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by branon 7mo ago
What do we do about this? Are there BPA-free headphones on the market?
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by branon 7mo ago
I want so badly to try one of these but it's been out for a while and I'm terrified they'll announce another one immediately after I make the purchase...
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by branon 7mo ago
One of my latest linguistic pet peeves is usage of the overly simple and nondescript word "do" when other verbs would describe more succinctly what is happening. You don't "do" changes. This sounds lazy at best, uni
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by branon 8mo ago
Paris/ins3 (the RuneScape botting-related owner of AHK) had a fairly checkered past from what I understand, but most of it was before my time. The direction RSBot took under his leadership was less than ideal. I lamented the loss of RS
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by branon 8mo ago
This is also how I learned programming, though mainly with Simba, the spiritual successor to SCAR: https://github.com/Villavu/Simba
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by branon 8mo ago
Glad to see more projects building on top of Lost City. This looks super fun and I can't wait to try it out. Writing RuneScape bots was how I first learned programming, and I think it's one of the most interesting ways to interact
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by branon 8mo ago
How are the PineBuds Pro, anyone have them? The Pine64 IRC network doesn't have a channel for PineBuds discussion so I haven't had an easy opportunity to ask.
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by branon 9mo ago
> At this very moment of writing this post, I don’t care about the lack of Microsoft support. [...] [U]sing Win10 as a regular desktop OS on a machine connected to the Internet past the last security update, I'm aware that the risk
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by branon 9mo ago
Haven't heard of Nova in a very long time, this was one of the original customizable launchers for Android wasn't it? If it's gone this long without being open-sourced, it might be time to let go. Been using https:/&#x2
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by branon 9mo ago
I've found a very comfortable home on Void Linux for nearly a decade at this point, and wouldn't consider any other distro for desktop use. I find Void to be rock-solid stable and relentlessly simple. The author of TFA hopped from
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by branon 9mo ago
Very well-written, thanks for sharing. Stories like this are important! > I went on looking for one of those browser extensions that made it easier to read. [...] I had to find the perfect one, with the cleanest user interface, the best
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by branon 9mo ago
The Gulag Archipelago is on my shelf, when I rotate back to Russian authors (big fan of Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Bulgakov) I will hopefully get to it. Here's my log for 2025, most recent at the top. Currently I am slogging my way through H
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by branon 11mo ago
I don't use Ubuntu anymore, partly because of their habit of running experiments like the coreutils switch, but I must say I do admire them for it. They seem committed to pushing the ecosystem forward, even if they have taken a leaf fr
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by branon 11mo ago
Nothing really looks like Apple products except Apple products though, so you are locking yourself out of buying pretty much anything except Apple with this idiosyncrasy. Which I'm sure Apple is quite pleased about.
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by branon 11mo ago
There appear to be ulterior sociopolitical motives held by the author, which involve using the blanket term "genocide-friendly software" [1] to refer to anything OSI-licensed (implicitly suggesting all contributors to anything not
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by branon 11mo ago
Will this also happen if you let the Nextcloud app rename the files as it uploads them? I usually take that option and haven't had an issue with this although I don't have it set to delete from my phone after uploading.
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by branon 11mo ago
I have been considering https://bewcloud.com/ + Immich as an alternative Nextcloud's client support is very good though and it has some great apps, I use PhoneTrack on road trips a lot
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by branon 11mo ago
Pedantic pet peeve: it'd be S.A.R.C.A.S.M. or SARCASM but not S.A.R.C.A.S.M You are missing the last full stop, unless your project is actually meant to be called "S.A.R.C.A.S. M" An initialism either uses full stops after al
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by branon 1y ago
Apples and oranges yes, but to most users (even Linux users) there's only a very blurry line between these concepts. I admit this is not ideal. I believe choice of storefront is more a service and support problem, and less about the pr
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by branon 1y ago
I like GOG a lot but it's wild to me that their GOG Galaxy client doesn't work on Linux! A lot of gamers who care about preservation and availability are spending money with Valve because Steam's DRM is mostly inoffensive and
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by branon 1y ago
Thanks for this. My wife is a clinical dietician and we try very hard to extend her knowledge (dieting for sick people) into our home so we can eat foods that will keep us healthy. Always very nice to see other people doing/writing sim
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by branon 1y ago
Seconded, KISS is great, haven't found anything better
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by branon 1y ago
There is no lookup functionality at all that I could find. You cannot install your own dictionary on the stock firmware. I wound up down the https://toltec-dev.org/ rabbit hole which was fun and gets me additional features
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by branon 1y ago
I found the lack of backlight and built-in dictionary to mostly cripple the e-reading experience on rM2. Format support wasn't great either, only PDF and EPUB. Which does cover most bases, to be fair. AZW3 and MOBI aren't dealbrea
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by branon 1y ago
> our new on-premise registry This is incorrect, the word you are looking for here is "on-premises" - a "premise" is something entirely different.
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by branon 1y ago
What are the chances they ditch floppies on the hardware end and switch to GNU/Linux running DOSBox to preserve the software stack? Presumably (hopefully) the existing system is airgapped in some way or otherwise restricted to communic
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by branon 1y ago
Uh-oh, the MSM journos have found out about the Doom thing and are running it on clickbait articles now... guess we need to find a new hobby!
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by branon 1y ago
The explanation I've seen before is that it doesn't really matter for websites that don't _want_ anything from you. No credentials, no login forms, no text entry fields. Maybe there are edge cases associated with this?
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by branon 1y ago
Disappointing name! You are colliding with https://voidlinux.org/ among probably many other much more significant pieces of software.
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by branon 2y ago
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sl

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