i think Gemini might be the best foldable UX app I’ve ever used

this is NOT about the app itself, but how it works on a big screen, I’m imagining that the fact that samsung partnered with them on this some galaxy ai stuff helped sweeten the deal

gmail has never worked right tho lol

you can open the drawer, and it squeezes the chat to arouns 60% of the screen, which is what I think is the best ratio, and you can close it, letting the chat take over, and this is all responsive

but agatha that sounds really simple! yes, and it makes me wonder why more apps don’t work this well lol

in reply to witch_t *navi

@navi yeah, most apps have them permanently there, with the chat taking 60-50% of the screen
for some stuff, this is not a problem at all, the Settings are split in half, and i think this works perfectly, I don’t need my settings to use all inches

a chat tho? i do
discord works like gemini too but it’s a little more jank in my opinion, tho miles ahead of the others who force the chat list to always be there

in reply to witch_t *navi

@navi i had to censor stuff a bit, but here is my problem
i want to be able to close that chat list, i rarely need a chat lit WITH PREVIEWS on all the time, it’s taking up space that i could use on the chat, having the same drawer system that opens/closes would’ve solved this

teams is the worst one because it’s 50/50, and 50% of the Z Fold 5 is not good enough for chat imo

in reply to agatha

*oh* I know your pain even without a foldable

my laptop is a 13" 16:10 with a 1440p, so i need to scale the desktop by 2x so things are readable

and it's a laptop, so when i do work on it, i want to open two windows and split things in half

but stuff like whatsapp web or cinny or discord desktop, don't allow me to hide away the channel list, so i only get a sliver of actual chat, while the side bar is stuck there for no reason

or i can zoom in by one tick in the browser, and that switches those apps to the mobile version, but by doing so i lose the sidebar all together and need to navigate between two pages, the channel page and the chat page, like in a phone

the only solution is to dedicate a workspace for the chat programs and switch to it, but that suuucks so much

why can't those things figure out that a toggleable sidebar is just better for anything that is not traditional smartphone

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Building new bridges between previously siloed knowledge domains: political, biological, digital, ecological and queer dimensions of planetary health.

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“We Can’t Have Greece Become a Playground For IDF Soldiers": Israeli Tourists Traveling to Greek Islands Met With Pro-Palestine Protests dropsitenews.com/p/greece-prot…

Statt sich um die wirklichen Probleme des Stromsystems zu kümmern, fällt der Wirtschaftsministerin nur ein, die Förderung privater Photovoltaik zu stoppen.#SolarstromPhotovoltaik #Stromnetze,Stromsystem #Eigenverbrauch,Prosumer,Balkonkraftwerke #Tacheles #KatherinaReiche #Tacheles,CarolinDähling!
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🎵 Στολίστηκαν οι ξένοι τραπεζίτες
ξυρίστηκαν οι Έλληνες μεσίτες
Εφτά ο τόκος πέντε το φτιασίδι
σαράντα με το λάδι και το ξύδι

Κι αυτός που πίστευε και καρτερούσε
βουβός φαρμακωμένος στέκει και θωρεί
τη λευτεριά που βγαίνει στο σφυρί 🎶

Ωραία να φτιαχνει ο καιρός, γυρίζουμε στις συνηθισμένες ασχολίες 😛

Hey people who know a lot about #adhesives (surely some of you do?):

I want to put a little square of tape on my laptop's touchpad to denote the "middle-click" region. I tried duct-tape, but the glue is melting and the edges are peeling up.

Any suggestions for the right kind of sticky tape to use on an aluminum surface that often gets moderately hot, and will be pressed down by my thumb hundreds (thousands?) of times every day?

in reply to Cory Doctorow

I don't know a lot about adhesives, but I've done something similar: marking the home keys on a keyboard.

What I used was 3d-paint intended for blind people.

braillebookstore.com/3D-Paint,…

(Amusing that this particular item is 3d *glitter* paint, because I'm guessing if you're blind the glitter doesn't do much for you)

I don't know if 3d paint would adhere to the trackpad, but there may be other / better options from that store. Or just ask your visually impaired readers.

