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by butz 1y ago
Banking, pay and government apps should be a website and work on any device with a web browser.
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by butz 1y ago
We should collectively name this phenomena "Closing Windows".
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by butz 1y ago
Commercial, and pretty good game, CrossCode, was coded in "HTML5", more precisely - JavaScript. And new game from same developers seems to be using same technologies, probably more advanced, as it looks amazing, with some 3D-ish e
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by butz 1y ago
Biggest issue with Unihertz devices is that manufacturer refuses to release source code, thus violating GPLv2 licence. It would be great to be able to run postmarketOS or Droidian on such small devices.
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by butz 1y ago
In all those years Electron still did not manage to separate runtime from applications, so updates would be smaller and security fixes would reach all applications much faster.
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by butz 1y ago
I wonder how long will PWAs will be viable option for sideloading own apps without notarization and developer account?
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by butz 1y ago
One pet peeve about current Servo is missing scrollbar. Sure, one can scroll with mouse wheel, or keyboard, but I find scrollbars essential for any application.
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by butz 1y ago
Do not allow underage kids use smartphones. All problems solved. Thank you for attending my TED talk.
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by butz 1y ago
I think youtube should not be mixed into old web. Either embed your video in website and provide download, or host it on peertube. I know about video file hosting issues and costs, so maybe use appropriatly sized videos? Low quality, low re
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by butz 1y ago
Looking at postmarketOS devices page only 20 community supported devices have "Calls" listed as "fully implemented". Clearly this is the main hurdle for true "Linux Phone". And those devices are a bit old, rang
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by butz 1y ago
Forget Linux phones for a moment, let's start with Linux PDA. As telephony part is probably the hardest to solve due to proprietary drivers and regulations, how about building tiny PDA device that does everything else except "phon
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by butz 1y ago
How hard would it be to rewrite this application to work as web app, or "PWA"? From a glance it would require to record sound, and it is already possible to do using Web APIs. Not sure if models will run fast enough to work in rea
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Ask HN: Are there any modern devices similar to Palm Pilot?
23 points by butz 1y ago|18 comments
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by butz 1y ago
Or one could run into some edge case, e.g. when Steam asks for different code when trying to change Steam password - https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis/issues/1613 .
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by butz 1y ago
The worst offender in 2FA business is Steam, as it uses custom 2FA and you must install their app - no way to use 3rd party OTP without jumping through hoops and risking security.
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by butz 1y ago
Took me a while to figure out that "example" link is just a placeholder, and not an actual link to test the service with. Clicking "Search" without any link results in "Something went wrong, please try again later.&
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by butz 1y ago
"Your App Should Have Been A Website", and banks at least in EU are providing open banking API, so it should be doable. More incentive for everyone to build APIs again.
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by butz 1y ago
It's finally time for Palm Pilot to shine again.
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by butz 1y ago
Better start a kickstarter or something to collect enough funds to build true open source mobile operating system. Someone will reply that's impossible, but I say it is just a matter of keeping scope small. Basic OS, few most important
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by butz 1y ago
Considering that Android 5 devices are still alive and well, it will take another 10 years for google to catch up. Hoping in that time Linux based true open source mobile operating systems will make some headway. Another alternative might b
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by butz 1y ago
With more websites shrinking their scrollbars or removing them outright, keyboard navigation seems to be the last resort.
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by butz 1y ago
MiniPC must either charge from USB-C or have an internal PSU. Those external power bricks are so annoying when you start adding more PCs to the cluster.
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by butz 1y ago
In my neck of the woods OpenStreetMap is way more accurate than Google Maps. Map is less noisy visually, and if there are any errors in the map, I can fix them myself and see results immediately.
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by butz 1y ago
The phone is larger, not to mention ridiculous size of camera shelf. What happened to decent industrial design?
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by butz 1y ago
Is this something similar to Mapsforge map format?
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Ask HN: Has anyone used AI agent to unsubscribe from spam newsletters?
1 points by butz 1y ago|2 comments
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by butz 1y ago
How does one build similar model, but for different languages? I was under impression that being open source, there would be some instructions how to build everything on your own.
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by butz 1y ago
Funny to see GitHub still on the path to React, while Edge is already migrating to web components, due to performance issues related to React.
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by butz 1y ago
I think "printing" in 2025 usually means "Save to PDF" :)
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by butz 1y ago
Especially for first time players this is absolutely worst experience. Combined with "game knows better", where even valid choice is incorrect, makes this game not fun.

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