Grumbledour

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by Grumbledour 3y ago
My own desktop is a mid tier machine from 2013 and I do game on it and it still is fine. Of course, not everything will run on a ten year old machine, but surprisingly many games still work fine. I am thinking about an update for some time
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by Grumbledour 3y ago
I think the problem here is a societal one. One born of capitalism, that does not value art in itself but only the value people ascribe to it. And the problem I see is less that it replaces good artists, but that it takes away menial work t
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by Grumbledour 3y ago
And from my reading of it, the GDPR agrees and the whole "Data or money" thing is actually not "freely given consent" and thus void. But sadly, the data protection officers are really dragging their feet here and don&#x2
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by Grumbledour 3y ago
I noticed a kind of sickness that seems to have taken hold of many people working in tech over the last 15 years. The belief, that nothing can be done unless you got dozens of people, millions of funding and years of time. Or maybe it'
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by Grumbledour 3y ago
But discoverability seems the Achilles heel of federated services. How would you solve that? How would I discover a blog in practice and how would this work from a technical standpoint? I am asking not to poke holes, but because this is an
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by Grumbledour 3y ago
Maybe i am just showing my age or tea snobbery, but don't tea bags have metal clips anymore?
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
You mean the same Minecraft that Mojang sold me back in the day and that now requires a Microsoft account to play offline? Probably not a big problem for Sony, but as someone who bought the game I am kind of pissed about that. But I totally
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
What distinguishing feature would it have to something like Gopher or Gemini[0]? [0] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
But having the computer of your dreams means either making sacrifices (Running a VM atop a bloated OS, on a tablet for example, while lugging around an additional keyboard) or building it yourself from the ground up. Having something else,
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
Maybe we can't? I have been wondering about that for quite some time now. We have been talking about ubiquitous computing for a long time, but instead of doing that, it seems we have settled on using smartphones for everything, retirin
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
Especially now. When the original pandora came out, the market was different and even after the years it was delayed it was still a great machine for emulation. But now, cheap and semi-open emulation devices exist in the dozens and paying u
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
I am pretty sure just as the "big" reform, the pocket will let you reprogram the keyboard with QMK, so you can have every key you want. I am a bit surprised to see no Raise/Lower Keys on the render, but maybe it's not th
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
https://github.com/orgs/threema-ch
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
And that is exactly what I try to argue against. I think its a fair assumption here on hacker news, that most users are creators rather than consumers. And as such, the piece of software they "would never use" is very likely one t
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
I don't think your dismissive attitude towards people does you many favors and I wonder if it's a lack of empathy on your part or frustration from watching people doing the wrong thing over and over, which I also experience a lot.
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
But the bicycle for the mind idea goes further than programming your own system and doing creative works. Or rather, it starts smaller. One example: When I encounter a word I don't know, in my native tongue or another language, how can
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
Laying the blame for programmers writing crappy software at the feet of the mythical "idiot" user who could never comprehend a "better" system is one of the core problems why computers today suck as much as they do. Whil
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
There is always a lot of org-mode promotion on here when the topic is interactive notebooks. And I get it, people love it and it solved many of the problems other systems have. But org-mode users need to understand that the one thing holdin
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
The one thing I really dislike about this is the omission of a headphone jack. And I really wonder why there is none. Apart from that (and eink, but who offers that?) this looks to be my dream device. And it runs Plan 9 for gods sake!
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
In addition to that, as someone who has worked in web for quite a while I also find it quite baffling that the to me mostly artificial separation of frontend and backend devs has led to programmers who can only do one of them. Sure, everyon
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
I would still argue it didn't. It worked alright and created long lasting communities that still miss the platform. Of course, it did not kill facebook, but that seemed always like a laughable short term goal. Everything else was just
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
Please do! I wanted to do something similar a few years ago and was shocked that I couldm't find any information on how to. Of course I am also an amateur when it comes to this stuff, but it seemed to me a use case that could be commo
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
You are right and i should not even have mentioned him, because i don't support him (though i wanted to once) and so really have no grounds to complain. I let my annoyance get the better of me and it seems just mean now when i reread i
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
I really dislike this whole initiative and much prefer the patreon model. One reason of course might be that i am listening to Jupiter Broadcast and Chris pushes this stuff hard, really annoying me with the constant talk about lightning and
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
I always saw it as a bug tbh, but reading drew's footnote on that right now, I am starting to think you and he are right! But I think it is more complicated, because it also makes clear that IRC is not an ideal medium for many forms of
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
I actually don't think an e-paper Laptop is a viable product. I totally want an e-paper computer, but just linux or windows on an e-paper screen sounds dreadful. The problem with this kind of device is not so much the hardware but soft
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
I have been wondering if something like https://gtoolkit.com/ would fit the bill, though I have to admit I find it a bit hard to grok. But having a form of interactive notebook running as an OS on a simple device could be a
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
There have been in few in the last years. Here are two from the top of my head. https://alternativebit.fr/posts/ultimate-writer/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/02/14/the-spudwrite-si
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
I got similar feelings as the OP though. It's not just about notifications popping up or having a browser at hand. I feel the epaper display puts me in a different frame of mind. A "Not sitting at the computer" state, in whic
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by Grumbledour 4y ago
I am pretty sure it's inspired by the pdp-1. There is a picture showing Spacewar. For reference, the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar !

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