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Nice setup. I keep a FireWire card in my PC for digitizing VHS tapes using a Canon HV20 and a VCR. I need to sit down and finish the project (and sooner than later with VHS media breaking down).

> Linux will likely drop support for IEEE 1394 in 2029

Good to know!

That's a great idea. It would be neat if you could also cast media to it somehow.

These personal collections are always neat to see. I'd like to start my own (beyond scraps in my local Pictures folder) but I'm not sure how to structure it. I might just build a grid of tagged/categorized media, like a chaotic memory palace.

Seeing this a bit late. I take your point and yes, that's my worldview. Crocker does not say it's both. Sorry I'm so late to reply.

> "I don’t need to know anything about the domain you’re working in to know better than you"

This frustates me to no end. Is it just an example of the Dunning–Kruger effect?

Agreed, but I see this in every industry. And though it's certainly arrogant on some level, I think of it in a more positive light: people are generally optimistic and want to solve problems.

My grandfather had a rule at his business for 55-ish years: we welcome your ideas and suggestions, but not for the first year. You spend that time learning our processes, decisions behind them, pain points, areas that need improvement, etc. You also spend that time doing the work and hearing from your colleagues. Then you can (hopefully) make informed suggestions. That's not possible in every situation, but I like the intent.

Yes, but it's also both. Everyone should manage their own feelings and exchange information both efficiently and respectfully.

This comment and OP's feed reader suggestion are making me look into Thunderbird for the first time in 17-ish years!

> and it’s honestly quite great. As opposed to it not honestly being great, which if true, would kind of defeat the point of writing this post

Well I, for one, find the honesty refreshing.

Someone else mentioned Miniflux, which I've been testing for a few weeks on a local, tailscale-connected debian box. I really like it so far, with only a few minor complaints. It seems to embrace Dave Winer’s "river of news" idea that the author mentions. When I open my Miniflux homepage, I see the latest posts and I'm not distracted by older posts that I might not be concerned about.

That said, I categorize my feeds and treat the categories differently. Dev/design/DIY -- I tend to read all/most of it.

I've wanted to try Miniflux for a long time, so a few weeks ago I set it up on a headless debian box I have running for some homelab services. That's part of my Tailscale network, so I was able to immediately start testing on desktop, phone, etc. It's great!

I might take a stab at customizing the UI a bit. I like that it's opinionated but pretty bare-bones visually out of the box.

+1 for Kagi. It's been my daily driver for 2.5 years and I have no complaints.

That's hilarious! I hope y'all cleared up the confusion quickly.

Very fun

Thanks for your assessment. I hope your judgement is useful to the author and their family.

> until Blender is battle-proven to the same degree

This feels like an arbitrary level of abstraction for how much control a user should have. When you buy a phone, you're buying a combination of components designed and paired for that manufacturer's software. Can the user potentially replace that software? Sure, but should they be expected to?

If they just wanted hardware, they could buy their own and piece something together, if we're exploring those kinds of hypotheticals. But buying an Apple or Android device is a different choice and I think, within that context, a user should be able to run the software they want.

> Amazon.com Inc is currently worth 2.4 billion dollars and the only reason is that most businesses insist on giving their customers the worst online experience possible

Huh?

> just not wanting to acknowledge that they did it purposefully

So the punchline of the urban legend is in question? The part that makes it so interesting? Not sure that qualifies as 'pedantic hair splitting'.

Agreed! My question remains – why does one need to be substantiated while the other doesn’t?

I don't understand why they need to "substantiate" their opinion, but the commenter they're replying to wouldn't need to substantiate their anecdotal evidence. They can "literally" claim anything.

I do think Mindless2112's experience is common with larger businesses, making the BBB potentially more effective in those cases than online review sites like Google or Yelp. Also, do those sites send complaint letters? I don't know.

> The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.

I assume it's being tracked elsewhere. But not here.

Just to clarify -- we already knew about the washing, right? But this refers to the specific mechanism where the blood vessels contract to cause the washing?

Correction: Bedrock is not freemium. There's also nothing wrong with Bedrock. It allows for cross-platform play. The minecoins/purchases are available in the menus, but they're never pushed in-game. The experience is very similar to Java.

Also, Java and Bedrock both have Realms (the managed "server" option you referred to).

> Isn't it more the case that all actors audit all software? Open source just has potentially more "auditors" than closed source?

Perhaps bad actors don’t audit more than good actors, but this doesn’t address whether there are more good or bad actors doing the auditing. I think this is a more valuable comparison if we’re talking about risk mitigation and the safety of open-source software. Do you know that there are more good-faith auditors than bad?

Very much related — we should probably acknowledge the disparity between the two groups in terms of motivation, sustainability of said motivation, financial resources, and time.

The idea of burnout among open-source maintainers is long-known and endlessly discussed. They often/mostly volunteer their time — to some thanks, but also to a deluge of “doesn’t work” tickets with no repro, as someone pointed out on this recent post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579591

Bad-faith actors tend to be highly motivated, with ideological or financial goals. They have more and perhaps better resources, more so if state-funded, and more time to commit.

This doesn’t mean there’s a constant and unmanageable risk to open-source software, and I certainly don’t agree that open-source OSes are a bad idea. But it’s not as simple as having actors auditing on each side or the difference in numbers between closed and open-source.

It’s perfectly fair to call this gimmicky and niche (note the commenter you’re replying to didn’t call it an outright gimmick). Sure, a groove box on its own isn’t niche, but one loaded with samples of medieval instruments is arguably quite niche.

I'm using the latest Firefox on Windows 10. It doesn't work. "Your current browser isn't supported. [See Supported Browsers](https://support.apple.com/120585)" and on that page is says:

On your Windows PC - Edge - Chrome

Or at least an accordion for each row of checkboxes, with the first row expanded but all others closed by default.

Love it. Would it be possible to speed up the animations?

They greatly enjoyed the pasta. They didn’t say they “greatly enjoyed spending so much more money”.

Sounds like they're asking questions and you're making assumptions.