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Office workers - Has anyone here convinced their boss to let them install a Linux distro on their work desktop?


Going from Windows to Linux then back to windows sucks.

Edit; Going through the comments it seems it doesn’t matter so long as IT supports the operating system, which is fair, in my scenario I’m not involved with our systems-management/IT/developers unless it’s an update to the software we use.

My desktop at work is still Windows 10 and while it works, kinda, my keyboard shortcuts are almost entirely different, I’ve encountered numerous moments where switching tab either by alt-tabbing or by the taskbar not working at all forcing me to minimize everything till I find that tab, couple times it wouldn’t even boot.

I started unplugging the Ethernet cable when I leave for work so IT can’t do any behind the scenes when I’m away.

I dredd the day they force a win 11 desktop on me.

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in reply to ohshit604

I've been thinking about swapping my work laptop to Linux too.

The difference is I'm in IT and I know what all things I need to put on my computer to make it compliant with all our policies and all the software I need to do my job.

I've been experimenting by running some Linux VMs with all the EDR, patching, and logging software we need. But by the time I'm doing all that, there's really no point in using Linux except for the CLI which WSL has been great for that.

@Tfmonkey something's been on my mind lately, I recall you saying ur fav FNV faction is House, but what's your fav star wars faction? Mine is the CIS. My fav FNV faction is House as well btw. Plus my fav F4 faction is the institute, which is yours as well if I recall. I figured I'd ask and see if we have fav star wars factions in common too LOL even though star wars is sadly a dead IP I could't help but wonder what your fav SW faction is. It'd be interesting to know.

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Seleção Brasileira Feminina de Vôlei Sub-23

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A medalha de ouro é nossa!!!🥇

A seleção feminina de novos sub-23 venceu o México por 3 sets a 0 (25/23, 25/19 e 25/14) na final dos Jogos Pan-Americanos Junior, em Assunção, e se sagrou campeã de forma invicta.

#ASU2025 #PanJunior2025 #SeleçãodeVôleiFemininoSub23
#VôleiBrasil2025 #TimeBrasilJunior

The Document Foundation @tdforg warns about Microsoft intentionally making the Open Document format too complex in order to extinguish the competition cc @pluralistic blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
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Wie jetzt bekannt wurde war der Internationale Strafgerichtshof als Karim Khan vorübergehend sein Amt als Chefermittler niedergelegt hat, schon komplett fertig mit dem Antrag auf Haftbefehle für #Smotrich und #BenGvir.

Der Antrag wurde aber nicht eingereicht. Die Befürchtung besteht, dass der #ICC vor dem umfassenden Druck der Kriminellen aus Israel und ihrer Verbündeten dieser einfach stillschweigend auf irgendeinem Schreibtisch liegen gelassen wird.

middleeasteye.net/news/icc-arr…

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“Ireland produces nine times more beef and dairy output than it consumes. Because of this it has an unusual greenhouse gas emissions profile, with a far higher share of methane emissions than most other countries.” #Ireland #ClimateEmergency www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

Row over 'temperature neutrali...

IRAN. La cour suprême confirme la condamnation à mort d’une syndicaliste kurde
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"IRAN. La condamnation à mort de la syndicaliste kurde Sharifeh Mohammadi a été confirmée par la Cour suprême iranienne. Elle pourrait être exécutée à tout moment. Amir Raisian, un avocat de la défense, a déclaré que la branche 39 de la Cour suprême iranienne, qui avait précédemment annulé la

this won't feel good to read, but you should read it anyways. 972mag.com/israel-gaza-journal…

a unit tasked with finding excuses for the crimes-- and they don't even care that the excuses are horseshit, because they know we're all too chicken shit to intervene in any meaningful way

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Belarus government contacts with White House, U.S. Department of State in spotlight eng.belta.by/politics/view/bel…

This morning, I woke up with a jolt, asking myself: Is this real, or a nightmare where justice dies and Ukrainian lives mean nothing? A world where death stalks every street in Ukraine, and the monster who brings it, Putin, struts down a red carpet to applause. My soul screams in agony—and the Overton window creaks open, letting this madness seep into what we accept.

