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Waydroid, mentioned in the article, is approximately this

It's essential on narrow shared paths e.g. a canal towpath, when you're approaching a pedestrian from behind in order to avoid startling them when you pass. Most people walking the…

Force interoperability one way or another. WhatsApp is a closed system, if I want to use an alternative I'm stuck with adversarial interoperability, so stuff like Beeper (which is …

in a similar vein; Write yourself a Git was fun to follow https://wyag.thb.lt/

You can definitely buy the replacement screen for the FP4 as it's on their online shop. If you were going for repair under warranty it does seem odd not to just send you the part i…

Agreed having _every_ part replaceable would be great. Then I could have Theseus's phone in several years time :-)

I also had an issue with the power button on my FP4, sadly it became stuck _on_ so the phone just bootlooped and was immediately unusable. I ended up posting it for repair, over Ch…

I've got an openbsd server, postgres installed from the package manager, and a couple of apps running with that as the database. My backup process just stops all the services, back…

I moved us off docker swarm to GKE some years back. The multi node swarm was quite unstable, and none of the big cloud providers offered managed swarm in the same way they offer ma…

Yeah I believe calibre can pull the files from the kindle as well as push to it. But I've only got an old kindle not a new one.

> But it would be healthy for everyone if people supported a DRM-free and non-surveillance ebook ecosystem. I try nearly every time. The book I want (usually sci-fi recommended to …

Adaptive cycling. I've met folks well into their 80s riding trikes to get places (hip replacements and all).

The front loading variety can fit car seats for infants. My 2yo fits on a rear seat no problem. Might not work for absolutely everyone but it sure works for some.

Cargo bike?

Yeah there is some capability for this, for example https://criu.org

Related, you can get this as a nice printed zine https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/10/27/new-zine--oh-shit--git-/

You can actually still use infinity for Reddit it's just a pain to get it.

Beeper seems to be working ok for me for the moment

Thanks for plainoldrecipe! Such a handy tool.

It's not what you're aiming for with this comment, but I bet git would actually make a pretty good storage tool/format for archival of mostly static sites. horrible simple hack: us…

Does anyone know of a service where I can feed in my Spotify playlists, and it tells me where I can buy those tracks?

> there isn't and hasn't been for a long time a direct connection to the physical brakes. I don't think this is true for most vehicles. Skoda Octavia 2020 for example still has hyd…

Yes I've made this mistake with docker and UFW before :( Such a footgun.

Updates as the other commenter says. Also isolation technology like docker containers, chroots, bsd jails, protections that systemd offers, or virtual machines. While not perfect, …

A more recently updated, and definitely working library : https://github.com/tulir/whatsmeow