Technology

I liked the idea of Colemak, but it never became faster than QWERTY for me: https://colemak.com/
 
Dvorak seems interesting just older
 
I saw some people promote "Halmak" but it's a minority interest (may have been an attempt to tweak Colemak)
 
The Carpalx people have some exotic designs: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/
 
Of course going in a different direction is stenography, the open steno project: https://www.openstenoproject.org/
 
or the Characorder: https://www.charachorder.com/
 
Have you tried an alternative keyboard layout to QWERTY or an alternative to keyboard designs altogether with steno?

I've seen in programming that apparently naming things like variables or files is hard (?). So that could be a topic of discussion. I'm not sure if it's felt that hard, to me.
 
I have encountered a lot of problems with downloading files with irregular filenames, and then I can't find them, though. I'm guessing maybe that's on me to manually put the filename in whenever I download these things, but I guess sometimes I might just click "save" and the name of the file is not like a description of the file and it makes it difficult to find them when searching for them.
 
Now on the other hand, sometimes people don't want the files labeled so that people find them easily, so that's another issue too.
 
I've also wondered if a motion could be made to get more websites to automatically update certain filenames with titles of the page; for example, say a book on archive.org is gibberish, and you could select an option to automatically set that filename to the title of the page which would presumably be the name of the book.
 
Has anyone encountered either of these issues of trying to figure out how to name files, or of downloading files with lots of random names that might have a tendency to get lost without them being labeled as they are downloaded?

I saw a vid pop up about how this distro could be the "end of distro hopping", by which I think they have a simple installer and can run lots of software
 
(Ubuntu based currently, moving to Debian eventually as a base)

via r/datahoarder

It's crazy that basically any government in the world can censor a website and we all have to be subjected to the whole world's censorship.

Saudi Arabia can demand that there are no depictions of Mohammad. China can demand all maps are drawn how they like. Censorship by one government is already a problem. Now sites are a product of the whim of any and every government.

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/september/now-everyone-can-build-battery-free-electronic-devices/
 
Example implementing principles: ENGAGE - the battery-free gaming console https://github.com/tudssl/engage

A day for raising awareness of the presence of technology in so many people's lives and which encourages people to "unplug" when they can (maybe by going outside and doing something in nature?)

This topic interests me for helping those who have visual impairment or blindness, as well as being prepared for the possibility of having such a condition when older myself, as well as the interesting experience of computing blindfolded.
 
Any better distros you'd recommend for blind computer usage?

Do you have personal tips on how to clean electronics?
 
Should you rubbing alcohol to clean sensitive electronic parts?
 
Do you have compressed air or an electric compressed air duster or recommendations on tools to acquire?
 
What other tips would it be valuable for people to know?

Looked like an interesting design concept for portability

Audio forwarding: https://github.com/rom1v/sndcpy

Anyone made one of these or have an interest or tips on any adjustment to the suggested way to do it?

Haven't figured out or tested, posting beforehand:
 
https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
 
above based on: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/
 
https://numenvoice.com/
 
https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-linux-speech-recognition-tools-open-source-software/
 
https://infogalactic.com/info/Speech_recognition_software_for_Linux
 
> post more?

Content packages they have available for download (and which can be viewed online with them): https://library.kiwix.org/
 
Being able to download all of Gutenberg's public domain books or Wikipedia are the classic Kiwix choices in my view
 
Partially related article: https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/20/23413615/stack-overflow-offline-coding-copy-kiwix-prison-arctic
 
saw some new content was available for download since I posted on this last year, like openstreetmap's wiki, ifixit stuff, lowtechmagazine, etc.

Portable console, here is a link to order one of the models: https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/uconsole-kit-a-06

What kind of data do you like to collect?
 
Any setup recommendations?
 
Favorite software to manage "hoards" (or collections)
 
Discuss?