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by bityard 6mo ago
As usual, it's a good first step but doesn't go far enough. I don't want my back-button hijacked by _anything_. My issue with back-button hijacking isn't even spam/ads (I use an ad-blocker so I don't see those)
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by bityard 6mo ago
This is exactly why I run Linux instead of an OS that I'm not allowed to modify for my needs.
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by bityard 6mo ago
I already have one! (But it's technically a soldering iron...)
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by bityard 6mo ago
Yeesh. People. C'mon. It's okay to use some common sense here. Keychron is a keyboard/mouse company. It is VERY reasonable to interpret "non-commercial use" as meaning "don't sell mice/keyboards built
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by bityard 6mo ago
Broadcom (and to a lesser extent, Realtek) devices had always been anywhere between hit-or-miss and completely unworkable on Linux, LONG before Raspberry Pi came around.
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by bityard 6mo ago
> successful class-action suits prevent further litigation from being allowed for the same issue. Only if you don't opt out. Individuals who opt out of being part of the class can still file their own suits. (Although it's not
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by bityard 6mo ago
Speak for yourself, I can tune out a steady beep much easier than the sound of a seagull being strangled to death. (That's what the ones around here sound like anyway.) On a more serious note: the loud beeping backup alarms were DESIGN
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by bityard 6mo ago
I mean, it kind of sounds like you hated the whole process and didn't care about the result either. What was your reason for taking up the guitar as a hobby in the first place? I suspect it's actually impossible to get reasonably
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by bityard 6mo ago
Lots of us felt the same way since the beginning of ebooks. If you lose your Amazon account, you lose your books, which means you never really owned them. There are (and have been) DRM-free eBook stores. You _might_ be able to strip the DRM
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by bityard 6mo ago
Okay, this is reasonably genius. I have quite a few USB devices lying around that are either old enough or were niche enough that they don't work on modern _anything_, even Linux. One of them is a GameBoy Advance flash cartridge.
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by bityard 6mo ago
Neat! I was big into Quake years ago. This looks like something I could waste a weekend on. Are these all single-player maps? Are there any that are designed for (or would at least be suitable for) 1-4 player deathmatch?
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by bityard 6mo ago
Thanks for the counterpoint, interesting to hear that things are better than I have experienced so far. :)
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by bityard 6mo ago
Just for my own general curiosity, once a bill is overdue, how often do you nag the customer about it? Or does it look more like an escalation process? (Start out with a polite email, then a phone call, then a phone call to their manager&#x
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by bityard 6mo ago
This has been my (admittedly limited) experience as well. LLMs are great at initial bring-up, good at finding bugs, bad at adding features. But I'm optimistic that this will gradually improve in time.
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by bityard 6mo ago
The use case that Anthropic pitches to its enterprise customers (my workplace is one) is that you pretty much tell CC what you want to do, then tell it generate a plan, then send it away to execute it. Legitimized vibe-coding, basically. Of
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by bityard 6mo ago
The assertion in the issue report is that Claude saw a sharp decline in quality over the last few months. However, the report itself was allegedly generated by Claude. Isn't this a bit like using a known-broken calculator to check its
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by bityard 6mo ago
I like the concept but ambient as a genre doesn't really do anything for me. It makes me want to go take a nap. Haven't added anything to it in a while, but over the years I built a youtube playlist of songs that help me focus whi
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by bityard 6mo ago
SomaFM is the best! They now have a Groove Salad Classic channel which plays all the great stuff they _were_ playing in the early to mid 2000's.
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by bityard 6mo ago
Browsers like Vivaldi that cater to power users are gaining in popularity. They are not trying to be the next Chrome, they are just out to serve their niche well. Firefox has nothing to differentiate itself from Chrome at this point.
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by bityard 6mo ago
There is still Open Office: https://www.openoffice.org
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by bityard 7mo ago
Since the dawn of time, Microsoft has published the minimum system requirements needed to run Windows, not what you need to actually do something useful with it.
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by bityard 7mo ago
I'm not sure you read that article all the way through... The loss is $450k, but that's only 3% of the year's state aid and an even smaller amount of the district's operating budget. And it only impacted that one year. I
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by bityard 7mo ago
Check out commonmark
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by bityard 7mo ago
No, we can also be mad at the systemd guys for their very mid attempt at complying with an idiotic and unenforceable law, when the default of doing nothing was objectively the best option for them AND their end users.
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by bityard 7mo ago
I remember running across POVray in the early 90's and not having a clue how to do anything more complex than a sphere with a light source. Some artists have done some truly magical things with it: https://hof.povray.org
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by bityard 7mo ago
It's hard to recommend one thing because there are so many options and they all have different trade-offs in terms of initial cost, ease-of-use, reliability, performance, etc. A year or two back, I was able to get a brand-new fanless I
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by bityard 7mo ago
I guess I'm different. I typically want my router/firewall/network services box to Just Work. I've made a career in deep-in-the-weeds system administration and engineering. Having to hunt down man pages, examples, tutori
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by bityard 7mo ago
The author did write that, yes. But it's very obviously a joke. The real reasons are literally the very next paragraph: > I thought it was a neat trick, a funny shitpost that riffs on the eternal curl | sh debate. I could write a bl
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by bityard 7mo ago
I've been using Linux on the desktop for decades at this point. KDE Plasma is my current favorite and I've been using it for a few years now. It has everything you'd want in a desktop (maybe a bit more), looks great, and is v
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by bityard 7mo ago
There are lots! Too many to cover in a single HN comment, and this space is evolving rapidly so I encourage you to look around. While the coding assistants are pretty much universally free, you still need to connect them to a model. The mod

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