toastercat

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by toastercat 1y ago
> you're gonna carry those two Steam Decks in your pockets? Watch me! My point was more about how expensive phones are. I'm not so sure about modern smart phones being less fragile. My first phone was a Nokia 3310-descendent, a
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by toastercat 1y ago
I always have a hard time swallowing the price of modern smart phones. Having something so ridiculously expensive and fragile as an everyday carry seems absurd to me. For reference, you can buy two Steam Deck LCDs for the price of one iPhon
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by toastercat 1y ago
I'm torn. I'm not a huge fan of ads and I don't have a lot of respect for the modern ad networks. However this culture of expecting websites to host the data then freeloading off it by blocking the tracking and ads is also a
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by toastercat 1y ago
Ah interesting, I remember this being a feature of Google Play Music 10 years ago as well. Nice to see they kept it around.
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by toastercat 1y ago
I just use Plex hosted on a Raspberry Pi, and Plex Amp. I download mp3s from Bandcamp/wherever, and use beets [0] to auto-tag. EDIT: FWIW, I don't recommend most people host their own music. Spotify/YouTube music is easy to u
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by toastercat 1y ago
Yeah, there's something about Honeypot (or I guess CultRepo now) documentaries that rub me the wrong way. Sometimes it feels like an over-glorification of the subject matter, sometimes it's the slick editing and music choices that
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by toastercat 1y ago
> arguments put forth by the mainstream Who are the mainstream? Can you give me a reputable source that you think I should trust over the NIH/NCBI/CDC?
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by toastercat 1y ago
I represented your claims accurately in the first two bullet points in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071647 The first bullet was from your now-deleted/flagged comment: https://news.yco
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by toastercat 1y ago
Almost everything you said was incorrect. > Don't give me some bullshit convoluted argument about potentially improved outcomes for people getting the vaccine. Ah there it is. See, it doesn't matter what numbers or sources I ci
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by toastercat 1y ago
I represented your claims exactly as you presented them. You've moved your original goalposts so much I may as well be replying to a different user. > I'm not taking bullshit from big pharma or government so that must make me a
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by toastercat 1y ago
So, we moved from: * CDC was forcing everyone to get the vaccine to * Biden failed to force everyone to get the vaccine to * The DOD added COVID-19 vaccines to the Joint Regulation on Immunization and Chemoprophylaxis for the Prevention of
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by toastercat 1y ago
Please share with me the article where Biden attempted but failed to literally break into my house and force a vaccine into my and my children's veins while we were sleeping.
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by toastercat 1y ago
Sorry, but this is an awful strawman argument.
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by toastercat 1y ago
Every reasonable politician agree illegal immigration is illegal. But you're conflating immigration with illegal immigration in your comment, for some reason. > Any immigration at all will affect the availability of homes, of jobs,
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by toastercat 1y ago
The CDC is and always has been unable to force anyone to get a vaccine. You might be confusing the CDC with your elementary school principal.
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by toastercat 1y ago
I was really close to getting a Framework earlier this year, but ultimately landed on a Thinkpad T14 Gen 5 because at the time, the price gap was significant (the Thinkpad was $250 cheaper) and the T14 still had a better CPU. Not to mention
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by toastercat 1y ago
I'm torn. I'm not a huge fan of ads and I don't have a lot of respect for the modern ad networks. However this culture of expecting websites to host the data then freeloading off it by blocking the tracking and ads is also a
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by toastercat 1y ago
Zero chance that Trump's response to this won't be blaming Biden.
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by toastercat 1y ago
That's the community edition. Cute and snarky comment, though.
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by toastercat 1y ago
> When did you last touch java, before 2000? August 22, 2025. Local environments are not literally tied to IDEs, but they effectively are in any non-trivially sized project. And the reason is because most Java shops really do believe &qu
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by toastercat 1y ago
Reminded me of this classic talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0
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by toastercat 1y ago
Absolutely no on Java. Even if the core language has seen improvements over the years, choosing Java almost certainly means that your team will be tied to using proprietary / enterprise tools (IntelliJ) because every time you work at
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by toastercat 1y ago
It's been a while since I used my ST3 license, but I remember my license affording me all updates for ST3. Maybe that model was unrealistic for ST4, but as others have echoed in this thread, major feature updates for ST4 are not comm
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by toastercat 1y ago
I mean that they solved the funding model that pays the bills of their employees, not that they solved becoming the most widely used text editor in the world.
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by toastercat 1y ago
Yeah, I wasn't happy about that. Nor was I happy about the new 3-year-of-updates license model that ST4 adopted. Although at least to me, Sublime Text 4 feels like a "finished" product.
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by toastercat 1y ago
Yeah, as others already mentioned, I think they sat on their laurels for a bit too long and let VSCode overtake it. For what it's worth, I went from ST3 -> VSCode -> ST4, and have been happy since. I've found that I prefer m
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by toastercat 1y ago
Sublime Text solved this 17 years ago with the 40-year-old shareware model. It's also faster than Zed, works on Linux/Win/MacOS, and is decently customizable.
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by toastercat 1y ago
+1 to Codeberg, seems like it is the best combination of familiarity and longevity. Forgejo Actions still seems incomplete, but its Woodpecker CI seems a little more mature from what I can tell. Definitely not as fleshed out as Github Actio
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by toastercat 1y ago
At the time they retired the Official Android App, there was already a much more popular and better maintained fork: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android AFAIK, it's only available on F-Droid/Githu
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by toastercat 1y ago
Ask the candidate to explain how their project works.

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