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As a non mac user who's had to setup xcode and an apple dev account for the first time ever to compile and publish an app store app update for my company - the entire thing soured me on ever even attempting mobile app development.

It really surprised me what mobile devs put up with, just an utterly horrible hostile experience.

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:31PM (#50266786)
How have I not heard of hints mode before, that is amazing. Thanks for pointing it out I need to go remember some new hotkeys now.
Re:Why Gopher in 2026? on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:59AM (#50232242)
There is a go port of reticulum which I've used with success https://github.com/Quad4-Software/Reticulum-Go

There are also a few variants of Rust ports too (i like https://github.com/zevaryx/rettui for a full nomadnet replacement)

Re:Pi.dev: You Said No MCP on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:10AM (#49909252)
Oh thank you for mentioning it has vim mode that's been my only gripe and I had no idea it had it. don't know if it's new or not never noticed the setting.
FWIW I have Bose Frames which are great and do the same thing minus the camera.
Re:Self-hosting my photos with Immich on Saturday December 06, 2025 @08:23AM (#46173161)
I've never understood it either. I still deploy some things into their own respective manual deployments but for lots of things having a pre-made docker compose means I can throw it on my general app VM and it'll take 5 seconds to spin up and auto get HTTPS certs and DNS. Then I don't lose hours when I get two days into using something and realize it's not for me.

Also have you read some of the setup instructions for some of these things? I'd be churning out 1000 lines of ansible crap.

Either way since Proxmox 9.1 has added at least initial support for docker based containers the whole argument's out the window anyway.

Re:Helm v4.0.0 on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @12:33PM (#45903026)
I don't think I've ever seen a Helm template that didn't invoke nightmares. Probably the biggest reason I moved away from Kubernetes in the first place.
Re:A unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @11:51AM (#45902438)
I love this idea actually. Might have to do the same thing
Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:09AM (#45680920)
This is very useful to me and I had no idea, thanks for pointing that feature out!
Re:Live Stream from the Namib Desert on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:50AM (#45617447)
I have had this set for a while now and anytime I see someone elses youtube page I am horrified.

Probably the first setting I would recommend for anyone to enable.

I've had better experience with Armcrest cameras but same setup. Moved from using Arlo to a completely local setup and do not regret it one bit.

Worst part was just running ethernet to the spots where the cameras needed to go (only crawlspace access) but nice not having to charge batteries and even nicer knowing i'm not sending video to netgear anymore.

Actually surprised I never stumbled on this while I was looking for an IRC client. I ended up on on The Lounge for a while and that's always been pretty good.

Will give this a go because I would always prefer a native client in the first place and this looks excellent!

Re:PyPI Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @10:37AM (#44952032)
FWIW I am unable to register a gmail for an account I deleted probably 8 years ago at this point. That said I don't know if there is anywhere where it explicitly outlines if it is or is not possible.
Re:The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git on Friday August 15, 2025 @09:11PM (#44919099)
Same and never understood why it wasn't the default from the get go but maybe it wasn't so synonymous when it first came out.

I run a small git LFS server because of this and will be happy to switch away the second I can get git to natively support S3.

I used to really like the minis but I had to basically e-waste two of them because the ethernet went bad (lightning strike i think) and there was really no way to replace them and the OS would crash from hardware issues from it.
Re:We've got to stop sending files to each other on Thursday July 17, 2025 @08:47AM (#44592752)
To be fair you can't really control that either. Nothing stops someone from just copy and pasting or taking a screenshot of the data.
I've had great success with using propolis[0] on burns and wounds. Definitely anecdotal but the ones I've used it on have definitely healed faster.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propolis

Re:ChatGPT is my static site generator on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @12:47PM (#44311426)
In my experience, LLMs happily generate just as much unmaintainable code as Dreamweaver ever did.
Re:ChatGPT is my static site generator on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @12:46PM (#44311414)
I don't really see where it saves any time. You still have to build the initial template. Then every time you post you go copy and paste that template into ChatGPT?

I guess you could write a script that reads your template and body and submits the whole thing to chatgpt API then dumps out the file. But you also have to double check the whole thing again to make sure it didn't mess anything up or change any text?

But then all you do is invent a shittier SSG that costs more money and more resources for literally no benefit.

Seems dumb

Re:ChatGPT is my static site generator on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @12:27PM (#44311249)
Seems extremely.... wasteful?

Why use something that can take next to no CPU and instead use massive energy sucking LLM?

A handy mostly straightforward UI with built in backup/restore and other useful tools.

It's hardly a requirement but if someone is just starting to learn, proxmox has lots of documentation on how to do things and the UI keeps you from footgunning yourself copy/pasting config code off websites/LLM too much.

I've been an AirVPN customer for years and really no complaints. They aren't the most flashy or advertised but have never failed me!
Spoken truly like someone who's never wanted to follow their favorite sports team in their life.
Re:Curate Your Shell History on Friday June 06, 2025 @12:39PM (#44202607)
This is the absolute first thing I ever install now. The amount of time it saves me is immeasurable.

There's no way I'm going to manually curate every command I type, I've got actual work to do.

To be fair it's not hard, there is no shortage of things to complain about.
Part of the whole reason I like Garmin is because the data is easily accessible without "storing it in the cloud".

I gladly accept the openness given the alternative is to just trust some company with it and hope they one day don't take away my ability to access the data directly without some kind of subscription.

Re:Why I Built My Own Audio Player on Friday May 23, 2025 @10:57AM (#44073485)
Never seen Symfonium before going to have to give that a try looks great!.

I've been using Plex+PlexAmp for a while but have been really wanting to move to something outside of that.

I use DNS verification for this then the server doesn't even need to be exposed to the internet.
I built up an AI Agent using n8n and email doing exactly this. Works great and was surprised I'd not seen any other place kicking the idea around.

Probably my favorite use case is I can shoot it shopping receipts and it'll roughly parse them and dump the line item and cost into a spreadsheet before uploading it to paperless-ngx.

Re:Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11 on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @03:21PM (#43550439)
I could have definitely used this a few weeks ago! Very nice.

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