[X] My Assistant

Shame if someone actually fall for this.

If they're already using Windows Store, how can they get more shame? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

If they're already using Windows Store, how can they get more shame? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

If you're using windows you've already lost.
But you can lose worse by choosing the app store.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Apr 27 2020, 20:03

Just discovered that many Email clients don't support Tutanota, Protonmail and Disroot email accounts. It's a hassle having to get online and open an internet browser just to read your past emails.

Any recommendation for Email clients by the way?

People still use email clients?

You would use one if you send and receive at least 40 mails a day.

People still use email clients?

I loved my Eudora email client. For a long time, it was free because Qualcomm obtained the product plus person (Steve Dorner) who made the freeware Eudora product. One of the stipulations of being acquired was that a freeware version of Eudora be allowed for use. Qualcomm kept this going into 2006 before giving Eudora to the Mozilla Foundation. I started with the freeware version but liked it enough to purchase the commercial version which was basically the same (since I didn't use business integration functions).

[computerhistory.org] https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-eudora...nt-source-code/

But then I got so much mega email spam that I was "forced" to use google mail which uses the power of Big Brother to read the email content and make decisions on the content. As a result, almost all the spam is gone and I've traded 150% privacy loss to me (big data) for the cost savings in time of going through spam. I would still be using Eudora through SMTP with Gmail as my front end, but as you know, Gmail went blah with SMTP.

TLDR:
Ha, this will be the shortest part of this post. For those who haven't been to the Computer History Museum, it archives some interesting source code including photoshop ver. 1.X and MS-DOS source.
[computerhistory.org] https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-phot...op-source-code/
[computerhistory.org] https://computerhistory.org/blog/microsoft-...ly-source-code/

People still use email clients?

They're a fair bit snappier than gmail, at least on my system.
I use the one built into seamonkey (basiclally thunderbird).

WTF, so Google Alphabet is diversifying its income and getting into the carrier business by offering Google Fi as a service to everyone. But google is using its search powers to support Google Fi services since Google said in its FAQ that it keeps track of various public WiFi facilities and then automatically connects Plan devices to them. So, if you offer a free hotspot to visitors, you might see a bump in traffic and not realize that the bot software in a Fi type phone automatically makes the connection. Why put traffic on Google's carrier bill when it can offload the traffic onto any and all nearby free WiFi sites instead? This is very close to violating the founding principles that Sergey Brin and others had when Google was created -- Do No Evil. That motto was infamously removed from prominence in the Google Headquarters wall years ago as being possibly sending the wrong message to company employees and visitors.

[fi.google.com] https://fi.google.com/about/faq/

So, that means Google keeps track of the existence of various free public WiFi hotspots and automatically connects your Google Fi phone to them as you move from spot to spot. What kinds of Big Data can be derived from the connect records and traffic. More ominously is that if Google suddenly desired to see your encrypted content transmission, it can, because it owns the hardware and software since you are purchasing a license to use the property.

If google got into content ownership like Comcast which is both a carrier and content owner, then law enforcement would no longer need search warrants. Unlike Comcast and other content owners of the RIAA, MPAA, copyrighted manga and doujins, Google already has the search warrant approved because it already has the search data, connection data, and other data since it controls so many devices and their data legally.

Ahh, my tinfoil hat isn't big enough. I'd better buy some more at Costco once I get a face mask to satisfy their new rules that are going to soon require all customers and employees wear face masks in the store.

Why can't I find a normally shaped wireless mouse, instead of these 'ergo' shaped that make my hand hurt?
My current one is about worn one, but not happy enough with it to buy another. It's shaped kind of odd, doesn't side scroll, and the battery cover falls off easily.

(IMG:[i0.wp.com] https://i0.wp.com/www.gogi.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Logitech-M215-box-pack.jpg?fit=500,350&ssl=1)
Found a new/open box one for $16 shipped, so I guess it'll hold me over till I find something decent.

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Apr 29 2020, 23:54

People worry about privacy due to data being collected from their PC. That is a passive recording. But what if the future phones use PUSH technology to broadcast their their ID code and presence? It was proposed that smartphones of people who had CovidVirus or who were carriers or who are asymptomatic reservoirs have smartphones that broadcast their location continually. Thus, any other phone that got near to those people for 5 seconds or more would then be classed as a follow-up "at risk" contact.

Wireless antenna tower tech isn't needed. Officers or even admission gates could have an electronic device that are always listening for ultrasonic sounds the phones emit. Later on, if a person is found to be infected, all that needs to be done is to look at the database to see all the admission gates and the people whose phones have detected that ultrasonic signal. Those sounds identify the phone of a corona infected person which is the same as identifying the user.

QUOTE: "And some people have proposed allowing phones to detect other phones that are near them by using Bluetooth and emitting sounds that humans can’t hear. If someone tested positive, their phone would send a message to the other phones, and their owners could get tested."
[www.washingtonpost.com] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...reopen-economy/

The other advantage of such a database existing is that after coronavirus is over, it can still collect data. Then, one day, a new law is made that all lovers of Rainbow Dash and their friends are to be arrested. Time to look in the database to see if any of our phones have been in the presence of that target person for 60 seconds or longer.... Thus, CoronaVirus served as the gateway to easily get privacy-busting legislation and privacy-busting devices implemented.

