xiaomai

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by xiaomai 9mo ago
Several years ago I was looking for something to use as a family chat server. Many of my friends/coworkers were using Slack/etc., but since my immediate family members didn't already have a preferred chat app, I was hoping to
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by xiaomai 9mo ago
I think it makes sense to write like this if you're intended audience is already used to consuming "thin" desire media.
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by xiaomai 9mo ago
I had an n800 in college (it wasn't a phone, it was an "internet tablet"). _Loved_ that thing.
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by xiaomai 10mo ago
is anyone using the preview releases in neovim yet?
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by xiaomai 10mo ago
Agree with you about fingerprinting (also a bummer). I guess the difference here though is that I must be actively engaging with a website in order for it to be tracking me, but an app (I assume) can be tracking me basically whenever it wan
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by xiaomai 10mo ago
Native phone apps give me the creeps. I assume the developer's are able to track me in various ways even without my giving permissions. Is that an unfounded fear on my part? Can an app uniquely identify me if I don't give it cont
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by xiaomai 1y ago
I also use backtick for my tmux leader key. It doesn't create issues for me in the terminal (but you need to tap it twice when you want a literal backtick). This became natural for me pretty quickly.
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by xiaomai 1y ago
hmm, this didn't recognize me in a private window in either firefox or brave.
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by xiaomai 2y ago
What's the best way to get started with Blender these days? I'm mostly interested in making art and possibly even 3d printing some stuff (do these skills overlap at all?).
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by xiaomai 2y ago
I'm really happy with the quality of WiFi in my house with the eero (works much better than the smattering of hard-wired access points I used to use ... not sure if that's better steering or what?). The fact that it's constan
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by xiaomai 3y ago
I do this in my instant pot (35 minutes at high pressure). I don't salt until I'm using it in a recipe.
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by xiaomai 3y ago
> After all I think Android also has a Chrome-only implementation for PWAs, exactly like Windows, that runs PWAs on Edge. This is not true for Android. I am using PWA's with Brave (the PWA does get a tiny brave-icon badge overlaid o
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by xiaomai 3y ago
I've been running sqlite in production since 2014 (no litestream). It's mostly great. I love how easy it is to backup the database, mirror prod into my local environment for development, etc. Restoring things from backup is also q
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by xiaomai 3y ago
Backing up sqlite databases is straightforward. `.backup` is a command that you use in sqlite for this purpose. Since you already have a volume for the database, you can backup to that same volume (if offloading to S3/etc is too much w
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by xiaomai 3y ago
Oh wow, this is amazing. I had been unable to _swap_ esc and caps lock on the mac until now.
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by xiaomai 3y ago
Lame April Fool's joke. It sure would be nice if Snaps would go away though.
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by xiaomai 4y ago
After using one of these at my public library, I picked one of these up at Costco (they sell the ET-2850). I love the idea of the concept of the ink-tank printer and I'm happy w/ the print output. It's _far_ slower than my B
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by xiaomai 4y ago
Thanks Dino team, I am a big fan of this XMPP client.
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by xiaomai 4y ago
Similar experience (Google charged me for a phone that was never delivered). I was debating doing a chargeback, but the fear of losing my stupid google account was causing me to pause. I finally DM'ed Google Fi support on Twitter and t
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by xiaomai 4y ago
I thought I remembered that too. According to this article ( https://www.newfangled.com/how-gmail-image-caching-is-affect... ) they don't fetch the image until you open it (so only subsequent reads are affected).
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by xiaomai 4y ago
To be clear, I didn't opt-in to using them. They were just there. But yes, the point of my post was that they were indeed useful (and I still don't like them).
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by xiaomai 4y ago
I get why people do this. I used to use Freshbooks for my billing. They include tracking pixels in their emails, so I could see if a client had opened their invoice or not. If a client was late, I could adjust my behavior based on that trac
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by xiaomai 4y ago
You don't need to use a delivery service. It's true you need to set up SPF/DKIM/DMARC for many peers to accept mail from you, but then you can deliver the mail yourself directly.
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by xiaomai 4y ago
I love antennapod. My only complaint is it doesn't work well in android's "driving" mode (seems to list all episodes instead of my queue)
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by xiaomai 4y ago
My MBP fell off my chair (maybe 18"?) onto a wooden floor and the screen shattered. Not sure what it cost my employer to replace that, but I am extremly unimpressed w/ the durability of these things. It was certainly inconvenient
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by xiaomai 4y ago
I vaguely remember the Microsoft/SuSe deal but never linked that to GNOME3. I really love gnome-shell, but one thing I always have to tweak is putting the minimize/maximize buttons back in the toolbar (couldn't ever figure o
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by xiaomai 5y ago
I swap esc and caps lock, but i use the escape key (for caps-lock) every single day. anytime i'm needing to type a const like REALLY_LONG_VARIABLE.
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by xiaomai 5y ago
Honestly, it's been pretty great. In general it's not something we think about much? Internet/chatting with friends/video games all just work (in terms of video games, they're mostly doing minecraft or pico-8 games.
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by xiaomai 5y ago
I run a group chat for my family. I recently switched my server from running plain Prosody to Snikket. People with phones use the Snikket android app, but my kids that are too young for phones join in with Dino. Dino is a really nice clie
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by xiaomai 5y ago
I'm the same way. I've tried the various tiling WMs over the years. To me the ideal is just letting me manage the windows myself, and then if you give me some keybindings to snap a window into a certain half or quadrant of the sc

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