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Elidrake42··on Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted
The awesome selfhosted* list is a pretty good resource. While it does mention if there's a Docker container, I've found a few of the services without one listed do actually offer one, just have to search for it.

* https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Elidrake42··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
This is why I purchase iOS devices - ultimately their closed garden provides a smaller attack surface, clearly evidenced by the comparative (to Android) cost of exploits on the black market.

I cannot see this as anticompetitive. If you want open, you have that choice in Android.

Elidrake42··on The United States of Bed Bath & Beyond
5.5 is further than what you can get with Personal Savings, but ~5.0 is not difficult to find at all right now, have to be able compete with those raising interest rates: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/best-high-yield-int...
Elidrake42··on Google sued for negligence after man died following map directions
Knowing that a danger exists within the offering of your product and doing nothing to mitigate or remove the issue absolutely makes you, in part, liable. Do others in this situation share liability? Absolutely.
Elidrake42··on Redump Milestone – 100k Discs
Commonly used on private trackers, considered the gold standard for accurately preserving rips.
Elidrake42··on Game Made for VR on a $1 Processor?
I have a number of long lasting relationships that began/spent years in front of a camera. You should consider that what you're bringing to the table in these interactions might be limiting the scope of what you can get out of it.
Elidrake42··on Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers
Isn't the typical argument against such vouchers in Housing that companies will simply bake the voucher amount into the price, leaving us in the same place without a public option?
Elidrake42··on Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More
US, Lead Dev position, I just received a 6.5% pay increase this last month. Folks massively overhired last year, they're mostly still doing fine however, and there's a correction going around for that. It may end up that things get a bit worse this near necessitating what I would consider a _real_ round of layoffs, but we're not quite there yet (Zoom and the like being the exception given their reliance on remote/at-home focused clients).
Elidrake42··on Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
Late to the thread and haven't read anyone else's responses yet, but I get the feeling this is going to be a common refrain; I'd just go with what I'm most familiar with.

Some off the shelf PHP8/Nginx Docker container, Laravel for the API (always pull in php/larastan for enforcing best practices), Maria for the DB, Laravel's Blade/Vue for the front, probably slap it on AWS as that's what I'm most familiar with. I like structured data, I like that modern PHP has (90%) of the safety of Java while being less verbose.

Elidrake42··on Remote work is gutting downtowns
A bit off topic; I of course understand that I'm an odd situation and not representative of the broader trend at play here... But moving into remote work inspired my partner and I to move into Manhattan from the sprawling car driven nightmare that was Phoenix.

Tiny little studio, but we've never been particularly materialistic, a murphy bed massively opens up the space, and no office to go into means once the day is over we're a step or short train ride to really anything we could imagine doing without having to worry about gas/Uber pricing. Went for a lovely bike ride early in the morning, the city is practically dead at ~4:30AM. Whole Foods is just as expensive as it was in the suburbs of Phoenix, and our local Trader Joes is cheaper than the Fry's (Kroger) was out West. Then you have the street produce that absolutely slaughters any prices I've seen anywhere.

It's a little bit of work to find reasonably priced restaurants, admittedly, but there still are 6-10$ plates out here if you have the patience to look. I do miss In-N-Out.

Though really I think this is an indictment of the current state of Phoenix more than it is a reason to praise Manhattan... I'm sure any of the many lovely "flyover" states in-between would have much more livable pricing, and the drive cross-country showed that Arizona has some of the highest gas prices in the country.

Plan to move onto Wisconsin after a couple years, another plus of working remote (with companies that are very open/willing to support us in that choice).

Elidrake42··on Audiobooks on Spotify
As someone with a few Patreon feeds, yes it is widely supported, and the few that don't support it do support URL parameters so a token works fine as well.
Elidrake42··on Americans Are Too Fat to Donate Their Bodies to Science (2017)
Wouldn't this in turn enable what is, by and large, an avoidable state of self that adds considerable strain on an already overly-taxed medical system?
Elidrake42··on Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog
Absolutely; as an example, last agency I worked for offered both directly integrated and headless Shopify builds. Headless costs a bit more, but came with a translation layer that also integrated with Magento's API in the event the client ever wanted to move away from Shopify.
Elidrake42··on Use.GPU
It's mentioned at the top of the page that WebGPU isn't enabled by default in _any_ browser. The linked^1 caniuse page mentions this as well, while available in Safari, it has to be enabled in the developer config.

[1] - https://caniuse.com/webgpu

Elidrake42··on Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
I personally use `ebook-convert` (comes with Calibre) with a simple script that'll capture anything in a drop dir, convert it, and email it off.
Elidrake42··on My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
Not only is there a tutorial app ("Tips") but you receive a notification pointing you towards it shortly after setting up a new iOS device. Also after major iOS updates. So... Yeah I suppose you're making their point for them, to an extent.
Elidrake42··on There Is No CD Revival
> You can't control the quality of purchased music files

Sure you can, hdtracks has been around for nearly 15 years now, and even offers the same redbook data you'd find on a CD if you don't trust their FLAC encoding.

Elidrake42··on Victims of Vimeo
https://www.floatplane.com/support

That's because they don't charge content creators; as it's a pay to play only platform, they make money from the individuals that subscribe to you. The amount you charge is up to you, though they only list the minimum once you have an account.

Elidrake42··on The first RISC-V portable computer is now available
The article links to the inspiration in the second paragraph: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-last-programming-project-...
Elidrake42··on Why does the "chart increasing" emoji show in red?
This doesn't seem to have a history, but a fun page to waste some time on none the less: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#1f4b9
Elidrake42··on Why is the Simula One so expensive?
I think that's the rub; the VR industry is running into a similar issue that the Headphones industry has long dealt with, the reality of different body dimensions. 1 isn't an issue for me thanks to an improved strap, 2 isn't an issue due to, I think, my move to a rubber face wrap, 3 again was fixed with a new strap (though it just comes up onto my forehead rather than tilting), but 4 is the hell that I cannot think of an answer for. I may not have the issue, and maybe that's due to my prescription inserts or maybe it's due to the particular shape to my skull.
Elidrake42··on Poll: Why are people leaving their jobs?
Flexibility (remote) was the primary motivating factor, but compensation was a pretty close second as I ended up with a ~50% increase. I wouldn't say that was down to the market, though, I was very underpaid relative to my positions average (I'm now slightly below average), which really came down to difficulty I've always had in valuing my work and my abilities.

I'm sad that it took a pandemic to take stock in my life, and I certainly don't think the family members I've lost were worth anything I may gain, but I'm glad to be where I'm at helping to push us ever forward.

Elidrake42··on Why is the Simula One so expensive?
Isn't that how the Quest is now? It is for me, pop on the device and get straight into my workout.
Elidrake42··on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
Sure.

"The US Marshals killed him and I will tell you something, that's the way it has to be," Trump said, referring to Reinoehl. "There has to be retribution when you have crime like this."

Elidrake42··on F.lux v4
I can't speak for the Windows implementation, but this is far from true on the Mac OS 'Nightshift' implementation. Nightshift won't get nearly as warm as I prefer it, misses the Hue integration, misses having multiple levels for particular times of the day, general quick disable, disable by application, disable when in full-screen application... The list goes on. There are plenty of reasons to still be using Flux on Mac.