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Re:Phone is about to stop being yours on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @11:35PM (#47943918)
doesn't waydroid already do this? is that how sailfish does it?
Re:LineageOS 23 on Monday October 13, 2025 @10:15AM (#45568571)
I'm using Graphene but honestly the biggest thing is that Lineage devs wouldn't care if you root, while Graphene devs obviously do because it screws the whole point of Graphene
Re:Human writers have always used the em dash on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:13AM (#45250004)
No, its a hyphen you used. - vs – vs — (hyphen, en, em). Most android keyboards make typing the em dash easy, and there are plenty of ways to set it up on desktop
Re:Human writers have always used the em dash on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:11AM (#45249976)
Only after, not before.
Re:Human writers have always used the em dash on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:10AM (#45249969)
Espanso can be set up to make it easier, along with Powertoys on Windows and alt+shift+dash on the mac keyboard layout
Re:Human writers have always used the em dash on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:09AM (#45249954)
I set up espanso to replace -= with the em dash when I type because I like its aesthetic. I used to use the compose key, and on Windows I'd had an AHK shortcut for it. On Android GBoard has the em dash as an option which long pressing on the dash, while FUTO makes it available just from the letter g.
Re:Human writers have always used the em dash on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:07AM (#45249932)
but that looks worse, it's horrible.

i have espanso set up to quick replace "-=" with — on desktop and on my phone i use futo keyboard, which has the aesthetically inspring em dash one hold and swipe on the h key away.

I think they did fix Linux support intentionally for Linux users iirc
Re:Why I use Firefox on Friday March 01, 2024 @10:55PM (#39569658)
Mostly agree but Firefox does not have the best Android extensions. Kiwi thrashes Firefox and Iceraven is better too with support for custom ones
Re:The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 on Friday March 01, 2024 @08:11AM (#39561429)
I disagree. For me, it's superior.
Re:The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 on Friday March 01, 2024 @08:11AM (#39561421)
GNOME is better than macos imo
I think you can remove it by disabling play protect, no?
Re:Google Chrome goes native for Windows on Arm on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @09:49AM (#39190678)
Linux-dedicated hardware is growing so I do think this will be avoidable. They might not be on ARM but they will likely still be sold and exist (unlike with mobile where say a Linux phone is unusable).
Re:Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @09:43AM (#39190609)
Brave is homophobic (to slightly oversimplify). Why not Vivaldi?
Re:Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone on Friday January 05, 2024 @08:15AM (#38878722)
There's no PM function on HN, but I'm interested.
Re:Orion Browser by Kagi on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @10:22PM (#38455090)
But they are going after google maps. There's a beta "Kagi maps" on their maps tab
I'n a proud adblock user but that makes no sense. High quality video storage & streaming is costly.
Smarttube fir Android TV?
Piped & Libretube here, Lighttube also has awesome UI
Re:Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:17PM (#38373278)
This. I'm on EndeavorOS on crappy hardware as my only device, and I daily drive Firefox, but sometimes, Firefox simply doesn't load a website (i.e. coveragemap), and for this reason I have Chromium on the device in case. Also, Firefox crashes when I have too many tabs open.
Re:Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:14PM (#38373252)
…use Librewolf, then?
Re:Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @08:00AM (#37927434)
Invidious and piped do not require an ad blocker and do not use an ad blocker
Re:Tell HN: "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube” on Saturday October 14, 2023 @09:16PM (#37885889)
I guess something could detect if the frame shown is a frame from the video and if not skip
Re:Metric Time on Saturday October 14, 2023 @09:08PM (#37885851)
It's been explicitly highlighted to me before that the calendar in the French Revolution is called the French Republican Clendar and not the French Revolutionary Calendar, so I'd assum the same is true and it would be French Republican Time
Re:Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem on Saturday October 14, 2023 @08:58PM (#37885784)
That's the point of stuff like alt dragging or super dragging
Re:Alert: No Google Topics in Vivaldi on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @09:11AM (#37480630)
Can't we also enable random data
Tasky
F droid does this already
I try to avoid them as much as possible. On play store people using the free version were essentially blackmailed to switching to pro calendar (or lose their data), and even if I use F Droid version that's unethical. Pity there's no other FOSS Material you Calendar. I don't use any of their other apps.
Libretube, Newpipe

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