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I had the goal to eliminate annoying ads in some apps that I use. I deleted the user data for those apps and also applied restrictions so they could no longer access internet. Ads …

Meh. Stacked PRs (where a PR is already a stack of commits, and reviewers can perhaps communicate with each other to coordinate scope/responsibility) are a bit like tab groups in t…

"Bug uncovered" doesn't mean "bug fixed." Concrete example: yabridge is a tool to let Linux users run DAW plugins designed for Windows. Some changes to Wine (yabridge's main depend…

One of the dumbest auth workflows I experienced in recent times: My partner texts me, "Mom lost her phone somewhere in the zoo." I go to log into Google Find My Phone with her pass…

Same here, and to anyone trying it out for the first time and confused why it's not working: - insert mode - that is a (typed) dash between Ctrl+K and M - uppercase M (aside: the K…

Shape "pill": rounded Shape "square": still rounded ----- It's visually creative. At the same time, the reactive animations would bother me (to the point of deeming it unusable) in…

Except it's actually a massive pain in the ass for unrelated projects and users. One example: Robbert van der Helm has a very popular (in the Linux music editing world) program, ya…

Flagging, to me, seems like pissing in the wind. If I notice serial posters submitting extremely low effort content (a pair of their own posts every waking hour from "6 months and …

a.k.a. the most recent stable LTS, which will be succeeded by 26.04.1. Unless your hardware doesn't work on 24.04.4, I would not upgrade to 26.04 yet, unless you enjoy unexpected b…

(Disclosure: This tool makes my repo obsolete. I am not the code author.) A few years ago, I used Wireshark to sniff and decode the protocol for the Shure MVX2U, a USB/3.5mm adapte…

Gboard has been messing with the emoji search recently. It is worse. Previously, if you type "fac" or "face" or "facep" or "facepa" or "palm" in the search box, you'd get the facep…

Shopify (admin.shopify.com, help.shopify.com) was down for fifteen minutes today. shopifystatus.com showed it was "All systems operational" but for users "having trouble" click a l…

Is this related to the current Shopify outage? (I know, I know, it's actually Cloudflare.)

Thanks for the reminder. I installed npm yesterday to extract Electron app contents and forgot to remove it afterward.

I find a much more enjoyable interface after disabling animations on every device I use---as well as shadows, glow, blur, translucency, hover effects, and rounded corners. Eye cand…

I wish I could fully agree. Canonical is a bit pushy: "Ubuntu Pro / ESM subscription will make your machine safer! and it is convenient mega free!! ((for non-business uses))" Workp…

Fastmail had a UI change a year ago, where they went all "rounded corner" and created unique rows for every message that weren't so easily sorted with Stylus CSS. I emailed them ab…

Around the same time, I think the Photoprism image also didn't work on IPv6 because of Traefik

I've never really needed that, or I don't understand the need for there to be a difference. I typically tile windows into each corner based on how large I need them. When I need mo…

I thought having a MacBook Pro after a few decades of Windows/Linux use would be utopic, but Apple hides a ton of keyboard/mouse shortcuts, so the majority of software is slow to l…

The perfect design is no rounded corners. anywhere. ever.

A founder I know is making reduced-pin Arm-based prototyping modules: https://www.bergsonne.io/ They're seriously tiny; basically answering the question, "What if mechatronic proto…

I keep purchasing ThinkPads (Z13, X1 Gen 11, X1 Gen 12, T16) where the USB-C port breaks within a year (respectively: "no dock or external monitor", "no charge and only non-Thunder…

I think they mean: there is no USB socket on the enclosure containing the AC-DC conversion circuitry, like you'd find on most smartphone charger bricks. The cable (with the USB-C p…

The entire site (including page margins) being a link to HN is an annoyance edit: also, the autoscroll thing The Tailwind CSS complaints aren't wrong even today; any time I want to…