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The irony that this is an article about reading and literature, and yet the NYT butchered it for stylistic purposes. Changing peoples names I find unforgivable.

Governance by mega-corporations working in a cartel. Having read this recent article [https://lithub.com/how-american-tech-cartels-use-apps-to-bre...], I fail to see how this is a good thing. Gatekeepers with self-interests at the heart of the decision making process.

I have a Mac for Mac-type-things, and Linux for work-type-things. Neither is perfect, and I could equally complain about either. That said, if I had to give one up it would be an incredibly easy choice.

You hit a chord here with me, I've moved away from WP to Hugo & Eleventy. For interactive features like comments, the search/sort/filter of databases is a strong draw though, and I'm already wanting to add search to Hugo. There's compromises in every approach, but SQL brings a lot to the table that flat files just can't do without a fair wedge of effort... or is there a tool/library that could index thousands of markdown files plus their comments in json/yaml/md format? Statically rendering the comments would give get me 80% of the way there, without free text search. Maybe I'm just ignorant of the tools available, blinded by my past experience and knowledge with older architectures.

I still wouldn't put them into Git along with the rest of the site, that's a definitely no-no. A separate Git? Also no for me. Filesystem does seem viable on reflection, and I feel inspired to explore this now.

Maven has the `-B` option, but that has the side effect of working in a no-input mode so it's not ideal. There's plenty of times I'd like to have it working interactively but without the ANSI colour codes.

Yeah, that it does but I quite like the way it gets taller but keeps the width.

Never tried a double click, thanks!

It's not the FOSS, it's the distribution. As far as I can tell everything in that distro is available elsewhere.

I hate that I have to hold option everytime I maximise a window. All I want is to change the default to stretch windows and not use the fullscreen mode at all because of the other weirdness it brings.

I avoid anything to do with DHH for his views expressed on his blog. I'm sure Omarchy is nice and all, but there are other choices without the ethical baggage.

I'm somewhat allergic to Kickstarter for things I have to trust - phones fall firmly into that category. That said, a square phone is somehow highly appealing even if it looks goofy to use.

I would if I could buy new, either of these would be good options. I always buy new and run on a long cycle rather than pre-owned.

I prefer my old iPhone 8 to the new models, but without the updates it's no longer useful. I was waiting for 4th Gen SE but it never came, but in practice it's the same width and less than 2 centimetres taller. If I could have a shorter phone (like an iPhone 8 without the bezel) that would be amazing.

I tried small Androids in the past, had a Sony Xperia compact (Z1?) and loved it until it very literally fell apart.

Your implementation might be static json files, but it's not impossible to force other filetypes in there. This in itself makes it high risk?

Allowing force-push is considered an antipattern for Git, and generally best avoided. It's a safeguard against lost history and prevents data loss.

That aside, the comments are the history. Git is the wrong tool for the job. Why would you choose a generic version-control system designed for source code diffs & merges for the specialised task of chronologically-ordered comments? A database such as PostgreSQL is a far superior choice in just about every possible way. I admire your ingenuity here to make something out of what's available, but I respectfully disagree with this being a good way to capture user-generated content when there are better alternatives.

I find the idea of using Git for comments somewhat terrifying, not least of all for the permanence of the history making moderation a nightmare.

I used to use Disqus on my blog a long time ago, but dropped it with one of the many reboots. Having comments on a blog still seems like a good idea but I'm still half minds over on-page vs fediverse-based discussion, or maybe even both. Spam is a constant problem.

One alternative I've come across while researching this was https://cusdis.com/ - has anyone tried this?

It looks like GTK & KDE both suffer from this - I get this behaviour in Thunar and in Dolphin. This is the kind of thing that makes me lose sleep. It's the same on MacOS too, at least in the latest version.

Thanks, now I cannot unsee this. Thunar has this broken sort order too, and I've no idea how to make it sort file names with hash values 'properly' - by which I mean the same as `ls` which broadly speaking on my system is 0 to 9 then a-z case insensitive.

Instead I have an order of starting character that goes 1,4,5,7,9,2,3,7,8,9,4,6,1,2,.. etc etc which is utterly useless as a sort. I've always thought the sort was weird but couldn't quite figure out why (I usually sort by date descending). Another non-productive thing to figure out and fix.

Nice idea but expressly prohibited by ICANN. Must be 3+ letters.

"Applied-for gTLD strings in ASCII must be composed of three or more visually distinct characters. Two-character ASCII strings are not permitted, to avoid conflicting with current and future country-codes based on the ISO 3166-1 standard."

I'm not sure why I'd bother using this when it's just another Chromium browser.

As it currently stands, I'm leaning more into WebKit-based, but for daily use it's Firefox. I'm not happy with any of them, but I'd struggle to pick just one right now.

The iPhone 17 in the UK still has the SIM tray, something I'm glad about. Knowing I can pull the SIM and slot it into my old iPhone 8 where there is no eSim support is valuable to me.

It's about 50/50 here in the UK. Not at all weird, it's butter for different purposes.

I run with XFCE for work to drive a mix of GTK and KDE apps. Personally I find the base system is slower, but the apps themselves are better than the GNOME alternatives in terms of functionality and visual appeal.

XFCE > KDE > GNOME > MacOS

For my Steam machine, it's all KDE and works beautifully.

We have salted butter for the table, and unsalted for baking. We don't bake often enough to want unopened packs if we can avoid it.

Same here, although arguably even 'documents' is redundant when I can shove anything in there. The fact that I'm forced to have it at all when I want to have 'personal files' and 'work files' instead is problematic.

82% seems the norm here too, good to know this. Anything lower is labelled 'spread' (based on a very quick search, maybe not always true here). Oddly specific, so maybe there's regulation at play. We prefer French butter for the quality and because it comes in the correct size.

Ironically it seems (from memory, I've not researched it deeply) that continental butter has not changed from 250g, whereas the British brands have moved first to 200g. I could understand if they switched to 225g as essentially a half-pound block, but 200g isn't any closer to an useful Imperial measure than 250g.

I'm not sure about that, I've resisted buying those brands and it seems poor form to open them in the supermarket just to check.

My take on this: both 'your' and 'my' are weak.

Eliminate both or use 'the' if you must. Using 'the' is stronger for the singular, and unnecessary for the plural - The Account, The Profile Picture, Cases, Tasks, Items.

And in the case of personal computing: 'Documents' beats 'My' or 'Your'. It's an implied concept, doubly so as they are intangible abstracts rather then physical objects. It never sat comfortably with me in Windows XP, and messed with sort order too.

There's no reason to qualify it unless a system can have both 'my' and 'your' at the same time.

Here in the UK, there's a trend of selling 200g blocks for certain brands that ruin recipes. We have to be careful to avoid those and stick to the 250g ones. Yes, I know we could cut 50g of another block but then we'd need to measure, and we'd have an open brick to keep. It steals part of the joy of baking, forcing us to think instead of feel.