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Re:If you love a website, back it up on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:20AM (#50339131)
I've been using Archivebox for years also, but it recent years it started to have multiple issues. My queues are full of pages that failed to scan, and it's been several versions since I actually had anything new there.

I did small amount of troubleshooting a few times with no resolution, but now I'm thinking of switching my thought process. Maybe something like a "web clipper" is much better, as complex SPA pages often fail to archive well anyway. And I should focus on content itself, not the page. That SingleFile extension fits well here as well.

Did you run into similar dilemmas at some point?

When I used Sonatype Nexus a lot, every time I said Nexus, some network engineer thought of a Cisco. Or google device.

It's a widely overused name, in general.

Re:An ad-free Android TV on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:00AM (#50162314)
Just try them, it's not a big investment as they all work with vanilla server. You will appreciate default Jellyfin client more :)

I'm on Moonfin right now. I tested a few of them. They all looked super good, but turned out they were all super buggy. Unusable, even. Moonfin is OK.

Yet still, I come back to Jellyfin all the time. It's missing some bells and whistles, but it works in a predictable way.

Re:Creating a Garmin "MCP" on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:46AM (#50100978)
I love it as it supports some weird devices that were abandoned or require Chinese data residency for them to sync.

How is it working for you in Garmin for sleep tracking? I tried it a few years ago and loved it at first, but then noticed how incorrect sleep data was.

Re:Creating a Garmin "MCP" on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:43AM (#50100952)
But how real of a problem that is?

I wander often on many smartwatch/sport tracking forums/subreddits, and it's fairly frequent that people ask how to deal with smoothing and get back raw data. Some love how Garmin smooths out a race track run for them and make gps trail stick perfectly to a lane. Some pull their hair out seeing their lake run being smoothed out to make it look like they jumped over fences and private properties.

I often find my garmin traces confusing as well, it's not objectively better.

Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:02AM (#50052386)
I guess gaming, but I do touch type. Both of those things combined made me use left control key mostly with the top of my pinky. This way I don't have to twist my hand that much.

When I use multiple modifiers (with alt and shift as well), I use it "normally".

Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:03AM (#50017051)
> and Macs offer ⌘ Command, ⌥ Option, ⌃ Control, and ⇧ Shift

This is traumatizing for me. I tried to switch to a mac for home use and failed because of keyboard handling. Using Polish diacritics (made with right alt) wasn't obvious at first. I was able to switch keyboard settings to mimic Linux/Windows, but it's just not there. Control and Command confusion haunts me. I dropped the platform because of this and know a few people who stayed on iphones, but also dropped Macs because of keyboard.

I once tried to "find myself" on linkedin search bar on someone else's Mac. I though "I got this, I'm a mac user now!" and managed to close the browser tab and open some random programs...

I admire people who jump between those platforms. Even more for languages that don't have standardized alphabet mappings, like Bulgarian (it seems they don't have consensus there).

Re:Ncdu: An Updated Fork on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:38AM (#49962623)
The correct link should be rather this post directly, than repo.

https://dev.yorhel.nl/doc/ncdu2

Post actually explains what's going on.

Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:57AM (#49874890)
google.com is like the guy in the old joke:

- What's your best skill?

- I can count really fast!

- What's 432*567

- 912

- You sure? Sounds off!

- Hard to tell, but it was fast, wasn't it?!

My wife loves bulk book hauls. Those places that we frequent, work like a literal permanent discount warehouse - books in high shelves, on pallets, everywhere. Often hundreds of issues of the same one.

But there is so many books there that no one want's to read. Hundreds of the same book lying there for months or years.

Same for public book-sharing "libraries" (small shelves that look like bird house, usually in parks etc). People really like them and there are many in my city, but most books there are products of a gone era and a gone mindset. No one want's that even for free.

We were taught respect for books, but not everything is worth preserving.

Re:F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:01PM (#49832611)
Try F-Droid basic, it has this for a few weeks.
Re:F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:00PM (#49832589)
Do you use a lot of apps with that?

I tried it with 3 random apps for a while, but instantly got into issues. Two stopped updating due to Obtanium falling behind how app releases - for instance, developer changed version numbering scheme but Obtanium didn't expect that, so an outdated version was always presented. It wasn't fixed for quite a while.

Re:F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom on Thursday September 24, 2026 @11:44AM (#49832307)
Yes. F-droid allows that, you can have multiple repositories and ... a few of those even exist :)

I'm using that with 2.0 (or rather with F-droid Basic, but I noticed Basic was updated to the same that is described in article, but a while ago). It works just fine.

Re:Best LLM for every budget, updated daily on Thursday September 24, 2026 @11:33AM (#49832109)
I do, but via OpenRouter. Outside of work my use cases are small and cheaper models do great job at those. I noticed even if I "burn tokens like crazy" I still pay less than any subscription available (a few $ a month).

But I guess if I had an agent vibecoding on it's own, I'd go with subscription instantly.

