Ask HN: What “special” app you are using? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 6:56 PM UTC

milderworkacc wrote: post #19

gregoriol wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How could an app ("Ulysse Speedometer") be better at measuring the vehicle speed?? This seems so wrong!

Off topic but this is a real gripe of mine - analogue speedos that go all the way up to 240 kmph (~150 mph). I am only ever going to do half that speed, so why not just make the dial go to only 120/(80) and give the needle (and me!) twice as much precision!

Maybe limit the dial at 100mph?. Doing 80 on the Interstate near me will get you passed by the impatient. But the real question is why do you need that much precision?

Re: Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?

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Post by dusted » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 9:03 PM UTC

gregoriol wrote: post #7

dusted wrote: post #5

Apart from the social media and streaming stuff: - Spectroid: A spectrum analyzer to help me identify "that annoying sound I hear" or "what's wrong with the sound in this place?" I'm not good at ignoring sound, but it helps me when I understand something about it, like "oh, that's a 10 khz harmonic" still annoying but slightly less. - DiggieDog: Gopher client, extremely fast, good for when I'm somewhere with REAL bad…

How could an app ("Ulysse Speedometer") be better at measuring the vehicle speed?? This seems so wrong!

My car is using the rotation of the front wheel axle to infer the speed. So it depends on tire diameter (tire type and wear), air pressure, temperature, and the precision of the mechanics involved, and it's generally nonlinear (difference gets larger at higher speeds).

My phone is sampling GPS position at a few Hz, and while the position itself may not be absolutely precise, the relative position from one sample to the next is very good.

Re: Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?

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Post by jacooper » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 9:07 PM UTC

h4waii wrote: post #35

jacooper wrote: post #25

KDE connect - basically apple's handoff but open source and for Linux and windows. Libretube - YouTube without ads, trackers or an account.

You should also check out NewPipe Sponsorblock.

I used to use it, but the non stopping crashes since 0.24 made me switch to libretube, and I actually find libretube to have a better UI.

Re: Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?

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Post by moistly » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 9:57 PM UTC

syncbehind wrote: post #28

jacooper wrote: post #25

KDE connect - basically apple's handoff but open source and for Linux and windows. Libretube - YouTube without ads, trackers or an account.

> KDE connect - basically apple's handoff but open source and for Linux and windows. AND Macs :)

And iOS… partially

Re: Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?

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Post by sacnoradhq » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 10:16 PM UTC

macOS: Fork of Breakaway that instantly mutes audio when the headphone jack is removed. I only use the headphone jack while charging wireless headphones because they fallback to regular wireless ones when unpowered.

Re: Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?

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Post by aidomi » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 10:48 PM UTC

moonshotideas wrote: post #24

aidomi wrote: post #6

I created a simple browser extension to help me organise my links. It solves a problem I had where there was a middle ground between keeping a tab open to read later and saving something to my bookmarks. It's under 200 lines of JS, not available on the Webstore and not complicated (or even well-written) at all, but it's a nice feeling to use a little piece of software I wrote that's purely customised to my specific u…

Care to share this? - I’d love to see how you approached this

Happy to DM you the github repo if you'd like!

Re: Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?

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Post by KomoD » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 11:05 PM UTC

aidomi wrote: post #46

moonshotideas wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to share this? - I’d love to see how you approached this

Happy to DM you the github repo if you'd like!

Why not just post the link to the Github repo here?

Re: Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?

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Post by aidomi » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 11:32 PM UTC

KomoD wrote: post #47

aidomi wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Happy to DM you the github repo if you'd like!

Why not just post the link to the Github repo here?

I'd rather not share it publicly just yet.

Re: Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?

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Post by customname » Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 12:06 AM UTC

ragingroosevelt wrote: post #39

customname wrote: post #37

Auto Text : Can schedule texts, including reoccurring ones. Also great for reminders in the notification bar. Use it every day. Joplin : Notes Macrodroid : mostly to keep my files tidy. Way back in the day of SD cards in phones it helped transfer things over nightly in preparation for my sync job with... Syncthing : Magical and finicky software Loop Habit Tracker : Notification pops up, "Did you exercise today?" You…

Is it still possible to get Youtube Vanced? Last I'd read it got taken down.

It was DMCA'd, yes... but there's still a way. When I last needed to install it the method involved using the wayback machine. If I needed it today I'd start by looking at the subreddit AfterVanced

Re: Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?

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Post by gingerlime » Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 12:25 AM UTC

PrivacyRedirect for iOS (also on Firefox/Mac) auto redirects YouTube to Invidious, Reddit to teddit etc. It doesn’t work perfectly (there are delays or some times it doesn’t redirect for some strange reason) but otherwise it’s fantastic.

Adguard and nextdns for iOS are also useful to somewhat block ads and tracking.