Google Fi

…Has been a thing for years.
Not that it necessarily is good that it's now officially available to more people. Still somehow better than Amazon Kindles, though.

Why can't I find a normally shaped wireless mouse, instead of these 'ergo' shaped that make my hand hurt?
My current one is about worn one, but not happy enough with it to buy another. It's shaped kind of odd, doesn't side scroll, and the battery cover falls off easily.
… (clip)
Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[www.lenovo.com] https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/accessories-an...Mouse/p/0A36188
I have this but with thinkpad branding. They don't make the USB wireless one with thinkpad branding anymore, though; they only make that as a Bluetooth mouse now. I'd rather break a couple of fingers on my right hand than have to deal with Bluetooth, so I tracked down a thinkpad branded one elsewhere. But the only difference should be if it says 'lenovo' or 'thinkpad' otherwise so this'll be fine.
[i.imgur.com] (IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/ADuHIwdg.png)
The part number is OA36193, I do believe, for the variant with thinkpad branding and USB. NewEgg _claims_ to have it. [www.newegg.com] https://www.newegg.com/lenovo-0a36193/p/0TP-008A-00084
I got mine on AliExpress, IIRC, but it came in official packaging and all seemed to check out. I guess it's all Chinesium crap anyway since Lenovo's the OEM.
The drawback: it's a laser mouse. It's also a wee bit on the small side, but I use an even smaller mouse usually. I don't often notice issues, but they do happen as they do with nearly all laser sensor mouses I've ever used.
It has a really nice rubberized texture, too. I quite like it for that. It doesn't seem to be wearing off after a year or two, either.

However, I also bought a (wired) [www.lenovo.com] USB travel mouse, which is even smaller than the wireless one and performs admirably. Probably because it's pretty much the travel mouse IBM was selling around 2002 or 2003 and Lenovo hasn't gotten around to fucking it up yet. I typically use this. I suggest you ask if you really need wireless. The wire on my travel mouse is thin, flexible, and it never gets in my way. Doesn't have the rubberized finish though. Which is fine.
Just wish I could track down one with the red/green/blue IBM branding still.
(IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/vd9Hufg.jpg)
Mine. Cartridge for scale.
[i.imgur.com] (IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/9Qer3oug.jpg)
My wireless one is buried pretty deep in my closet, so I don't feel like fetching it at the moment.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Apr 30 2020, 14:58

Dude, that Lenovo looks like the Amulet of Yendor of wireless mice vs a cheap plastic imitation. Found a new one on fleabay already in the country and bought it.
Thank you.

Dude, that Lenovo looks like the Amulet of Yendor of wireless mice vs a cheap plastic imitation. Found a new one on fleabay already in the country and bought it.
Thank you.

NP.

I probably still have my xorg settings for it if you want to try my acceleration configuration in a Unix environment.
(Edit again:) Actually, I do. Here they are. Note that I'm using evdev instead of libinput as it offers superior configurability for the average mouse. You may have to install something like xserver-xorg-input-evdev in debian or xf86-input-evdev in some others.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

CODE

# Remap mouse buttons 8/9 (browser page back/forward) to perform horizontal scrolling instead
# NOTE made when posting this config: looking back at this a year or two later I think this actually just makes tilting act as a middle-click.
# Maybe my plans were different at some point?
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier    "Thinkpad Mouse Remap"
    MatchProduct    "Lenovo Laser Wireless Mouse"
    Driver        "evdev"
        Option        "ZAxisMapping"        "4 5"
#        Option        "ButtonMapping"        "1 2 3 4 5 0 0 6 7"
    Option        "ButtonMapping"        "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2 2 10 11 12 13"
# Acceleration settings
# See xorg.conf(5) man page (under 'POINTER ACCELERATION') for details
# favorite mode 1: no acceleration at all
    Option        "AccelerationProfile"    "-1"
# favorite mode 2: 'classic' with more deceleration than usual
#    Option        "AccelerationProfile"    "0"
# I also tweaked DPI in a hwdb rule. It was set to 1200dpi @ 255hz
# instead of its more likely real value of 1600dpi @150hz

# slow things down
# defaults to 10. Only matters with accel profile 0 for me:
    Option        "VelocityScale"        "1"
    Option        "ConstantDeceleration"    "1.18"
    Option        "AdaptiveDeceleration"    "1"
EndSection

/etc/udev/hwdb.d/98-lenovo-laser-mouse.hwdb:

CODE

mouse:usb:v17efp6039:name:Lenovo Laser Wireless Mouse:
MOUSE_DPI=1600@150

I considered physically removing the tilt wheel buttons in mine; ended up just software-disabling them instead since I never used them and I'd accidentally hit them and navigate back/forward pages in Firefox-related browsers. I'd have mentioned sooner but I just remembered it.
It's still a minor issue in an otherwise nice mouse. Did you get a BT one or a USB one?

