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Google's Gboard completes "i want t" with "to" and "the" for me.

Which is the better option now. But the one he's talking about is the OG windows phone swipe keyboard which would predict next word almost like from a LLM these days. For that reason, you can swipe like a maniac but it'd still type the correct thing.

Apple keyboard is shit. Swype (the one Microsoft bought) is better but still shit. Gboard is ok. But none of them are close to that windows phone keyboard. I still miss it.


Google's keyboard is okay for English. It's a complete tire fire for two other languages I use (both popular and with a very large training data set).

Suggests words that make no sense, preferring rare words to much more widely used and obvious matching picks. Has the vocabulary of a poorly educated five year old idiot savant — fails to complete many words you use fifty times a day, but sometimes surprises you by suggesting something you'd hear a couple times per decade. Doesn't know other forms of the same word, forcing you to correct it manually over and over again, often failing to remember the word until you type it in four or five times.

Yes, I've downloaded all the dictionaries, tried it on many phones, and my friends are of the same opinion: it really is just bad.


I write in English and Spanish on it, and it seems the shittiness gets multiplied when you use a bilingual instead on monolingual layout. I've tried switching languages manually, but that sucks even more when writing Spanish with English technical terms sprinkled.

This is a patent case where IA made a function worse instead of better, yet companies clinged to it for some reason.


The S23 too was Snapdragon only, allegedly to let the Exynos team catch some breath and come up with something competitive for the following generation. Which they partly did, as the Exynos S24 is almost on par with its Snapdragon brother. A bit worse on photo and gaming performance, a bit better in web browsing, from the benchmarks I remember.

The container runs a virtual machine using the host kernel's KVM device. Windows is then automatically installed inside said virtual machine.

https://github.com/dockur/windows


Ah, that makes more sense (and learned about KVM today, thank you.)

So more accurately, it's Windows in a VM, and the VM host running in a container.


You might find the StackOverflow surveys more representative: they crown Windows as the most used OS, with a solid margin.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology/#1-computer-...


They fixed that. I can definitely connect remotely in an unattended way as long as I'm logged in locally.

These might have something to do with it:

https://develop.kde.org/docs/administration/portal-permissio...

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/krdp/-/merge_requests/102


For RDP, you've got KRDP and gnome-remote-desktop.

That "with a running session" bit greatly helps here. While GDM allows you to have remote login and headless sessions [1], with SDDM you're locked out for the moment. There's plans to turn SDDM into a KDE-powered, more featured plasma-login-manager with KRDP integration, but no concrete development yet [2].

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop

[2]: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager


Last time I tried krdp, it didn't fit my needs. I needed to have already started krdp locally if I want to connect remotely. Neither x11vnc nor freerdp-shadow have that limitation.


It is possible to start it on-demand via the command-line. That is how krdp is developed and tested. You will need to pre-authorize krdp to the portal system, though.

That's documented here: https://develop.kde.org/docs/administration/portal-permissio...


Hah, that actually works, thanks!

Is it possible to do the permission-set remotely?


If you can shell in, I don't see why not? It's a command-line thing. It's intended to also be usable for things like Ansible. If it doesn't work, please file bug reports!

Since Plasma 6.1 (june 2024) you get a system settings module where you can enable KRDP to run at login.

https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2024-06/krdp-plasma...

(I assumed being logged in is what you meant by having "a running session".)


It also does (or at least used to) mess with dates, due to it attempting to hide what time zone you're in.


The browser should reasonably know what time zone you're in and what time zone you're reporting to the website and translate between them automatically.


Yeah, "should". Too bad it's unfeasible. As soon as you e.g. print the current date as part of a paragraph somewhere, the browser loses track of it, and the website can just read the element's content and parse it back.


Support for rendering directly at the target resolution has been there for years, at least in major compositors such as KDE's KWin and GNOME's Mutter.

https://wayland.app/protocols/fractional-scale-v1


Local processing of privacy-sensitive data, that is: personal files and what is shown on screen. Just think about Recall.


Not mentioned: overtly vulgar in language.


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