RistrettoMike

I ran into the exact same issues as the author of this post the other day. I have a static site built on Hugo that I (amateurishly) set up a year or so ago, and would like it to have better support for photos & galleries, but lack the time + skill to implement that.

I spent a late-night research session a few weeks back running through many of the main options they mention only to settle on the conclusion that there wasn't something that had the compromise of features, simplicity, and price that I was looking for.

I didn't check out write.as when I was looking into things though, so maybe that'll be my next failed experiment.

On mobile, so I can’t properly view/appreciate the detail-shots, but this is exactly the kind of post I’ve been waiting to see written covering the Quest Pro.

I tried the Quest 2 last year mostly out of curiosity for the use cases that Meta themselves would go on to push as the primary focuses of the Quest Pro; VR productivity and virtual monitors. I was left drastically underwhelmed at the time with the resolution and viewing experience from the Quest 2 (among other things), and after hearing that the Pro wouldn’t have much of an upgrade in that department I was really curious what actual productivity focused power users would think of it.

This blog/series of posts looks to be just that, and I’ve added it to my feed reader for the rest of the series!

I pay for Bazqux reader because I’d like for it to stick around as a small business with a vested interest in serving my feeds and not pivoting to newsletters or algorithmic news or whatever:

https://bazqux.com/

That gets read from the Reeder app on iOS or on the web on Windows. Longer pieces get saved to Instapaper for Kindle-reading and archived on pinboard.

<3 Cheers!

Man, I hope Pinboard stays up awhile longer. Genuinely one of my favorite simple, reliable internet tools. I don't need new features, I just need it to continue to exist.

I'd wish you the best of luck, but at this point investing into a hackintosh setup seems a bit like booking a ticket on a sinking ship -- what with support for Intel-Macs ending in the coming years.

I definitely understand prioritizing repairability and supporting a small company doing cool things as well... but maybe not well enough to pay the same money for what feels like a much worse CPU architecture for MacOS and mobile devices at this point. shrug.

That was my takeaway as well. The "hustle-mindset" of turning every interest, passion, and hobby into some sort of side-gig is so pervasive currently that the existence of the word that sums up essentially the opposite mentality surprised me. Happy to have found it.

Absolutely! The nascent state of ARM outside of iOS, Android, and now MacOS is definitely a roadblock for bringing it to projects from smaller companies like you folks.

In my eyes (uneducated, consumer-level perspective) X86 is a huge question-mark for HMD devices like this, since the heat and power usage are so counter-intuitive for small form factors -- and mitigating those concerns usually actively works against the "higher-performance" nature of the chips. (low-tdp allowances, throttling, etc.)

Like I mentioned above, I really do wish y'all the best of luck with it. I just don't envy having to be reliant on an old and power-hungry architecture just because the newer, better architectures don't lend themselves to this sort of project yet. I hope the Simula One sticks the balance!

I came away feeling similarly.

Their dedication to developing a true VR computer and focusing on specs that really matter for that (PPD and raw processing grunt) are commendable, but seeing them champion the idea of strapping an X86 computer to your face in what is an increasingly arm-powered world is... concerning. "But it can run real Adobe Acrobat through WINE" is not something that gets me excited about a VR platform, but I'm likely not the target audience either.

That being said, having tried out some remote-desktop apps on a Quest 2 earlier this year, the screens are absolutely not acceptable for that purpose in terms of viewable resolution -- so if the Quest Pro really is only slightly better in that regard, I think it'll soil the experience.

If Simula can manage to tune their x86 specs to run well enough under power-limited circumstances, have at least comparable poor battery life to other VR headsets, develop a VR computing environment with usage paradigms that make sense, and do it in a headset that's somehow still comfortable to wear for extended sessions, then they may truly be ahead of the curve in a way that matters. That seems like a big ask for such a small company's first outing, but they also seem the most passionate about this category of use-case despite their scale.

I wish them the best. VR computers like the one they're working on would be a lot cooler than Meta's vision for the category.

I recently pared back my own layout to something similar, and it's been surprisingly comfortable. I had learned to type on a split board for the first time a few months ago, and going from a more "full" split layout to something where you've essentially shoved all non-alpha inputs down into other layers was actually surprisingly intuitive.

I'm still memorizing some inputs; ones that require holding a layer key, then holding a homerow mod on one hand, and finally hitting the intended character key are proving especially tricky.

(eg: hold thumb key to switch to symbol layer, hold down homerow mod for shift, press desired symbol for shifted version -- poor example, but all the same.)

More folks should give this sort of thing a try! Provided you're not also re-learning the alpha-key locations at the same time, it's really not so bad a transition. A day or two architecting your layout, a few days tweaking with use, some dedicated practice, and normal use from there on out should get one comfortable. :)

Looks like quite a neat product with so much tech packed into a desk-surface (wireless charging, integrated display, etc) but I think unless my job called for that much glance-able information I'd just end up getting more distracted by the cool screens.

I hope it finds a market of folks who do need that kind of glance-able info, though. Very cool!

Chucking in another hearty "I'm interested!"

I currently use several modern laptops in tandem with an Onyx Boox tablet, but would love to offload even more of my use cases that make sense to e-ink. Followed the Twitter account, and am looking forward to more updates on what this turns out to be! Wouldn't mind seeing them here on HN either ;)

Same on Firefox Windows.

I’ve really enjoyed using Marginalia search over the last few months whenever I’m looking for honest-to-goodness “small-web” content. It’s always a breath of fresh air, provided I don’t look too niche.

I took the opportunity to pitch in a few dollars to the Patreon each month. I hope this time & a bit of extra funds from folks is helpful in finding what direction you feel driven to take search in.

