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by akho 4y ago
I find notmuch search works fater for me than Gmail’s did (no network round trip). It’s maybe a bit dumber, but that does not matter too much in practice. meli seems to work with notmuch.
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by akho 4y ago
Well, they did it on the T440. I don’t think it will last more than a single generation this time, either. There’s usually a good one every few years. The big problem with the T440 non-buttons was not even the tactile feel — I might have be
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by akho 4y ago
Carbon-neutral leather humanely collected from organically grown free-range vegans is a nice touch, but I’ll wait for when they re-introduce physical trackpoint buttons.
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by akho 4y ago
I was speaking strictly about access of differing view / value systems to the voting ballot, not judging the systems a whole. China sucks more. (Though viewing China as a full autocracy with absolute power of a single individual is ext
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by akho 4y ago
In the US, you are expected to uphold the line that brings you donors. That makes leftist parties non-viable. That’s not such a big difference from the Chinese situation as you’d think, except in direction.
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by akho 4y ago
> different readers have different ways to do things Sure. Yet the underlying activity (reading) is not complicated. > Uh, yes it does: http://www.mobileread.mobi/forums/showthread.php?t=296205 I opened that link
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by akho 4y ago
Formats are a different point from “ebook groups”. To answer your question — I’ll modify the line that calls the conversion program (which is, at the moment, Calibre’s ebook-convert). As you can imagine, I’ve already had to do that a few ti
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by akho 4y ago
I’ve also spent an hour looking at it at one point. I’m sure it all makes sense in the overall Calibre context (formats can be plugins, so the perimeter includes stuff like customization code), but conversion is not easily extractable. The
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by akho 4y ago
Yeah, I delete things I’ve read. Quicker to re-download than to find on the device.
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by akho 4y ago
I only read 60-80 books a year, maybe 40-60 on a Kindle. I guess I need to take up some sport to live long enough to reach your numbers (and to stop deleting things). Even including an occasional article, 'thousands' is very impre
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by akho 4y ago
> > Only if you make them. Have been pretty simple for me. I don’t do most of the things you mention, and do not see myself wanting to. > That's not how it works. Each device and firmware has its own way of doing things. For e
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by akho 4y ago
> Most (all commercially available?$ebook readers are not as simple as that. Only if you make them. Have been pretty simple for me. I don’t do most of the things you mention, and do not see myself wanting to. I do use Calibre for convers
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by akho 4y ago
I don’t understand. All Kindles I had — from Kindle 2 to Voyage — mounted as external drives when connected via USB, and copying mobi files just works (but their email delivery works fine, so I usually use that). From a brief Google search,
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by akho 4y ago
What’s there to manage? They are files. Read a book, copy a new book over, delete old book. A file manager does all that, and is simpler and easier.
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by akho 4y ago
> Calibre does its job so well it's downright essential for anyone thinking about dealing with ebooks. Its “job” is not well-defined. I read electronic books almost exclusively (for prose fiction; art and equations are a different
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by akho 4y ago
With ejabberd, your scalability problem is that you don’t have enough users to load a single node. So you have a popularity problem, but not a technical one. To get back to familiar technical ground, try Synapse. A node can support, like, 3
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by akho 4y ago
That era lasted from February 1996 to July 1997. I don’t think you can call it an era. Maybe a transition period.
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by akho 4y ago
…mixed DPI, better battery, better handling of input devices, better sleep/wake handling, first-party hardware? Some of those things happened, but not because of Canonical listening to those comments. There is no meaningful discussion
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by akho 4y ago
I opened that post. The top comment asks for mixed DPI, trackpad gestures, and better power management. I had to scan (and click the next page thing) quite a lot to get to something that looked vaguely critical of Unity (and even then it wa
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by akho 4y ago
There was also plotinus ( https://github.com/p-e-w/plotinus ) for a sort-of-similar thing. I think it still works, but I use too few gui applications to bother.
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by akho 4y ago
> I don't want one process to be able to decide that it's windows should be higher priority than another process, or see what's displayed on another processes windows, or steal keystrokes from windows owned by another proc
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by akho 4y ago
You’d need to set up tab completion for the `my` command. This is more effort than just naming everything `my-foo` — or `,foo`.
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by akho 4y ago
How do you compute things
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by akho 4y ago
Wayland has been around for 13 years now. That’s an eternity in software years. It still hasn’t caught up with X11 for many use-cases. There’s clearly some sort of problem (I suspect that it’s not a technical one).
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by akho 4y ago
> some middle-ground between self-hosters and the free instances There is definitely a lot of space between the extremes of corporate everything and your own compiled-from-source home. I want to think that there is a market for a “self-h
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by akho 4y ago
> Mastodon/Matrix/XMPP All available for free in low-friction ways (and still only geek-popular), and easy to self-host if you care about privacy and ownership. It’s a really strange spot for a personal use focused SaaS. Focusi
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by akho 4y ago
> sounds like it's using the apt-get version of node which is usually out of date It’s using the Nixpkgs version, which unfortunately depends on which nixpkgs channel you’re on. There’s a `nodejs_latest` attribute, which is actually
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by akho 4y ago
ITC, Monotype, Linotype, Adobe, or Berthold? Or some other French Renaissance-inspired typeface? I’m sure my preferred style of Comic Sans for text and Impact for headings will stick around, too.
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by akho 5y ago
I don’t know what kind of tool users you hang around, but there isn’t a profession that doesn’t modify or customize their tools (through making jigs, combining pieces from different toolkits, outright rebuilding, making your own tools, …).
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by akho 5y ago
Safari and VSCode are not open source. Most people who value freedom in software for practical reasons are motivated by having a way to fix or work around inconveniences, having a community and an active discussion on features, general comp

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