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Return to slide rule. Got us to the moon.
You learn a lot of interesting things in flight school. One of those things is how to use an E6B “flight computer.” Don’t let the name fool you, it’s not some high-tech device. It’s a circular slide rule.
I always start looking into buying one, but remember that I already have one in my pocket and I usually use it to verify simple stuff like that 3+5 does indeed equal 8.
I find that it’s almost equal parts privacy related and just the want to reduce technology in my life now.
Mmm, calcGPT
Thanks for your recommendation man but I’m using GrapheneOS
I mean, that’s de-Googled Android, which is in significant part what F-Droid is aimed at. Surely F-Droid works on that, and both OpenCalc and maxima are on that.
kagis
Yeah:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrapheneOS
In March 2022, writing for How-To Geek Joe Fedewa said that Google apps were not included due to concerns over privacy, and GrapheneOS also did not include a default app store. Instead, Fedewa suggested, F-Droid could be used.[5]
I kind of figured that everyone using the de-Googled Android things was using F-Droid.
EDIT: Didn’t link to the F-Droid maxima page.
I don’t use F-Droid it has many security flaws
Source: trust me bro
That’s the problem with Graphene OS. The culture spreads misinformation.
What do u use then? Surly u don’t compile every apk from source?
What if I compile from source?
How do u have time for anything else?
maybe I don’t care with my life in this world anymore so I’m using my last days doing useless things
You could also just download the apk from their github
Aight, fair enough, if you don’t consider the software on there hardened enough.
What part of it? The app itself? There are alternative clients. The protocol? It’s made for people to host app repos, not to ensure everything hosted in an F-Droid compatible repo is safe. The fact that reproducible builds arenct enforced? There’s always a gap where you’re trusting a third party unless you’re building everything from source yourself.
It’s the android equivalent of a package manager.
F-Droid is like any other place you get apps and programs to run on one of your devices: caveat emptor. At least all packages are open source so you can review yourself.
This is as absurd as saying you don’t use linux because someone could typosquat a fake repo or app through the package manager.
OK but I rather not use, my device, my rules
I’m fine with actual engineers running tech companies, because most enshittification is done by the business management degree carriers.
??? Wasn’t Wolfram alpha one of the first publicly available programs on the Internet using “AI”???
They kind of legitimately do have a reason to want to do natural language processing of some form, because they’ve got a lot of useful functionality in Mathematica that you have to have specialized knowledge of syntax to access.
Interesting!
Suppose computer code of any kind can result in an enjoyable UX. But suppose it’s 95% “AI” bandwagoners aggravatingly cramming it in to check a box, and they ain’t got Apple budgets:
(Can’t do that automagic handwriting to math w/o some serious… machine learning or whatnot, but more importantly implementation’s thoughtful)
source
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That’s what I’m saying it’s one of the best uses for AI we have and one of the most long-lasting.
