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PmTKg5d3AoKVnj0··on Ask HN: How to deal with a serious mental health breakdown?
Does he do experimental work? Something that progresses so rapidly almost makes me think that a chemical used in work could be having an effect. Anything Heavy Metals (Lead, Mercury), that kind of thing.
PmTKg5d3AoKVnj0··on Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist
I think that's pretty ignorant of historical materialism.

Humanity itself, insofar as its brain was made possible by new modes of nutrient-assimilation from the environment, is inherently technological. Nature is updated by work.

PmTKg5d3AoKVnj0··on FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)
When I was a teenager and wanted to go do boyish teenager things, like hang out at $ABANDONED_BUILDING, I used such apps to mock my location to the library, as my parents were tracking it using Life360.
PmTKg5d3AoKVnj0··on Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?
I wrote a very simple python script to crush markdown into HTML in the right way. Maybe 200 lines.

I think the writing effort was about similar to the effort it would take to learn some other guy's system, adapting it to my particular requirements.

PmTKg5d3AoKVnj0··on The internet is already over (2022)
The internet is now just Real Life, with all of the same rules, regulations, and ideologies.
PmTKg5d3AoKVnj0··on I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox
That's the difference between profit and rent: the optionality of the product.
PmTKg5d3AoKVnj0··on I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox
I would present that situation as evidence that the "competition" isn't really a serious one. But perhaps I am ignorant.
PmTKg5d3AoKVnj0··on I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox
I would imagine that there is caution about becoming beholden to user donations to continue operations. Such a situation would give users a measure of effective voting power in the development of the browser.
PmTKg5d3AoKVnj0··on Pocket Z project hopes to rekindle pocket PC form factor with a RPi Zero 2W
Yes, I have installed NixOS on my GPD Pocket 2, which works OK. Have not encountered issues. The optical mouse actually works quite well and my hands can operate it with thumbs, while walking around or lying in bed, as well as more typical typing while stationary.

I would advise against getting a GPD Pocket 3. It's basically the size of a normal netbook and defeats the "pocket" monicker imho.

Depending on your distro you may have to set up a configuration that rotates the screen and/or digitizer to the right orientation.

PmTKg5d3AoKVnj0··on Pocket Z project hopes to rekindle pocket PC form factor with a RPi Zero 2W
Fun project -- although the GPD Pocket 1 and GPD Pocket 2 fulfill this niche at a more enterprise level. I am a happy user of a GPD Pocket 2 which I use to run Zotero, mainly, to read while traveling or standing in line doing errands.

Certainly more expensive though.

PmTKg5d3AoKVnj0··on Show HN: Brutalist Hacker News – A HN reader inspired by brutalist web design
Perhaps it works as "brutalism" (from french: 'beton brut', Concrete) if the fundamental Concrete of the web is imagined to be different. I do not think it fits the bill as it is.