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That was my feeling as well. Why learn some not-used-anywhere-else scripting language when we have bash/zsh with battle tested scripts and snippets? Also, nushell will probably break everything that expects a normal bash/zsh/fish.

I’d probably rather use xonsh as I do more complex scripts in Python anyways.

And here's the HN discussion about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446838

Logi Options+ is 500 MB to configure a few extra buttons on a keyboard or mouse. Back in the days things like these were a few kilobytes(!) control panel extension.

My wife played one of those unscrew games which showed lots of ads in between runs. I convinced her to buy the ad-free package for $5, so she doesn’t have to endure those ads.

While the game indeed was ad-free after that, there was no progress possible anymore as everything suddenly cost 3x the virtual coins than before. Basically forcing you to shell out even more money to buy their stupid coins.

We’ve refunded the IAP and that was that.

> The whole industry runs on scams like this

Wasn’t there an article here a few days ago about Facebook specialising in hiding such malicious ads from testers and law enforcement to maximise gains?

At least Siri guarantees the privacy of my data and uses a local model directly on my device, alternatively a private cloud - instead of a globally shared one.

And you can still ask Siri to ask ChatGPT if you need someone to talk to.

Also, you’d be surprised what cool things you can do when using Shortcuts with Siri. Especially now that Shortcuts can make use of LLMs (“Use model” action).

At least in writing you can use [insert double-stroke X here - which HN can’t display] to make it clear that you mean the social media service. (Unless you’re talking to mathematicians.)

The difference is that after you’ve googled it for ½ hour, you’ve learned something. If you ask an LLM to do it for you, you’re none the wiser.

I’ve recently downgraded my 10 year old used-only-for-obscure-firmware-updaters laptop to Windows 7 and enabled the “Classic” design. The snappiness of that GUI is unmatched even with Win 10/11 on much better hardware. Makes you wonder about the rest of Windows when Microsoft can’t even optimise the most basic things in modern Windows anymore.

Or in this case have a look at the Google Graveyard and/or those many stories of users that lost access to their Google account without any way to contact an actual person that could help them.

> It's good, but they're expensive as fuck for what they are.

Yep, I remember a time where you could extract the Ki and IMSI from legit SIMs and write that to a bog standard Goldwafer card (which were also used for cable TV hacking) including some SIM emulation software and thereby clone the SIM. That was like 30 years ago and the only thing that changed in SIMs since then is better encryption.

Still beats a specific sum or $0.01 transaction with a code appearing on your bank statement. ;)

They also promoted this with the iPhone 17 eSIM-only variant. More space for battery.

The biggest obstacle with changing traditional SIMs is where to find a paperclip or pin to open the tray. And that’s easy to overcome.

There are also SIM cards you can upload eSIM profiles to, now.

Back when eSIM was relatively new, while upgrading to a newer iPhone, my wife’s eSIM didn’t get transferred over but still got deactivated on the old phone.

And the T-Mobile Germany portal to download a new eSIM required authentication via SMS to that now deactivated number. That was fun. (As they didn’t have an alternative procedures to provision eSIMs in place, we had to go visit a store to get a new physical SIM first and could then convert that to eSIM.)

> It relies on their hosted services/infrastructure.

Only if you want it to. Your local Plex server is always available on port 32400 - which can be opened up for others as well. But using Plex’s authentication is more convenient, of course.

Most probably. WhatsApp is also still using the old way of accessing photos where you have to define which photos WA has access to every time you want to share newly taken photos. I’m pretty sure they do that deliberately so you get annoyed and give them blanket access to all your photos. (Which they then probably secretly analyse in the background.)

Have a look at MakePass[0] - which sounds exactly like you describe. It allows you to design a pass as per spec.

[0] https://pvieito.com

MakePass is an app that creates independent/proper Wallet *.pkpass files. You can completely customise the pass appearance according to Apple’s specs.

(Not sure whether the current licensing offerings are worth it, though. I’ve got grandfathered in from before it had AI support.)

https://pvieito.com

I’m currently evaluating whether I’m happy with Kagi News in my RSS reader compared to separate news outlets. So far it seems to capture all the important bits.

You forgot that even poor old notepad.exe also got the Copilot treatment.

Yep, 20-odd years ago, I had modified a radio scanner and added a discrete output. Then used Poc32 to decode pager messages from the scanner via the PC’s sound card.

Got lots of server health messages and requests to call people back. And some more personal messages, too.

How does this compare to flohmarkt?

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt

Planet Computers Gemini? Or their Cosmo Communicator? (To be fair they’re more Psion 5-sized.)

Or do you remember the Beepberry/Beeper?

OTOH, your phone is more than capable, so maybe a small bluetooth keyboard is all you really need. There are apps like iSH on iOS or Termux on Android that give you a Linux shell.

I did a fun experiment once to confirm it’s not me sausage-fingering but the stupid iOS keyboard. There’s an app called xKeyboard which lets you design your own keyboard. I remade the FITALY[0] keyboard in it and even though the keys are slightly smaller than on the original iOS keyboard, I can type without making any error. Yet the iOS keyboard often detects the wrong key because of those stupid hitboxes. I wish there was a way to turn them off.

[0] https://www.fitaly.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm

Same here. Despite Legendary status, I’ve used Alfred as a souped-up launcher and implemented my workflows app-agnostic either as a shell script, a Shortcut, or an AppleScript. I haven’t launched Alfred since upgrading to Tahoe.

Especially since you can now create Shortcuts that get input directly from Spotlight or the active window.

Just make the battery banks container sized and swap them out with fresh ones while doing the main cargo. Then service and charge the old ones.

Since the association renamed itself to “Ecma International” in 1994, I believe we can just call it Eck-mah-script.

Sounds like a 3D Commander Keen.