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Re:Ghostty – Terminal Emulator on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:35AM (#47215663)
somehwere else in this thread this project was mentioned (uses libghostty): https://github.com/weedonandscott/trolley

that might be a viable approach for you

you might be thinking of the new KDE distro. bazzite is fedora silverblue based. iirc there's access to flatpak homebrew, as well as rpm-ostree (basically rpm) among others
There's a similar keeb, that released a couple years ago and is a fair bit cheaper (although still not /cheap/): https://www.azeron.eu/.

I can't speak about its quality as I'm not a user, but it might be of interest to you

Re:Kafka: The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:49AM (#23610624)
my first reaction was to assume kafka-the-technology exectly because of the domain name. Then i realized that the one i meant was the "New York Times", and not the "New Yorker". NYT is one of the case studies from a kafka provider [0] skimming is a double-edged sword

[0]: https://www.confluent.io/blog/publishing-apache-kafka-new-yo...

Re:Text Editing Hates You Too on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:33AM (#21385622)
the windows issue might also be caused by accidentally pressing the hotkey (alt+shift i believe) to switch layouts. it's super easy to mis-trigger
Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @04:11AM (#17455916)
i set this up for my fastmail account a couple weeks ago. go to settings -> aliases and create an alias for *

this also allows you to write from any email address in your domain (when composing, change the sender dropdown to your *-alias, and the 'from' line appears and is editable

Re:How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:09AM (#12634424)
a big problem with npm is, that a lot of package authors don't use the .npmignore [0] which leads to EVERYONE downloading your source/, test/ and docs/ folder even if only that one file in build/ is needed. That, combined with the micromodule mindset, leads to insanity

[0]: https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/developers#keeping-files-out-of-...