Tmpfs Adding Case Insensitive Support For Wine / Steam Play & Flatpaks

[Quackdoc]

And end up doing 4 times as much correction work as speech to text finds creative ways to stuff you over.

https://flathub.org/apps/net.mkiol.SpeechNote

There are some quite good speech to text options for Linux Quackdoc but all of them have the issue of all the traps of English.

I did professional dictation work at one point using the court reporters machine. So I learnt all the creative stuff-ups even a human could end up with and it be English.language not exact being at fault. Hopefully you are not setting your speech to text bar unreasonably high.

I tried speech note, but I find it slow, and needing to copy paste everything sucks a lot. Whisper in general is phenomenal though, I use it on my phone all the time via FUTO's voice to text, I am aware of how well it performs, it just needs to be more ergonomic for me to use. But I use it as my primary form of typing on my phone in most cases.

That's a bizarre answer.

I have RSI and typing hurts like a bitch, the later in the day, the more it hurts. I just woke up so it's fine now, but in an hour or two, it will be sore, at the end of the day i will be popping 2 extra strength ibuprofen.

[skeevy420]

That's a bizarre answer.

Develop wrist issues where pinky stretches become difficult and you'll find you'll start omitting those kinds of modifier keys. IMHO, I think that Quackdoc should look into those split spacebar keyboards. I think something like that could be a game changer for people that have difficulty getting to the modifier keys from home row. It sucks that the ones from System76 cost so damn much.

toves You made me curious so I had to look it up.

The rules around capitalization are a recent Western development. Recent meaning the 1800s.

Historically, Romans used what we'd recognize as capitalized letters chiseled into slate and stone. When writing on paper become common, the Romans wrote in what we'd consider to be lowercase because those lettering shapes are easier to write as cursive. Block letters are easier to carve while rounded, smaller letters are easier to write. That's the origin of having both upper and lower cased letters.

After the downfall of Rome, various Western scribes used either all caps or all lower when writing. Scribes in Western society didn't start mixing upper and lower case until around 800 to 1000 years ago. When we did start writing with upper and lower cases together it was used in the style like a Donald Trump twitter post or the US Constitution. Capitalization was used for emphasis, style, and occasionally at the start of sentences. There was no standardization behind how and where upper or lower cases were used until the 1800s.

Most Eastern languages have the single case. There is no upper or lower case.

Oh, and they're called upper and lower case because the letters were stored in the upper and lower cases, storage compartments, of the first printing presses.

[Quackdoc]

Develop wrist issues where pinky stretches become difficult and you'll find you'll start omitting those kinds of modifier keys. IMHO, I think that Quackdoc should look into those split spacebar keyboards. I think something like that could be a game changer for people that have difficulty getting to the modifier keys from home row. It sucks that the ones from System76 cost so damn much.

toves You made me curious so I had to look it up.

The rules around capitalization are a recent Western development. Recent meaning the 1800s.

Historically, Romans used what we'd recognize as capitalized letters chiseled into slate and stone. When writing on paper become common, the Romans wrote in what we'd consider to be lowercase because those lettering shapes are easier to write as cursive. Block letters are easier to carve while rounded, smaller letters are easier to write. That's the origin of having both upper and lower cased letters.

After the downfall of Rome, various Western scribes used either all caps or all lower when writing. Scribes in Western society didn't start mixing upper and lower case until around 800 to 1000 years ago. When we did start writing with upper and lower cases together it was used in the style like a Donald Trump twitter post or the US Constitution. Capitalization was used for emphasis, style, and occasionally at the start of sentences. There was no standardization behind how and where upper or lower cases were used until the 1800s.

Most Eastern languages have the single case. There is no upper or lower case.

Oh, and they're called upper and lower case because the letters were stored in the upper and lower cases, storage compartments, of the first printing presses.

I thought about getting them, at one point I had a microsoft split keyboard but it was a fairly low quality one, all of the ones of decent quality seem to be out of budget for now, i've also been thinking about looking into getting a custom made one.

[skeevy420]

I thought about getting them, at one point I had a microsoft split keyboard but it was a fairly low quality one, all of the ones of decent quality seem to be out of budget for now, i've also been thinking about looking into getting a custom made one.

Same here. What little searching I've done regarding keyboards with space bar modifiers keeps coming up with tiny 60% keyboards that I don't like or full size keyboards that are 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of a new GPU or camera lens. $200+ is just too damn much to put a shift key under my thumb.

I've often wondered how much it would cost to prototype and sell a budget functional and ergonomic keyboard. It's keyboard technology. Reinventing the wheel. It's the same thing plus 2 to 4 buttons. The average spacebar holds (5) 1.25u keys (alt/ctrl sized). Those could be used for space, backspace, shift, enter, or ??? all without leaving the home row. IMHO, that's better all the way around. Better ergonomics and it should result in faster typing due to less stretching needed for the most common functions.

