Enshittification aside, any new technologies you find yourself relying on/using regularly?
This can be anywhere from hardware or software/apps.
I recently started up a CalDav/CardDav service (radicale, think like your own private Google Calendar and Google Tasks that can also be synced on multiple devices) on a VPS. One step closer to degoogling myself.
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For something that’s sure to be enshitified, I use Perplexity regularly, especially since Paypal gave me a free year of its Pro plan. I’m finding it considerably more effective than traditional web search when I’m looking for something specific, though to be clear, I’m looking for an existing web page rather than the output of the LLM. It’s also pretty good at providing the exact command line incantation for some one-off task and producing short code samples for some API I’m probably never going to use again. Sometimes I pay Anthropic for the latter.
Some other stuff:
- Cleverkeys, an open source Android keyboard with open source swipe typing (no Google library dependency).
- Rio terminal - GPU accelerated, written in Rust.
- Lemmy - you may have heard of it.
Not actually new, but more people should know:
- KDE Connect - notification sync, shared clipboard, remote control, etc… between phones and PCs. Supports Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Mac, and more.
- Syncthing - sync the contents of a directory between multiple devices. Syncthing-fork to do it on Android.
Cleverkeys is such a good find from you. Thank you so much for it 😃
That cleverkeys keyboard is… suspicious? Only 2 stars? 0 issues. Never heard of it. Seems like such a keyboard would be much more known, no? Do your due diligence before you install it, it is a keyboard, with potential to cause some serious damage.
The number of stars and issues depend on how many people know about it and have a Github account.
No one is paying for advertisement, here.It’s fair to be concerned. I have known the author online for several years, and he has reputation to lose if he publishes malware. Of course, you have no reason to trust me either.
It’s a recent fork and rebrand of Unexpected Keyboard.
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I honestly use Stable Diffusion models for AI art references for any artist to recreate if they wanted to. My producer does the exact same thing.
