuine users.