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by popey 4y ago
Depends how you present it. The Ubuntu download page used to punch you in the face asking for donations. They also tried sliders, asking downloaders to choose how to spend the money they donated. These were super successful. People felt in
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by popey 4y ago
In a timely fashion, their most recent tweet [1] asks: "We need YOU... ... to reply with a clip of your worst tech fail! Our favorite submissions might make it into an upcoming Techquickie video." Think this might get included? :)
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by popey 4y ago
I made a thing called "unsnap" which removes snaps, and can optionally install the flatpak equivalents. https://github.com/popey/unsnap
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by popey 4y ago
quickemu on Linux can spin up a macOS VM. https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu $ quickget macos monterey Then: $ quickemu --vm ./macos-monterey.conf You have to go through the usual insta
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The Determinate Nix Installer(determinate.systems)
250 points by popey 4y ago|76 comments
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by popey 4y ago
That's only part of the story. There's other reasons, many of which have been improved over the years. For example the font cache would be generated on first launch, which was a slow operation. This was moved to happen when the sn
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by popey 4y ago
bzr predated git. upstart predated systemd.
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by popey 4y ago
Hey! That ships with my voice! Well, a synthetic version of it anyway. It used to be horribly robotic, but they've improved it quite a bit for mimic-3. Worth a look. I wrote a blog post recently which talks a little about the origin of
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by popey 4y ago
Agreed. I once tried to get Fabrice on a podcast, a few years ago. He said he doesn't do that kind of thing and "no thank you".
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by popey 4y ago
I don't think you can dismiss feedback because it only came from a handful of people. The brutal fact is, if someone doesn't like you or your podcast, they're almost guaranteed to unsubscribe, close the tab, and never conta
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by popey 4y ago
I imagine these days one could send a Subject Access Request to ask for whatever data AirBnB hold on you. Assuming there's some digital record of an internal conversation, or mark/comment on your record, you'd be able to obta
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What Happened to RSS?(thepcspy.com)
83 points by popey 4y ago|84 comments
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Do not ship work in progress(do-not-ship.it)
15 points by popey 4y ago|6 comments
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How are we improving Firefox snap performance? Part 1(snapcraft.io)
2 points by popey 4y ago|1 comments
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The deb-get tool helps Ubuntu (and derivative distro) fans grab extra apps(gamingonlinux.com)
2 points by popey 4y ago|0 comments
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by popey 5y ago
It is weird, because this is really just a static website generator. It's not a zine or magazine creator by any measure.
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by popey 5y ago
"There are still many things I need to set up on the new laptop, for example: suspension/hibernation on closing the lid doesn’t always work" For me, this is one of those things that should work out of the box. I appreciate Ar
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by popey 5y ago
I certainly get "use it every day", for sure. Clubs, celebrities, enthusiast groups. "love it" though? Feels to me that it's a necessary evil, like car insurance.
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by popey 5y ago
5 mins is optimistic. Last time I went, rooms were full all day. People would sit in the room all day, for a talk they wanted hours later. People who actually wanted to be in the room would stand or sit outside, and watch the stream on thei
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by popey 5y ago
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
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by popey 6y ago
The article says "Echo Show" which is a device with an integral display.
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by popey 6y ago
No, we didn't. Unity was cancelled when we downsized in 2017 (4 years ago). It wasn't due to any vocal minority at all. We just refocused our energy.
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by popey 6y ago
Woah. Didn't expect to see my local town appear on HN today. One thing they don't talk about is the customer service. I find Uber drivers are typically way more friendly and accommodating than the local firms. Not specifically Har
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by popey 6y ago
I made the snap private, and archived the repo.
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by popey 6y ago
I like it :)
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by popey 6y ago
I find Matrix to be super abrasive to use. Weird popups asking me about encryption, missing messages, and a confusing UI. I'm a nerd, and I find it baffling. Feels like it needs a UI stripdown. Something like Telegram is way more intui
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by popey 6y ago
There's also a snap which I've been maintaining for ~2.5 years. It's seeing quite a surge in downloads (unsurprisingly) over the last week or so. https://snapcraft.io/signal-desktop
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by popey 6y ago
Not anymore. You're welcome! :D
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by popey 6y ago
Thanks for submitting it!
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by popey 6y ago
Thanks for identifying this missing info. I've added a link to explain in the article.

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