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by veidr 3y ago
My use case is just regular computer use (browsers/photos/email/3D CAD/video editing), and my day job as a software engineer. I'm just one of those people who likes multiple monitors (one of the 4K is a TV on the wa
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by veidr 3y ago
This article, like many, ignores the reality that lots of setups -- especially workstations with several high-res monitors -- do not work at all, or work with enormous jank-ass caveats even bigger than the ones that come with using Wayland.
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by veidr 3y ago
I did quit it. The reason I quit it was that after trying it a bit, reading reviews, writing a couple, I noticed that it didn't help me find good books to read (which was what I hoped it would do I signed up), or do anything else to im
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by veidr 3y ago
It's not that, it's like others have said up the thread – the mental overhead of subscriptions is super annoying. (Sure, not if it was the only subscription you have, but it isn't .) I let Jetbrains lapse a lot. But certainl
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by veidr 3y ago
Deno is making it easier to move from Node to Deno in various ways lately, but it has its own philosophy (use web standards, don't adopt ideas/technologies from the past that turned out to suck, etc) so I don't think they are
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by veidr 3y ago
Deno was explicitly designed not to be that, and probably never will be that (recent steps to make it a lot easier to replace Node for some use cases notwithstanding). But it's OK if you aren't interested. It's totally norm
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by veidr 3y ago
OK, I see what you are saying, and agree. The set of injustices perpetrated by the Chinese government includes far more than just censorship.
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by veidr 3y ago
Rethink your take. Censorship is when the government prevents you from saying or publishing what you want. The government's ability to do that ultimately stems from the threat of force/violence. China's ways of doing this m
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by veidr 3y ago
It's hard to know how these things will play out, of course, but this 10-hour-old post has additional info about what the Incus team is planning. https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/introducing-incus/1778...
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by veidr 3y ago
The link in the parent post is probably the best source, particularly the line: > While the team behind Linux Containers regrets that decision and will be missing LXD as one of its projects, it does respect Canonical’s decision That team
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by veidr 3y ago
LXD is a management layer for LXC containers, which lets you do things like move/copy containers (to another host), start/stop them, create/attach/detach profiles (network settings), attach/manage various kinds of s
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by veidr 3y ago
QMK is fiddly, but VIA's web app couldn't really be much easier for the common suff. You just visit https://usevia.app in a modern browser and plug in your keyboard. Remapping keys, creating layers, and creating simple
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by veidr 3y ago
The problem with that type of conversational exaggeration is that it leaves no more room to describe actual genocidal people and groups. How would you describe those, then? "'A person who really actually literally doesn't w
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by veidr 3y ago
That isn't really a literal comparison being made -- it's maximally exaggerated, to emphasize the main point: that the negative thing being conceded vastly outweighs the positive thing being lauded. "OK, yeah, our buddy Louis
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by veidr 3y ago
I think it's better to find other people to help promote physical fitness.
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by veidr 3y ago
Not sure that's true, but I'm sure that people with good intentions who are very stupid do often cause unintended harm. (Here by "stupid" I mostly mean "unable to perceive the world accurately, relative to other peo
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by veidr 3y ago
Funny thing about fires, though: they often forget to stop burning when they get to the kids' bedroom upstairs, or the wall of the nice old granny next door...
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by veidr 3y ago
They're definitely polarizing, in the sense that some people intensely dislike them and never use them, others love them and always use them. It reminds me of the debates about font antialiasing back in the 1990s. A vocal minority of p
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by veidr 3y ago
Sounds plausible; their bikes look very similar to VanMoof, are priced in the same range, and have similar long delivery times. My point was just that there are alternative apps for VanMoof bikes. But maybe there is a more interesting point
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by veidr 3y ago
What do you mean? You have every right to repair your VanMoof; they not only didn't try to stop me, they actively encouraged me to do it myself or just go to a local bike shop every time I called them for service. I know it's a co
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by veidr 3y ago
You've probably found them already, but there are several third-party apps referenced in this thread. (And probably more useful than the VanMoof app is/was.)
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by veidr 3y ago
I have avid interest in this topic, so I clicked all your links, but I think your comment would be more helpful to the broader audience if you included some reference what those links were about, like this: 1. "OpenMoof: Keeping VanMoo
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by veidr 3y ago
There's no DRM. That seems to be a recurring misconception here. It wasn't open-source or anything, but there were already third-party apps for the bike. It's more a matter of the parts that were proprietary (motor, battery,
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by veidr 3y ago
Thanks! That's actually really useful. When I bought my last ebike in 2019, I wanted to get a model from USA that isn't sold here in Japan. Ignoring for the moment the regulatory stuff, I found that anyway the battery for ebikes w
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by veidr 3y ago
Oof, yeah, it would definitely suck if that broke, and couldn't be replaced.
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by veidr 3y ago
Oh cool, thanks. I know about those batteries, but I thought they were usually for conversion kits / DIY ebikes. But this page shows several makers that use them: https://www.bosch-ebike.com/us/service/ebike-m
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by veidr 3y ago
Oh really, like who for instance? So far I haven't seen any ebikes other than maybe the no-brand ones on Amazon that do this. (But I would like to know about them if they exist.)
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by veidr 3y ago
This is true, but I mean, it's a bicycle . The maintenance in 4 years of daily-driving my VanMoof X2 has been some grease, and new brake pads. But as somebody else said in this thread, the battery is another matter. Once that goes,
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by veidr 3y ago
In the specific case of VanMoof, their app isn't strictly required after the bike is set up initially. But the point of the battery is dead-on. Unfortunately, AFAIK virtually all ebikes on the market use proprietary batteries. Do you k
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by veidr 3y ago
Rival ebike maker Cowboy is making an app[0] that supports some VanMoof bikes and they say it will support more models in future. Meanwhile, you can download your bike's encryption key and passcode from this other website[1]. It appear

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