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While this may be tough on the 200 employees who have been let go, (selfishly) I hope one of them isn't the guy who maintains the Linux desktop client. :S

It was always a labo(u)r of love, and never seemed to have widespread support, due to the tiny userbase.

Same. I was somewhat disappointed at the end. But I'll be clutching my AirPods Pro even closer tighter to my chest tonight, as a result.

You can also see the same "toot" as a "tweet": https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1653915932677271552

I've had an EV for a year now (a Mini). It has a touch screen, but also has a bunch of buttons. I almost never use the touchscreen as a result, and when I do, it'a annoying. Typing addresses into the navigation system is painful, even for the passenger, while driving. The various buttons and wheels which augment the touchscreen are way more usable.

Oh I also have shared folders with other people. We used to use it for sharing audio files between podcast presenters, which worked well enough. I have half a dozen folders in my $HOME, shared with different groups of people.

I also have Syncthing installed on my home server which gets backed up. So I have a copy of all my files backed up there, in the event a laptop goes missing or dies.

The only use case I haven't yet covered is an off-site backup of my Syncthing folder, which would be sensible. I just don't know who I can trust with it.

I switched away from Dropbox to Syncthing https://syncthing.net/ a few years ago. Running it on Windows, Mac and Linux (I don't use it on mobile) to keep all manner of files in sync across a bunch of machines. While it doesn't have all the shell integration and end-user friendliness of Dropbox, it also doesn't have the pitfalls like (non-optional) telemetry and constant up-sell.

There's a famous air-show where I live - Farnborough. Some years back there was an A319 and an A380 on show. They went up for a display in the sky, one after the other. The way the pilot threw the A319 around was pretty amazing, then the A380 went up and did basically the same manoeuvres. Pretty spectacular to watch these things. My brain still doesn't quite understand how the hell those metal birds stay in the air!

Depends how you present it. The Ubuntu download page used to punch you in the face asking for donations. They also tried sliders, asking downloaders to choose how to spend the money they donated. These were super successful. People felt in control of how their money was spent. There was no way for them to check in on that, it was a trust process. But the net result was a lot of people donated a very significant amount of money.

Similarly I understand (from an interview with the developer) that the eBook software Calibre gets a significant number of donations from users via the giant donate button in the toolbar.

I do agree, having a "tip jar" option for donations is rarely as successful as the above methods though. Not diminishing your personal experience. Just saying it's possible to change the way things are done, and get more.

In a timely fashion, their most recent tweet [1] asks:

"We need YOU...

... to reply with a clip of your worst tech fail!

Our favorite submissions might make it into an upcoming Techquickie video."

Think this might get included? :)

  [1] - https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1638680638185435136

I made a thing called "unsnap" which removes snaps, and can optionally install the flatpak equivalents. https://github.com/popey/unsnap

quickemu on Linux can spin up a macOS VM. https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

    $ quickget macos monterey

Then:

    $ quickemu --vm ./macos-monterey.conf

You have to go through the usual install process for macOS, and can then install your applications. Whether this is legal or ethical is a subject for your own research.

That's only part of the story. There's other reasons, many of which have been improved over the years. For example the font cache would be generated on first launch, which was a slow operation. This was moved to happen when the snap is installed, which meant the install took longer, but first launch was much faster. For me, today, the Firefox snap and the Firefox deb take pretty much exactly the same amount of time.

bzr predated git. upstart predated systemd.

Hey! That ships with my voice! Well, a synthetic version of it anyway. It used to be horribly robotic, but they've improved it quite a bit for mimic-3. Worth a look.

I wrote a blog post recently which talks a little about the origin of my voice in Mycroft, in case anyone is interested. https://popey.com/blog/2022/10/blog-to-speech-in-my-voice/

Agreed. I once tried to get Fabrice on a podcast, a few years ago. He said he doesn't do that kind of thing and "no thank you".

I don't think you can dismiss feedback because it only came from a handful of people. The brutal fact is, if someone doesn't like you or your podcast, they're almost guaranteed to unsubscribe, close the tab, and never contact you about it. If you're getting multiple negative feedbacks on the same topic, you can bank on 10x more people thinking the same thing, but never telling you.

I ran a podcast with friends for 13 years. We took it on the chin, and paid (via patreon subs) for an audio engineer to fix the things people complained about in our show. It made a world of difference, but we'll never be able to break the "first impression" of people who didn't appreciate it, and unsubbed as a result.

I imagine these days one could send a Subject Access Request to ask for whatever data AirBnB hold on you. Assuming there's some digital record of an internal conversation, or mark/comment on your record, you'd be able to obtain it.

It is weird, because this is really just a static website generator. It's not a zine or magazine creator by any measure.

"There are still many things I need to set up on the new laptop, for example: suspension/hibernation on closing the lid doesn’t always work"

For me, this is one of those things that should work out of the box. I appreciate Arch is one of those distros you configure manually, and can thus choose whether to implement this or not. But I'd rather not have my laptop burn out in my bag because the system didn't suspend properly.

I'm sure everyone has experience of this happening on any distro, and probably even on Windows and MacOS. But it should at least try out of the box in my mind.

I certainly get "use it every day", for sure. Clubs, celebrities, enthusiast groups.

"love it" though?

Feels to me that it's a necessary evil, like car insurance.

5 mins is optimistic. Last time I went, rooms were full all day. People would sit in the room all day, for a talk they wanted hours later. People who actually wanted to be in the room would stand or sit outside, and watch the stream on their laptops and phones. It's massively oversubscribed, with poorly sized rooms.

A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.

The article says "Echo Show" which is a device with an integral display.

No, we didn't. Unity was cancelled when we downsized in 2017 (4 years ago). It wasn't due to any vocal minority at all. We just refocused our energy.

Woah. Didn't expect to see my local town appear on HN today. One thing they don't talk about is the customer service. I find Uber drivers are typically way more friendly and accommodating than the local firms. Not specifically Hart taxis, but one of their competitors in the area - Rushmoor Taxis - have been atrocious. Drivers making racist comments about brown people - their co-workers, drivers huffing and complaining bitterly if I dare use a debit card to pay, driver not even turning up and claiming it's my fault I "didn't see them" when I am standing out in the open. Our local cab firms need to up their game. It's not just about price.

I made the snap private, and archived the repo.

I like it :)

I find Matrix to be super abrasive to use. Weird popups asking me about encryption, missing messages, and a confusing UI. I'm a nerd, and I find it baffling. Feels like it needs a UI stripdown. Something like Telegram is way more intuitive to use, but obviously not fully free on the backend.

There's also a snap which I've been maintaining for ~2.5 years. It's seeing quite a surge in downloads (unsurprisingly) over the last week or so.

https://snapcraft.io/signal-desktop

Not anymore. You're welcome! :D