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I live in an area which has frequent power cuts. Having a larger battery would certainly relieve me of carrying power banks.

I do care that it can be disabled. My problem with such functionality is that it becomes the sole focus of the development team, drifting their attention away from improving core experiences, such as language and plugin support, polishing ergonomics, and pruning papercuts.

Yeah, this is one of the reasons I no longer use Pixels. Their battery life is subpar and they get dangerously hot too in summers.

"You'd need our keys to enter your house."

Perixx makes a few left-handed variants of their mice. I’ve been using their Perimice 513L for several years. Sadly, their newer models are all wireless.

https://perixx.com/products/perimice-513l

https://perixx.com/products/perimice-713l

https://perixx.com/products/perimice-719l

scoop is fine since it keeps itself confined to user profile, unlike some other package managers.

Looks very interesting. Just signed up.

A few things that would make me actually use it: - namespaces (aka, organizations in GitHub terminology) - private repos (I usually start with private repos and then make them public)

The interface is really friendly and I like how approachable it is. You should make dedicated docs site instead of throwing folks at a bunch of markdowns. Maybe create a “Pages” equivalent and demo it by building a docs site?

Adguard is still better because it ships multiple extensions that you can enable to bypass filter limit on iOS. uBlock Origin Lite is not able to block annoying Google sign in pop ups, yet.

How does it compare with OpenCut?

https://opencut.app

They probably forgot to inline the critical CSS.

For many cases, we don’t do these kind of things in Java; a single annotated record can function as a model for both data and API layers. Regardless of the language, the distinction becomes important when these layers diverge or there’s some sensitive data involved.

Indentation is columnization.

I appreciate this option since I use Zed without AI. However, their overwhelming focus on cramming AI in the editor just disappoints me. The core experience is still very raw and there are small things that build over to make it annoying.

I still have Sublime Text as the backup editor. It's lack of a powerful sidebar and search are the only things that stopped me from using it regularly.

I do use VSCode at times and the CoPilor powered tab completion (which mostly hallucinates and spits out nonsense) is just obnoxious. I've found JetBrains' implementation of full line completion and block completions a lot more thoughtful and reliable.

You can always subset different fonts for different languages. This does two things: reduces the file size and allows some agents, such as your browser, load specific font depending on unicode range.

I wrote a post about subsetting, in context of my personal site, here: https://www.naiyerasif.com/post/2024/06/27/how-i-subset-font...

This has been especially pronounced in medical equipments where there’s this unnecessary race to introduce “digital experiences”. An example is hearing aids. A few years ago, it was relatively easy to get an analog model with dedicated volume buttons and off switch. Now, most of the models come without off switch and need Bluetooth pairing with an app installed on your phone. What used to be plug and play is now a clunky mess of hand offs between brittle components.

Although Astro is great and all, it collects telemetry by default and requires an opt-out. Zola and 11ty, on the other hand, don’t do such nonsense and have way smaller dependency footprint.

> A ghazal is a poetic form originating in and strongly associated with the Islamic cultural sphere.

This just feels wrong to me because ghazals have nothing to do with Islamic cultural sphere. In fact, very many poets who’re prolific at ghazals are decidedly unIslamic.

Apart from this nit, I think “translation” is incorrect way to describe converting a ghazal to English. At best, it can be an “accurate interpretation”, but it’ll always be an interpretation.

Linguistic differences apart, when you read the same ghazal side by side in Urdu and English, you’ll notice the cultural differences, sometimes subtle and sometimes very pronounced. And that’s just the nature of languages which have a vast cultural context. This context makes the feel of a piece very different regardless of how accurate it is to the original.

I do use Bitwarden to store passkeys and it works across devices just fine.

Sure they can. It is just a matter of immersion.

Yup. I’ve been using Miniflux for this for a while.

> a new preference signals framework designed to increase reciprocity and sustain a creative commons in the age of AI

I sneered in derision at the use of “reciprocity”. Good luck expecting that from a billion dollar capitalism machine out there to ingest your creative work.

Maybe it is time for Apple Intelligence to automatically ignore promotional notifications from apps...but why would Apple do that may be actually helpful?

I'm surprised by people conflating customizability with maximalism. Yes, the default configuration is a bit too much but you can turn the knobs to reign it in. I work on multiple AWS environments, different application runtimes, and so on. Having some context in the prompt has been very helpful for me. I maybe biased though since I've used Starship for years paired with Nushell.

I'm all for great design but I hope that reduce transparency and motion settings just tone this thing down. I want my devices to be boring and subtle. I want to get them do what I want quickly, fade away and disappear. This redesign does the exact opposite.

Yeah. I usually stick to original titles and don't editorialize them, except when the title itself does not make it obvious what it is about.

I did add that description but seems like it was edited by mods.

Such a shame and wasted potential. Mozilla could have turned Pocket into a read it later + RSS reader killer combo that would have closed the browsing loop across the web on Firefox. But they slept on it, actively worsening it and finally putting it out of its misery. This is an end of an era and it has such a chime of finality to it.

Well, you could subscribe to YouTube channels using RSS and watch videos at your own pace. A decent content can strip ads and sponsored sections out for you.

Can we not solve this by an OpenRewrite recipe?

https://docs.openrewrite.org

Looks interesting. How do I try this out?

Before someone suggests to purchase and ask refund if things don’t work out, Apple has been flat out rejecting my refund requests despite genuine justifications for many recent purchases.