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Maybe I'm missing something, but what "daemon-style" app tasks are you doing, or expecting, with KDE Connect? Its core functions seem to be quick tasks; sending files, clipboard, r…

Legacy KDE apps used to follow this naming convention until the late 2000s, early 2010s. You had apps like Konqueror (web browser, file manager), KMail (email client), Kompose (mus…

Same use case, its also been very useful for copying and pasting text from my Mac to the Steam Deck, similar to Universal Copy and Paste between Apple devices.

For this purpose, I would not suggest KDE Connect. What you're looking for is something more like SyncThing: https://syncthing.net

Steam Deck owner since launch here -- I wouldn't say the Verified status is a lie, but there have been instances where games have received Verified badge status at launch, but perf…

> Valve will just put a "verified" tag on a game with zero input from a developer. This is a big claim, is there evidence for this? I'm an end-user, not a developer, but there are …

I've worked in tech for a number of years. I think I'm in the same boat as you. However, I can confidentially say that videogames were merely a conduit to social experiences with f…

Marco sold Instapaper years ago... he has not been involved in quite some time. If you look at the Instapaper blog, you'll see they've been adding features consistently, most recen…

For anyone who hasn't given Apple Notes a fair shake recently, I suggest checking it out again. It’s recently introduced power features that make surfacing and interacting with not…

One show I always catch every week: Security Now https://twit.tv/shows/security-now

Gaming is also the highest-grossing entertainment industry, by a large margin - worth both the music and movie industries combined.

Just shy by 1 year - NodeJS was written 14 years ago in 2009: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js#History

I see a lot of misinformation, or misunderstanding, of Passkeys in this thread. I highly recommend reading Steve Gibson's notes on Passkeys from his Security Now! podcast episode #…

The PIN (or biometric) is not used to replace your Google account password. The PIN (or biometric) is used to authenticate to your device that holds your Passkeys, which in turn wi…

Steam Deck runs Arch Linux, so they’re probably using the AppImage. I think it’s a good selling point, because there’s no de facto app for transferring files between all 3 major op…

As a long-time Mint Mobile customer, I am wary on two levels: cost and security. The FAQ implies this purchase is in name only, so far, unlike the Sprint purchase. No immediate cha…

An interesting game that Nintendo made early on in their mobile saga was Dragalia Lost [1], which was probably the most generous 'gatcha' [2] mobile game ever released. It was so p…

Is the Play Store no longer the name of Android's app store? I haven't looked at Android in a while. I agree, "Play" is very generic. But I thought the name "Play Store" had become…

Spot on. Even at the 'nicer' grocery stores in the US, can openers are made of the cheapest materials I've ever seen. At the moment you pick it up, you just know its going to break…

Its an unofficial Spotify client for nix-based systems. I suppose its cool if you run a riced nix environment, and you only want command-line tools. Or its cool for people who don'…

There are apps for Android that monitor and alert for nearby AirTags. There's an official one by Apple, Tracker Detect [1], but I've heard that some third-party apps perform better…

This is false. My NextDNS clients on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS devices all feature a Disable toggle that stops all blocking and allows un-blocked DNS resolution. I don't use Windows a…

Heh, two sides of a coin I guess. I see a lot of HNers denounce Grammarly as a keylogger, and that 'no one should use it'. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.c…

FWIW, I have submitted Apple Maps corrections several times in the app, and have always received notifications that my map updates were completed within 1-2 weeks. Ranging from sim…

Would such protections still apply if money is intended to be made? That is clearly the case, since its on Kickstarter.