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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Many European states (some of the better ones) are still monarchies.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
I have to wonder what they're missing here. Heated seats sound pretty straightforward: some MCU, a MOSFET driver, maybe an RS485 transceiver. All of that stuff should be done with commodity hardware.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
They effectively own the majority of personal computers in the US. They're able to extract rent from everyone this way and for most people there's nothing they can do about it. Once you're really dependent on one of Apple o
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Skin and eye damage from the sun is permanent and cumulative. The trick is doing things in the sun without exposing yourself to it too much (and not letting the exposure discourage you.)
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Or maybe the same kind of person who prefers a smaller phone tends to wait longer before replacing it.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
It's a shame it runs Android and not PalmOS.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
There are many people who argue that the middle and working classes actually have less say in democracy (as opposed to say, monarchy) because the people at the top can easily afford to buy out all the media.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Tech people should embrace rejection.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Teams is awful. I don't know how people actually like these closed IM apps to begin with but Teams is one of the most poorly behaved ones.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
The problem with email on iOS is that there's no way to do instantaneous notifications without paying Apple at least $100/year for a custom app with a certificate to do push. The mail app only does polling (no IMAP IDLE) so the
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Sure I could go all out for a while but what do I do after that? I'd imagine partying and not working for a year or two would cause my mental health to further deteriorate and to have that while being broke would be a catastrophe.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
(context, I lived somewhere for two years where cycling infrastructure was very well maintained during the winter.) The reality about the winter is that cycling in the winter is fucking cold. The forward movement exaggerates the wind chill.
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Ask HN: How Do You Cope?
5 points by pinephoneguy 5y ago|5 comments
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
People hate X11 and apps that use older toolkits but I can move Windows around my under powered PinePhone in real time all day long on Fluxbox.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Windows graphics/widget APIs were the only nice thing about it IMO.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
My understanding is that if you're able to rescue a ship you have to return it to its owner and they're supposed to compensate you.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
IIRC BSDs had containers first but they worked slightly differently.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Even if they aren't being "forced" (and I would argue they are) it's unpleasant enough that you should be able to understand why there's a protest.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Some of the job descriptions I've seen from recruiters are so bad it almost feels like a trap. Like if you respond you'll be blacklisted for being desperate and have a harder time finding a legitimate job. I saw an email the other
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Just write the app for Linux (or even better, build a web page instead.)
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
They're both unacceptably bad and I'd go without a phone if I had to choose between the two.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Apple once again killing a cool idea by not making it open.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
The App store is one of the most disappointing things to happen to personal computers. Instead of empowering indie devs it shut them out and empowered corporations.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Also FLTK, TCL/TK, and X toolkit.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
I just run them with unit scaling. The digitizer is accurate enough, especially if you live an OSK window open and stick to keyboard shortcuts. I prefer the extra screen realestate.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
I do. I run Fluxbox on PostMarketOS. I use dino with jmp.chat for mms. I use emacs diary+git for calendar. I have some custom power management service I wrote shortly after getting the phone so it gets long battery life. My bank and brokera
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
I will never run your app if you build it this way, that sounds absolutely awful. Just write a GTK app or if that's too hard a CLI app since the CLI is first class on the PinePhone.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
I've found just doing everything yourself and sticking as close as possible to a normal desktop config works best.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
Or putting the scroll bar back, or getting rid of the awful client side decorations.
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by pinephoneguy 5y ago
My favorite thing about Gnome is that I don't have to use it. It's there so that the subsystems get used by normal people and bugs get hammered out and I can do the same thing with a small shell wrapper.

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