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bebna··on Minimal Phone 2
Android kiss home screen can be probably set up like this.
bebna··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
On BlackBerry i had an app that could do colour patterns, rhythms and so on depending who contacted you on which medium. Got a mail from you boss? Blue led. Got an sms or call? Red alarm. U could also group people and or mediums together (this was a basic feature of blackberry os)
bebna··on Commodore Releases Flip Phone
I’m more concerned about nfc payment and public transport apps not working.
bebna··on Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995
That is canon for ya, should have used INSERT_OTHER_MANUFACTURER_HERE$ /s

But if you look how much manuals get ignored by the customer, it doesn’t make sense to put work into them.

It is much better to let a YouTuber do it, by lending them the product and throw small amount of money against them.

Manuals are just there for legal or certifications requirements these days.

bebna··on Build web apps for smart glasses
I should invest time, so that you can sell more? Why?
bebna··on 71% Desk Workers Say Screen-Related Visual Discomfort Is Reducing Productivity
Yeah, forget that. Switching the system over to Linux access kills most of its features and is hidden be hind scary screens, including loss of warranty. It is only your typically greenwashing like, “ we are open source” marketing badge. The community is also almost dead, probably because of that.

Keyboard is also unusable, it doesn’t even have enough characters for markdown.

bebna··on Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model
Set -i 1 to -i default or to one of your monitors, look them up with pactl list short sources

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/PulseAudio

bebna··on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A
I got a MacBook. No, not an air or pro, just MacBook.
bebna··on Show HN: Open-source Markdown research tool written in Rust – Ekphos
Why not (n)vim or emacs and some plugins?
bebna··on Affinity Studio now free
What changes for me as iPad user?

Does the account required mean I can’t use it offline anymore?

So can I finally import krita files? Especially those with vector layers?

bebna··on FSF announces Librephone project
I got an FP5, would not buy again.
bebna··on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
USA also got a household that barely lives on its debts. Richest nation? Probably china already.
bebna··on Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part
Simple, they are basically spam for this platform.

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bebna··on E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens
Yes you can kill or degrade them if you drive them too hard, but achieving higher refresh rates and less ghosting is mostly about finer calibration and faster lookups on bigger tables
bebna··on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
Never. It is just a fancy MMS in new disguise. Carriers / patent holders will hold to it forever while praising it as the new best thing.
bebna··on Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance
For me a "Non-Rust Server" would be something like a PHP webhoster. If I can run my own node instance, I can possible run everything I want.
bebna··on Meta is discontinuing the Quest Pro two years after launching it
Any alternatives that come with face tracking? That is what the standout feature was to me
bebna··on Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
7, basically was cut of from the last family member last year I had hopes in for over a decade after helping her to get back up, that cost me dearly in my career and private social life.

I pulled myself back up these year, don't have any holes in my CV and still have a job that pays enough so that I can put stuff aside. Which I'm taking as a win.

I do have some friends left that I can trust, which I take as a win.

Currently don't have a partner, but at least I not only recovered from the last break up, but I also got something slowly brewing that could become something or atleast another good friend. Taking that as a win.

Middle aged and most health problems are manageable or in progress about getting better. Taking this as a neutral.

Could have been in a much better space in life if specific people wouldn't have maliciously against me and I wouldn't have taken the risk on the one member I mentioned already. But I also could easily be, and see others, even some of my friends, in worse places.

So I think, I did quite alright.

bebna··on I Added SVG Maps to My Travel Posts
I like it, thanks.
bebna··on Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system
don't see what tips are compatible or will be on offer. Shame that I can't control it on the pen.
bebna··on The Urban Nomad: Portable, Mobile, Compact Lifestyle
For me it reads about instant microwave meals and not about about any radio waves stuff.
bebna··on Nintendo Switch Abandons Twitter, Following Xbox and PS5
Sounds like you want an RSS reader instead if you only read it for the news.

There are also some x to fedi proxies.

No need to pay for something that makes you feel bad, as far as I read your comment.

bebna··on Android features I envy as an iPhone user
The BMS, ie the hardware has to be setup for it, it isn't just a thing u can solve with a software limit.
bebna··on Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games
If you mean emulation on handhelds:

Multiple vendors with multiple new models per year, different quality and price levels. Some come with Linux based systems others with android or even Windows. So you can choose between a selection of models for roughly 50-100USD, 150-300 or from a section that is even more expensive than a steamdeck but also provide more on some or all fronts for they bigger price tag.

There are some devices that are basically the same concept, just in new generation, but there are also many that are more unique. The space seems to require it, button layouts or screen ratio / resolution play a mayor role how well the emulation experience is, but there are so many different consoles over the years that they can't just do one thing fits all, especially if they want to keep it a handheld or sometimes pocketable. There was just a windows device released with clamshell dual screen design like the DS, but thicker to run basically everything on a modern AMD Windows setup.

The portal wasn't an unknown device in that bubble, bc some people use there emulation handhelds for streaming, as in in-home streaming or like the nvidia shield, cloud gaming streaming, often Xbox game pass these days.

There is a whole section of controllers that make a smartphone a portal/switch/steamdeck like device, by holding it in the middle and connect via usb c, lightning or Bluetooth. There is a good set of emulators for phone, snapdragon is quite good in emulating switch for example, but there is a also next to streaming, android native games that support controllers or apps that produce virtual touch inputs to map the controller.

There is also a scene that makes handhelds like the DSi, psp, vita, etc emulators who work quite well if you want to put in the effort to set it up.

I recommend retro game corps on yt for a start, he doesn't do quick bait or mind numbing flash cuts.

bebna··on UUID v7
looks like v7 is basically v1 updated. v6 looks interesting with the db optimisation in mind.

UUIDv7 spec: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-u...

bebna··on Is the $139 Amazon Prime Subscription Still Worth It?
it's paywalled, probably has one of those anti eu blockers. can't see more than title and first line.
bebna··on Instant messaging: Protocols are "commons", let's take them seriously
why counter?

still alive and well, survived takeover attempts, see freenode -> libera.chat and got a shiny new protocol spec with modern features

bebna··on Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen
I often got the problem that I have to find the 2E in my pockets.
bebna··on Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen
I don't game on phones, so I don't got any problems with my 2E. Only thing unusable is the camera, that only is useful for notes
bebna··on Milk-V Second RISC-V SBC – Physically Compatible with the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Thanks, So I take it, the Lichee Module 4A won't fit the uConsole, DevTerm or other projects who use those raspbi compute interfaces?
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