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binwang··on What About Rails?
> Does anyone actually use Hey?

In the talk he said all Hey's traffic can be served on a Raspberry Pi. I think that pretty much answers your question.

binwang··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
> Mozilla Mail - a reliable Exchange/Google Mail alternative (desperately needed imo)

Thunderbird Pro was announced a while back, still not GA though

binwang··on Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based
Now I see little value in subscribing to Zed Pro compared to just bringing my own API key. Am I missing something?
binwang··on SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant
The site you mentioned seem to just link to a bunch of GitHub repos. Neither site answers the questions new users care about the most, like why should I use this new OS and who are the people behind the project.
binwang··on Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu
Same here. I also find this reasoning very disturbing and discouraging, even though I can live without this feature, and will most likely continue using FF after this change lands.
binwang··on Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
Why not?
binwang··on Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
can second this. I am a Chinese who lived in Beijing for 10 years. No one would pronounce a hard r after 那个