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LaxisB··on Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
somehwere else in this thread this project was mentioned (uses libghostty): https://github.com/weedonandscott/trolley

that might be a viable approach for you

LaxisB··on Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October
you might be thinking of the new KDE distro. bazzite is fedora silverblue based. iirc there's access to flatpak homebrew, as well as rpm-ostree (basically rpm) among others
LaxisB··on Modern Datahand-style keyboard with trackball and trackpoint
There's a similar keeb, that released a couple years ago and is a fair bit cheaper (although still not /cheap/): https://www.azeron.eu/.

I can't speak about its quality as I'm not a user, but it might be of interest to you

LaxisB··on Kafka: The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time
my first reaction was to assume kafka-the-technology exectly because of the domain name. Then i realized that the one i meant was the "New York Times", and not the "New Yorker". NYT is one of the case studies from a kafka provider [0] skimming is a double-edged sword

[0]: https://www.confluent.io/blog/publishing-apache-kafka-new-yo...

LaxisB··on Text Editing Hates You Too
the windows issue might also be caused by accidentally pressing the hotkey (alt+shift i believe) to switch layouts. it's super easy to mis-trigger
LaxisB··on Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?
i set this up for my fastmail account a couple weeks ago. go to settings -> aliases and create an alias for *

this also allows you to write from any email address in your domain (when composing, change the sender dropdown to your *-alias, and the 'from' line appears and is editable

LaxisB··on How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
a big problem with npm is, that a lot of package authors don't use the .npmignore [0] which leads to EVERYONE downloading your source/, test/ and docs/ folder even if only that one file in build/ is needed. That, combined with the micromodule mindset, leads to insanity

[0]: https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/developers#keeping-files-out-of-...