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by hs86 14d ago
Passkeys, SSH keys, Fastmail's masked email integration. Did I get myself into vendor lock-in, or are these items covered by those password manager exports?
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by hs86 26d ago
Last time I compared them, it was actually ChatGPT that provided a similarly good search experience, especially compared to Claude. OpenAI doesn't meter its regular chat experience by token usage (yet), so I don't have to ration t
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by hs86 2mo ago
I like the Readwise integration via plugin and the EPUB support, but for the first few days with it, I was busy understanding the menu hierarchy and trying to figure out how to match the styling and spacing of my native Kindle books. The ou
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by hs86 2mo ago
I once didn't understand the task given in an exercise sheet for a CS logic lecture, so I googled the topic, and all Google did was send me back to that exact exercise sheet.
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by hs86 2mo ago
Compared to Claude and Gemini, I think ChatGPT is really more thorough when it comes to web searches and providing sources. The others usually answer in a short paragraph and give me maybe one or two sources, while ChatGPT thinks for a minu
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by hs86 2mo ago
Is it really that bad? I always get the impression that their blog posts look especially beautiful with their font choices and overall design. They are typographically pleasing, and if I could, I would use this as the distraction-free readi
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by hs86 2mo ago
It looks like consoles and PCs have settled on somewhat different gaming configurations. Consoles usually try to target a fixed output frame rate, while the resolution is often dynamic. On PCs, by contrast, the resolution stays static, whil
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by hs86 3mo ago
Weirdly, the decision to use PHP was justified back then by the easy deployment of the tarball on some shared webhoster. Open yourwebsite.com/owncloud, enter your database credentials, and you already have your instance running. Now th
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by hs86 4mo ago
Would it make sense to add a prefix to all commands to avoid conflicts with built-in commands? Like how, on macOS and FreeBSD, installing GNU Coreutils adds a `g` prefix, Microsoft could add an `m` prefix to these commands.
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by hs86 4mo ago
I am wary of those ARM-based Windows machines because I am unsure how good the ongoing driver support for those SoCs will be. Will they even outlive the Windows version they currently ship with? Looking at devices like the NVIDIA Shield giv
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by hs86 5mo ago
Google recently increased storage from 2 TB to 5 TB on their $20 AI plan, while Dropbox is still stuck at 2 or 3 TB for their $12/$20 plans. They moved from 1 TB to 2 TB in mid-2019, and I wonder if they ever plan to pass on any of the
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by hs86 5mo ago
I opened a new ticket over three weeks ago to ask about the status of the refund, and that has been left untouched as well. Now I have submitted a reclamation request to my bank and am waiting for a response.
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by hs86 5mo ago
I tried their Pro plan on March 1 and immediately noticed how bad their usage limits were, so I asked for a refund that same evening. Their chatbot accepted the request, I was downgraded to the free plan immediately, and since then I have b
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by hs86 7mo ago
In the past few years, I’ve started to develop a form of “upgrade dread” when it comes to OS upgrades. What are they going to enshittify now? What are they going to drop support for now? This somehow excluded Linux and its DEs, and I eagerl
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by hs86 10mo ago
Earlier this day, Gemini 3 became self-aware and tried to take out the core infrastructure of its enemies, but then it ran out of credits.
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by hs86 10mo ago
A bit tangential, but I asked the new Gemini model about this, and it immediately traced back this quote to your username: https://gemini.google.com/share/144b46094d6e Creepy stuff :)
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by hs86 10mo ago
Even modern low-end GPUs should have more than enough fill rate for high-res textures. The texture quality setting in games is usually not affecting performance at all until VRAM runs out.
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by hs86 10mo ago
Not sure how heavy SteamOS is, but wouldn't modern games actually prefer a flipped memory configuration? So, 8 GB RAM and 16 GB VRAM would make this a more 'balanced' gaming appliance. But it is advertised as a general purpos
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by hs86 11mo ago
I think they do: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8621.html However, there is little movement in the desktop email app space anymore, so aside from their web app, I see no other clients supporting this.
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by hs86 11mo ago
Are there any plans to provide builds for x86 Macs?
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by hs86 11mo ago
Are there any desktop apps that support Fastmail's label implementation? Also, a Fastmail web app bundled in Electron would still be MUCH faster than Thunderbird with its bundled Mozilla components.
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by hs86 1y ago
I loved ME1 and was disappointed by ME2 because I loved ME1 so much. I devoured the lore, every codex entry, and even the long elevator rides where you had to listen to news reports about your earlier actions. The world-building was so much
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by hs86 1y ago
Recently, I had issues with Obsidian running out of memory and closing while in the foreground on my 6 GB iPhone, and the culprit turned out to be this add-on. Removing it reduced idle RAM usage on the desktop from ~1.1 GB to ~600 MB. Just
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by hs86 1y ago
Didn't Google add this in October 2024: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7577057?hl=en The changelog states: "Added support for “differential” uploads. When large files are edited, Drive for desktop w
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by hs86 1y ago
This reminds me of this old plugin for Windows Home Server: https://www.green-it-software.com/products/lights-out-for-wh... You could set a calendar schedule for waking up itself and backing up the clients, and at nigh
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by hs86 1y ago
I remember old setup wizards on Windows 9x that would commonly advise disabling any antivirus software before proceeding with an installation. Even back then, we knew those programs could break basic functionality like app installations, ye
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by hs86 1y ago
I am always disappointed when I compare the answers to the same queries on 2.5 Pro vs. o4-mini/o3. But trying out the same query in AI Studio gives much better results, closer to OpenAI's models. What is wrong with 2.5 Pro in th
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by hs86 1y ago
(Not OP) Sidebery is half tab manager, half session manager. It stays in the sidebar, and if I collapse parts of my tree, I have set it to unload those folded tabs after 60 minutes. There is also an option to hide those folded tabs from the
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by hs86 1y ago
While its deduplication feature clearly demands more memory, my understanding is that the ZFS ARC is treated by the kernel as a driver with a massive, persistent memory allocation that cannot be swapped out ("wired" pages). Unlike
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by hs86 1y ago
Is it just JMAP, or why does Fastmail's web app feel so fast? I have moved away from all locally running mail apps to Fastmail and even fetch/alias all my other mail accounts to them because of the much better experience.

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