Bruno Finger

Writing the Beyond for Lemmy app.

Also @brunofin@beehaw.org

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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I used to use the Brazilian ABNT-2 layout, it’s pretty much just a US layout with accent keys that activate like a second layer for some specific keys to display specific Portuguese language characters such as ç á à â ã é è etc. It’s surprisingly ok for programming as it doesn’t get in the way because you have special keys to activate the 2nd layer and most of them you need to spread shift + something in order to activate them. I’d say it’s a good layout.


  • I wish you a well recovery.

    I was feeling pretty bad a few days before Christmas. Couldn’t breathe, anxiety level off the roof. I did a COVID test from the pharmacy which was negative, which in turn made me feel even more anxious about my health. A day after Christmas I was so bad I went to the hospital. They tested me there and in less than a minute it was a positive.

    It was a pretty bad COVID, I got vaccinated about 2 years ago but this was the first time I actually got it. It went pretty pretty bad.

    I am still suffering from long COVID symptoms, mostly issues with short breath etc. Currently lying down on the couch trying to get better. I really hope this ends soon, I need my life back.

    I hope you don’t have to go through the same thing. I really wish you a swift recovery.





  • I’m originally from Brazil but I’ve been living in Poland for the past decade so I had the Polish app setup with Android covid notifications. The neat thing is that it doesn’t matter as they all talk together due to how the protocol works.

    I got a few notifications in Poland, and I also did travel to Brazil, and got notifications there too.

    The app only works if enough people are in though, so if nobody uses then it won’t work. Depends on the area, people, way of thinking.









  • They’re limited as hell and buggy. The thing that most bothers me is the character limit and then your device sends out multiple SMSs, other devices may not understand that and instead of receiving one message you receive multiple broken ones.

    Accents, anything not in the English alphabet: á ä ā ą é ê and so on, good luck with those.

    Attaching media is a nightmare, basically the entire MMS protocol is broken.

    You’re relying on your carrier and your recipients carriers.

    International messaging is also completely broken for the reason above. You can forget any media in that case too.

    Geez I don’t know if I should continue. Did you know SMS was not a feature planned in phones originally but rather it takes advantage of a bug that was never fixed?

    In Brazil where I’m originally from people stopped using SMS altogether as soon as the first iPhone got in the market. Android followed shortly after. Viber was the popular choice back then, now WhatsApp is the standard.