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by minimalist 1y ago
I suppose this means that supporting future Pixel devices will be more difficult? If someone has the ear of anyone at Google, especially someone who works with Android, please share this cause with them!
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by minimalist 1y ago
Last I heard, Google discontinued publishing device trees and driver binaries for Pixel devices with their recent changes to their stewardship of the AOSP [0]. Was it something definitive or are they merely delayed? If the practice is being
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by minimalist 1y ago
It does not appear to be working for me right now, I get "error loading exercises". What are your thoughts about the wger project [0]? It is a FLOSS AGPL-licensed self-hosted fitness/workout/nutrition manager that has ex
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by minimalist 1y ago
Please, I don't want to come on to HN to see politics injected into everything. Stay on reddit for that. I logged in to make a comment regarding something within my area of expertise: the technology present in the parent link and how t
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by minimalist 1y ago
> Not to make everything political... [proceeds to make a political statement] For what it's worth, this type of Lidar scanner was possible to make well over a decade ago with ROS1, a Phidgets IMU, a webcam, and a lidar pulled out o
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by minimalist 2y ago
Thank you for the excellent reply! I think I understand now... Once a business starts transacting in things other than a single type of money (say durable goods, consumables, services, or say other types of money) it becomes necessary to re
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by minimalist 2y ago
Please elaborate more, my friend! Let's say that I was^W am a programmer who is seduced by the plain-text accounting / one-database-is-all-you-need notion and I think my needs will be simple, as I can keep the business of my bodeg
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by minimalist 2y ago
Like the other commenters have mentioned, if the premise is to prevent the child from going online, I am not sure if I agree with this approach... But to answer your question as stated: it looks like the Sony Walkman models NWZ-Z1040/Z
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by minimalist 2y ago
Just for everyone's reference, there is a rich community of third-party packages [0] ("apps") and launchers for rM and rM2, so it's possible to add on any number of sync (syncthing), encryption (gocrpytfs), epub (koreade
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by minimalist 2y ago
I don't like being negative, but I feel like I am obligated to pipe up every time I see Onyx products hit the front page here[0], because I was one of the people who politely requested that Onyx abide by the terms of the licenses for t
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by minimalist 2y ago
How cool! I have over a decade of notes taken in xournal and other digital tablets and was considering taking a short sabbatical to type them all out. Might not need to after all! I will definitely try this.
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by minimalist 2y ago
It's just linux under the hood and they give you root access. So you can install anything that you can compile, and you have access to all the compiled packages in entware [0]. For sync, I have wireguard and syncthing. For backups, I u
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by minimalist 2y ago
Every now and again, I see stories about Onyx and their tablets pop up and I have to dust off this old comment of mine [0]. I've since sold the tablet and picked up a remarkable that I am very happy with and have modified in many ways.
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by minimalist 2y ago
Yes, second to the archiving mail by year advice. Also switching over to maildirs (which is a one-time inconvenience) means that you can share the same maildir with mu et al. Sharing your maildir is definitely not supported though! :)
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by minimalist 2y ago
Hold on there friend. I use Thunderbird on desktop and have used it for nearly two decades across Windows, Mac, and Linux. I love it! It's extensible, has excellent plugins that Outlook will never have, and I can synchronize my setting
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by minimalist 2y ago
Are there non-plastic nighttime mouthguards out there? In light of all the new awareness about the health hazards of micro and nano plastics (and plasticizers), I'm a bit reluctant about sleeping with a soft plastic block in my mouth e
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by minimalist 2y ago
I do a fair bit of primary and secondary school STEM mentoring in my free time. People like me are frequently brought into schools as part of efforts to encourage them to pursue STEM careers (and higher education), however I would coyly tel
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by minimalist 3y ago
What are some good publicly-accessible collections of case studies if someone wanted to start a discussion club? Someone once told me that part of the value proposition of the best business schools is the library of case studies that they a
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by minimalist 3y ago
AFAIK, ebay charges fees on the subtotal including shipping. So if that practice still exists, it must be 1. out of habit or, 2. to make the prices appear cheaper (shipping costs aren't displayed as prominently, but at least sorting by
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by minimalist 3y ago
Best include the whole quote: >Some of these can be grounds for being denied insurance coverage in the event of a fire or other damage. Honestly, I don't know and I haven't personally heard of anyone getting denied claims becau
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by minimalist 3y ago
Only thing I'd add is to try to get devices that can be flashed with esphome[0] for future-proofing. There is an onramp[1] for devices that can be flashed with Tasmota. Also be very wary about devices that are not (verifiably) UL liste
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by minimalist 3y ago
Andreas Spiess' recent video [0] covered some milimetre-wave radar chips whose application includes presence detection at a distance (including if the bed is occupied). Does anyone know of any bed automatable bed heating/cooling s
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by minimalist 3y ago
With respect to microplastics and nanoplastics, this study explored the mobilization of plastics when heating up foods in plastic containers (a few months ago) [0]. I was also surprised to see the pasteurization occur in the plastic contain
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by minimalist 3y ago
Just to add an anecdote substance unlike [0], I wouldn't really recommend the Pinephone Pro as anything more than a development platform. It has the "same" chip (clocked differently) as the Pinebook Pro, which is a considerab
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Proposal to relax in-app updater policy for Reproducable Build apps(gitlab.com)
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by minimalist 3y ago
This is good! I will use this as a reference to share with friends and colleagues who ask me about XYZ VPN. I think something that is missing in the network of connections is Mozilla VPN. From what I understand, they are just a re-brand of
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by minimalist 3y ago
For people who don't want to use ZFS but are okay with LVM: wyng-backup (formerly sparsebak) https://github.com/tasket/wyng-backup
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by minimalist 3y ago
Related, from earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35584533 Wherein the author compares Yggdrasil, tinc, Tailscale, Zerotier, Netmaker, Nebula, and ends up prefering Yggdrasil. Actually, it was this compa
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by minimalist 3y ago
Maybe someone can help me understand this. I've always shied away from smartwatches because the tracking potential. We have always known how the MAC address of wireless clients can be used to track a device and decades later, MAC rando
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by minimalist 3y ago
> Android needed years to get into that state and developers/hackers are still sour about the restrictions it puts on them to keep battery life in check. True. In my experience, many desktop applications do not care about minimizing

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