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I like computers and trains.
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longstation··on Show HN: RandoFont – A browser for Google Fonts
I am curious why it doesn't have Chinese fonts while both Japanese and Korean fonts are available.
longstation··on Media Player Classic Qute Theater
Tried both MPC-QT and UOSC with MPV, I find the latter nicer.

Link: https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc

longstation··on The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer
Would be great if it has the option to block ads.
longstation··on A feature-rich Hacker News client
I am having a pixel 6a and scroll feels normal.
longstation··on How to prolong lithium based batteries
Check the article, it contains a graph where the capacity is reduced to 10%.
longstation··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
At least Canada is finally included.
longstation··on Gemini AI
With Bard still not available in Canada, I hope Gemini could.
longstation··on Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
This is exactly the same as mine. I never found any with this situation. Even if someone claims to have tinnitus, it's a different variation.

My feeling is, for a lack of better word, grateful, (definitely not a good thing for your or me) that I finally found someone the same as mine.

Next time I ever want to see a doctor again for this (not helpful btw, they don't really have cure or seem to understand my situation), I will just show your comment!

longstation··on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox
You can do that. It even asks you whether to put it at the bottom when you run Firefox (Android, not sure about iOS) the first time.
longstation··on Nvidia to Challenge Intel with Arm-Based Processors for PCs
I think another important message from the same article is: AMD is also preparing Arm-based CPUs.
longstation··on A basic guide to using Asian names
I don't think this is surprising. Many Chinese do so as well because they are educated that westerners put the first name first, so they follow the Western convention for English names.

Edit: cellphone keypad

longstation··on Google Bard waitlist
It also shows this in Canada, sigh
longstation··on Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
I am same there (using KDE Plasma with global menu). Recently, with VSCode's menu on title bar, it seems to have started a trend doing so. For example, JetBrain's IDEs are also designed that way. I found the term for that, it's called LIM (locally integrated menu). Now, Unity has done that many years ago. If I remember correctly, the behavior was: when maximized, it behaves like a global menu; when not, it's a LIM.

Fortunately, there's a PR for implementing such things in KDE Plasma. Here is the discussion [1]. Right now, you can use it, but it probably won't be merged into the main branch soon.

PR: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/breeze/-/merge_requests/126

There's also a KDE theme the PR draws inspiration on (which you can use for KDE now): https://github.com/Zren/material-decoration

longstation··on Dreaded commute to the city is keeping offices mostly empty
That's exactly what the Soviet era was. Say you work in a hospital, you would be living within 10 minutes walk away from your office. You will eat in the hospital cafeteria. Your kids will go to the hospital-sponsored schools. Unsurprisingly, your neighbors will be your coworkers. Your kids' friends will be your coworkers' kids. Life is simple and efficient but there some other downsides that's probably not relevant here.
longstation··on Firefox UI/UX History
I have been using Lepton since the beginning. Currently browsing this page with Lepton! Thank you for making the theme and a detailed history of FF theme.
longstation··on KeePassXC 2.7.0
Any chance the app you used is under xwayland? I am asking because Firefox under xwayland has auto-type working.
longstation··on KeePassXC 2.7.0
I am using both KDE and GNOME. When Firefox is under xwayland, it works. When switched to wayland, it stops working.
longstation··on KeePassXC 2.7.0
Sorry for my late reply. I replied for the other question above.
longstation··on KeePassXC 2.7.0
Yeah, I had this fear when I migrated but I asked a friend who had used it for years and he said it was rare for him. Let's see how it goes.
longstation··on KeePassXC 2.7.0
Sorry for the late reply. BitWarden is great. I really don't have anything to complaint (before BitWarden, I was using browser built-in password manager). However, I changed. I start to value the following:

1. I need a tool that can save not just password, but something more general. For example, a desktop software credential (with BitWarden, I need to open a browser or electron app to do that). Another example would be a PIN required each time I use the voice mail. Or certain PIN for my bank accounts (not the one used to login the online banking). I am aware you can save them in the note section, but it feels better when you can customize these fields. These non-password secrets used to be saved in plain text scattered around in various files on my PC. Now I have a centralized and organized access.

2. I know that with some configuration you can have self-hosted BitWarden vault. But I think KPXC + whatever_file_sync_app is simpler.

3. I actually started using KeePassXC because IT forced me so. I hated it initially, but later discovered it's actually a great tool for managing secrets in general.

4. HN Syndrome: preferring "native" app than web/electron.

longstation··on KeePassXC 2.7.0
KPXC is brilliant. Recently I switched to it from BitWarden and I am satisfied. The only issue for me is the autotype support on Wayland (it's not there yet; currently only able to auto fill password and username for xwayland app).
longstation··on CXX-Qt: Safe Rust bindings for Qt
In case anyone is interested, Slint used to be called SixtyFPS. It's created by a few ex-QT employees.
longstation··on Google Release Chrome OS Flex
Or running it in a VM?
longstation··on Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, written in Rust and GTK4
Very cool! Glad to see more Rust + GTK apps. Did you use Cairo for drawing notes?
longstation··on FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
I did similar things when signing stuff. I used Adobe Sign (the Android app) to add my signature to the PDF and email it back.

Question: Is the signature done by FalsiScan and Adobe Sign equivalent legally?

longstation··on Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
My guess is probably the QuickJS has less resource usage compared to the more performant V8.

UPDATE: Now I have read the linked article, here is the reasons (copied from the article):

API and integration principles are close to what TIScript uses – it took me just 1 month to add QuickJS to Sciter core. And 4 months more to expose HTML/CSS runtime to JS.

Relatively compact implementation – QuickJS is slightly more fatty (by 100 kb) but still in acceptable range. For the note: full version of V8 is about 40 mb – 5 times larger than Sciter itself;

Liberal MIT license. Sciter cannot use GPL/LGPL code – many customers expressed this requirement;

Readable source code. Well… almost readable.

longstation··on Uno Platform 4
It says it's using Skia for Linux. I am wondering since Skia isn't bound to any platform, why not just use it for all platform?
longstation··on Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust
I think as long as it follows the freedesktop specification [1] and can work with existing apps and other DEs (for example, when you have two DEs installed, you don't want they fight each other), it's not a bad thing.

[1]https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/

longstation··on LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
I see. Is there any chance that we could use Brave's adblock? (probably not trivial because it's for Chromium)
longstation··on LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
Would it be better if the project includes a native ad blocker?
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