Michael Crichton's "Timeline" (1999) says hello.

Keep digging, you'll find eyeglasses and Jeep tracks, I'm sure.

I absolutely love and support your use of misplet.

You seem knowledgeable in this matter, so let me ask you: is this harmful to humans? What is the harm of this watermelon virus?

Ohh, Rankine, thank you! I only remembered Rheamur - there you go. 😊

... Like what is not a very common skill? Touch typing in general? Or doing it under VR specifically?

• The latter would be quite niche I suppose.
• The former? I cry for the current and future generations. It really is not very hard to learn, realistic to master, and incredibly useful in daily (professional and personal) life.

Hey, that sounds very interesting. It's there anything not working as it should work that hw/sw combo?

Honestly, this is the most heartening thing I've read about US politics in recent years. (PS. Am not American, and not in America)

Asking because I've never had the experience: how does one write anything while wearing a VR set? Please don't tell me it's one-finger "Fliegender Adler" on a giant floaty image of a keyboard?

This would utterly kill the comfort, convenience, and speed of touch typing, would it not? Ahh, progress... Even in Minority Report they had (friggin' sweet-looking!) keyboards alongside their fancy futuristic FAUI*.

^((* FAUI - flailing arms UI)^)

New fear worry unlocked....

Seems like this was done by working out passwords based on figuring out where people were looking and gesturing, rather than looking directly at the keyboard.

As a person using an uncommon keyboard layout, I reckon this would make it harder to hack my typing.

IF I could even get such a layout on wherever VR system I would theoretically be using... 😬

I understand what you say about needing to render every frame, but it's possible to use a very slow frame rate for the gif (eg. 1 frame every 2s).

Are they evil attack squirrels of death? If so, one should be plenty.

The special hell.

I'm honestly pleasantly surprised to see that this project seems to be rather actively developed.

Which is completely separate from having a meaningful user base (near you), so 🤷

I'm with you, but see a million obstacles (aka. reasons for why things require payments).

You would need some form of moderation, to weed out illegal content as well as simply bots, spam, and dead profiles. Also for message content. I've given it some thought and suspect it can be crowd sourced to some degree, but also needs counter balances. Instead of limiting a profile to be live/banned, you could have a percentage score of peer-reported subjective legitimacy (ditto for message responses, heck you could even have a section of outright reviews of the person's behaviour - although that, again would be subject to abuse and moderation).

Hosting, traffic, etc. would be an unavoidable cost, but can be mitigated with low resolution photos (VGA should be "good enough" for an initial impression, no?)

For sure, an open source solution would offer way more fine grained filtering.

Even if it is eventually exposed as a hoax - that is, not as old as claimed or from a different or untrustworthy source - that works make the book no less of an impressive accomplishment and global mind fuck! 🤯 Whatever it really is, it's a win.

You know, if you want to replace Slack, look into Mattermost. It's foss but otherwise pretty much exactly what Slack does so well.

She got eaten by a grue.

Sorry about the surprise prussians. I was never any good at typing on glass, I much prefer an actual keyboard.

The way your comment reads, you've been using Windows 3.11 these past decades. 😂

Dune II - basically the grandfather of every RTS game out there (and incidentally very, very different from Dune I): opposing forces, resource collection, tech tree, fog of war, et cetera. Or perhaps it was (not World of) Warcraft, it's been too long and memory gets fuzzy.

You bought forty types of breakfast?? I don't think I've done that throughout my life.

This seems to be the same version as the OpenBoard through the Play store, so... same?

I did not think Adam Savage had that kind of money to throw around, to be honest...

(that's a joke; the article does not state the identity of the buyer)

I'm testing with the fastest model on a OnePlus 10 Pro, and speaking 3-4 words incurs a wait time of several seconds, way longer than simply typing them out would take.

Man, you are working really late.

Thank you for this (repeated) question! I will try some of these and collate my experiences.

• SwiftKey

Long-time fan, in spite of privacy concerns. My bar for comparing everything below.

• FUTO

First install, looks promising.

Indeed very customisable. What I don't like is the (imho) far inferior swipe typing and the need to explicitly switch languages for the keyboard to use the appropriate dictionary. Also, I miss directional buttons for those single-character position adjustments (Futo only offers space-key swiping). Voice typing seems highlighted but I find it to be unbearably slow.

Verdict: will most likely uninstall again.

• OpenBoard

Installation somehow defaulted to "English (Australia)", but no biggie.

Seems very customisable also, but lacks swipe typing (a deal beaker for me). Relies on the OS language (actually, keyboard) switcher and curiously lacks a shortcut to its settings (requiring the user to go so the rest through the Settings app (which, best-case, is a whopping 5 taps).

