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Re:Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:17AM (#49575819)
This would be a pair great with Gadgetbridge and Endurain.

https://gadgetbridge.org/

https://endurain.com/

Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @01:19PM (#49171916)
I was recently surprised to see that AOE2DE captures my microphone on ubuntu even when I toggle the in-game settings to not do so.
Re:Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for World Makers on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:08PM (#48361941)
What made it awful? I have been using a Surface Pro with fedora as my main portable device for the last 2 years and enjoyed it.
Re:Just got a MacBook Pro for work; what are your tips? on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:08PM (#37384455)
you are correct. however this allows you to keep touch pad scrolling separate from mousewheel scrolling that will otherwise be tied together
Re:Just got a MacBook Pro for work; what are your tips? on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:12PM (#37383874)
disable mouse acceleration and install unnatural scroll wheel to flip scrolling direction

https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels

no pun intended, actual typo caught in the wild ;)
Especially on my phone I have actively disabeled all spelling control, and successively suggestive typing.

writing a sentence while making it, I feel too much the words are being forced on me.

Where as it can be a great tool, I like to exercise my mind, the same reason I calculated all Matrix determinants with pen and paper when I started my engineering degree.

Some people may go to the gym and work out, but I am like to just squeese in exercise within my bicyle commute.

Sometimes there may be greater projects requiring more heavy tech, but for housekeeping I honestly dont mind harvesting the synergies of planning and doing things by myself.

if you have an old surface tablet, this is really great with linux surface kernel

[ https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface ]

I am pretty sure you can use the sports tracking functions in garmin without an account, if not, at least without connecting the watch to a phone. You just need to connect with usb to copy the activity file (.fit) which can be converted to tsv.

regarding the passive tracking I dont have a clue

I am a long time Garmin user, and sync to runalyze, when paired with a hear rate chest strap, they also calculate a breathing rate
dont you need to hold both hands on the watch to get this from apple?
Re:KeePassXC Audit Report on Saturday April 15, 2023 @05:54PM (#35584940)
Not KeePassDX which is in F-Droid?
Re:Why are weather apps still so terrible these days? on Monday April 10, 2023 @06:43PM (#35518287)
there is always a good moment to 'curl wttr.in'
Re:Why are weather apps still so terrible these days? on Monday April 10, 2023 @06:40PM (#35518260)
https://yr.no works great for northern europe
Re:DIYtouchpad on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:33AM (#35479538)
there is an interesting interview with Federico Faggin from Synaptics explaining how they created their touchpad in this youtube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SonkKtxZx8w
If you are on an android phone what supports shelter[1], I can recommend installing "social" apps inside the shelter, and just sleep the apps when you don't use them.

In regards to windows, it feels to me as morphing into a solution for large corporations if disregarding the tabloid news while leaving private users just waiting for a friendly OS to be presented for them.

[1] https://github.com/PeterCxy/Shelter

not only uracil and niacin, also other molecules:

'''revealing that a wide range of organic compounds such as racemic non-protein type amino acids, alkylamines, carboxylic acids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and nitrogen heterocyclic molecules are present in the aqueous or organic extracts'''

from the linked paper.

racemic mix refers to the equal amout of stereoisomers

this comments reminds me about owning a mac and installing a github repo to allow mouse scrolling directio to not be tied to touch pad scrolling
Re:Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:16PM (#35049810)
just a few days late to get me to use outlook ... just last friday I was installing outlook to open a .msg file with attachments, the hassle of having to setup an account was enough to uninstall again and asses if I trusted a pip package to extract it for me. Much respect to those open source developers.

https://github.com/TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor

OsmAnd worked great with multitouch on my old ms surface (fedora+waydroid) but now it crashes after a few seconds. I hope to get it up and running, it is amazing for offline maps on such a big screen.
I hope they will be as creative as in Michigan once they find a machine powerful enough: https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/travel/safety/road-users/winte...
Re:Getting Started with Tmux on Sunday December 11, 2022 @10:15AM (#33943846)
My favorite mod is something simple as renumbering the windows/tabs to range starting at 1, rather than being zero indexed, this way they align with the digits on my keyboard.
Ahh, thanks for clarifying! Yes, in that case it is very appreciated to see recent updates.
I have been using mosh on and off, and actually appreciated that the software was so robust that it just works without frequent updates, and as far as I understand, most security is in ssh, so there would not really be a need for a new version.
Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:16AM (#33730961)
yes, that is a good saving, The 3D printed plastic by itself is around USD 140, and the magnets around 40.

Here are the links I used back in 2018:

https://www.shapeways.com/product/965KNUESR/melinda-s-2x2x2x...

http://www.gaussboys.com/store/index.php/catalogsearch/resul...

Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand on Thursday November 24, 2022 @04:32AM (#33729356)
too late back here to edit, so just another post to share another implementation of 2x2x2x2 I have come across:

https://github.com/roman-tershak/4DMC-Model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L0vkK_z0gM

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