I like Diarium, journaling once a day has helped me feel like I’m not “wasting” my days doing nothing. I started out with just 2 or 3 sentences at first, and now I’m writing down frustrating bits, cool interactions, or sometimes still just a laundry list of what I did. It helps me feel like I’m not just floating through life.
I also like using my credit to offset the cost of the season pass in Marvel Snap once a month, but that’s more for just whatever phone game you feel deserves a few bucks now and then (if any).
Honestly, I wrote it out, it felt awkward and more like a changelog than anything, I ran it through chat gpt and it stripped out enough details that it flowed better. I deleted everything it said that wasn’t what I wanted to say, and we got something that someone read long enough to see the disclaimer
Also, it’s over the top and flowery as hell even after tweaking it, but I didn’t write it - I got to skip several hours of self consciously agonizing over it before clicking submit and stressing out some more.
Chat-gpt isn’t any more lazy than using a power saw. I couldn’t have done better by hand, every statement it made was fed to it by me, and I edited down the output in multiple stages so I can stand by the accuracy of the result
The icon is a placeholder made from the recolored fediverse icon I threw together in 20 mins. I know what the actual one will be, but it’ll take 6-12+ hours to put together
The visuals will take at least 5-7 days of tweaking unless I find examples of something similar to reference
Instead, I fixed bugs, and posted a beta to get feedback on what I should prioritize.
In that time, I could get a ~15x performance increase, add a dozen random requested features, add kbin and maybe mastodon support, or get halfway through building custom feeds by stitching multiple sorts across accounts and servers.
I build adaptable code, and so I built a foundation. I’m a photographer, not an artist - making things pretty is pure trial and error for me, because I can’t picture the end result. I haven’t started to try to make it pretty or optimized, I just made it extremely capable and clean enough that I could use it
Can you give specifics of what you find grating instead of just telling me it’s ugly?
I grabbed it from FDroid to give it a try. I really don’t believe there could be any way to use this where the speed could even come close to a swipe based keyboard. Every character requires a full up down motion with your thumb and often an additional gesture to reach a sub letter and the subsequent space between words. With swipe style I can bang out entire words with their space in a single motion with about 85% accuracy. Thumb keys layout doesn’t map to existing keyboard layouts rather it prioritizes common letters with less common letters on gestures which failed me a couple of times because my direction was a little too up vs up right. Swipe typing has a huge leeway for errors including skipping letters while offering suggestions because it can see the entire word you attempted.
They could possibly add swipe functionality to this to improve the speed but given the center space contains 9 characters I’m not sure that would be possible to infer that much.
Maybe someone could really spend the time rewiring their brain to use this but I don’t think in it’s current state it can compete in WPM with a swipe style keyboard so it really comes down to how important the privacy features are to you.
I tried it cromite just to see and honestly it lagged on me when trying to open the menus etc. Mull /fennec were noticeably snappier. S23 standard here fwiw
In an effort to spend some of my balance a while back, I bought Recipe Keeper. It was $10, I think.
I can’t say I use it daily, but it is fantastic if you do any cooking or collecting of recipes. It’s easy to share a URL to it, it will strip out the pointless blog post and just give you a well formatted recipe; it has a nice scan feature that makes importing printed recipes easy; and there’s even the option to export your own cookbook.
If you’re into mobile games I’d recommend any of the papa’s games. I have cluckeria to go and it’s helped kill time when i don’t have WiFi or a long time to get into something more involved.
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