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by neilsimp1 3y ago
From a Hardware side, I have nothing to say about this right now. But from a Software side, my Librem 5 matches these points exactly: - No more bloatware - just the features you want and the power you need - choosing your preferred operatin
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
Sorry, what?
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
FWIW, Neovim can be configured to the point where mouse+keyboard input behave exactly like a GUI text editor would. I'm struggling to find it now but I've seen a distro shared here that aims for a more Notepad-like experience with
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
All the time. I think it's a great way to "learn" the environment you're coding in sometimes. When I was first learning PHP I spent a year or two without a debugger. The first time I tried one I learned about a whole bun
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
Something must be wrong with yours. BT audio with my headphones and car works fine. Browsing is fine in FF unless the website is very JS intensive. Maps works with Puremaps. The terminal is fine? Unless there is something specific you want
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
Seconding this, my L5 has been a daily driver for almost a year and while their are hiccups it's more than usable day to day. I spend a lot of time on the phone for work.
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
What problem is this solving?
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
I cannot agree with your point more. I pirate a decent amount of media. If piracy was not an option, I would simply live without the TV/Movies I download.
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
I have never used Uber/Lyft, so I cannot say. There is one Android app I am using through Waydroid. It's a 2FA app I need to log in to work. Uber/Lyft may also work through Waydroid, but I have no idea.
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
FWIW, I have been daily driving a Librem 5 for about 5 months now. It is NOT slow. Some JS heavy pages take a long time to load (FF is mostly fine, GNOME Web is not) in the browser. Other apps work totally fine speed-wise. There's a lo
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
And how can you verify that those permissions are behaving the way that you asked them to? Google themselves have publicly stated that turning off GPS in your settings menu doesn't actually turn it off physically. So how do we know tha
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
Well this is without a doubt a good move, I still take the cynical stance that using any sort of Google software and hoping for privacy is pointless.
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
Is there a desktop client for Bitwarden that isn't Electron-based yet? I tried this years ago and didn't like it. Not only because Electron, but I thought it was missing a lot of basic features (folders/organizing passwords w
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by neilsimp1 3y ago
What could possibly be the arguments against this sort of thing? Public money => Public code seems obvious to me.
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by neilsimp1 4y ago
About 3/4 of my day is meetings, so I have about 1-2 hours per day to actually get work done. Generally this means we all work through our meetings and both the work and our attention to the meetings suffers. A good day is when there i
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by neilsimp1 4y ago
I wish HN had more content like this. Thanks for the write-up!
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by neilsimp1 4y ago
YouTube ReVanced is an option, but that is also having some issues working lately: https://old.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/10h9p39/youtub...
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by neilsimp1 4y ago
Mint or Elementary make sense. Another idea - if there aren't any real requirements from the system other than allowing your kid to poke around - try something like Haiku. It's not Linux but it's interesting and different and
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by neilsimp1 4y ago
I have the opposite issue - a LOT of spam makes it's way into my Inbox.
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by neilsimp1 4y ago
What you are describing, almost to a T, is Purism's Librem 5 - https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ . Also I would look in to Pine64's PinePhone (Pro), or even Fairphone.
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by neilsimp1 4y ago
My `cfg` script, which is bash script that wraps around GNU Stow and lets me `cfg pull` - pull latest git repo and apply via `stow` `cfg push` - push local config changes to git server `cfg apply` - apply local changes with `stow` There are
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by neilsimp1 4y ago
Same. FF - nothing happens. Chromium - broken image icon. If this gets fixed I would use the heck outta this app.
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by neilsimp1 4y ago
Isn't it a lot closer to Twitter?
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by neilsimp1 5y ago
KDE Plasma? Pretty sure you can change this setting in Windows, even.
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by neilsimp1 5y ago
I just tried on Plasma 5.24.2 and yes, it seems this is a feature. I'm happy this exists, I never knew about it.
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by neilsimp1 5y ago
Not OP, but we often include these two in our interviews: 1. Write code that will find the second largest item in an array on ints. 2. Write SQL that selects the second highest number from a DB table. I'm floored how few candidates can
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by neilsimp1 5y ago
I used to have this problem, I ended up stopping using MusicBee. I found Sayonara to be a near 100% replacement. https://sayonara-player.com/
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by neilsimp1 5y ago
old.reddit.com is showing "Blocked" for me, FF 95.0.2. Edit: Updated to 96.0, and Reddit is back again.
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by neilsimp1 5y ago
At least it's still an option to install it though. Even on mobile.
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by neilsimp1 5y ago
I've been doing this manually for a while by creating a FF profile for an app, adding some userChrome.css to hide some of the chrome at the top, and creating my own .desktop files to open FF in the new profile. It's a bit tedious

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