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[–] varsock@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

for speech recognition there is "futo voice" which not only works better than Google's speech talk-to-type by allowing the user to fluently speak, but it also works offline and doesn't upload voice recordings anywhere. You won't be able to use it with gboard because google will not allow the use of another talk-to-speech engine with gboard, you'll have to download another keyboard first.

mobile banking is an unnecessary luxary. Moving money around/paying CC biils often takes days to go through anyway so the urgency of "doing it now" mobily can wait until you're at your desktop.

Push notifications, I'll give you. Without any services some apps cannot recieve push notifications. As the other user suggested, using a pixel with grapheneos, you can install sandboxes google services or microG and then have full functionality.

On grapheneOS you can choose which apps have access to internet/data much more fine-grained that what google allows you.

[–] varsock@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

hey I'm right there with you. I didn't want to type out all the details but the customer didn't want to use any tools they had to "learn". All they wanted to do was be able to do is view a file structured similarly to CVS. View, filter, and sort alphabetically. This was like a subtask of a bigger project.

Bottom line is we were like "hey don't waste your money on this request, there are tons of tools that can do this"

Their response was essentially "we contracted you, you guys figure it out." LOL okay, pay us for 1 additional month and you can have a program to load your csv and sort it

[–] varsock@programming.dev 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Had a client that couldn't understand a small dataset of data. They needed "something interactive to filter and sort the data for a human to review." We suggested putting it into an excel spreadsheet, and did it for them. Customer didn't know how to use excel so we had to create a knock-off excel table GUI that had buttons labeled "filter and sort".

some people seem to have money they don't know what to do with smh

[–] varsock@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

he was not, nobody cares about his 2 bytes

[–] varsock@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Gotcha, thanks. Well, I'll look into it some more. I appreciate you supporting Rebble!

[–] varsock@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

that is on-par with my experience.

If on android, you can visit a google app store mirror (like aurora) which has all apps not locked to a region. Meaning, you can get that transit app.

On iOS, there is no side loading to get around that at the moment.

[–] varsock@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What is incredible about this product is that I can speak normally and fluently as I normally do.

The need to look at the output as you speak is only necessary if you expect there to be errors. FUTO, amazingly, performs extremely well in this regard and I have a high confidence in not being able to trip it up. I don't feel that I need to look down at a live transcription.

This whole comment was written using FUTO voice input. I'm definitely going to donate to them.

[–] varsock@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~I'll try to remember next time I book (I don't travel so often) but realistically I will not respond to this thread ever again 😅~~

Edit: Doh, I'm dumb. I can play around with booking when I'm NOT planning to travel and clear cookies and use VPN and it won't affect my decision to buy 🤦‍♂️

[–] varsock@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I take you are a satisfied user. Ages ago when I looked into it, I didn't see the need. To save time for me and other people on this thread, what value does it bring to you? I would consider subscribing just to financially support them but what other tangible use does a subscription bring?

[–] varsock@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

absolutely. Especially with how dynamically the tickets are priced there is no way to tell.

warning: tangent rant: I really like to shop around and maximize my time off, playing with arrival/departures. It seems if I play around with this for more than an hour, the prices jump up like $50-$100. I've started taking screenshots of fares when I start and end and yes, the prices increase. :(

[–] varsock@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I echo this.

For the non-tech savy, having one messaging app (Signal/SMS) was excellent because a user can send a message to a contact and it would automatically use signal if the recipient was also using it and use SMS when the recipient wasn't.

Now I get SMSs and have to gently remind the contact (or just reply in signal).

Or a frantic call from family "hey I can't message my boss, I have their contact but signal isn't finding the contact" then having to explain that SMS and signal are different.

[–] varsock@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

worth mentioning that SMS messages are plaintext as they traverse the carrier network. They are also logged by seemingly any equipment that they traverse. Also when they aren't delivered immediately, they wait in a queue on the network waiting for the receiving device to "phone home" (pun intended 😎).

The caveat here is often times the plaintext message is in an encrypted tunnel (physical wireless layer, and data tunnels in carrier EPC) but at tunnel endpoints, SMSs are nakey

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