Re:DaVinci Resolve 21.1 on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:56PM (#49730610)
Thanks.

My question was a more of "yes/no" one. So far every time I tried, DaVinci didn't work at all. Not slowly. It completely refused to work on intel integrated graphics, specifically.

Re:Fastpotify on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:30AM (#49622648)
Yet it was mentioned over 50 times under this submission. So I guess it is.
Re:DaVinci Resolve 21.1 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:35PM (#49612697)
Anyone knows if there os support for Intel integrated graphics in Resolve now?

I tried it a few times but I think it didn't work at all with those cards.

Re:Fastpotify on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:44AM (#49533987)
It's music discovery. And last.fm does it well, always have.
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:50AM (#49519224)
> Spotify has always been terrible.

It wasn't, really. At least not completely. I fully agree on the algorithm - I miss times of scrobbling to Last.fm, which was much better at this. (Spotify always supported scrobbling to Last.fm from their client, surprisingly).

Spotify used to be snappy and worked really well on Linux. I even used it for local libraries, as it was one of the few options that didn't crash on mine.

It was at the beautiful time when we realized web apps can have local storage, Google released that experiment called Chrome to "show public how modern browser can evolve and inspire other browser makers how to progress". We know it ended up in "extinguish the market with it", unfortunately.

But Spotify chose native app approach - they distributed it as packages. Deezer on the other hand, back then (I don't know now) had just native web app that could pull music locally. I think it was an extension of Chrome (?). It also worked perfectly fine on Linux, almost two decades ago.

We had a lot of decent options back then.

Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:29AM (#49462514)
OK, can you provide specific cases/articles about it? I'm curious what can EU do with a merger of companies that are not legal identities within EU.

It's different for their local counterparts, but the original companies?

Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:41AM (#49461255)
They absolutely should, but what would be their impact on American companies buying each other out?
Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives on Monday August 24, 2026 @03:32AM (#49416327)
Why does it have almost 400 upvotes, while it's serving an up to date cert signed by Certificate Authority expired in 2024 ? Do people really ignore such issue and click through warnings so easily?

It would be better to have a pure http site, instead.

Re:BSDun – FreeBSD ELF support for the Linux kernel on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:51AM (#49358842)
This is so cool. I was always impressed by how smooth linux binary execution is on FreeBSD, even solid 20+ years ago. Nice to this can work the other way around.
Re:OpenLogi on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:53AM (#49358377)
I always thought this is a rule of thumb, but then I learned that wireless gamepads for popular consoles (back then it was PS3/PS4 era) don't really follow that pattern. I came across multiple tests where older wireless PS controllers and xbox controllers were consistently more responsive in practice.

For modern ones there are some cool posts like this one [1], where most of the time there "were no statistically significant difference", or even wireless was more responsive.

Gamepads always impressed me - they can deliver insanely good response times while streaming high quality audio with no lag. I never found other BT accessories for phones/computers that were even close to that smooth experience.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/m020e3/dualsense_wired...

Re:Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:49AM (#49207595)
Is that something that can be backed by data?

If not, I have anecdotal counter info: saw a lot of work of a small team doing hardware testing/evaluation for a hardware reseller. Often using Chinese sources. Typical "our brand is good, but has to be slightly cheaper than competition". Some manufacturers are really good. But a lot of them send hardware so bad that it will electrocute you instantly. Which is wild in that profession - the whole point of sending samples to client is for them to disassemble it to asses quality. This is literally the only scenario, so any lie is instantly discovered.

One company asked for immediate return of a prototype because a client ordered a batch, but they don't know how was it made. They had zero documentation and had to check what was inside.

Re:Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management on Monday August 03, 2026 @11:37AM (#49157204)
I don't disagree here. I just pointed out that above commenter seems to dispute the author without having read the article in full. Turns out, some of us are just bad at communication :)
Re:Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management on Monday August 03, 2026 @06:57AM (#49154046)
> A tool doesn't accomplish anything on its own. A tool is a means to an end.

Let's be fair, this article is about this exactly.

> That is a question that, the more that I look at it, seems completely wrong. (...) How does anyone measure what the contribution of a piece of software is to the world? (...) The tool doesn't make the contribution. The tool enables people to make contributions to the world.

and then tries to challenge quoted articles again to prove/disprove those words.

Re:Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:20AM (#49153257)
Different handwriting styles is just ... personal. Literally a letter. Even HAM radio operators or Morse code users have unique style. Could be ideal for small blog communities, but it falls apart when targeting large audience.

I need 250% size increase to be able to read this, and floating text makes it a super hard read for me.

OP, please use lined template for writing :)

Re:LLM Honeypot on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:45AM (#49107094)
So many of those GIFs I had on a hard drive at some point, wow.

Surprisingly, despite all that colorful circus, it reminds me times when we read web pages. Like... the entirety of them.

To be fair, they do host it. And they do have their own trust anchor.

If you recognize it or not, is another topic.

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