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avtar

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    Comment #48668301

    Less distractions, yes, but mainly it's the size and e-ink display.

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    Comment #48590768

    Not sure if you've looked into this but you can ditch Bell's router with one of these: https://store.10gtek.com/1-25g-media-converter-sfp-slot-with... Or a non-copper equivalent in…

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    Comment #48128449

    > Oddly enough, Google’s LLM is the only one that has been answering my questions well on a research project these last weeks. Google Search declined in quality when results starte…

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    Comment #47807281

    Given the context, they're probably referring to epubs. Files could contain just generic malicious javascript or malware that attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in specific ereade…

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    Comment #47709611

    TBH that part of your landing page exhibits some confusing UX. Perhaps it's just me but when I see a UI image with a play button I assume that clicking it is going to play a video,…

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    Comment #47691503

    Got a link or more info regarding the theme?

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    Comment #47578250

    > and price seems to have gone down They sent an email a couple months ago stating prices were increasing as of Mar 27. The family plan went from $59.88 USD per year to $71.88 But …

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    Comment #47543532

    Maybe Lemmy without federation?

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    Comment #47534553

    Thanks for the quick fix :) Nice to see more Discord alternatives these days. A few other landing page issues if you feel like addressing them: - Attempting to navigate with the Ta…

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    Comment #47533951

    Please consider adding screenshots of the UI that provide an idea of what the experience will be like without having to log in using Bluesky or other credentials.

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    Comment #47310234

    Thanks for clarifying :) I'll try it out this weekend.

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    Comment #47300960

    This would be perfect with TLS. The docs don't make this clear... > tailscale serve --service=svc:web-server --https=443 127.0.0.1:8080 > http://web-server. .ts.net:443/ > |-- prox…

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    Comment #47199548

    Unfortunately communities tend to be endangered species these days. Perhaps this issue and other seismic societal shifts will change that.

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    Comment #47186291

    I guess let’s say we also add Colorado to the growing list https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051

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    Comment #47174591

    Young people are more into TikTok than CNN, and the Ellisons already control that in the U.S.

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    Comment #46941636

    Looks like books.google.com

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    Comment #46928188

    > Pair it with Debian A KDE dev mentioned on a podcast that issues related to Debian Stable get closed automatically on their bug tracker because fixes don't get backported :/ http…

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    Comment #46878494

    There’s also notmuch with various frontends which will let you index and search colossal mail accounts https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/

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    Comment #46864084

    While not a one-to-one situation, probably Blender and specifically Grease Pencil?

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    Comment #46722694

    I thought that the blog's domain looked familiar. The author maintains an awesome and well maintained Emacs starter kit https://codeberg.org/ashton314/emacs-bedrock

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    Comment #46683930

    Rancher Desktop comes to mind. Maybe Podman Desktop https://podman-desktop.io/docs/migrating-from-docker

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    Comment #46636169

    > though from a quick search it doesn't seem to have a "Vagrantfile" equivalent (is that correct?) It's just YAML config for the VM's resources: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/d…

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    Comment #46635251

    It's been ages since I used VirtualBox and reading the following didn't make me miss the experience at all: > Eventually I found this GitHub issue. VirtualBox 7.2.4 shipped with a …

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    Comment #46483732

    React Native doesn’t depend on Electron for desktop apps either. It renders using native UI components and don’t use a browser engine.

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    Comment #46466010

    Learning effort aside, there’s also the ZFS hardware requirements issue. I bought a four bay NAS couple years ago and looked into TrueNAS. I (somewhat) remember coming across detai…