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I use mbsync, mutt, and notmuch. The searching is superb with notmuch and the level of integration with mutt is great.

I thought this was the typical use case - reading the first few comments here…I guess it integrates well with many clients.

A person makes a mechanical keyboard from scratch without breaking the bank.

Thanks for the suggestion. That is my one gripe with Ranger. It can be sluggish at times...

Take a look at Ranger. Ranger gives you the ability to do things like bulk edit files within a vim editor. Try doing this on the cli with the same efficiency and speed. This is where a term file manager really begins to shine...

These posts are similar to the "I quit Twitter/Facebook/other social media" announcements to the world declaring their freedom from said entanglements.

I was a longtime Subsonic user and was mostly pleased. For some reason, I stopped using it after moving to a new server.

These days, I have been very pleased with https://radioparadise.com. It is an eclectic mix with a couple of different channels. This station offers familiar tunes mixed with new ones. It is a nice gem that I love to tell other music lovers about.

Note: I am in no way affiliated with Radio Paradise. Just a listener/fanboy.

After reading this account, I felt somewhat sorry for his father.

I work at a place that has tons of CCTV cameras monitoring the bird droppings and the comings and goings of people throughout the day. When crime occurs, we review the CCTV footage. We often capture footage of people behaving badly and even breaking the law. We curse under our breaths at the terrible acts these people have committed. Next we try to identify the people. This is the hard part. Normally, we have no way of identifying the people captured on film. Perhaps if our company permitted us, we could upload this footage to say, Youtube and let the hive algorithm attack and identify. Until then, our film will end up on a hard drive until forgotten about and deleted. When the cameras are all doing facial recognition we should worry. Until then, I think, there is a certain degree of anonomity when captured by CCTV surveillance cameras.

...ah yes...countless hours were spent on my MythBox, which mostly worked. Before my MythBox went out the door, it had four TV cards a couple of huge drives and a ton of memory. It was a very nice machine. Before that, I used the XBMC on a couple of Xboxes. I remember using Splinter Cell and a memory card, I think, to perform the hack to get it going. That was a lot of fun.

Fast forward to today, I was using a a little single board computer (le potato) to run Kodi. That worked okay but always required hacking to get it working with Netflix or other services. I finally gave up and bought the Nvidia Shield Pro. It works great and I haven't had a single (major) issue since buying it. It runs Android TV and allows me to install Kodi as an app. I still run Kodi along with many of the other apps. No longer do I have to run into the room and ssh into the box to get it to do something.

While I am happy with the Nvidia Shield, in my heart, I feel like I gave up some freedom. The early days of HTPC were about figuring out how to make things work without the infrustructure of any big companies (other than the $19.99/year I paid to schedulesdirect!). Just a community of people making things work they way they wanted them to work. Yep. I am a sell out (that is watching tv with a knowing smile on his face).

I remember in grade school where we practised turing to an approximate page in a book. I always think of it like this.

This is going two ways...

1. Trump recovers quickly and declares coronavirus just a bad cold.

2. Trump has a severe case of coronavirus and becomes more cautious moving forward in his speech and actions as they relate to coronavirus.

I think I’d put my money on number 1.

This has been a process for me. I started out using TinyTinyRSS and a few other apps. I always wanted an RSS reader that I could use anywhere on any device. I have finally settled on rss2email. I can read on any device I can access my email. I have setup an email just for rss feeds (rss@mydomain.com) and use a server side filter to put the feeds in the correct mailbox. I love the idea of not introducing another app to manage something.

For mail I use mutt. Mutt and rss2email are a match made in heaven. I can quickly process the stuff I want to read and the stuff I have little interest in. Feeds like Hacker News can get out of hand quickly without the ability to quickly process...

This gives me a warmer feeling watching OpenRC boot on my laptop.

Dare I say...2021 will be the year of the Linux desktop...LOL

We need Justin Bieber to use mastadon.

I hope that the web becomes more decentralized. I wonder, what catalyst would cause decentralization? My grandma doesn't care about decentralization and I am not sure she would be convinced even if I did my very best to explain it to her. I don't think it would change her habit of connecting with family via Facebook and using Google for search, mail etc.

Because they want to own you.

Another data point to be sold, bought, and resold?

These days, I wouldn't even broach the topic unless I knew the person intimately.

