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The app looks cool, and the website design (tmux style pane at the bottom) is very clever. Nicely done. Will be giving this a try! Been using Blink.sh with mosh, and the persistenc…

Indeed. They forked Xbox Media Center back in the day, to produce a Mac version when none existed. Then they became a client/server model. They are supposed to provide the source c…

Infuse is another $100 license to sync watch history, when I already paid $100 for Plex a while ago (with the primary driver being 'sync watch history', which is the basic feature …

How are you going about installing Jellyfin on random hotel TVs? None of the hotels I've stayed at have that level of freedom on their TVs. (So I instead travel with an Apple TV th…

> for most people For most people, salaries have not kept up with inflation

You're right, I'm confusing it for $70 to register, which registered the domain for 2 years.

> The much simpler way to avoid squatting is to make .com domains cost $200 a year A monopolist hiking prices to this extent will likely see legal action against them. That's a 20x…

> In theory the King can veto any law he wants. In practice he couldn't without causing a monumental constitutional crisis that would probably end his reign. His mum Lizzie2 had no…

> No one cares about UK having a king, because it doesn't change a thing. Which is the position the Monarchy absolutely wants you to have, and they definitely don't want you to kno…

As wonderful as long term deals are, if Apple signed a long term deal with a supplier who didn't secure their supply chain properly, said supplier is going to either: 1/ Force appl…

> This idea that the subscriptions are subsidized is repeated over and over, but I've never seen any proof of this. It seems to be entirely based on the inferred API cost the subsc…

I've never used Perplexity Pro, but I would expect the exact same outcome from Claude, as I don't have cross-session memory enabled. If you do have cross-session memory enabled, I …

> At least the iBook would come out of sleep when you opened the lid, I don't think Windows laptops could manage that until 2007. I think that was very hardware-dependent. I don't …

> Becauae "spirit of the law" doesnt exist. It is a saying used by people when they want to do something that isnt in the law. You dont see lawyers, judges or law makers use the ph…

I think a combination of: 1/ ZFS datasets with hourly (or daily) snapshots 2/ Samba with vfs_fruit Gives the peace of mind that even when the sparsebundle shits the bed, you can ro…

Surely devs could just uninstall Slack, and get the same combined RAM & productivity boost?

1Password for Business accounts all get an additional 1Password for Families license (5 seats), so you can absolutely keep your work and personal life separate.

You can get subdomains for free from a number of places, some of which are more reliable than others. This exists because domains (historically) used to be expensive by western sta…

I went to look at a repo on Github today. Clicked on the "xxx commits" link to see the commit history, and got told I've hit a secondary rate limit and need to wait. I'm the only p…

> Before computers Computer used to mean "human who does math". Before machine computers, we had human computers. Machine computers replaced all of these human computers.

I can either change my daily workflow to accommodate the noisy herd, or I can change the noisy herd to accommodate my daily workflow.

> But how is it any different from keeping them open? If all open issues are actionable items, that makes expected workload a lot easier to handle. If most open issues are actually…

I don't think the GP is calling contributor guideline restrictions a form of DRM. I think the GP is focusing on: > I guess we're giving up on the idea that you're free to do whatev…

> Respectfully, After a certain level of compensation, you are indeed judged purely off of input and output. Workplace improvement does not justify your salary. I'd have to disagre…