1password stand-alone desktop version with no cloud connectivity/saas requirement
Would KeePassXC work for you? There are mobile apps that read the same format it uses.
Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
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#932Old school Radio Shack.
"Resistor? Sorry we only sell Sprint phones."
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#933Bump, actually. The other day was trying to transfer files and contact info and it's still an annoyance.
I came here to say this. Nowadays I use magic-wormhole and nitroshare, but when it comes to transferring Android to Android, Bump was the easiest. I'm pretty sure Google bought them, and I was hoping they would actually do something with the technology, but nothing ever came of it.
There was a discussion the other day that the Bump team merged into Google Photos, which is certainly a creditable application, but not maybe as distinctive as Bump was.
Sort of tragic that the company folded, could have been a nice lifestyle app for someone I think.
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#934Dropplr
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#935what.cd
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#936I miss variety in smartphone design. Everything looks the same these days. Samsung and Apple endlessly copy each other and virtually every smartphone has the same phablet aesthetic now. I miss the variety in shapes, sizes, physical keyboards, gaming features, operating systems, etc.
I'm cheering for the Razer Phone 2. It has no notch, it isn't obsessed with a high screen-to-body ratio. It isn't that thin or particularly light. But it does have a 120hz screen that nobody else has, and once you see it with your own eyes you'll be wondering why other manufacturers aren't pushing for it too. It does have unashamedly large stereo speakers for market-leading volume and clarity. It does have a unique g…
Eh my iPad Pro has a 120hz screen and I couldn’t care less. I notice no difference when using my phones 60hz screen.
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#937Grooveshark had a better interface for managing "currently playing" than anything I've used before or since. Most apps don't even track what's currently playing in an intelligent fashion. Similarly, rockbox was really great mp3 player firmware, when I used to use one of those. It had a funny feature I've never seen elsewhere: multi-lingual article-ignoring sort. I had German band "Die Prinzen" on that mp3 player, and…
Grooveshark was the only music streaming service I’ve been ever using. The way Grooveshark was slaughtered was despicable and turned me down to pay any subscriptions to the online music hienas. Years long curated playlists lost unrecoverably with the shutdown of the service :’(
I might be able to help! If you have the same browser your playlist is store in html5 local storage. I was able to pull mine about 6 months after the service shut down.
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#938Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a real shame we lost Sun. It was such an innovative company when it came to technology - one of the few examples of really engineering led software teams where management had no say in technical decisions. Unfortunately, the market doesn't really reward world class technical solutions/expertise. I'm still not sure what it rewards. Predatory business practices a la Oracle?
I'm not sure if "rewards" is the correct verb for what is going on. Rather, I would say that the market "is succeptible to near-permanent exploitation by businesses like Oracle whose services cost way more than the value they deliver"
You put it better than I ever could, thanks.
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#939Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imo, the hubs were really what made WP special and it would've been amazing with more third-party buy-in (which realistically was never going to happen). Going to a single centralized spot for social media or whatever else, instead of browsing through a dozen different apps, is such a great idea. I was totally on board with WP but then Microsoft bungled the later WP updates (my phone wasn't supported, and it was one…
Blackberry 10 OS had the same thing -- a unified location (called the hub) where all of you communication would go. It was great , except that third-party apps rarely (and decreasingly) integrated with it.
Oh, cool. Didn't know that. Getting third-parties to integrate with something like this is a huge uphill battle - they just don't have any incentive when they don't get to design/dictate how users interface with their platforms. Ceding that kind of control to a company like Microsoft seems like a losing proposition to them, even if it may be convenient for consumers.
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#940Altavista. I miss it every single day. Searching for technical (unix, programming, etc.) content is so much easier when you can use nested parens and proper boolean language. This is in contrast to google where searches return things that don't even contain your keywords. This is in contrast to google where the modifiers like allinsite: and '+' and "quotes" are not respected or change their behavior over time. Man I…
I miss the graphical clustering representation.
If you searched for something like "rust", you would clearly see multiple clusters which would include a big chunk of stuff around "ferrous oxide" and a smaller cluster around the "programming language".
You could click on the specific cluster you wanted, and the results would rank/limit to just that.
I would kill for that back ...