Also the title of a Death Cab for Cutie album.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi_(album)

I had a friend who was once a heavy Marijuana user. After smoking a couple of times a day, everyday he stopped dreaming. As I understand, dreaming is important for deep sleep. For some reason, which I am not sure has been really studied, Marijuana affects sleep. While it might promote sleep, I wonder if it promotes the kind of sleep that is most beneficial for our bodies. These days, living in a legal state, Marijuana is often promoted for sleep. It might make you sleep, but if your body never reachese the state needed for deep sleep, I would hardly call it an effective sleep therapy drug.

Once my friend stopped using Marijuana (he had used regularly for 10 years) his dreams suddenly became intense and overwhelming. This is a common occurance among heavy cannabis smokers once they stop using. Marijuana is not just THC, CBD or CBN but some combination of these chemicals and more.

I would be weary of CBN for sleep therapy. While it might promote sleep, does it really promote the deep restful sleep that we are learning is extremely important for good health, longevity and optimum functioning? We have much to learn about Cannabis. Hopefully the changing laws and attitudes about cannabis will enable scentists and researchers to better understand this drug.

> There are more efficient ways to get low-effort shitposts and memes than Reddit.

What reddit replacements exist out there that have the niche communities that Reddit supports?

I like reddit for the niche groups that center around some topic. I haven't really found another source of this type of niche content. Maybe Facebook has groups or whatever but I have never used Facebook so can't comment.

On Android, I like Redreader which, to my mind, is simple, open and free. It was the my first experience using a mobile Reddit app and I really thought it stayed out of the way and let me read and comment in various reddits. I started using an iPhone and decided to give the official reddit app a whirl. This app is clunky and confusing and doesn't feel simple in any way. I have tried a few other apps (everyone seems to like Apollo?) but I haven't really found my home yet. I still really appreciate RedReader for its simple uncluttered ability to read and comment.

In the browser, I like using old.reddit.com. Their default version of the site is horrible. I can't stand it. On a computer, my preferred way of browsing reddit is using ttrv. It is the latest incarnation of rtv. It is command line, which might turn some people off, but is simple and easy to setup. I use feh to view pictures and mpv to view videos. I can comment using vim which makes it very cozy.

I guess it is good that reddit provides an api that allows hackers to develop alternative ways to access their site depending on their own personal preference. For now, their mobile official app seems to comprimise in too many areas to make it work for me. The new site (not the old.reddit.com) is pain to use.

I would like to see some data that proves they can track someone to their doorstep. I would think that a hacker that was trying to cover their tracks would have enough OpSec sense to evade some location data collected on a phone.

>I wish Google and Apple let me bill publishers for my attention

I always think that companies that try to persuade me into completing a survey, for their benefit, should compensate me in some way for my time. I never fill out surveys and internally feel a bit peeved when I am asked to complete one. If I called my cable provider and asked them to complete some random task I am pretty sure I know what their response would be.

>regulating attention is the problem.

Thanks for your comment. I see this in my son, who shows signs of having ADHD. He is able to hyper focus on areas of interest which seems contrary to having ADHD. Less desired areas of interest are much harder for him to deeply focus. I try to see this as an advantage and hope that someday he will be able to exploit his hyper focus and learn to manage his distracatablity.

An article about distraction on HN! How ironic! HN is often a place for me to be distracted!

I often romanticize about living a distraction free life. I contemplate the idea to the point of being labeled a luddite by my friends. I dream of being a cool kid that uses a Light Phone (I really want one!). I want to be one of the people in their advertisements that is fully engaged in some activity. I think that if I just threw out all of the distractors and lived a more simple life I would be more present. I sincerely appreciate the authors attempts at scaling back technology in the hopes of living a more present life. I never thought to buy a wordprocessor that was not connected to the internet! This is a man that understands my inner itch at living this minimialist, distraction free, fully engaged presence.

I, like the author, am discovering that I can't buy a Light Phone and then suddenly be fully engaged. I can't throw out all of the technology in the hopes that my enlightened self emerges. The distractors will simply change. The hard work begins when I begin examining the root behind my distraction. What am I running from? Why?

Thank you to the author for reminding me to focus on the root causes of my distractions. Alas, the magical solution to distraction is nothing but an illusion. Maybe I will still buy a Light Phone though :-)

“there is little in our evolutionary history that accounts for children sitting at desks quietly while watching a teacher do math equations at a board.”

In the section that discusses labels, I am particularly struck by this quote. So many things in our evolutionary history seem contrary to the way we live, learn, and interact. Perhaps this is the catalyst that ignites the evolutionary flames. I often think that we are just hitting our heads against a wall and expecting different results other than a bloody head.