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Re:CSS-Tricks in Limbo on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:18AM (#49710776)
Has Shopify given money to Omarchy too? Or more so because now Tailwind is owned by someone larger?
I'm actually in need of a new hot water tank and have been looking for a heat pump one. Wonder if these will be available in Australia, and how they compare to the current range.
Re:How I released a game that has no assets [video] on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:25PM (#49203487)
N.B. I am not the maker of the game
Living in Australia, and travelling to Europe last Christmas as a family of 4, I really wanted to get the direct London to Perth flight, but connecting flights didn't line up. Being able to do Melbourne or Sydney would be great. Not needing to deal with connections, and cutting 6+ hours off the total travel time sounds amazing, possibly getting us there a day earlier, meaning more time for Greggs vegan sausage rolls.
I tried using omp, and really like the interface, but I found it used tokens much much quicker than the Claude cli. Some simple tasks would use all the session tokens in less than an hour, as where I could get easily get 3-4 hours with Claude. Both set to use opus 4.8 auto effort. I tried tweaking the models for agents down to haiku and sonnet in omp, but didn't notice any real difference in the speed tokens were being used.
Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @12:49AM (#48756686)
Checked my Pixel 7 XL Pro and the app is installed and running (Version 1.0.866414232 com.google.android.verifier). I was able to force stop it, and disable it. Will check later to see if reenables itself.
Re:OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1 on Saturday June 27, 2026 @02:25AM (#48695710)
Wonder if the Yogscast Jingle Jam will use v16 in this year's stream. Might stop Duncan crashing so many trains if they're all driving slower backwards.
Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users on Friday June 19, 2026 @01:38AM (#48595149)
I've had a Golf from new since 2016. I love it. It's the only car I bought new (only car I've ever bought actually), and wanted one since renting cars when I lived in the UK (had no need to own a car (cycle/public transport), so only rented as needed). I recently started looking for at EVs just to be prepared in a few years and know where things are at, and I honestly doubt I would get an VW car now. Unfortunately, I'm not expecting there to be anything much better, with most companies locking things down more and more, adding more tracking, etc.. Perhaps it'll just be better to buy a several year old EV.
Not ashamed to say that visiting the UK again for the first time in about 12 years, getting some Boots/Tesco/Greggs meal deals was on my to-do list. Something I missed moving to Australia. Not that they are _good_, just that they are so readily available, cheap, and have a lot of choices. Woolworths in AU have started doing premade sandwiches, but they are just bad, and don't come in a deal. I doubt they would even try to hit the A$10 price range if they ever did introduce deals.
Exactly the same. I haven't played an Persona game but hear it come up on some podcasts and wanted to try it out. In fact, P5R is on sale right now for 80% off and would happily pay the A$20 for it, but it still includes Denuvo.
Re:You Don't Need a Vector Database on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:11AM (#47297475)
I was genuinely surprised just how easy it was to get a fully working RAG set up with Postgres. It was a few hours over a weekend to get something "working" and then probably a bit less time a following weekend to have a nicer database structure and rebuild it learning from the mistakes during the first attempt. The harder part comes next, because that involves multiple tables of user provided data, multi tenancy with a shared core vector schema, and all the actual business logic, so I've put it all on hold for a real breakdown now, but I wouldn't expect it to be much of a problem with what I've found so far with pgvector, and Postgres in general.
Re:You Don't Need a Vector Database on Sunday March 08, 2026 @09:43AM (#47297261)
If you need to store vector, surely the easiest solution is to run `CREATE EXTENSION vector`. When, or if, you need more, then look at alternatives, but I'm sure most people will have a much easier time just adding it to their existing database.
There is a fork called PipePipe[0] too, that also implements SponsorBlock

0: https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe

Well, I was already thinking we need to move away from localstack, I guess this gives me a deadline for when I need to have it done by. Open to recommendations to replace S3 and SQS for local/CI tests.
No. Please don't. Contribute to something like Heroic Launcher instead. Don't create something new just for GOG. Help make the existing tools better. It'll mean GOG has to do less work, and the programs people are already using will get better. Or even just sponsor Heroic so they can send more time we can working on it themselves.
I too was looking forward to Ladybird, until the main author revealed his political alignment, which is alas, not something I can support (https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and...).
Not sure I'm at the regret stage, but the 3D printer has been sitting mostly unused, and I'm not sure that'll change. There have been a few things that were good to print, but mostly used to print fidget toys for the kids and their mates.
Re:Core Devices keeps stealing our work on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @01:54AM (#45962127)
Like many others here, I was excited to hear pebble return, and have a Time 2 on preorder, but will be cancelling it if I don't hear a positive outcome from this.
Been using Yaak for 6-9 months now, initially built from source, but now a paying subscriber. Recently saw that you post open metrics[1] on subscriber count and revenue, and love getting a little look behind the curtains.

[1]: https://yaak.app/open

Re:BCacheFS is being disabled in the openSUSE kernels 6.17+ on Thursday September 11, 2025 @06:53PM (#45216918)
Might be harder to keep running ZFS on Linux after 6.18

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-write-cache-pages

Re:I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself on Saturday August 02, 2025 @06:58PM (#44772426)
I got the app wrong, it was Uber. I have my phone set to English (UK) and change the measurement system to metric. Uber doesn't respect that though, so it keeps using miles.
Re:I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself on Saturday August 02, 2025 @06:56PM (#44772400)
Ah, thank you, this was it. I had the language set to English (UK), but changed the distance setting to KM. I got the app wrong, it was Uber, and Uber doesn't respect the override, so it always uses miles. Changing it to English (Australia) and Uber switches KM.

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