That is a good post and I hadn't heard of the T2S+ before. But it costs $300+ and is around 50K pixels (256x192). I see that an 160x120 FLIR Lepton module is $184 these days (Digikey). So this new stuff is competitive but not revolutionary imho. It's good that the FLIR monopoly is finally broken though. All that existed earlier other than FLIR was very low res devices.

Do you have a link about your messaging app? And PIR doesn't conceal the existence of traffic, so it doesn't seem like the right thing for messaging. It's more for databases as the name implies. What exactly are you trying to do?

It was a reference to the ancient ELIZA chatbot. Kids these days :)

When C++11 came out, there was an immediate feeling that the language had received a major overhaul and the best ways to do most things had completely changed. Everything from before that was legacy code, though a lot of it was around. I expect it is still mostly like that.

Or do you mean about Rust? Yes that is new. I still don't understand the attraction of Rust over Ada that well.

It is perfectly ok to start with C++14, in fact probably preferable to starting with anything before C++11. The idioms changed a lot in C++11. I think changes since then have been minor and incremental by comparison.

There is already a subscribed tab, and I use it most of the time when I want to catch up on selected topics. I use the local or all feed when I want to browse a wider view of what's going on in general. Right now the total amount of Lemmy traffic is small enough that browsing that way is tolerable, which it wouldn't be e.g. on reddit.

I do think that the Lemmy software design is more meme-oriented than I'd prefer, because of stuff like the thumbnail pic with every post in the main feeds. The more interesting parts of reddit to me were text-only and we don't have that here.

I knew a vegan activist who breastfed her kid so I figure from that, it is ok.

Adafruit.com had some 5's in stock today, for those of you in the US. They sold out quickly but not instantly. I didn't try to get one because I don't have an immediate use for it. I have a 400 and those have been fairly easy to get for quite a long time. They are basically a 4B inside a keyboard. Their main shortcoming is no built-in pointing device.

Well what phone is it? There are tons of music playing programs on f-droid. Why not just run one? I've been using Vanilla Music. I don't like it that much, but don't feel like derping around trying more and more of them. Vanilla is better than some others that I tried.

The PFS comes from deleting the secret DH parameters after you are done using them.

The codecs are built into the client (I'm using linphone) and they all sound like crap. Provider is vitelity.net but I have a twilio account so could try that. Also, they only work at all when the phone is online by wifi. Using the phone's mobile data is total fail. Too many dropouts etc.

Large ones can be a pain and I've generally converted those to other formats even it's at some cost in disk space.