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Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:17AM (#50004907)
That's a good way to describe it. The fork and seatpost are both missing the tubes that run through the frame. It's like someone cut up a photo of a bike instead of assembling it from parts. Even then the front wheel has very little clearance with the frame and the rear way too much. Also inconsistent that the chainrings stay with the chain but the cassette moves away.
Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? on Thursday June 08, 2023 @05:11PM (#36249128)
I switched over to Pop OS and Regolith 2 about a month ago and I'm very happy with it, it's the same experience as using it with Ubuntu.

I have had some trouble with the Pop Shop leaking memory, freezing, and crashing, but you can disable it and use Gnome Software if you want a gui.

For what it's worth, when I modified the dialer app to add a feature the developer didn't want, I discovered that there is a nag built into every screen that triggers randomly for "unofficial" versions: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Commons/blob/5ad...
Re:Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:19PM (#29008151)
Just to be clear, is apple's icloud photo storage E2EE? From what I've been able to find it isn't, but I couldn't find anything official one way or the other from apple directly.
Re:CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative on Saturday August 07, 2021 @10:11AM (#28098714)
I've been very happy with this fork of newpipe that has sponsorblock built-in (it's been kept up to date with upstream so far): https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

It started with this rejected PR: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/3205

Re:Persisting as a solo founder on Sunday August 23, 2020 @11:08AM (#24252427)
Looks like an interesting podcast! Unfortunately, my podcast client doesn't load anything earlier than episode 22, and Spotify doesn't either - it looks like the RSS feed doesn't contain the earlier episodes. Is that expected behavior?

I was particularly surprised to learn that Moodle is open-source. I used it in school before the world of software development and open-source was on my radar.

Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) on Thursday May 28, 2020 @09:56AM (#23337256)
Is there a way to do this for the maps search? I only see an option to change the directions provider.
Re:Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:01AM (#23234942)
> KeepassCX + FF extension: Works decently for password management. Though there's no solution for FF mobile as far as I know.

Not sure what mobile platform you use, but on Android I have been very happy with Keepass2Android (https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android). It uses the android password-manager API so you get autofill (or at least a quick-access button) on login fields in both apps and websites.

Edit: It also supports a lot of methods for syncing the keepass database between devices, I point it to a directory that's managed by Syncthing and it works pretty flawlessly.

Re:Show HN: ASCII Art with Overstrike on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @11:27PM (#19042328)
Wow, those are some impressive results! I've been wanting to do some ascii art on a dot-matrix printer for a little while now, and I was thinking of something similar to your "sub-pixel rendering" but had no idea how to research/implement it. I look forward to reading through your code and references more, and I really appreciate the history that you've written up here.