Yeah I asked myself the same question yesterday. SDF doesn't seem to block anything but threads.net is nowhere to be seen in the list of allowed instances. I thought maybe a Lemmy server had a whitelist as well as a blacklist, and SDF takes the time to manually whitelist instances rather than allow everyone by default and blacklist the indesirables.
Pray tell, what possible benefit can Lemmy communities gain from Facebook users?
You do realize most people who joined the Fediverse did so because Facebook and the likes are a steaming pile of shit, right?
What possible benefit is there to the pile of shit coming to splatter itself here uninvited?
Once you try swiping to type, you never want to go back. And OpenBoard has Greek letters of course. Honestly, give it a spin - regardless of your problem with Jerboa: I bet you'll love it. Worst case, you'll have wasted 10 minutes installing it, trying it out without success and uninstalling it 🙂
I use Jerboa with zero problems. My keyboard is OpenBoard with Gesture Typing (similar to Swype) and I have none of the issues you report.
It's not just a matter of blocking Threads users.
Facebook is coming on here to slurp up data I don't want them to have, and enriching their own Threads ecosystem with Fediverse content they haven't lifted a finger to create.
Not to mention, when Threads users are able to fully interact in the Fediverse, do you really want that particular bunch to create noise in your communities? I don't. There's a reason why I avoid Facebook in all its forms.
Great.
I joined the Fediverse to escape Facebook's toxic interpretation of communities, so Facebook is coming to the Fediverse instead.
Just great...
And he can’t dismiss supreme court’s justices…
But he can have them wasted now.
Ths SCOTUS is a corrupt MAGA outfit. Is anyone surprised?
That's the justices who killed Roe v. Wade we're talking about, remember.
That is not the reason: Signai is very good but it's not the best. The reason why it's more popular is because it's good, ubiquitous and easy to install.
In other words, it's a well-known app you can confidently tell your computer idiot friends and family to install on their phone and start communicating with them 5 minutes later. What's what makes it popular.
Another person discovers that big tech has taken control of our computers without asking permission.
Well, your computers. I run Linux. It only does what I tell it to, not the other way round.
practice the shortcuts
You know, I used to think like that when I first learned Unix shell commands and vi. I shlepped through the learning process because I had to when I was a student. Then after graduation, I joined a Unix company so I was dragged deeper into it screaming and kicking, and I kept picking up more and more commands and shortcuts until they etched themselves deep into my muscle memory. At some point, it all stopped being a chore and it became second nature.
And it went like that for many other software I've used. Decades later, I get the payoff: I'm a fast engineer and the friction between what I want to do and the final result is very low despite working 90% of the time with the keyboard.
It was a pain to get there and it took a mighty long time, I'll be honest. but I reap the benefits now.
If I were you, I'd make the effort for that sort of thing. A couple of months tops: if you don't like it, you'll have wasted 2 months of your life. If you do, you'll have gained skills that will pay for your efforts for the rest of your life many times over.
I've had cracked skin on my fingers for many years, and I usually try to manage the problem with a bedazzling variety of moisturizing creams - with and without hydrocortisone - that seem to become less and less effective the more I use them.
But since I moved way up north a few years ago, and what with age and all, the problem has been getting exponentially worse. This winter, it's so bad that I went see the dermatologist for help.
He gave me a great piece of a advice that I'm passing along, because it also works wonders on my residual limbs' skin:
Get an air humidifier and don't let the humidity in your home drop below 35%.
It took a couple of week for the cracked skin on my fingers to finally heal. But also, to my surprise, my painful scars got better within 3 days. I wasn't expecting that! My scars are much less itchy and the skin around my residual toes is a lot more flexible, making walking genuinely less painful.
If you have skin problems on your residual limbs in the winter, try an air humidifier!
Winter is here, and typically I have problems with the cold. Not that my feet are terribly cold, but the skin tends to tighten around my residual toes and it hurts when I walk.
My solution? Heated socks - specifically the Lenz Heat Sock 5.0 socks.
You can buy the socks ($75 a pair in my area) and the battery packs + USB charger separately, or buy a complete kit with everything in the box.
They're not cheap, and you have to wash the socks by hand delicately, and avoid pulling too hard on them when you put them on. But they really do help with the cold.
Here's what my (old) pair looks like on my feet:
Each sock is connected to one battery pack at knee level, and then the sock is folded over the battery pack to hold everything in place.
The batteries have 3 heating levels, and they last 7 to 8 hours on low. On high, they're depleted in 2 or 3 hours, but they really do get hot: I cracked out the thermal camera and measured 110 degrees on top of my stumps (43 C) and 95 under my stumps (35 C).
And here's what that looks like on the thermal images:
If you have a foot amputation and you struggle with the cold, I highly recommend these socks.
And I think they might help you if you have a below-elbow amputation too, because a friend of mine with Reynaud's disease wears them on her hands and she swears by them too. She says it's lighter and more effective than the thick heated gloves sold for skiing, and she can wear thin mitts over them, which she prefers when it's not very cold outside.
She has the smallest size socks in the lineup, and they sure looks like they could work on a residual upper limb.
I normally practice traditional-style cross-country skiing: it's much easier on my feet than the skating style and it doesn't require as much lateral control (primer on traditional and skate skiing here).
But since last winter, I've been trying to make skating work for me. It's not easy though: controlling the skis is sketchy with shortened feet, and it really hurts when the boots put too much pressure on the side of my residual big toe bones.
For the upcoming season, I decided to make the time to go to my local XC ski specialist and try to find boots that work for me. Luckily for me, the nice store owner is very accommodating and didn't mind spending 3 hours going through his entire inventory to find something that would work for me.
And I did find a good pair: I got me very nice, stupendously expensive 2023 Madshus Race Pro Skate boots: they're wider than they look, the sides that press on my toe bones are fabric instead of hard plastic or some other inflexible material, and the boots are quite stiff - at least for someone with toes. I didn't mean to spend that much, but they really were the only pair that didn't hurt me and looked promising for better lateral control.
And then I proceeded to Dremel away and drill through my brand new, completely unused overpriced new boots ☹️ I installed stiffening bars under the soles so I can kick properly, but in this case, also control the skis adequately enough to avoid falling all the time.
Here is the result:
I used the same method to modify those shoes as the one I used on my old - much cheaper - traditional-style XC ski boots. But I didn't even have to bend the ends of the steel bars to install them on the Madshus boots, so it was quite a bit easier to do this time.
Still, it really hurts to pay that much money for a nice pair of boots and immediately take power tools to them. It sucks that I have to do this to enjoy myself on the track like everyone else.
Now that it's done, I'm happy that it went well and I can't wait for the first snow to come. But that moment when you start trashing brand new products, with no guarantee that you're not going to ruin them completely... boy that stings.
As soon as the snow comes - next Thursday according to the weather forecast - I'll know whether skating is hopeless or not for someone with no toes, and whether I spent half a biggie on something I'll never use again. Stay tuned 🙂
The most painless way to dual-boot is to install something that's not Windows alongside something else that's not Windows.