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by sylens 8mo ago
The article quite literally spells out how laughable a take this is
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by sylens 9mo ago
It is amazing how usable Immich is with so little hardware. I run it off a Proxmox VM with a caddy container as a reverse proxy and it just works so well. The hardest part is figuring out how to safely expose it so you can share albums with
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by sylens 9mo ago
> The bot, built using Microsoft’s cloud computing platform When is the last time there was positive news involving Microsoft? This bot could've easily been on AWS or GCP but I find it hilarious that here they are, getting dragged y
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by sylens 9mo ago
Safeguarding photos of my kids has also been my driver for moving off Google Photos over the last year. The author is hosting all his infra on AWS which makes access outside his home pretty straightforward; for those running it at home, thi
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by sylens 9mo ago
Spot on assessment of an Amazon Fresh store. Their big gimmick is a cart where you can scan your groceries as you put them in it, then you just walk through a designated check out lane and it charges your card automatically for whats inside
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by sylens 9mo ago
For anyone who self hosts their own music library with Plex or Jellyfin, I'd recommend keeping an eye on Chromatix[0]. It's a great client for Plex or Jellyfin based libraries on macOS and Windows, and a Linux version is on the ro
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by sylens 9mo ago
I thought this post was building towards talking about switching to self hosted email or Fastmail or Proton, but they went to Microsoft of all places? All of this garbage is coming to Outlook.com sooner or later
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by sylens 9mo ago
As someone who would love to buy one - can you recommend a few?
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by sylens 9mo ago
The jm21 runs Android, does that not make it a multi-purpose device without tactile, bespoke controls and against the main focus of the article? I'd also argue that the manual[0] leaves something to be desired compared to those origina
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by sylens 9mo ago
I think the author is correct to a point but I don't believe the examples they've chosen provide the best support for their case. Gen Z buying iPods and people buying N64 games again is not evidence of the monoculture breaking apa
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by sylens 9mo ago
You can’t tell the difference between a finite experience like Goldeneye or Doom and an endlessly scrolling, network connected app like TikTok, optimized to feed you what it thinks will keep you scrolling?
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by sylens 9mo ago
I was definitely somebody who rolled their eyes when people were up in arms about XP, Vista, and 7. Was OS X becoming better at the time? Sure, I’ll concede that. There were also initial driver issues with Vista and too many UAC prompts, bu
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by sylens 9mo ago
TurboTax has had a great browser-based version for over a decade now
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by sylens 9mo ago
I just switched to Orion on iOS to kick off the new year and it is MUCH better than where it was just a few months ago.
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by sylens 10mo ago
Making a video game fan site was my gateway into tech. I’m sure I’m not alone in that
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by sylens 10mo ago
That Windows 9x menu screenshot made me realize how far we’ve fallen. This entire post is a great enumeration of many of the problems I have with Tahoe and Liquid Glass
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by sylens 10mo ago
Looks great! If you have multiple AWS accounts in your org, you probably want to use something like aws-sso-util to populate your profiles so you can quickly swap between them
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by sylens 10mo ago
That's the thing - there are people who like AI, but hate Microsoft's approach to it. They draw disdain from that group of people on top of all of the people who hate AI in general. Truly a shortsighted CEO and company
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by sylens 10mo ago
I do something very similar but with seasons - I have a "Winter 2024", "Spring 2025", etc. playlist and its really nice to go back and listen to what I was into at the time
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by sylens 10mo ago
I recently broke my Hugo blog theme when updating and had to migrate to a whole new theme, it was a pain. From now on I probably won't update it
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by sylens 10mo ago
I’m running BTRFS now on a Cachy install and Steam/Proton seems fine - when did you last try?
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by sylens 10mo ago
Windows Phone 7 was doing well; for some reason they did a breaking change with Windows Phone 8 and broke app compatibility. I will never understand that, they kneecapped themselves despite being multiple laps behind Apple and Google alread
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by sylens 10mo ago
The Zune software 2.0 remains the pinnacle of Microsoft design
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by sylens 10mo ago
Thank you for reminding me that I should set up some recurring donations to the teams powering my Linux experience
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by sylens 10mo ago
If this wasn’t HN, I would swear that my personal recommendation algorithm has gotten Linux desktop-pilled and that’s why I’m seeing so many posts like these every day. But in reality I think there is a groundswell of momentum happening her
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by sylens 10mo ago
The day is probably not here for everybody (more novice-level computer users) but for PC gamers, the day has arrived. PC gamers are willing to put in a little bit of time to gain freedom from ads and tracking and the bloated corpse of Windo
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by sylens 10mo ago
When I was a kid, my Sega Genesis was connected to the TV in my parents bedroom. It made it impossible to play without their knowledge or when they were asleep.
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by sylens 10mo ago
That's really the paradigm shift - communities were self-organizing and self-moderating before. Now game publishers want to control all aspects of the online experience so they can sell you content and skins, so that means matchmaking
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by sylens 10mo ago
I've been really enjoying my experience using CachyOS on my (formerly Windows) gaming PC. I chose to use Limine and btrfs so now if it gets borked by a bad package install/uninstall I can roll back pretty easily. My next step is t
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by sylens 10mo ago
Perhaps the thing I hate most about Tahoe is the embedded rounded rectangle around the menu inside of the larger rounded rectangle window. They're trying to go for this look of a menu floating above the rest of the window it belongs to

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