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jlongman··on Ubuntu 26.04
Good list.

One option for the menus maybe is keyboard searching. Command-shift-/ aka Command-?then type the name and arrow navigate. (Key sequence might be wrong, it’s muscle memory at this point)

I wonder if Thaw could be modded to repeat the menu bar?

Dock can be hidden/revealed with a key sequence but I like the auto-hide with long delay to pop up idea, suggested elsewhere.

jlongman··on Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games
nIce! Does it have player in-game stats like TOI and +/-?

This reminds me of that f1 tui… https://github.com/JustAman62/undercut-f1 or https://github.com/IAmTomShaw/f1-race-replay. The one I’m thinking of syncs with kodi for delayed playback “live” stats.

jlongman··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
You might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
jlongman··on The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
That’s funny because when I work with Fahrenheit I just work with 5°F ranges to compensate for the approximate mental math required. Eg very quick mentally, 100°F = 37.778 °C (thanks autocorrect) = (100-32)/2 = 34.

But if it was closer to freezing say 42°F =5.556 °C (again) so 5°C. So arbitrarily we could say 57°F was 12°C =53.6 °F actually.

But a true Canuck knows knowing the temp is barely half the battle, what’s the wind speed and humidity? 29°C can be a lovely day if it’s dry or completely unbearable if it’s humid.

We hardly ever use decimals for weather-related measurements, the other factors above being more relevant.

Contrast that with measurements where I would say if you need to know a precise one you should be using decimal; ie what do you do if it doesn’t precisely third or fourth? If you’re talking about tool sizes then any system works as long as your froodle matches the grommlet.

jlongman··on Gnome is better macOS than macOS
I had a longer reply but turfed it, but the global menu is based around muscle memory for eye and mouse locations. My personal experience sounds nothing like yours so I suspect we navigate very differently such that it impacts you far more than me.

I’m a heavy keyboard user so rotating apps and windows in apps means I always know where I am and don’t even notice the costs you’re talking about.

jlongman··on Show HN: Status of my favorite bike share stations
It’s probably worth posting [1] which shows many cities around the world.

Also there’s an aging HomeAssistant add-on [2] that lets you visualize stations and stats. But since HA now insists the addon is separate from an API and there’s no separate API (really, it’s trivial) things like electric bike or trailer counts are not exposed.

[1] https://citybik.es [2] https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/citybikes/

jlongman··on 'Virtually No Demand' for iPhone Air
I like the idea but don’t want to sacrifice on cameras.
jlongman··on GH Killing Command Palette for "low usage"
What is this thing I just discovered and now really need and they plan to destroy.
jlongman··on Run GitHub Actions locally
In GitHub we use an OIDC token to access some AWS resources. Locally I need to populate tokens etc and so I have an `if: ${{ACT}}` and a not condition to populate it.
jlongman··on Run your GitHub Actions locally
Secrets can be loaded from a file.

https://nektosact.com/usage/index.html?highlight=Secret#secr...

jlongman··on Run your GitHub Actions locally
It’s even worse than that, it’s 20GB compressed and 60GB uncompressed. Regardless, if your VM runs out of disk space there’s no meaningful error (well 12 months ago) except a failure to start. (Possibly colima-specific I dunno I uninstalled docker-docker)

I do find that some things just work locally and fail in real actions and vice versa. For the most part it’s made it easier to move the bar forward though.

jlongman··on iPhone 17 Pro Max with 12GB DRAM
I can’t see xitter because they say so, but this is likely speculation on next-next-gen 17 as next-gen 16 is about to be released.
jlongman··on The science behind an iPhone dumb phone
Accessibility> Display & Text Size> Color Filters> On then top option is Grayscale.

Color Filters also has a true no blue mode for night.

jlongman··on Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
I made a Shortcut that drops the white point, turns on the red filter, zeroes the audio and turns down the brightness. On wake-up it reverses these.

It’s attached to an automation for sleep and wake focus it works really well. I added an explicit run requirement for wake so that I could sleep in without getting blasted in the face with white. There’s a notification with a run button which I can wait until I’m truly up to hit.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4bcfd8fc02074316aaae3503d07...

jlongman··on Via ferratas are finally catching on in the United States
It’s still called a via ferrata in France so this isn’t confusing at all. Source: did some near Annecy as well as Grenoble 20 years ago.

And Quebec fwiw but I only know of the one at Tremblant (which is paid).

jlongman··on Witch – macOS window switcher replacement
Command-shift-? Brings up Search in the Help menu, then type and select the menu item, also, but TIL about raycast:

https://www.raycast.com

jlongman··on Harvard mandates the bivalent Omicron-specific Covid-19 booster
In Quebec, Canada: not at risk, not old and I have a government prompt to get my next free COVID booster sitting in my inbox as well as a government email for the free flu shot.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-vaccination-c...

Health is a provincial domain.