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inside_out_life··on Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
They should adopt servo or help revive geckoview, to have an independent default.
inside_out_life··on Getting hired after fifty
I'm considering myself lucky, but I've got hired two months ago, remotely, without revealing my age or anyone caring how I look. I'm 41. Meetings are voice only. I'm yet to meet anyone from the team face to face, yet I'm not worried about it, as I've been preserving myself well.
inside_out_life··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
It's different though, not system wide. You don't need it to login into the OS. There are alterantive to Apple Store too.
inside_out_life··on Wire is now on F-Droid
Aurora gets apks directly from Play Store via reverse engineered api
inside_out_life··on Typora 1.0
This is no longer true, recent versions of Obsidian started adding WYSIWYG features.
inside_out_life··on Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
Well, it's not comparable, you wanted different use case there's kdeconnect-cli kdeconnect seems daemon like enough to me since it's entirely detached from its myriad UIs
inside_out_life··on Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
for fast occasional sharing you have KDEConnect
inside_out_life··on Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
It's hard to explain but Poland got hooked on mobile payments/banking, the adoption is very high and one of the major players is home grown.
inside_out_life··on 3D Printing Sex Toys
What do we know about Jesus's dick, would it have some special properties?
inside_out_life··on Speech Synthesis on Linux (2020)
Some of the Amazon's voices sound amazing to me, I've actually tested few on them and people couldn't tell they're synthetic. Watson's voices are nice too. (AFAIK Amazon bought Polish company IVONA for their Polly TTS system, which was long regarded to be one of the best)
inside_out_life··on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
This is true, AMD's GPU Linux drivers are open source and in superb shape nowadays (with the exception of freshly released stuff as there's always lag)
inside_out_life··on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
I've been runnning linux with AMD cpu/gpu for years, they tend to be late with initial stuff but other than that it's been a smooth sailing. That being said, it will differ from distro to distro, as some are unreadably slow with driver/firmware updates.
inside_out_life··on Firefox Browser: best for a free web
It got updated to newest Chromium version recently, the build process seems to be semi-automated now too. Isn't it open source too? Unfortunately it's a bit buggy on some of my devices. Newest FF beta got unexplained speed bost and tablet UI, it's approaching irreplaceablity steadily for me, There's IceRaven FF fork which has enabled even more addons.
inside_out_life··on Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021
Have you been living under a rock? Do you know what a hackintosh is? It's been going for so long that ccurrent bootloaders allow to run it completely unmodified, working updates etc. macOS also runs under some VMs, with some config tweaks
inside_out_life··on Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO
This is not true, they've made changes recently to their premium features that forces you to do training (spaced tasks).
inside_out_life··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
Nope, it still sucks.
inside_out_life··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
You can actually use these apps together with obsidian, to edit the same files which I do, I use IA writer when I feel like to.
inside_out_life··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
Obsidian with plugins can be a quite efficiant outliner too, it even has tree collpasing/unfolding command built in
inside_out_life··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
Unfortunately Obsidian cannot replace apps like Agenda or noteplan for me, because it doesn't sync with external calendars. I still use it for most stuff though.
inside_out_life··on Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor
look at something like Obsidian for modern editor UX
inside_out_life··on Duolingo S-1 IPO
They remade the more popular trees recently to make them CEFR compliant and added grammar lessons to some, I'm doing Spanish and it's very good, tons of immersion stuff, audio lessons, stories, podcasts.
inside_out_life··on FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
It's possible and it's compile time option, source package managers like portage allow you to do that.