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by sho_hn 1y ago
> KDE seems to be losing the plot here-- how does this help build the best possible DE for the community? I feel like they are fragmenting developer attention and time by futzing around with this. A lot of the manpower working on this pr
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by sho_hn 1y ago
> This distro doesn't seem to be born out of some real need for non-KDE-developers? It's born out of a few things: a) KDE as a community has increasingly focused on good and direct relations to end-users of late, which e.g. has
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by sho_hn 1y ago
It doesn't necessarily take much hackability away. You might find it makes it easier. You can overlay changes to the read-only rootfs using the sysext mechanism. You can load and unload these extensions. This makes experiments or juggl
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by sho_hn 1y ago
Nathan (who is a QA person with user-visible breakage ever-present on his mind) is talking about the alpha and the present-day situation, which naturally isn't set in stone. KDE is a Flatpak contributor. One of the little skunkworks pr
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It's at an alpha stage; it's reasonable to see what people will use, also because having an immutable base and needing tools to install things on top is still somewhat new. KDE and Gnome are footing Flathub together and a lot of t
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by sho_hn 1y ago
There's a fair amount of overlap and collaboration in the engineering communities behind the different image-based/appliance OS projects, so it's not necessarily as redundant as you might think it is. E.g. the developers behi
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PSA: If you have to worry about your government taking people away to some black site, things have gotten pretty bad.
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A spider bot with the legs folded up :)
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My immediate thought was "Nazca lines of a 555? Yes". I have a Displate of a 555 in my little maker corner someone gifted me once: https://eikehein.com/assets/images/makercorner.jpg
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Philips Hue's plans to make all your lights motion sensors(theverge.com)
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Thank you!
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Yup, mine were 650 EUR a piece new with the drawers shown in the other comment from https://trolley-dolly.de/ (one of several shops I found), though it looks like they now stopped with trolley+drawers bundles. I was looking
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by sho_hn 1y ago
Since the inside dimensions and mounting rails are standard, there's lots of different compatible inserts you can get. I cheapened out a bit at that point and went with double-height plastic drawers: https://mero.ng/i&#
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by sho_hn 1y ago
This seems as good a thread as any to post this in: If you're fond of aviation aesthetics, I was recently looking for a workshop cart to occupy a 60x40 cm space and couldn't find any, until I realized that (a) standard issue half-
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It seems far too deliberate not to be so. Wonder about the reason too. Maybe dual-use with printouts? Edit: I found their reasoning: "Moreover, activity analysis has highlighted possible impairment in reading context: variations of lig
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by sho_hn 1y ago
Oh, interesting. The proportional font looked pretty terrible to me, but I threw the mono at some C++ and it's actually not unpleasant. Maybe worth a longer trial.
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And that Revelation 5/6 contain the original doomscroll.
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Maybe I'm just exhausted by the many times HN has told me I'm tilting at windmills refusing to call the Llamas of the world "open source".
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For me it was "want camera", and I chose the top SKU (P8 Pro) because I wanted maximum camera. "Buy a camera" doesn't work because (a) I don't want to pocket two devices, (b) most point-and-shoot dedicated came
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I like this point very much. That the term "sideloading" has normalized treating this as a special case is a problem. It's unlikely the terminology can be rolled back at this point, but occasionally reflecting on this is usef
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No, it's not, because, again, it's not as binary as you think it is. There's plenty of people who have good times and psychotic episodes, and during the latter they can be not collected and organized enough to dismantle safet
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by sho_hn 1y ago
Yes, I think parental controls should generally be transparent to children. That said: Let me be clear that I'm very happy I'm father to a two-year old and we have some time to figure out our "AI policy" still, and for t
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"not being sycophantic" should also be an easy decision considering that OpenAI isn't ad-funded and doesn't need to directly optimize for session length/engagement.
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In reality it's not that binary. Plenty of people can manage themselves, except during times when they can't, and then they need help. It'd be a good start if services let you enter emergency contact info, making escalation o
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I think a good first step would be if a ChatGPT user account could easily enter emergency contact information the system would notify in scenarios like this, making the escalation opt-in. The moderation tech is already there, and if there&#
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I think we solidly left this view on mental health behind when we invented civilized society.
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What I would genuinely like to see in ChatGPT and similar services are well-implemented parental controls that allow a parent to monitor a child's conversations and get reports on them.
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The exchanges between a teenager and ChatGPT leading the former into suicide are equally chilling, to say the least: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Raine... > > “I want to l
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This is a first-gen effort from Huawei, no? Plenty of resources and time to iterate.
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I would not be surprised if most of us are running Chinese silicon a decade or two from now, unless China invades Taiwan, and I also think recent events have certainly spurned CCP tech strategy and accelerated this timeline. There's a

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