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I can't speak for Motif but Fluxbox works fine on my 4K monitor

If you've got 15 minutes, here is your answer: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

It's only got a few sample paragraphs before it turns into random word-shaped characters.

For some people it's important to establish facts, rather than just shaping an understanding of the world using vibes.

I didn't end up using mine, as walking while keeping both hands on the keyboard doesn't work the right places in my back. I also get really sweaty when walking indoors with no bree…

What's the intended purpose of the system alerting you when you're out of town?

I've had a single catfishy-looking message request, I'm guessing it's because I set up a short username.

You probably wouldn't want an app to be able to press buttons on another app so if that's how it works (or worked) then that seems fair enough to me.

Well if you're looking for a real use, I ask a local LLM the setup for a child's joke several times a day, and post its answer to my tens of Mastodon followers: https://botsin.spac…

Seems more reasonable to use milk when talking about Starbucks.

I'm so grateful for what Home Assistant has done for home automation and compatibility, but its focus on dashboards and phone interfaces seems to lead everyone who uses it in exact…

I built Joke-Understander bot, a Mastodon bot that responds to a joke setup before the punchline is revealed. It's not very popular but I think it's hilarious. https://botsin.space…

I built a mental health tracker and a physical health tracker, that sit in my living room and use LEDs to display a prediction of how good my health is. The mental health tracker k…

You want Home Assistant, and a Zigbee USB dongle supported by Zigbee2MQTT.

A 10 year old netbook from the pawn shop or thrift store.

If the phenylephrine thing is true, that means I placebo'd my way through COVID in addition to every cold I've had in the past 15 or so years. Going from severely congested to not …

You can build one out of a strip of WS2812b addressable LEDs and an ESP32. Requires some basic soldering, probably a 3d printer too.

Debian without the GUI, and your favourite CLI text editor. You turn it on, log in, run "vi book.txt", and you're writing.

I go outside and make no effort to be productive. If I do a project it is with no deadlines or expectations.

The sun is too bright.

Because most things fail, but a handful of successes will pay for the failures.

My solution was to write a bash script that runs something like "delete from moz_cookies where host not in 'ycombinator.com');" in the Firefox cookies.sqlite file. I run that every…

I don't think anyone on HN is going to come out of reading that feeling less confused.

Having read all that, I would be embarrassed to own a Rolex.

While reading more about this I found out about the ~/.hidden file which I'm pretty excited about. The following hides the folder from Thunar & Dolphin (and presumably other file m…