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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US... on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:33AM (#47625956)
I was looking into Posteo a while back but was turned off by the recycling of addresses. After leaving the service it's available to anyone after a fixed time.
Re:Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame on Thursday December 04, 2025 @12:48PM (#46150515)
The experience varies by country, here in Finland I haven't had a single banking app complain about an unlocked bootloader or a custom OS.
Re:Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones on Saturday August 17, 2024 @10:40AM (#41274922)
How can you do that? I've wanted to enable reader mode by default on Firefox but AFAIK it's not possible yet, so I just forget it's existence.
Re:Upcoming Changes to Audio Formats on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:38PM (#40731701)
MQA going away is probably a good thing, I never saw the appeal. Proprietary, requires licensing fees, why would you use it over the free and lossless FLAC?
Re:Qimgv โ€“ Fast, simple image viewer on Monday June 03, 2024 @10:55AM (#40563225)
I've settled with this one because it's really fast and preloads images, which makes looking through thousands of time-lapse photos a doable task, just holding the arrow key.I'd like a bit more editing capabilities but I understand it might be out of scope for a minimal image viewer.
Re:Write Plain Text Files on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:19AM (#40397303)
I use Obsidian myself, which simply stores text in Markdown files. It essentially shares all the pros of plain text: it'll be readable in the future, I'm not stuck with a single platform, I can sync and sort them into directories.
Re:Bicycle Rolling Resistance: Tire Rolling Resistance Tests and More on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @04:18AM (#40364391)
What a coincidence, earlier this week I thought about changing the tires on my MTB to better suit my riding style, and I wondered if there are sites with extensive tire reviews.

Ask HN: Custom email domains for personal email?

Posted by unnervingduck on Saturday April 27, 2024 @02:47PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been considering getting a custom domain for my email so I wouldn't be tied to a single email provider, how have you set it up?The registrar and the TLD have to be something trusted, I know people have gotten their cheap domains hijacked. Porkbun seems like a fair and inexpensive option, maybe with the .net TLD? Cheaper options exist but I don't want anything weird sounding that could...

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Re:Flatpak builds are not reproducible and why that's a practical prob... on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @12:22PM (#39841225)
Agree, I feel like there must be a better way to achieve what Flatpak does. I love it because it's the only major app platform on Linux that offers some form of sandboxing, but the download sizes get ridiculously large.
Re:Simple ad-free emoji database to find and copy your emoji on Monday March 25, 2024 @06:51AM (#39814647)
Most of the time the built-in emoji search works for me. Discord, Telegram etc. can show emojis by just putting the keyword between colons, iirc KDE, Gnome, Windows all have an emoji picker with search (Win + .)
Re:LineageOS has added internal microG support on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:53AM (#39559268)
It's nice to see that they changed their stance on MicroG and signature spoofing, IMO they were a bit too hesitant against it. It's implemented in a safe way fortunately, so that only MicroG can use the permission.
Re:Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today, alternatives? on Friday February 16, 2024 @04:14AM (#39394850)
I've noticed the same and it's really frustrating, it just straight up redirects to the login page sometimes. I guess I'll have to accept the fact that it's closing down, visitors are not welcome. Can't view a single post or picture in the future but so be it.
Re:Even Spotify offers scrollable short-form content on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:56AM (#39274831)
This seems to be old news but they probably did staged rollouts as I only noticed it today. It's nothing surprising to see everyone copy the Tiktok format, but it takes some audacity to bring it on a music streaming platform too.
Re:BlockTube, a YouTube Content Blocker on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @08:51AM (#39190085)
Just found about this handy extension and thought you all might appreciate it. Never thought I needed it but recently I've seen so many bs channels in my search results, when searching CERN for example.
Re:Nitter Shutting Down on Monday January 29, 2024 @03:42AM (#39174141)
A real shame, I've been using Nitter to check lots of art accounts, but even with https://twiiit.com/ I find myself reloading it multiple times to find an instance that's not rate limited.
Re:Hard Reset Your Device on Sunday January 07, 2024 @07:46AM (#38900782)
Could be handy, a while ago I was trying to reset an old phone with a broken screen by navigating the recovery blind. In the end I got it done via ADB though.
Re:UBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search r... on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @03:09AM (#38839300)
It's specifically asking to access all the Google sites with a different tld, a far better approach than asking to access every website with a single permission
Re:Oulu became the winter cycling capital of the world on Sunday December 31, 2023 @12:03AM (#38821961)
Plowing the cycle paths is really important, since a thick layer of snow is really the only thing stopping me from getting my bike. I don't necessarily need winter tyres either since the traction can be pretty good on a maintained path.

Oulu seems to do it really well, that kind of pedestrian first design should be applied everywhere.

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