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KOReader is awesome and it's my go to for most e-reader reading. I've recently been trying out Plato ( https://github.com/baskerville/plato ) as well and it has a really nice exper…

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I don't really understand this trope and I grew up in a tiny town. Why not start a band or make movies with your friends? Build model airplanes, explore some creeks or forests. Not…

Modern cars are such enshittified garbage. I was in a modern Toyota recently and every time you start it, the screen shows a "Guest mode activated" that you need to explicitly dism…

> Then petition your government to enact laws around this. Do you really expect your government to do anything useful here?

Yeah GLM-5 has been pretty impressive when it works but the z.ai plan is unbearably slow most of the time to the point where it's effectively unusable.

Is this a common pattern to have an agent request a sandbox? I feel like I'd want the whole agent running in it's own sandbox to begin with. Firecracker does look like a decent sol…

Oh interesting. The datasheet for the PCM5102A says it supports line-level output with a minimum load of 1kΩ [1]. I think most headphones typically have an impedance of less than 1…

Cool. I'd like to try something similar. Does that amplifier module drive headphones as well? What future replacement do you have in mind? Is it all low power enough to use a batte…

Do yourself a favor and go get a Kobo reader, install KO Reader on it and never look back.

I recently switched to GrapheneOS and it's been great. Letting any sort of commercial entity between you and your computing just seems like a bad idea these days. Linux is top notc…

I block my old TCL Roku TV from accessing the internet through my router. It works fine as an HDMI display.

Anyone have some recommended resources for learning this stuff? I know there are commonly recommended electronics books like "The Art of Electronics" and "Practical Electronics for…

Same. I have a very old iPhone stuck on an old version of iOS that's incompatible with most apps these days. In the rare case I need to deposit a check there are banks like Ally th…

I rarely need to dynamically add attributes myself on dataclasses like this but unfortunately this also means things like `@cached_property` won't work because it can't internally …

I agree with chrisweekly, it's not even close. WeWork provided value to people by assuming some risk in signing those longer term lease agreements and repackaging it to people look…

I agree, I just want normal text instead of all the images and scrolling. The content seems great but it's a bit unreadable as is.

I self-host everything I can. Unfortunately email is a bit tough these days but I should start archiving it locally. What tools are you using for that? I haven't done much experime…

Good god. This is why I will continue to repair my older car until it's completely infeasible to do so. Then what? Are there internet communities out there actively working on disa…

I've been using an amalgamation of pyenv, pip-tools, black, isort, etc. for projects and just gave uv and ruff a try. Wow, it really is fast! Skeptical of anything VC-backed but I'…

Here are the uBlock Origin filters I'm using: # background news.ycombinator.com###hnmain:style(background-color: transparent !important;) # top bar news.ycombinator.com###hnmain > …

Agreed. Darkreader + some uBlock Origin filters to remove any residual orange and I have a perfect white on black reading experience.

I find it hard not to see "AI safety" in a similar vein as "the war on drugs". I truly can't imagine it ever succeeding (nor do I want it to, despite the unfortunate outcome in Las…