TURQUIE. Les mères du samedi demandent justice pour Salim Acar
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"TURQUIE – Aujourd’hui, lors de leur 1064e veillée, les Mères du Samedi ont demandé justice pour Mehmet Salim Acar, un paysan kurde porté disparu de force après être kidnappé par des paramilitaires turcs à Diyarbakir il y a 31 ans. Les Mères du samedi, qui se rassemblent chaque semaine place Galatasaray pour réclamer le sort

"Eine Gruppe von Fachleuten glaubt, dass das Unendliche der Wissenschaft schadet und man es in der Mathematik nicht benötigt. Die Idee findet zunehmend Anhänger"

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#mathematik #unendlichkeit

in reply to M. Neifer

@howlingmad, ist er auch, aber das mit dem Unendlich ist auch eine ziemlich verrückte Sache, weil es nicht nur ein einziges Unendlich gibt in der Mathematik, sondern unendlich verschiedene, was auch recht einfach zu verstehen ist.
Zum Beispiel Zalenreihen
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 .... bilden eine unendliche Anzahl von ganzen Zahlen, aber eine Reihe von ungraden Zahlen bilden eine unendliche Anzahl, genauso wie alle Bruchzahlen zwischen 0 und 1 sind auch unendlich viele, usw. Das heisst aber das Unendlich in Mathematik unerlässlich ist um solche Sachen ausdrücken zu können, aber in der Praxis, also in der Physik werden sie Sinnlos, dort gibt es kein Unendlich.

ROJAVA. Des gangs ouïghours installés dans les maisons kurdes d’Afrin
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"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Les combattants ouïghours et leurs familles ont été installés dans des maisons kurdes d’Afrin, dont la population a été chassé par l’invasion turque en 2018. Cette initiative fait suite à d’importants changements démographiques depuis l’offensive de l’Armée nationale syrienne (ANS / SNA) en

Cuddling my elderly cat, a little heartbroken as a friend prepares to rehome his furball due to unforeseen circumstances.

I got my grandma cat when she was 11 years old, and she is 16 now (an age where every day is a blessing).

Adopting an elderly cat is not the most popular or easiest choice, but now is the time to remind folks that it is still worth it despite the short years.

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

As Trump and Putin meet, new evidence that 'Russian interference' was US intel deception aaronmate.net/p/as-trump-and-p…

KURDISTAN. Un responsable du Rojava reçu par Barzani
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"KURDISTAN – Le coprésident du Conseil démocratique syrien (CDS), Mahmoud al-Maslat, a rencontré Massoud Barzani, président du Parti démocratique du Kurdistan, pour discuter des développements politiques dans la région et en Syrie en particulier. Masoud Barzani, président du Parti démocratique du Kurdistan, a reçu samedi Mahmoud al-Maslat,

Frankly I never understood where this myth that #datacenters consume so much #water came from. It's certainly not based in reality. Even the data centers that use chilled-water for air conditioning and cooling use a closed-loop system. This notion that data centers consume vasts quantities of water just simply makes no sense. ---

SYRIE. Les FDS libèrent leurs combattants kidnappés par DAECH à Deir ez-Zor
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"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Les forces arabo-kurdes ont libéré hier quatre combattants kidnappés par DAECH à Deir ez-Zor la veille. Les Forces démocratiques syriennes (FDS) ont annoncé vendredi soir que le Conseil militaire de Deir ez-Zor avait réussi à libérer quatre de ses combattants qui avaient été enlevés

How many OTHER lies did this fkn jew tell?
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Former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler admitted Thursday that he was “completely wrong” to label the COVID lab leak theory as “doubtful” in 2020, conveniently coming clean five years later after recently leaving the publication.
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