Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android
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I’m beautiful and tough like a diamond…or beef jerky in a ball gown.
I’ve been rocking a Minimal Phone for about 6 or 7 months now, and man am I excited to have options for QWERTY phones again.
QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year
QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year - Star Trek Website
After dying a painful death at the hand of the iPhone’s revolutionary capacitive touchscreen, the QWERTY smartphone is rising up from the graveyard this year. Whether it’s nostalgia for a physical keyboard, frustration at iOS’s ever-worsening software keyboard, or just plain boredom with glass slabs, companies are rebooting QWERTY phones this year for some reason. At CES 2026: - Clicks, the company behind the Clicks keyboard case and the new Power Keyboard, announced plans to sell the Communicator, a “second phone” with a QWERTY keypad - Unihertz also teased a new phone with a physical keyboard. The Titan 2 Elite seems to be a less gimmicky version of the Titan 2, which itself was a BlackBerry Passport knockoff but with a bizarre square screen on the backside. Either way, two QWERTY phone announcements in this still very new year suggest there may be some kind of trend. Maybe after 19 years of the iPhone and touchscreens defining the mobile experience, it’s time to go back to the physical keyboard and its more tactile typing.
[Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work
[Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work - Star Trek Website
The line between a Linux user and a Linux power user is a bit gray, and a bit wide. Most people who install Linux already have more computer literacy than average, and the platform has long encouraged experimentation and construction in a way macOS and Windows generally aren’t designed for. Traditional Linux distributions often ask more of their users as well, requiring at least a passing familiarity with the terminal and the operating system’s internals especially once something inevitably breaks. In recent years, however, a different design philosophy has been gaining ground. Immutable Linux distributions like Fedora Silverblue, openSUSE MicroOS, and NixOS dramatically reduce the chances an installation behaves erratically by making direct changes to the underlying system either impossible or irrelevant. SteamOS fits squarely into this category as well. While it’s best known for its console-like gaming mode it also includes a fully featured Linux desktop, which is a major part of its appeal and the reason I bought a Steam Deck in the first place. For someone coming from Windows or macOS, this desktop provides a familiar, fully functional environment: web browsing, media playback, and other basic tools all work out of the box. As a Linux power user encountering an immutable desktop for the first time, though, that desktop mode wasn’t quite what I expected. It handles these everyday tasks exceptionally well, but performing the home sysadmin chores that are second nature to me on a Debian system takes a very different mindset and a bit of effort.
Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard
Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard - Star Trek Website
The project is still cool, but it’s a custom Android launcher with an LCARS theme with the actions being handled by Tasker. What I really want, and if anyone has any links to resources please share, is an LCARS interface for HomeAssistant. Technically HA could be plumbed into this project, but I’d prefer a web UI to a custom launcher so I could use it in multiple rooms without having to custom-configure specific tablets.
old.reddit.com is overrated and 2021-era "new" Reddit was better
old.reddit.com is overrated and 2021-era "new" Reddit was better - Star Trek Website
“Old Reddit” was fine when it was all there was but the “new” UI was better and easier to follow. When I say “new” I mean circa 2020-2023 not whatever they’re doing now which looks awful. And by better I mean the look, feel, and UX and ignoring the shit video player and tracking code.
