janfoeh

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by janfoeh 5y ago
I have one lying around anyway, so maybe that's another viable path. I'll take a look at how appliance-like I could make such a Raspi, in terms of UX.
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by janfoeh 5y ago
Thanks for the MakeMKV suggestion, I'll look into it. VLC isn't an option at the moment, because we've hooked up a 60€ player to her television. Something with a remote with physical buttons that boots up in two seconds flat,
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by janfoeh 5y ago
You're right, I probably should.. I'm just a little bit anxious of the extra fiddling required to find decent compression settings for BDs, since I've got no experience there.
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by janfoeh 5y ago
Nothing I've ever seen did that better than Pandora. Unfortunately I had only sporadic access via VPN because of their inability to secure international licensing, but during those times I discovered more music than ever before or sinc
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by janfoeh 5y ago
> So I cancelled my Netflix subscription, and went back to occasionally renting a film on iTunes or Amazon. I did that too, and then went one step further, because some fifteen years down the line, online video rental still hilariously,
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by janfoeh 5y ago
Exactly the same here. I've had three software subscriptions until this year, mostly begrudgingly — CreativeCloud, Evernote and 1password. I got rid of two of them — Evernote for exactly the same reason. 1pwd going the Electron route w
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by janfoeh 5y ago
I don't think it's quite so dire. Remember that big sites like Facebook at least used to display warnings in the developer console, akin to "DO NOT PASTE THINGS IN HERE YOU RECEIVED FROM STRANGERS"? There is a sizeable s
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by janfoeh 5y ago
As a last resort, that is what I will do. But that would mean to fight the system, which is rarely a good thing in the long run. When it comes to system setup, I prefer to color inside the lines if at all possible. "Configuring which p
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by janfoeh 5y ago
I vehemently disagree that rolling releases are a good idea. I've found myself disabling auto updates on quite a few applications as of late, because I am tired of constant interruptions to my workflow, breakages and UI changes. Being
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by janfoeh 5y ago
For me it's more the "no access even as root" issue that is highly problematic. I've been trying unsuccessfully to childproof a Big Sur laptop for a 12 year old for some time now — disable access to some built-in apps et
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by janfoeh 5y ago
Fascinating! So you design the whole shebang, including keycaps? Maybe you're the person to ask: I've been thinking about switching back to a mechanical keyboard, but I am looking for a specific keycap form I haven't been abl
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by janfoeh 5y ago
LWN links are intentionally shareable. See the "Welcome .." box at the top: > The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber.
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by janfoeh 5y ago
The more sophisticated your adversary, the less blame falls on you. It's the same with all those breach notifications talking up "advanced persistent threats" and "state-level actors". It's better to have been
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by janfoeh 6y ago
As long as that citizen has a Samsung Galaxy S20, which is currently the only supported phone. [0] [0] https://www.translatetheweb.com/?ref=TVert&from=&to=en&a=htt...
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by janfoeh 6y ago
Has your app been around for longer than '98? The screenshots I've found look familiar. If it was available around, say, '94 or '95, I am almost positive I had it installed at the time I started messing around with the C
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YSL’s lipstick pod gadget will create whatever shade you want(theverge.com)
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by janfoeh 6y ago
> None of the suggestions in the post would increase the complexity. Apart from maybe sideloading, I agree with you. It's not the list of suggestions I disagree with, it's the fundamental assumption of the article that iPads ca
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by janfoeh 6y ago
Again, I absolutely understand that desire. I am arguing that it's not possible to do that in iPadOS without making it unusable - or at least severely worse - for non-power users. Come to think of it, the iPad Pro line was a bad strate
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by janfoeh 6y ago
I do not believe you could - not without significant compromises, since both systems exhibit very different capabilities and security design considerations. You'd still end up with either a more complex iOS, a severely restricted macOS
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by janfoeh 6y ago
I believe the future of the iPad is in the exact opposite direction - as a computer for the majority of needs of people for whom Personal Computers and the desktop metaphor never worked. A Pareto machine that covers 80% of functionality wit
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by janfoeh 6y ago
By the way, you can capture windows without drop shadow if you hold Option while selecting the window: 1. Press CMD + Opt + 4 to enter selection mode 2. Press Space to switch to window selection mode 3. Hold Opt and click
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by janfoeh 7y ago
I strongly disagree. The driver does not have to collect an event log in order to react to focus changes and switch settings. It much less has to transmit this event log, let alone to a third party such as Google.
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by janfoeh 7y ago
I've used FF almost exclusively for a large chunk of the aughts, so there is some familiarity left. My main concern today is actually a matter of trust. Mozilla has had enough privacy-related debacles and questionable decisions that a
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by janfoeh 7y ago
If I were to guess, probably performance and battery life. They emphasized efficiency when they introduced their own compiled blacklist API for content blockers.
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by janfoeh 7y ago
It really, really is a shame that they removed proper extensions. While Safari never had a good extension story, it was at least bearable, and in all other regards its simply the best Mac browser. Now I have to take a really hard look at sw
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by janfoeh 7y ago
> does anyone know if AirDrop works with iDevices that don't have a SIM? Such as the iPod Touch? Macs.
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by janfoeh 7y ago
No, it's a driver operated cross between buses and taxis. You book a ride in an app between a starting point and a destination. Both locations must be on a grid of "virtual bus stops", spaced around 500ft apart; drivers are r
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by janfoeh 7y ago
I've used them about a handful of times by now. Only once was I the sole occupant, and in that case it already had another pickup lined up after my stop. I don't really pay them much attention in traffic, but from my very limited
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by janfoeh 7y ago
To me, that does not seem to describe anything specific to "serverless"? You've always been free to serve your static assets in any way you like, so I'm unclear as to how the way the backend is architected comes into pla
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by janfoeh 8y ago
Yes, they are. I don't care whether a ride service is available in one, a dozen or three hundred locations. I care about the best option in my city, and I would bet dollars to donuts that this aligns with the market majority. A thousan

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