WebTorrent Desktop is a bit abandoned, but last time I tried it, it still worked despite some warts (I think it wouldn’t work with newer Chromecasts).

My notes also have:

• https://github.com/asapach/peerflix-server
• https://github.com/hauxir/rapidbay
• https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent?tab=readme-ov-file#downstream-projects (This library is good at streaming, software using it should too)

Hah, no worries. I think it’s just an unusual use case and… well, I recognized it because I’m obsessed with PiKVM lately and those things!

I’m not superknowledgeable on USB, but Linux has features to do this; they are called “gadgets” in this list:

https://docs.kernel.org/usb/index.html

I have used this to turn a RPI Zero into a virtual USB drive with these scripts: https://github.com/alexpdp7/rpi-zero-usb-iso/

Likely by searching the Internet for USB gadgets you might find good explanations about requirements. I know there are unexpected difficulties- I’m using a Pi Zero instead of a nicer Pi because… nicer Pis can draw too much power over USB and bork what they’re connected to. So be careful.

If this needs to be “hardware” level, I saw https://openterface.com/ recently. The PiKVM-style projects are also a bit adjacent to this.

https://programming.dev/post/36053940/18886266 looks good.

The problem with the standard Gboard non-ASCII method is that you have to use the touchscreen.

What the article mentions is that on iOS, you can hold E, then press 2 on the physical keyboard to enter É.

When I used a Blackberry, I could type out longish messages without even looking at the phone, but I had to rely on autocorrect for the accents (which worked pretty well for Spanish). If this method works, I could do the same, but not relying on autocorrect.

Do you, by some chance, write in any language that requires non-ASCII characters? (Such as ñ in Spanish.)

You can apparently touch-type non-ASCII characters with Clicks on IOS, I’m wondering if it works similarly on Android.

My phone died last week, and I was very tempted by the Razr with Clicks, but I haven’t seen much about using it outside English. In the end I went cheap and bought a Pixel 9A :(

Touch keyboards suck, but double so if you type in multiple languages, need non-ASCII, and on top of that you want to use shells. GBoard is not bad at detecting the three languages I regularly type in, but my BlackBerries were superior.

I discovered Open Food Facts very recently. I was supersurprised because the mobile app is very neat, and I didn’t expect there would be so many products (edit: in Spain). I’ve sent two contributions so far.

Also, you can download their database. If I had some time, I’d try to run some queries on it. (I’m on a low sodium diet and sometimes you find the most unexpected products with little salt, but it’s time consuming.)

edit: also, I forgot, the app is on F-Droid, another nice touch.

My crazy idea is: write software so that Flatpaks can run on Windows and macOS. Plus, make high-quality Flatpak-building templates available for as many programming languages, UI toolkits, etc. as possible.

Because everything that Flatpaks provide is OSS, making shims for Windows and macOS compatibility would be tedious, but doable.

Same with crosscompiling Flatpaks, compared to the difficulties of crosscompiling for Windows or macOS from any other OS, multiplatform Flatpaks should be doable to crosscompile.

So this would lead to a world where a very convenient way to package for Windows and macOS… is creating a Flatpak that works on Linux!