dingus

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by dingus 7y ago
The tiers are $50/$100/$500 a month with a goal of $5000 per month to spend half of his free time on development. For a markdown editor? I see most Patreons with tiers around $3/$5/$20, and those are actually complex&#
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by dingus 7y ago
This is the last straw for me as well. I only used Google for search and never had an account anyway, so it's not even a hassle. Their results are slightly better than DuckDuckGo, but I'll take the productivity hit. This is open
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by dingus 7y ago
A quarter of the US population isn't common? Not to mention entire countries with limited connections.
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by dingus 7y ago
Javascript required for text rendering is incredibly poor design. For those of us with limited connections, I turn off Javascript because I don't want to download 10MB of Javascript ad tech and frameworks. This is expensive and takes f
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by dingus 7y ago
We need our personal websites to start linking directly to each other again… friends, coworkers, mentors, related topics, etc… This trend died out, it used to be on practically every website. Maybe people just figured Google would find and
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by dingus 7y ago
The device needs a factory reset. Deleting the Files app itself does nothing, even though this warns you that all associated data will be deleted. Which is unsurprising at this point. The latest OS updates feel like I'm a beta tester f
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by dingus 7y ago
Beware: don't share dot files with the Files app. I tried to sync a git directory and now my Files app is filled with several hundred git object files (bf13ee59588b878f1d780c5cc8cd2e3410eaba, etc) that cannot be selected, moved, or del
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by dingus 7y ago
I had the equivalent model of these about ten years ago, no complaints. IEMs will have better sound quality than regular headphones. There was more cord noise, from what I remember, probably because they make everything else quieter so it&#
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by dingus 7y ago
It doesn't work in Safari, either. I don't use any ad blockers, and it states that I need to disable my ad blocker to continue. These types of news/mag websites seem dead set on rendering themselves utterly pointless, frustra
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by dingus 7y ago
I get it, for some people it doesn’t matter. There is zero difference between xfce (Gnome, Windows, etc) and MacOS. But for some people, they have used MacOS since OS X 1.0 (or for me, System 7) and there is a particular "Mac" way
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by dingus 7y ago
It's frustrating because it's the "least worst" option. I use MacOS because it has a thoughtful, consistent, coherent, beautiful user interface and desktop environment. The things I use all day are basically a web browse
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by dingus 7y ago
Maybe some hardware/carrier configurations have less problems? All I can say is, in the past 15+ years of SMS messaging, in the US, on every carrier, with devices ranging from the early Nokias to the latest iPhones, I have had reliabil
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by dingus 7y ago
SMS has always been unreliable. It has no place in modern communications. No delivery confirmation: messages silently drop and the recipient is unaware you attempted to message them. There is no notification to you that your message failed
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by dingus 7y ago
https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ NetNewsWire 5 just released for MacOS. I believe it's also coming to iOS eventually.
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by dingus 7y ago
If anyone is looking for a quick comparison of Atom and RSS formats: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared#... I would also encourage Atom over RSS, the specification is simpler and less ambi
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by dingus 7y ago
I recently got tired of streaming, and started collecting music the "old" way and rebuilding my library. Bandcamp has been awesome for this. $10 for a DRM-free album in Flac is perfect, most other services are charging double that
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by dingus 7y ago
Here's an idea, how about spending time and effort on something that's an actual priority.
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by dingus 7y ago
The interface overhaul is a huge accomplishment. I suspect adoption will grow considerably. The previous interface conventions were unusual and clumsy, and were the primary barrier for those curious about switching packages. I switched to B
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by dingus 7y ago
Linode is good. DigitalOcean is fine, too. I find some of their distro tooling to have annoying and longstanding bugs that never get fixed, though. I eventually moved all my servers back to Linode to avoid the small pointless hassles. They&
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by dingus 7y ago
There's also a terminal incantation to input a text file and output a multi-hour long sound file of the entire document processed with text-to-speech. It's about what you'd expect it to sound like... almost unbearable. But ma
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by dingus 7y ago
> It's a fucking nuisance It's also a monumental waste of resources: process trees for paper, process inks, print the spam, ship spam to distribution center, ship spam to local dispatch, drive spam to mailbox, recipient puts sp
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by dingus 7y ago
> USB-C are a mess Apple doesn't support USB-C adoption themselves, look at the cables included in all of their peripherals and the iOS lineup. They are all USB-A. Everything they sell is incompatible out of the box if you have anyt
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by dingus 7y ago
Reiterating your point, the area is uninhabitable on a timescale of thousands of years. Some estimates are at 20,000 years. The timeline of that region being poisonous extends so far beyond our current history that it's effectively per
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by dingus 7y ago
Wow, it is listed... I wonder what the root cause is for all of these problems with the MBP line. For the record, I have exchanged my 2018 MBP twice (so far) because of multiple different hardware problems. Not inspiring confidence to see t
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by dingus 7y ago
Also, those people finder sites that scrape public records. When I search for a name, usually their blog is listed below 10 creepy lookup sites that list their name, physical address history, phone numbers, relatives, etc. Google should pus
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by dingus 7y ago
I appreciate the response. From someone who has operated a mail server since 2002, it comes across that Gmail does not care about cooperating with small but legitimate mail servers. SPF, DKIM, reverse DNS, no blacklists, no open relay, long
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by dingus 7y ago
Broken with JavaScript… I couldn't navigate beyond the first screen.
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by dingus 7y ago
I work remotely on a satellite connection. Been doing it for a couple of years. The minimum connection latency is 800-1000 ms, and the maximum download speed is 1-3 Mbps. That's with a 10 GB bandwidth cap though, so my actual download
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by dingus 7y ago
I disabled the allow push notifications checkbox in Safari, but still get prompted with the native Safari modal. I'm not sure how this is done, and it's infrequent, but I'm guessing Safari left a hole in their notifications w
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by dingus 7y ago
I had the same reaction when watching blind YouTubers show how they use VoiceOver. It was so fast I couldn't understand or follow along. A good takeaway was feeling their frustration with improperly labeled items. You want to order key

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