I sympathize with you regarding stupid mouse designs btw (That's why I'd already done all this research; I hate frills).
I used some eneloop AA batteries from a Costco (back when Costco sold them) with it; almost never needed to charge them.
Why are you set on wireless, if I may ask? Nothing inherently wrong with it, just wondering.
90% of my problems with it being a laser mouse would be solved by simply not using a cloth mousepad and using a hard surface instead, I think, so I was pretty much asking for jitter by continuing to use my cloth pad.

I really hope you like it. It is a bit on the small side compared to a lot of mouses, but in my experience it is still quite usable and I actually like it. Hope you do, too. Let me know what you think, once you get it/have used it for a bit.

Also, one of the first times I've heard a Rogue/Nethack reference in the wild, by the way. Good taste. I play them a lot on my RS232 video terminal. Should really finish re-capping that.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Apr 30 2020, 22:51

I often get the cable tangled up, or it flops on the keyboard- I use the mouse directly on my 17" laptop, typically. That, and I'd go through 2-3 usb cords on the logitech wired mice before left click wore out. Current one is slightly smaller than typical, so it shouldn't be a huge issue there. I have small hands, but long fingers <insert pianist/lesbian joke>.

I got the 2.4ghz dongle version. As for mice power, I've just been using ikea brand AAs and seem to get a few months out of one. I've never seriously done the rechargeable loose cells thing-the things I have that go through batteries enough tend to be voltage sensitive, and anything that'd take more than 4 cells has a pack.

On forward/backward navigating, never ran into that, and have only used mozilla derived since opera starting being a reskin of chromium. I used it along side firefox for a minute. Currently on palemoon and firefox mixed. I'll see what the buttons do when it shows up.

I'm also the guy that disables pmuch all my WM shortcuts because gamea or my IRC client false trigger them. I don't want to touch my mouse inside IRC, but don't wanna use the keyboard with windowed stuff.


Been playing the X11 tiles version on Nethack. Console version is too hard for me to remember the glyphs/colors. The quite complicated mechanics and 'the devs though of everything' handling of obscure events and edge cases make it quite interesting to me.

Edit: minor restructure, additions.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Apr 30 2020, 23:40

Finally understood what AMD Fluid Motion is about and thus can guess the reason it's removed in Navi's video decoder..

(IMG:[live.staticflickr.com] https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49840254971_337de7183d_z_d.jpg)(IMG:[live.staticflickr.com] https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49839717243_4406f7fbb2_z_d.jpg)

Fire TV ethernet addons don't support Gigabit, so I have to find the right substitute. Annoying.

I often get the cable tangled up, or it flops on the keyboard- I use the mouse directly on my 17" laptop, typically. That, and I'd go through 2-3 usb cords on the logitech wired mice before left click wore out. Current one is slightly smaller than typical, so it shouldn't be a huge issue there. I have small hands, but long fingers <insert pianist/lesbian joke>.

I unironically like the smallest mouses I can find despite having somewhat similar hands (probably, I don't usually think about it too much but I tend to like the smaller controllers for game consoles that have variants and I see no problem with not accidentally hitting the wrong keys on a piano). I'm the last one to make that kind of joke.
Your reasoning is likely fair, especially if you take the mouse on the go a lot. Mine pretty much stays on my desk and I use a trackpoint on the go (I removed the touchpad from my laptop entirely).

I got the 2.4ghz dongle version.

Good, just don't lose the dongle. Not sure how one gets replacements.

As for mice power, I've just been using ikea brand AAs and seem to get a few months out of one. I've never seriously done the rechargeable loose cells thing-the things I have that go through batteries enough tend to be voltage sensitive, and anything that'd take more than 4 cells has a pack.

I actually had a Canon camera that would only work wellwith NiMH rechargeables and not alkaline AA's. Alkalines would work for maybe two hours before the camera would stop turning on, despite still having reasonable voltage. Makes me wonder if the alkalines have higher internal impedance than my NiMH's.

On forward/backward navigating, never ran into that, and have only used mozilla derived since opera starting being a reskin of chromium. I used it along side firefox for a minute. Currently on palemoon and firefox mixed. I'll see what the buttons do when it shows up.

The tilt sideways should navigate back/forward a page in FF. Hope it doesn't bother you or you can disable it. Otherwise I guess just cutting traces on the switches or desoldering the switches would work.

I'm also the guy that disables pmuch all my WM shortcuts because gamea or my IRC client false trigger them. I don't want to touch my mouse inside IRC, but don't wanna use the keyboard with windowed stuff.

Ah, you use IRC. You are truly cultured in this age of discord slaves.

Been playing the X11 tiles version on Nethack. Console version is too hard for me to remember the glyphs/colors.

I'm not elitist enough to blame you there.

The quite complicated mechanics and 'the devs though of everything' handling of obscure events and edge cases make it quite interesting to me.

Definitely; it's sort of astonishing how deep it is.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 2 2020, 11:10

! Fixed a few rare crashes

Sadly not mine (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Just did an apt-get dist-upgrade that I'd put off for several weeks (okay, months). It didn't scrozzle anything that I've noticed so far. Feels good.

I found out they added an 'open new tab next to current' parameter in Firefox, maybe recently. Thank God.