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Recent versions of iOS make me feel like it wont let me type spaces anymore, I'm always adding full stops instead!

I've given up bothering to correct it now.

So I just search for why.is.ios.keyboard.broken and google seems to know!

Sure, I can consciously and deliberately hit the spacebar, but for a decade or more I had zero issues with causally typing and not looking.

Is it a result of moving to Pro Max sized phones? It could be, and maybe the spacebar is just now further away. I'm willing to concede it could be that.

But then there are many reports of other people with issues....


Australian here!

I constantly forget which way the half hour difference is between Adelaide and Melbourne / Sydney!

Then I have regular contact with offices in London and LA. For some of the year it’s not too bad, and then our clocks switch the opposite way and it gets less convenient! Which way is which I can never remember.

Queensland doesn’t bother changing their clocks at all.

Writing software that deals with Timezones isn’t too bad these days, but supporting it is as it constantly confuses users I find!


You have some fun ones. On the other side of the spectrum is PRC, where at the same hour of day it can be complete darkness on one side and almost technically noon on the other. It's super arbitrary with little rhyme or reason.

I wonder if this is compliant with EU laws around data sovereignty and similar?

If that’s the right question? :-) Not my area!


This reads like proper science fiction tech!

Yes, I cant see in the article that actually define the term!

There’s an app called Termux in the iOS App Store, but I’m guessing it’s not the same thing?

Termux is the best of Android and sadly there's nothing like it on iOS. I'd ditch my Pixel today for the iPhone that's sitting on my desk collecting dust if there were.

no, it's not, termux requires low level access to the OS that iOS protects against.

No, it does not have any more access than any other app, as it work on unrooted devices too.

That said, it has to be compiled for older Android SDK level because newer levels prevent apps to run executables they downloaded on their own and not bundle with the APK, even isolated. Android may disable compatibility with the older SDK some day but for now it works.


sorry, it was my understanding that Android apps have lower level access to the Android OS than iOS apps allow, that essentially iOS apps are sandboxed? And that this was what was allowing Termux to do everything it did in Android.

What keyboard case do you use?

My android phone is a Pixel 8 and that sounds cool :-)


I actually have like, four different ones... :^))) I'm a bit of a keyboard fiend.

The main one I use with my Android tablet specifically is a no-name brand, knock-off "magic keyboard"-style folio case that I got on AliExpress for like, 45 USD. I ordered the English layout, I received the Spanish one (which is mostly the same but had additional legends for Spanish characters). Le sigh. It's AliExpress, I didn't bother contacting support.

For my phone, I have a really old Zagg one that was originally for an iPad. The iPad has long since died but the keyboard lives on. Woo!

The main keyboard I type on all day at my desk is a Logitech Pebble K380s. It can store three different connection profiles, which can be either Bluetooth or Logi unified receiver. So I have one of those profiles set to connect to my Pixel 8 via Bluetooth (typing from that now). Makes toggling back and forth between that and my desktop very smooth.

On a "real keyboard" (like this K380s) there's a dedicated Esc key. Most tablet folio cases don't have Esc. I found an app called "External Keyboard Helper Pro" that lets me rebind Caps Lock to Esc. That makes Neovim much more pleasant.


Ali support is actually quite good nowadays in my experience, I haven't had a single frustration with them in quite a while.

Thanks for the info!

Cracking this dongle; wouldn't this be a federal offence in the US?

Not being snarky - genuine question! I am not from the US :-)


>Cracking this dongle; wouldn't this be a federal offence in the US?

No. As of 2003 there is a DMCA exemption for "computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete". <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_preservation#Legal_...>


Yes and in every country that adopted a copyright treaty with the US, so all of them except China

While WIPO mandates similar wording not every implementation makes software-only patch criminal.

It probably is; and so is going 10 over the speed limit.

I’m not even convinced that Microsoft knows how to ship a Windows-themed version of Windows these days! ;-)


It would be super cool if these articles or websites actually explained anywhere what volumetric capture and radiance fields actually are!


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