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brenticus ,

On principal I don't use cloud-based password management solutions like this, but Proton Pass does make it somewhat tempting, especially since I have a Proton Unlimited subscription anyways. KeepassXC + syncthing do well enough, but PAM integration would be kind of nice some days when I'm opening and closing my vault a ton.

An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? (sh.itjust.works)

You're twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You'll be leaving for Grandma's in about a half hour, and she's lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is...

brenticus ,

Unciv works perfectly fine on a phone if you feel like risking significant amounts of your time (:

brenticus ,

This is how I do it. I may never stop actually having that gmail account in use due to the number of accounts tied to it, but I at least can use other services going forward without losing tons of stuff.

brenticus ,

Honestly, it's halfway correct, if I need to go into the office I'd rather be able to interact with people IRL. Most of my work unit tries to be there on Mondays for that reason.

The caveats are that I'd still rather not be there at all and that our office sucks so most people are at least as effective at home anyways.

brenticus ,

Nord Light was also pretty good when I tried it. I waffle back and forth between light and dark themes now and then and there's always a few good options that brighten the space without flashbanging you.

brenticus ,

Framework is a private company so they need to agree to be bought. I don't know enough about the leadership to be able to say the likelihood of accepting an offer, but it's not just a thing that automatically happens because Dell has a lot of money.

brenticus ,

I'm curious to see where they go next. A lot of modern consumer electronics have repairability and upgradeability problems, but I also wouldn't expect they'd be able to crack into the phone market as easily as the laptop market, so presumably there's some more niche target they have.

brenticus ,

There are lots of ways to approach meaning, and more broadly spirituality and community, without theism.

This is a weird take on atheism that reads like you've only seen atheists online creeping out of /r/atheism or some similar place. There's no more reason that "why" should be answered by Christianity than by any number of philosophies that don't require a god, and pegging someone as arrogant for ascribing to those beliefs is silly.

brenticus ,

Usually I hate this, I'm using man for a reason, but sometimes I'm scrolling through a novel-length man page thinking that maybe most of this information needs to be anywhere else.

brenticus ,

If I would stop spending so much time modifying (read: breaking) it it probably would be more productive. I love the ergonomics of my setup.

But also wouldn't it be cool to add just one more fancy widget to my already janky-as-fuck eww bar? No? Well I'll do it anyways.

brenticus ,

The reason you don't see a lot of love for Manjaro is because your experience isn't quite typical. Manjaro is notorious for taking Arch and making it less stable. It's mostly Arch with some defaults and software to make it easier to set up, but the few cases where it drifts from Arch tend to cause more issues than if you just used Arch directly.

brenticus ,

It's a good philosophy, to be sure. It doesn't take many migrations to realize that keeping your files in open, easy to read formats is preferable.

I also use obsidian, but I do sometimes worry that the linking and metadata will be difficult to work with in the future when the software goes away. It's all there in the files, but my vault is slowly linking together in interesting ways that rely on obsidian functionality.

brenticus ,

It's tricky for sure. The plain text is great, and all the functionality is built off of plain text (even the canvas!), but replicating the functionality isn't trivial by any stretch of the imagination. Migration is easier because of the text files, but will it be as easy to see the links between notes? Or query all the notes I need more detail in? Or map it all out visually?

I think reimplementing the core obsidian functionality in a FOSS clone would be fun... except I already have a queue of projects and not a lot of time, so here I am complaining instead 🤷

brenticus ,

Logseq is a great alternative. It's very much not a clone, though. It has a different paradigm on how it views notes and the functionality isn't exactly 1:1.

brenticus ,

Have you ever followed a group account?

It's basically that, but with what sounds like some functionality to make them easier to create and find for users of their app/server/API.

The couple I've seen boost my posts in the wild seemed more like bot accounts that just boosted what they saw in the hashtags I used, but it sounds like some of them are probably a bit more curated.

brenticus ,

Every time I spend four hours figuring out how to get one tiny little thing working better in vim I find another even smaller issue that I desperately need to dig in to, and thus my actual personal projects never get worked on. I should just give up and call "tweaking my vimrc" a hobby.

Remaking Podcasts For Text - Podcasts are far and away the great example of how RSS can empower creators. Today’s thought experiment: How can we bring these benefits to written content? (tedium.co)

I haven't thought enough about it to endorse these ideas, but it seems like a really interesting discussion and one the open source development community ought to be thinking about...

brenticus ,

I think this article starts with an interesting premise (basically: RSS works to support podcast content creators, how can we make it work for written content creators?) and... misses the point.

Podcasts can make a lot of money off of sponsors and advertising that listeners are less likely to skip over. Maybe you're busy doing something else when the ad comes on, maybe you don't clue in that it's an ad right away, maybe you just don't know how long it is so as you skip around you hear enough anyways. Advertising works in an audio format.

Text content can't advertise as effectively. Your eyes can just skip over to the next part you care about. Adblockers work pretty well. A reader is way less likely to engage with advertisement, so it's going to pay less, so written content creators are going to make less. Usually to the point that they can't support themselves with it.

None of the author's points really address that. The problem isn't with the RSS standard, it's with the format and how it can make money.

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    brenticus ,

    Mizuki from One Punch Man.

    I forgot her name, but I knew "one punch man thigh crush" would be a good search to find out.

    brenticus ,

    DRM in many games doesn't work on Linux. In some cases, like games that use EAC, this is technically just a checkbox at build time where they decide not to support Linux.

    There are also some weird libraries and low-level interfaces that refuse to even work through wine/proton, but that's pretty rare nowadays. You have to be actively trying to find something that won't work at all on Linux.

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