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pedrogpimenta··on Show HN: A canvas-based note taking and organizer app
I really like this! I'm not sure I can fully commit yet, though, because I don't want to invest in a new app without some assurances:

- Is this for the long run (I know you can't know, but I'd like to hear you out) - Will it transform to a paid service? - Will I always (at least before stopping the service or putting it behind a paywall) be able to export the content to store it myself, offline, so I own the data? - Is it open source? - Will I be able to sync it myself with an external provider? - Who are you? Why should I trust you? There's no info whatsoever anywhere, not a contact, not a privacy policy, a legal note. - Is the content encrypted?

I would really like to put my work notes in a place like this, it really looks great, but right now, I can't commit to it.

That said. I love this and wish you the best of luck! Maybe sometime I'll be a user :)

pedrogpimenta··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
No, but the island's climate will still be chill.
pedrogpimenta··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
Hey, I like weather sense! Mind if I use it? :)
pedrogpimenta··on SoulsOnly.tff – A font for humans not AI and keyboard firmware to type in it
I love this! But won't the machine easily pick up on this?
pedrogpimenta··on Haiku
What do you do with it? Genuinely curious!
pedrogpimenta··on Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
This is like porn for me :)

It's one of my favourite things, looking at and analyzing older interfaces. Some are lovely, some are cute, some are ugly, but most are... "naïve"? I love to think about the effort, the research, the trials and tribulations. I feel I will spend a great deal of time in this page!

pedrogpimenta··on 15 Years of Forking
Right. So you don't ever donate to anything, right? Just in case. The future. You know?
pedrogpimenta··on 15 Years of Forking
Did you do it before they did so?
pedrogpimenta··on Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
I suppose you could have a gasoline powered battery and then charge electronics with that, no?
pedrogpimenta··on Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
The obnoxious hijacking of the scrolling is present on desktop too. Can't read the small box because it'll scroll to the next project. Why?
pedrogpimenta··on Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones
"May be able" refers to collect, which is entirely up to the app. It does have access to password as you write them with it. It doesn't know what you're writing and it MAY collect. But it's not clear if it does collect.
pedrogpimenta··on Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
So you don't grok it. You understand it, but don't grok it. Respect the martian :)
pedrogpimenta··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
But Linux is getting better each year (seriously, KDE is amazing, Gnome works well if you like it), made by hundreds of independent people, while Mac is getting worse, made by one focused company.

I've had no problem whatsoever with 2 laptops regarding power management or audio.

Get a major distro and major software if you don't want to wander into problems.

pedrogpimenta··on Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One
I agree, but it is there: perfect amount of sugar: 0, perfect milk-to-coffee ratio: 0 to 1.

What really gets on my nerves is the justified text...

pedrogpimenta··on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
Well, the idea of Linux was "a better minix" and "I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones".
pedrogpimenta··on KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
As I thought: you can set a different shortcut for "Beginning of line" and it will work in Qt input fields but, sadly, not others. I don't know if this is the step you're on.
pedrogpimenta··on KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
I'm not sure this is the reason or a big reason, but I think this is very difficult to do in Linux, sadly.

What makes Linux great is also its biggest handicap, in my opinion, when it comes to User Experience: the fragmentation of UI frameworks and libraries.

I imagine having this control between Qt, GTK and other UI libraries and electron-type-apps os difficult if not impossible.

pedrogpimenta··on I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
Im not OP but i have a player for my kids which is basically the same. I do both. Sometimes I introduce songs and we talk about it, other times they hear something somewhere and ask me for it.
pedrogpimenta··on I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played
I agree. I would just like that they didn't have to exploit workers. It seems something that could be done. Have more people taking smaller or less frenetic shifts and pay them the same or more. It can be doable, seeing the amount of money Bezos amasses, right? I love the service but despise how the workers are treated. And nothing compares, there's no real competition.
pedrogpimenta··on My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
My server is also unreachable: my website, my projects (which people use)... Because it's on some IP that Vercel uses.
pedrogpimenta··on E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens
This is great, but I see lots of ghosting and apparently low contrast. Sad to see no mention of it in the article.
pedrogpimenta··on AI Changes Everything
While I agree, I feel we can't dismiss a technology just because we don't agree with the values of the people doing it, you know? The tech is amazing, let's build it in a nice way.
pedrogpimenta··on Internet Artifacts
I don't think bad apple was that big or important. I have just recently discovered it and I've been surfing since 1996
pedrogpimenta··on Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years – a study
That's just, like, your experience, man. I smoke weed socially. And know many that drink alone at home. Don't just, like, generalize, man.
pedrogpimenta··on Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat
"I used a hammer to make orange juice and it made a mess! Unusable!"
pedrogpimenta··on Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram
I get the same "We've hidden these results" on Instagram in Spain. But #democrats (plural) works and #fucktrump as well (a user here was saying that was censored but #fuckbiden was allowed)
pedrogpimenta··on Show HN: Atlas of Space
Excellent project! I want my kids to grow up so we can explore this together :)

I'd love a "real-time" clock but I don't even know if that's feasible!

pedrogpimenta··on Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork
That's so sad...
pedrogpimenta··on Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork
I once saw "sneaky entrance" near a temple/park in Bali and we got in for free :)
pedrogpimenta··on Busy Status Bar
That battle has been lost. I've header about pomodoros for years and not once about a shitty copyright holder. It's generic now, thank you.
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