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dbeley

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About dbeley

my website: https://dbeley.ovh/en

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/dbeley; my proof: https://keybase.io/dbeley/sigs/tvcyrxpgUISqIeiwxPjzJyXLD6F2N6OEIMuB8SqvU9s ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48004307

    Honestly with the likes of Opencode / pi / hermes I don't really find the "Claude Code agent loop" part particularly interesting. The edge Anthropic has on others lies on its model…

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    Comment #47991457

    This should be higher, as this dates from 5 days ago I wonder why OP didn't bother to mention this follow-up

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    Comment #47984886

    The cool thing about open-weights model is that you are free to use alternative providers that won't phone home to the original model creators. I see 6 alternative providers listed…

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    Comment #47903819

    Another vote on niri being just great software. While itss idea (scrolling tiling windows manager) is novel, the software in itself is very polished with a very mature API that doe…

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    Comment #46631060

    Not sure about mid-life, he is still in his early twenties. He was a gifted programmer with very popular open source projects early on.

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    Comment #46631053

    Thanks Dylan for all your work over the years. It has been very influential from Neofetch, Wal/Pywal, KISS Linux, to your own Bible, the Pure Bash one! Wishing you all the best for…

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    Comment #45554198

    I use LineageOS on all my devices (it's actually my main criteria when buying a phone) to mainly install apps from F-Droid without relying on the Google Play Store. It has the same…

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    Comment #44729499

    > Maru is built on the latest Android Oreo. Yeah this is abandonware, idk why it's being posted and upvoted now. Something similar to real mobile/desktop convergence is still techn…

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    Comment #38828256

    Interesting I assume it's with all drives off, how many Watts with some disk usage?

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    Comment #38828221

    The hardware is basically the same as self-hosted NAS, the motherboard could even be of a lower quality. The software though is closed source and most consumer NAS only get support…

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    Comment #38625725

    - https://github.com/dbeley/fdroid-insights : just a simple website to help me find popular and well-maintained F-Droid apps - https://github.com/dbeley/lastfm_cg : a scriptable la…

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    Comment #37965155

    I created a small website to display F-Droid apps with their repository information (from github, gitlab, etc), it's not perfect but it can give more insights on a project populari…

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    Comment #37911874

    On top of Qobuz (which is great) there is also Ototoy (mostly for japanese indie music).

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    Comment #37034023

    ChatGPT is not "someone", it's a black box that will ingest everything at his disposal and can't tell you where he gets the information from. The moral thing to do would be to use …

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    Comment #36708346

    > systemd "It removes fragmentation, could be deadly for the ecosystem" > wayland "It adds fragmentation, could be deadly for the ecosystem" Both are now the standard on the most o…

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    Comment #36707911

    Not a success? It's now the default on most biggest Linux distros like Ubuntu and Fedora. The tiling WM ecosystem in particular is thriving on Wayland with sway and hyprland, and I…

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    Comment #36591224

    https://dbeley.ovh/en

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    Comment #36565382

    You can specify as many profiles as you want, you have a property called firefox.profiles that can be an array and you would declare as many settings you would want in it. They sti…

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    Comment #36565316

    Yeah AMD has the edge on efficiency it's odd it's kind of an "underrated" feature nowadays. Using less power (thus less W to dissipate that will end up heating your room) for the s…

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    Comment #36565277

    No they're not

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    Comment #36565267

    Just as difficult? AMD GPUs are plug-and-play on linux (if you have latest gen you should run a recent enough kernel but that's basically it), whereas Nvidia GPUs need their propri…

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    Comment #36564321

    NixOS is overriding the profile name by using your username so the name is not auto-generated anymore (NixOS hates that) so it knows the user profile will always be at ~/.mozilla/f…

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    Comment #36561788

    How do you install the userChrome.CSS automatically? As far as I know it needs to be placed in a folder containing a hash that's only generated at firefox first launch. At some poi…

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    Comment #36561573

    It's just impossible to have the same level of configuration with your own custom script, NixOS goes way beyond: its configuration capabilities goes from your bootloader to user-le…