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davewongillies··on Opencloud – An alternative to Nextcloud written in Go
There's a list of features here (no mention of completeness/maturity though) https://opencloud.eu/en/features
davewongillies··on Infinite Mac OS X
There's no need to yell when saying Mac
davewongillies··on The Case For – and Against – Apple Shipping a Larger iMac
From TFA

> Target display mode is a feature available with certain older Mac models.

davewongillies··on Show HN: I recreated a flying toasters screensaver for XScreensaver
There is: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/

The existing Xscreensaver flying toasters is a sort of clone or reimagining whereas this new one looks like its exactly the same as the old After Dark Flying Toasters.

davewongillies··on New(ish) command line tools
Related to ranger, nowadays I use lf[0], which is a clone of ranger written in Go. There's also pistol[1] which is a replacement for ranger's rifle file viewer

[0] https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

[1] https://github.com/doronbehar/pistol

davewongillies··on Fish 3.4.0
And if some tool you use doesn't have completions, writing completions for fish are infinitely easier than bash
davewongillies··on Fish 3.4.0
I'm a previous bash user who now uses fish and loves to customize everything, and compared to bash, customizing fish is a joy. Its so much easier to do, using oh-my-fish brings a great selection of plugins (admittedly lots of them are inspired or clones of oh-my-zsh plugins) and writing plugins is a breeze as well.
davewongillies··on Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
https://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html
davewongillies··on Jog: Print the last 10 commands you ran in the current directory
fish implementation

alias jog="history --max=10"

davewongillies··on MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit computer
There's actually two, from the specs sheet:

* dual SDHC™ card slots

davewongillies··on The Unix Magic Poster
And also UNIX Views https://twitter.com/marcvolovic/status/1122450821541707777
davewongillies··on The Unix Magic Poster
The UNIX Feuds poster is great too. Would love to get a high-res scan to print out of it too: https://www.flickr.com/photos/32496748@N03/3038053405
davewongillies··on HiFiBerryOS
There is support for it according to the changelog:

https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/blob/master/Change...

Although it does seem to be broken currently

https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/issues/156

davewongillies··on WordPerfect for DOS Updated
They exist but are expensive and tend to only be on sale for short periods of time in group guys, for example the Rama Zenith

https://ramaworks.store/products/zenith-keyboard

davewongillies··on Gadgets That Refuse to Die
Its not cheap but iPeng[0] is the most up to date squeezebox app for iOS

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ipeng/id767266886

davewongillies··on Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit
The ReSpeaker Core v2.0 looks like it could be fun too:

* Debian-Based Linux System

* SDK for Speech Algorithms with Full Documents

* C++ SDK and Python Wrapper

* Speech Algorithms and Features

* Keyword Spotting (Wake-Up)

* BF (Beamforming)

* DoA (Direction of Arrival)

* NS (Noise Suppression)

* AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancellation) and AGC (Automatic Gain Control)

* All-in-One Solution with High Performance SoC

* 8 Channel ADC for 6 Microphone Array and 2 Loopbacks (Hardware Loopback)

https://respeaker.io/rk3229_core/

davewongillies··on What Happened in the 2010s
http://web.archive.org/web/20200101123154/https://avc.com/20...
davewongillies··on Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface
For years I've used Fantasque Sans Mono [0] which is Comic Sans inspired:

> realization that at some point it looked like the mutant child of Comic Sans and Helvetica Neue.

[0] https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

davewongillies··on He Says He Invented Bitcoin and Is Suing Those Who Doubt Him
In Australia where Craig Wright is from, capsicum is the colloquial word for what you call peppers.
davewongillies··on Vim Anti-Patterns (2012)
If you just want a vi/vim toggle for your browser, wasavi[1] is what you're after.

https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi

davewongillies··on Linux Desktop Setup
Wasavi does exactly what you want:

http://appsweets.net/wasavi/

https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi

davewongillies··on Openrsync imported into the tree
I use rsnapshot [0] for the same thing.

[0] https://rsnapshot.org/

davewongillies··on Fish shell 3.0
The bang-bang plugin handles !! and !$

https://github.com/oh-my-fish/plugin-bang-bang

davewongillies··on Apple Store Robbed Off 26 Products Worth $27,000 In a Few Seconds in California
From TFA:

> One customer right outside the entrance tried preventing the men from making a dash but fell down.

davewongillies··on Archive of Operating Systems
ArchiveOS is only for free or open operating systems. For OSes like Amiga or Atari OS, WinWorld has you covered: https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems
davewongillies··on Weirdstuff Warehouse is closed
Which is on this Saturday in the Fry's carpark in Sunnyvale! https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/
davewongillies··on Show HN: Deploy a Go Lambda to Ping a Site in 20 Seconds
I raised a PR to just that: https://github.com/frankcash/go-lambda-ping/pull/1

The URL is set in terraform.tfvars, which then gets passed to the lambda resource.

davewongillies··on Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash
And to make things interesting Ubuntu uses dash as sh

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

davewongillies··on Ask HN: Modern Linux laptop with great battery life?
I would love to know how you got to that point
davewongillies··on Ask HN: Modern Linux laptop with great battery life?
The T470 (not the T470s) also allows you to hotswap out one of its batteries too, so you could carry an extra if you needed it: http://www.notebookreview.com/feature/business-laptop-battle...
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