Verdict: privacy aside, cannot compete with SwiftKey for features and usability.

• Florisboard

Strainghtforward installation. Seems extremely customisable. No swiping nor autocomplete but both festures are clearly promised for a future release.

Verdict: apart from features promised in the future, thus seems an excellent keyboard.

• Heliboard

Straightforward installation. Language selection included a github redirect to manually download dictionary, which was semi nice.

Proper big-keyed numerical keyboard. Also extremely customisable. Space-key swiping even supports vertical movement.

Verdict: apart from lack of swipe typing, probably the best contender!

• Graffiti

Included because I friggin' loved it back in the day. The (to my knowledge) only app offering graffiti input is badly broken and crashes immediately on modern Android versions. I remember it working quite well on earlier versions, but that was years ago.

Needs more pixels. No seriously, this looks like a screen shot from Leisure Suit Larry I in glorious VGA.

Well then it's good there are so many curves here....?

Well it goes away after you stop being an adult. Close enough?

An actor pulling out of a movie five days before shooting leaves a lot of people on the hook. According to an inside source with knowledge of the film’s finances, multiple stakeholders on the Haynes project — from financiers to crew — still need to be compensated.

Weird (and, from the producer's side, careless) that lead actors can do this with apparently zero consequences - at least the article is mum on whether Phoenix will be on the hook for any of that bill.

Yup, plus don't get coworkers "just needing my screen for a quick thing". Win win!

Keep in mind, your voice sounds quite different to others than it does to you (because of conductance within your skull). So, unless you have a same-sex twin, would you even recognise the voice as your own?

We're not bad with numbers, just at naming them. 😉 But that's why we pretty much always use abbreviations.

Abbreviations. Of numbers. Don't think about it. 😅

I'm just sad and it's nobody's responsibility but my own to cheer me up.

But also no, if it's capsized, the boat may right itself in time before it floods to a point where it sinks.

A fully submerged boat will not bob to the surface. The keel adds stability and (counter)weight, but negative buoyancy - what keeps the boat afloat is the air in the hull.

Once it's fully submerged, there's nothing pulling it up (unless you have some seriously good (and closed!) hatches...

Death trap at the right side with the dip in the yellow/orange/maroon pipe. Yay drowning!

May your toilet paper forever tear lengthwise.

I used to joke that the last Mac I used was the first one they made that had colour - I've used every Mac from the seminal one up to and including the Color Classic (MacOS 1 up to 7) - but my last job gave me a MacBook. I was curious about it since I've seen many a coworker love them, but I soon found myself hating the damn thing so much that I ended up installing the work tools on my own Linux-laden ThinkPad.

Used to be, they were fast and no nonsense, simply effective and efficient work horses. No doubt they still are, but it was fighting med in everything I wanted it to do. What do you mean "there's no way to mount a USB stick on MACOS"?!

Hardware wise they're still brilliant wrt. power and battery life, but getting a 2nd (or, gasp, even 3rd) monitor to work with it? Yikes what a shit show that was. Truly a walled garden, I stand by my usual words of "they're excellent machines if you want to use them exactly as Apple intended."

...sorry for going off track. So, back in the day. There was MacWrite, MacPaint, Aldus PageMaker (which, then, was way more useful for actual publishing work than after the Adobe take-over), and a ton of games! Granted, you only had 512*whatever in pure black and white, but it was crisp and the games had excellent sound. Pinball Construction Set had 4-voice digital sound and flawless physics (hmm, except I don't actually remember if it had a Tilt feature). Oh yeah, add in AppleTalk which blew Novell and Windows for Workgroups plain out of the water. The ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) connector predates PS/2 and curiously allowed a Mac to have any number of keyboards and two mice connected, something we made good use of when gaming.

There was the ImageWriter which could do plain copy paper rather than Leparello paper and had exquisite resolution compared to the clunky 8-pin DOS offerings. Really, the Mac SE and the ImageWriter II are, in my mind, the pinnacle of industrial design - at least of the 80s era.

Thanks for reading all that. You should go have a look at folklore.org if you're interested in stories from the inside.

Eeeeeeevv.
Eeeeevveh.
Eeeevehh?
Eeeeeeeeevvv.

Don't tell me you didn't read that in his voice.

It's astounding how Pixar is able to imbue such emotion in tin cans. One of the best movies they've made, imho.

Cars should just come with a big open socket up front, where I can buy (or build) my own infotainment system to install there.

...which is precisely what we used to have, before auto makers decided to insist that they should be enclosed in a swooping dash.