Thanks for making a really neat web thing in a web less and less full of neat things!

I see someone else was watching LGR

For context, the video by Lazy Game Reviews today showed some early snippets of Windows 95 VRML left on an old VAIO laptop: https://youtu.be/wPVIubVtdRY?t=1693

This video was the first I’d heard of the format, so it doesn’t surprise me to see others giving it a search and further share here on HN.

Thanks so much for your project! It’s one of the things I turn to when looking to uncover actual human writing these days.

Came here to add another voice to the discourse that an iPad is most definitely not a "light-emitting eReader" in popular vernacular. That term calls to mind recent e-ink devices with frontlights, which are often used in place of LCD-devices to allow for some time away from harsher backlit screens before bed.

Burying that lede several sections deep feels almost purposely misleading, either that or just incompetent in my opinion.

It's incredible to me to that while this, a slightly older DSLR, and a classic SLR film camera all have similar silhouettes and ergonomics you can watch the digital technology replace the insides over the last 25 years.

It's a stark comparison to see the ribbon cables and stacked daughter boards under the rear panel here where the film reels used to live. No greater takeaway here, just incredible to see a common form stay similar in many ways externally, yet have it's internals so totally overhauled.

Pinboard - https://pinboard.in/ is a one-man developed bookmarking/tagging/archival service that's been a consistent featureset and price for many years now without any delusions of selling out or exponential growth.

I love it and use it religiously, I just tracked down an article I remembered reading in 2015 the other day just by searching a keyword.

This website, the app's visual design, and that old plastic-chromed iPhone all harken back to a simpler time when there were funny one-off apps just for the hell of it.

The time of $1.99 quantum splitters, $0.99 iBeer, and $1.99 Lightsaber apps is long gone. Most of those apps didn't really do anything all that amazing, but looking back on it I think I miss when app stores were flush with "we could use the hardware to do this" rather than "we could get in-app purchases and subscriptions like this"

Not that there wasn't monetization as a goal back then, but just that there was a lot of weird paradigms being experimented on where we now have a solidly 10-year norm instead.

Featured in the opening of this episode of PBS’s “the Computer Chronicles” on mobile computing from 1995: https://youtu.be/S8Mgc8dYLr0

Sounds awesome, I'd gladly pay for a product like this - I signed up for the waitlist :) Cheers devs!

“Simply…”

From that link that makes them... the 4th highest paid employee that we can see in that table.

For whatever reason I've found this "Human Crush" phenomena simultaneously interesting & terrifying ever since I first heard about it some years ago in regards to the Hillsborough disaster. People in a dense enough group cease to function as individual units... but instead as a large fluid mass incapable of immediate course correction.

It's stuck with me, and made me more wary and alert when in crowded scenarios to this day. I suppose there's a thought to be had that as urban centers become more populous and common we'll have to figure out better ways of preventing and policing stuff like this. (And like the tragic stuff happening at Astroworld last night.)

Be safe folks.

This really doesn't sound like an article written as a "Linux newbie" ~ but props to them for finding solutions to their various workflow needs and learning. That's a big part of what Linux is all about :)

Not to be overly pedantic, but Apple didn't release any quad-core MacBook Airs in 2015.(see https://support.apple.com/kb/sp714?locale=en_US) Intel didn't even have quad-core ULV CPUs available until late 2017-2018.

I only comment because the jump between dual & quad core is a pretty big one, as is the presumed jump to newer chips with 6, 8, and 16 core processors in modern machines.

Dual core has remained surprisingly usable for light tasking though. Whether it is a well-loved MacBook or a battle-scarred ThinkPad from that era, Intel's dual core CPUs have held up well (even if it means they didn't feel the need to push their CPU design as much in the subsequent years.)

Never seen threadreader before, really cool. Thanks for posting it.

This sounds similar to some of my workflow when using Windows. PowerToys & fancyzones are really neat in that they let you pre-define specific "Snap zones" that you can then shift+drag windows on top of to resize them.

I tried Gtile on Fedora but found it wanting to emulate more of Linux's auto-tiling interfaces, which isn't what I want when using floating windows some of the time.

The Pop-Shell extension mentioned above was the best floating + tiling experience I'd used so far. Floating windows work like normal until you hit super+y where they'll begin to auto-tile & try to find sane spacing for the different windows onscreen.

You can cycle through those windows (and I believe resize them too) with keyboard commands, but also resize and drag around them with the mouse like normal. You can even drag them on top of each other to create "tabbed" windows behind one another with little selectors at the top.

I used this recently on a 12.5" (1080p) screen to reference Firefox on one half, while having my terminal, file browser, and text editor all "tabbed" on top of each other in the other half. Made it really smooth to fit all that into a small screen in a way that felt sane & easy to multitask with. I'd highly recommend trying that extension out and seeing if it can fill your needs, even if it's not 100% trying to fill Fancyzone's role.

I've been shocked how consistently this improves the quality of search results.

Searching something like "get new cats to adjust to one another" on Google returns nothing but list-icle, SEO-laden crap with incredibly low information density and no mention of personal experience with the search subject from the ethereal "author" of such posts.

Adding site:reddit.com does wonders, but even just typing "get new cats to adjust to one another *reddit* " will return threads going back almost a decade with loads of suggestions, personal experience, and more.

It's not always useful (not anywhere near everything on reddit is worth being sourced) but just chucking the word reddit into search seems to be the most straightforward way to dredge up actual user-generated content that's not 100% crap.

Wish there were search engines designed to crawl more of that side of the internet and less of Google's schlocky results. I'm so sick of list-icles.