Not sure about Android (but if you can swap out your keyboard entirely on Android, you probably can) but on iOS you can disable the double press to create a period! It’s in there with the keyboard settings next to the options to disable stuff like autocorrect

I’ve been running the developer beta for about a month or so now, the updates have made the phone run cooler (good) and things have become more readable. Good that Apple is working on it, but there’s still a bunch of issues. In the clock app, when there’s the bubble in the swipe menu, the text and icons switch between yellow and orange and there’s also VERY small slivers of orange whenever you hover the bubble over the alarms and stopwatch icon that drive me crazy. The bubble effect is a bit overdone in my opinion and could be toned down a bit. The lockscreen swiping still has issues, as when you swipe down the lockscreen background doesn’t appear, but notifications are still adjusted to the colour of it so if you have a darker lock screen background and on a lighter/white web page and you swipe to see you notifications, it looks unreadable until you swipe all the way down where the lockscreen background reappears.

Godot is better than roblox for making games because:

• you’re not restricted to one platform (in gd you can export as web app, linux, windows, macos, mobile, etc.)
• Roblox requires an internet connection and a Roblox account, both of which are not necessities for a game developed in godot (or any other game engine, like unity or unreal)
• Roblox has some very shady business practices that are not very nice to game developers. Godot, meanwhile, gives you the control of where you want to distribute the game with no strings attached
• GDScript is super easy to learn, very similar to Python and I really like that it’s integrated into the engine (you can, of course, use a separate code editor if you want. You could even use C# if you’re more comfortable with that)

If you do go for Godot (and you should), I would check out channels like GDQuest and HeartBeast as well as the Godot documentation for tutorials and help, as well as browsing the forums for advice.

Okay, I’ll be careful

cool :0

I bought my first camera a few years ago, so I can give you the advice others have told me. The lens is more important than the camera, and it’s good to get into a decent lens ecosystem. I personally use a ZVE-10 (even though I mainly do photo, as it was significantly cheaper than the A6400 in my region. Lack of EVF sucks though, so I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone that only wants to do photo)

If you want to go for the Sony ecosystem, the a6400 is a good pick. Lots of people also like the a6300 (older version of a6400), a6100 (older entry-level camera), and the a6000 (another older camera).

For E-mount lenses, good general-pirpose zooms would be the Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 and the Tamron 17-70mm f2.8. The Sigma primes are very sharp, but lots of people also like the more affordable TTArtisans and Viltrox lenses that are almost, if not equally, as sharp.

If you prefer the Canon ecosystem, you could either go with a DLSR (bigger and heavier, but usually cheaper) or mirrorless (lighter, but a bit more expensive). I don’t know much about it though, so I can’t tell you anything more than that.

There’s also Nikon, Fujifilm, and the L-mount alliance, but I don’t know much about any of them all too much.

I remember someone told me that Sony has great AF, Canon and Nikon both have good colours, Fujifilm has film simulations + more retro control dials/design, and L-mount is a shared mount between Panasonic, Olympus/OM System, and Leica (so you can mix and match lenses and cameras between those three) and also give you M43 (sensor is smaller than APS-C, but more compact lenses). If you go with any of those ecosystems you’ll be fine, they all make good cameras.

I use SearXNG, which is a “metasearch” engine that aggregates results from lots of different ones (you are able to choose whether you want to include google results, ddg results, etc.) and there’s also a bunch of options for searching images, videos, files, and more!

It can be self-hosted or you could always use a public instance (but then that means you have to trust whoever is hosting it with your data)

Proton and Tutamail don’t support IMAP as they use their own system for encryption and whatnot, which means emails are more secure (as long as everyone uses Proton and Tutamail, which the majority of people don’t). I also find their built-in clients to be quite slow. Disroot, Autistici, and mailfence all support IMAP. There’s a bunch more good ones (both free and paid) that support IMAP. Lots of people uses mailbox.org, which is based in Germany, and some people use Fastmail, which is based in Australia.

Ah ok that makes sense. Very cool. I’ll probably just stick with my system, since it works for me :D

If there was a “key” for every dialogue, that table would get ridiculously long. All the dialogue text is only being used once anyways, so it’s just making it more complicated for, in my opinion, little to no reason.

Using a lookup table for the emotions and character could be interesting though. I prefer my solution of just having all those dialogue objects since it’s simple and works for my use case. In Godot with the “quick load” feature you can find the different sprites very fast. Also, not changing the dialogue system means I can keep using the same one for all my games, so less work to do :D

It means that you can use more secure passwords rather than using easy to guess passwords/one password for everything. Using cloud based ones like Bitwarden means you have to trust the company hosting your passwords to not screw up and suffer from a data leak. I think Bitwarden is pretty trustworthy, but I might be wrong on that one.

Alternatively, you could selfhost (with something like Vaultwarden) or just use something local like KeePass. For the latter, you can choose to sync with SyncThing if you want.

I personally use KeePass, but don’t use SyncThing.

In my area, most of the streets, public transit, etc. are all labelled. I usually don’t type out the full addresses, just the names of the building/street/place. I personally use CoMaps (a fork of Organic Maps created to be more community-led) and it all works fine. I downloaded the maps in my area and, before travelling anywhere, download the maps for where I’m going. Offline maps are great!

I have a really weird thing where I actually like switching between different email providers every couple years or so. Maybe it’s because I don’t receive too many emails, but I find changing the email all my important accounts and forgetting about all the ones I don’t use anymore refreshing.

First I tried Proton Mail, then moved to Tutamail, but I didn’t like both as they did not support IMAP out of the box so I couldn’t use things like Thunderbird. I then moved to “Disroot”, which was decent and supported IMAP, but now I use one called “Autistici”. Another good one I would recommend is mailfence, which I set up for a family member once.

How my dialogue box works is by having a “Dialogue” object that has three parameters: the text, the avatar, and the duration (longer dialogues wait for 5s, shorter could be 3s). And in each “conversation”, it’s pretty much looping through an array of these dialogue objects. So for every conversation there is in the game, I would have to change the dialogue objects of each one.

And I don’t think I can map it to specific textures since I have multiple textures for different expressions (happy, shocked, angry, etc.) and am likely going to add more in the future so I can’t really hard code that in.

It’s quite a bit of work for something that I find mostly unnecessary as all the characters introduce themselves when you meet them and there is a clear visual distinction (different shapes, colours, etc.) between all of them.

On adding the character names to the dialogue box, I don’t think I’ll do that. It’s too much work to change EVERY SINGLE dialogue and all the characters introduce themselves anyways. I think all the dialogue sprites are unique enough (Player is the duck, Prometheus is the human with golden hair, the winds are their own thing, the narrator is a donut thing, etc.)

if it’s not a bird nor a plane, it must be superman!

switching to linux! (an upgrade in general usability too)

self-hosting nextcloud, immich, radicale, and vikunja to replace google drive/pcloud, google photos, not having a synced calendar at all (never used gcal), and todoist. Only downside with Vikunja is there’s no mobile app (only a work-in-progress one that doesn’t seem to have been updated in years) so I have a shortcut to the website instead. Works fine for me :D

Using local mp3s instead of Spotify (offline listening is awesome!)

RSS feeds to catch up on news

using foss alternatives: inkscape instead of illustrator, OSM instead of GMaps, joplin for notes, etc.

not using gmail

I always thought it was the sound. A dry pop vs a wet squelch

Today I learned that POTUS stands for “President of the United States”, never knew that before.

Interesting, I learned something new today :D

a font that’s free for personal use called “Cute Pixel”