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fractalf··on LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
You're most welcome! Yea, I know _exactly_ how you feel. This is why I had my last Win7 partition for so long, but now it's gone as there all I really need is available on Linux. Bitwig + u-he, what more do you really need ;)
fractalf··on LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
falkTX is a HERO, no doubt about that! Got these: https://linuxdaw.org/?q=falktx ..kx studio is not really a "plugin" thingy (more a collection/repository) so it's hard to add that in this context. EDIT: I saw your edit :D
fractalf··on The Honeypot Diaries: Thousands of Daily Attacks on My Home Network
Hehe my exact first thought as well!
fractalf··on Insomnia REST client now requires an account
Awesome! I've spend 30 minutes searching for an alternative, but it's all crap. This looks really good! Simple light weight, we basically just need a simple gui over curl.. Thank you for this

May I ask why .bru? I would really recommend using a standard format. https://xkcd.com/927/ etc..

fractalf··on Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge
I thought about it. Carefully. If google and microsoft went bankrupt tomorrow i wouldn't miss a thing and would be feel abundance of joy. The world would be a much better place without then.
fractalf··on Ask HN: Technology/creative books and games for my daughter (7 years)
This thread is _amazing_ , thank you all very much! I've been struggling to find activities for my own 7 yo, now I have plenty :)
fractalf··on Show HN: Google Analytics alternative with the most generous free tier
For a simple analytics try https://counter.dev/ which is _open source_ which is a must for proper privacy
fractalf··on For your next side project, make a browser extension
Check! I made a "wrapper" of the amazing JSON Editor Online: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/json-editor-e...
fractalf··on Atom was archived today
Haha thanks for making me look twice at that
fractalf··on Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo
Choosing between two evils is a choise?
fractalf··on Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
Why not just use shaming to get big companies to contribute? Name them, keep a list, put them on display. I mean, they should be ashamed to use a free open source and not contributing in any way.
fractalf··on The Curious Design of Skateboard Trucks
Interesting article. There is no mentioning of the art of Slalom Skateboarding, one of the absolute oldest styles of skateboarding. In this style the truck design is absolute critical. Still use the same basic design, but with adjustable angles and very short hangers. Also we keep a bag of different bushings to tune the board to different track setups. Check out G.O.G. trucks, the absolute undesputed best trucks for slalom skateboarding. Also Don't Trip makes good trucks for this style
fractalf··on Firefox Browser Hacked in 8 Seconds Using 2 Critical Security Flaws
Come on.. nothing gets shittier than google
fractalf··on Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
Me too. VSCodium FTW https://vscodium.com/
fractalf··on I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
Very kool! Good job :)
fractalf··on Ask HN: What steps do you take to protect yourself and your family online?
Replaced my parents PCs running windows, with Linux Mint (they are very happy).

PI-hole at home for the "smart" Tv. Ofc linux and firefox (w/ublock and containers).

I'm more worries of protecting against tracking/spying than freud

fractalf··on Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
DuckDuckGo seens to have been able to do this just fine, even with the weirdest name for a company ever. Their growing by word of mouth from geeks like us. I set DDG as default on all of my family/friends browsers. Focus on making a good search and users will come
fractalf··on Top Best Linux Distros for Programmers and Developers
This article is not very usefull really, looks more like a click bate. "The best" distro for programmers? Very subjective.

If you come from a windows world, "the best" for you is probably Linux Mint. On the other hand, a mac user might enjoy Element OS better

Etc..

fractalf··on Facebook Stole Our Name and Livelihood
I should be pretty obvious by now that Facebook is a really bad company with way too much power.

What can we do about it as just another nerd? The answer is just as obvious. Delete your account, don't look back and encourage everyone you know to do the same.

I'm one year without now and hadn't affected my life in any negative way whatsoever.

Poff! Power gone..

fractalf··on Windows 11 review: An unnecessary replacement for Windows 10
Win7 was my last version. Then I switched to Linux Mint permanently and never looked back. I'm a developer using open source web tech, and this made my life a million times easier.

Sure, there's some things that require some/lots of tweaking/research and yea I still miss a few "apps" (Total Commander), BUT you gain so much more. When I rarely dual boot onto Win7 now I really cannot understand how I survived using it earlier.

Windows gets worse every time. Linux just gets better and better. No brainer if you ask me.

fractalf··on Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
Think of these federated instances as a good 'ol forum. Same rules applies
fractalf··on Sailfish 4
This is great, I really like sailfish UI, but..... there's just no way it can fight for a real market share, unless.... they go full FOSS, get the huge community behind it to catch momentum. Open it up, and find other ways of making money on it
fractalf··on The Search for a Free/Open Source Mobile Operating System
I tried it on the PinePhone and instantly loved the UX. Unfortunately, like boudin said, it's not fully FOSS which is sad cause I really wished the "future" mobile alternative to Android/iOS would be something like this.

Sailfish should open up their code fully, it would probably benefit them in the long rum

fractalf··on Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style
All UI stuff like this should be part of the "theme". Once in a while, sure go ahead and change the default, but always make it easy to roll back to older themes..
fractalf··on Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
Awesome! I want one :)
fractalf··on SDF Fractal Noise
Very very nice!
fractalf··on ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login
I've used fastmail for 20 years and Im very happy about it. Before that I used telnet to a server and running pine. While traveling in India I got fed up by the lag so I decided to try out this web-mail thing that everyone was talking about. I came across an Indian IT magazine that compared all the big players at the time, and fastmail came up on top. Easy choose, never liked big corp anyway. I've since tried out most alternatives, buy nothing could match my need as well as fastmail. Thumbs up!
fractalf··on Pentagon UFO Videos Not Aliens
That's the dumbest explaination I've ever heard. If it was that simple don't you think the air force would think of that before posting these vids?
fractalf··on Slack was experiencing an outage
> Slack seems superfluous now that MS Teams is consuming everything before it.

MS Teams suck so bad from a developer perspecrive compared to slack it's never going to be a proper alternative. I'm not dissing, this is just my experience using both

fractalf··on Webamp: Winamp 2 in the browser
Thanks for the tip, will try this out as it seems to have waveform support (a must for me).

I've been using Nulloy for a while, also pretty nice and minimal https://github.com/nulloy/nulloy/

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