It still sucks though. It doesn’t play nice with dark mode on Windows at all. I’ve been trying to get away from Google docs and I was hoping Libre would be a decent alternative, but it just feels bloated and clunky in comparison. I really wish it didn’t.
If anyone has alternatives I’m all ears.
Right! Even where you can monetize your hobby, if you’re not in it for the sake of your own personal passion, what’s the point?
Great art comes from passion and artistic integrity, not from trying to slap together some garbage to make a buck. If you happen to make money in the process, awesome, but if that’s your whole motivation it’s going to come across in your work and put a bit of a stink on the whole endeavor.
There’s a world of difference between art being enabled by commerce and art being created for the money. The second is self-defeating.
I’d say it’s more that we’ve been paying out the nose in the form of offering up our data and digital autonomy, and by allowing not only the Internet but our societies at large to degrade and polarize. We’ve paid dearly for our ‘free’ services, in the case of the US with everything from our reproductive rights to our connections with our own families and communities.
I’d much rather pay the price of an extra latte now and then for real internet communities than deal with actual Nazis and orbital Teslas for some shitty undermoderated ad feeds infested with trolls, AI, and literal societal saboteurs on the payrolls of Putin and Winnie the Pooh.
I could see a legitimate service being made out of something like an extra private lemmy, or a lemmy with additional features. Sort of like you’ll see these suites of services from Proton or Nord. Yeah, i can set up my own SMTP server, even encrypt my data, but it’s a lot easier to pay a few bucks to have a reliable service do it.
With federated services eventually becoming mainstream, i wouldn’t be surprised to see some companies offering packages that do things like provide additional privacy or larger amounts of storage.
Or like I’d imagine sustainable video hosts will have to monetize somehow just to pay for the storage space.
This is a big part of the shift in mentality that needs to happen. Something doesn’t have to be the biggest to be better. We don’t need millions of concurrent users per server to enjoy connecting with other people and sharing ideas and art.
Like, a local cafe doesn’t need to beat the profit margins of a Starbucks, it just needs to make ends meet. And it’s probably a lot better experience in the process.
It really does sometimes seem like a lot of people just go through life working and killing time. There are definitely people living their lives for themselves, but I think it’s a pretty foreign concept for some folks who’ve bought heavily into a commerce-focused culture.
Ahhh, okay, that makes sense. I can see where there might be demand for a more efficient layout as you’re getting away from looking and poking. Probably a lot easier to get there if you don’t have a couple decades and some change of qwerty typing taking up brain space.
Oh! I feel like I’d cramp up with an index mouse, but that’s neat!
I love my Ergo, honestly. The programmable buttons are really nice, and i like the horizonal scroll wheel leaning. Plus the angle is a lot more comfortable than their other ball mice.
What’s really made a difference for me though is the precision mode button. It’s upped my graphic design game in a major way! It honestly feels kind of like having a half-assed tablet as far as the more precise control goes! It’s waaay easier to draw with, though if i were doing more freehand stuff (and could draw for shit) obviously a tablet would be better.
The Ergo has been my daily for few years now, and some iteration of Logitech’s style of thumb ball since about 2004, I’ll never go back!
I asked though because i was curious to have a point of reference for looking at the differences. What do you like about the Huge?
They’re labeled as Keychron Pros or something like that, but to my understanding they’re literally just Gaterons with a different name.
Glad you’re liking it! I’ve fallen in love with mine! Honestly, the sound never gets old! :D
I’ve got a V6, bought it around a month or so ago as my daily and it’s been great. I bought it assembled, and the stock gateron browns it came with were really nicely factory lubed. Same with the stabilizers.
Four layers of electrical tape later and some nice thick ASA keycaps and it sounds amazing! Gives it a unique look without being impractical too! If you’re looking to swap your knob out, guitar knobs fit pretty well, though they may be a little more flush with the case on the underside than you’d like unless you sand them down a little first.
In any case, the v6 is a great board. Really solid feeling, and VIA is a really nice workflow changer.
Also, it says that layers 0&1 are for Mac and 2&3 are for Windows, but you can use all four for whatever, that’s just the default they’re programmed for.
Thumb ball gang! What mouse is that? Have you tried Logitech’s MX Ergo? If so, what do you like about yours?
Coley did a pretty detailed review on these if you haven’t seen it!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UpGKBBu5v9w
Personally I’m not sure how i feel about the sound they make on the way back up, but i bet they feel nice!
How do you get yourself to learn a new keyboard format after years of typing with qwerty?
I’ve looked at some of these alternate options and i can see how they’d be efficient, but like, i can’t see myself unlearning qwerty after decades of typing every day.
Nah, they’ll just fix the excess inventory with another contest! It worked really well last time!