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    Comment #49208671

    OK some people should use less energy

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    Comment #49195517

    Just give it a different user with different permissions if yoirewon Linux. This is half century old tech.

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    Comment #49183146

    Why would you let the llm use the CLI as you?

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    Comment #49128706

    Totally fair, I still use Claude code for tasks since it is so polished. I think I just dont have that complicated of use cases so in the end performance should reflect my lightwei…

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    Comment #49128692

    I completely agree. I started with aichat[0] before the current agent trend and hit all kinds of bumps implementing agentic loops on my own. Then goose[1] showed me what a whole te…

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    Comment #49127197

    Hermes is huge and packed with features you probably don't need. I prefer smaller one I can extend as necessary, there are so many on github now and it is fun to test them but have…

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    Comment #49123635

    more developed countries are already prepared for what you describe: people would (continue to) take public transit, and rich people would (continue to) pay for the unemployed to l…

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    Comment #49123585

    Not paying off your credit cards makes you poorer

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    Comment #49123551

    Climate change made the forests drier so the effects of arson are worse.

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    Comment #49123536

    The climate change part is the heat making the forests more dry so the manmade fires get bigger.

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    Comment #49123432

    small correction: only individual contributions are meaningful. If I consume less and you consume less and many other individuals consume less there simply won't be as much demand …

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    Comment #49118015

    Multiplexer works without any WM installed, which is nice.

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    Comment #49107098

    A Multiplexer let's you run multiple terminals in one window, this is a new one. WindowsOS does not get as nice of tools as Linux generally.

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    Comment #49107026

    Isnt zellij quite modern? What does herdr do better than zellij?

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    Comment #49040210

    This as allegedly better than 4.8 opus for the price of 4.8 opus

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    Comment #48966746

    Is this so different in the end than industrial revolution? I assume the loom and the automobile factory were not open source, but many people bought cars and then copied them, bou…

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    Comment #48745077

    The US has not been a democracy for over a decade at least , and this is common knowledge. I find it hard to believe anyone's ignorance is so brazen. Regardless of the sincerity of…

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    Comment #48671261

    Wikipedia is ~60GB!

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    Comment #48658708

    Its optional! One finger swipe on heliboard works at least as well as gboard or this futo one.

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    Comment #48657823

    I'm sorry, once you've tried it you may not be able to go back. For close to a decade have been using an unmaintained app called nintype that was apparently the inventor of two fin…

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    Comment #48657750

    I have contributed to this. Heliboard also great because it supports two finger swipe which is huge ergonomic improvement

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    Comment #48657721

    Swiping with one finger is faster than typing with two in my experience. But you can have best of both worlds, my keyboard let's me swipe with two fingers at the same time (heliboa…

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    Comment #48657687

    Have you used heliboard's two finger swiping? Can't live without two finger swipe

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    Comment #48657680

    Not only does heliboard have swiping, it has two finger swipe, which is more than 2x better than one finger swipe!

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    Comment #48657583

    I used nintype and keyboard69 for years, heliboard on f-droid supports two thumb swiping and works very well ! Not as good as nintype but extremely useful