[discordian]

imho adding case-insensitivity to the overlayfs would make more sense.
install a game/wine environment once on you normal filesystem then just use that (or even turn it into an erofs) - optionally with some filesystem layers (caches and states). should be alot leaner to backup saves and whatever else the user worked on.


kinda like docker-for-games

[Weasel]

The number of times in my life that I've really wanted a bunch of files in a folder with the same name but different casing has been zero.

Because it's slow as shit. Not just raw CPU power, but hashing lookups as well (you have to check a lot more).

There's a reason a git add -A and commit on Linux is 500x faster than on Windows on large repos.

It's not about you wanting case sensitivity, it's about having an efficient and sane lookup.

[szymon_g]

Develop wrist issues where pinky stretches become difficult and you'll find you'll start omitting those kinds of modifier keys. IMHO, I think that Quackdoc should look into those split spacebar keyboards. I think something like that could be a game changer for people that have difficulty getting to the modifier keys from home row. It sucks that the ones from System76 cost so damn much.

toves You made me curious so I had to look it up.

The rules around capitalization are a recent Western development. Recent meaning the 1800s.

Historically, Romans used what we'd recognize as capitalized letters chiseled into slate and stone. When writing on paper become common, the Romans wrote in what we'd consider to be lowercase because those lettering shapes are easier to write as cursive. Block letters are easier to carve while rounded, smaller letters are easier to write. That's the origin of having both upper and lower cased letters.

After the downfall of Rome, various Western scribes used either all caps or all lower when writing. Scribes in Western society didn't start mixing upper and lower case until around 800 to 1000 years ago. When we did start writing with upper and lower cases together it was used in the style like a Donald Trump twitter post or the US Constitution. Capitalization was used for emphasis, style, and occasionally at the start of sentences. There was no standardization behind how and where upper or lower cases were used until the 1800s.

Most Eastern languages have the single case. There is no upper or lower case.

Oh, and they're called upper and lower case because the letters were stored in the upper and lower cases, storage compartments, of the first printing presses.

Paper wasn't used in Europe by the times Western roman empire was still a thing.
Most common use of writing done back then was on the wood planks covered with wax, and with a stylus. There were no majuscule or minuscule letters, no spaces between the words, and the flow side was changing quite often.
And yeah many writing systems (not necessarily alphabets) don't have Lowe and upper cases at all. Or have them but they work way different then what westerners are used to

[oiaohm]

Paper wasn't used in Europe by the times Western roman empire was still a thing.
Most common use of writing done back then was on the wood planks covered with wax, and with a stylus. There were no majuscule or minuscule letters, no spaces between the words, and the flow side was changing quite often.
And yeah many writing systems (not necessarily alphabets) don't have Lowe and upper cases at all. Or have them but they work way different then what westerners are used to

Close you are right paper was not a thing in Europe by the times of the Weston roman empire. Vellum we have documents of that from the 5 century BC on that stuff. Papyrus is another item used in Europe before paper. Quill and ink was used in paper like items in Europe well before Europe had paper.

There are examples of quill and ink on wood planks that were not covered in wax. Yes those old quill and inks are like our modern day permanent markers being found on all kinds of things.

The most expensive version of paper like item record in Europe that predates paper is something insane. Take a block of timber and blade and proceed to basically spin it against the blade to make a wide like pencil shaving to get your scroll of writing wood. Yes lets skip the wood pulp process and have something way more fragile of course once paper turns up this completely disappears because paper is a way better product that made from a waste product instead of insanely perfect work. There are other records of writing on big leaves and so on..

Yes there is a lot of quill and ink usage before paper in Europe and a lot of precursor items to paper..

The writing styles on the precursors to paper for quill and ink usage in Europe have all the letting/writing issues you describe as well.

szymon wax on wood planks is like the historic version of us with pencil on paper where it something expected to be written over. Quill Ink on planks or carved in more long term solution and more expensive. This is a case there is more than one way to skin the cat. Quill and ink seamed to be one those things that like the saying you have hammer everything you see looks like a nail. A person had quill and ink and everything possible looked like a writing surface. Quill and ink are not highly complex items to make basic ones.

[curfew]

If you go back to CP/M the complete file system had no concept of lower case letters.

Irrelevant. Choose one casing and stick to it. Mixed casing is never a good idea. New code doesn't have anything to do with old operating systems, and regardless it doesn't explain the decision to use mixed casing.

[ssokolow]

Irrelevant. Choose one casing and stick to it. Mixed casing is never a good idea. New code doesn't have anything to do with old operating systems, and regardless it doesn't explain the decision to use mixed casing.

Probably a project with multiple programmers (some "programmers" possibly being copy-pasted code snippets) where some use all lowercase because it's nost visually pleasing in a single-case naming scheme (hence UNIX's decision to use it), some might (if retro-nostalgic) use all-uppercase because it's evocative of 8-bit micros which had no support for lowercase and chose to support uppercase only, and some use CamelCase because it's closest to Title Case and, thus, looks nicest when viewed in Explorer or Finder.

...and because there's no really solid way to lint for/deny that at build time (especially for mod-making) without just porting the thing to a case-sensitive OS you may not normally run, it just passes into releases.