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frantathefranta

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Hi, I'm Franta. [Blog](www.franta.us)

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frantathefranta··on All Kindles can now be jailbroken
IIRC e-ink used to not be that cheap and Amazon sold you one for not that much money.
frantathefranta··on Netflix says its brief Apple TV app integration was a mistake
If you mean Apple TV+ (the streaming service), there is a day and night difference between it and Netflix with regards to the average quality of shows.
frantathefranta··on FreeBSD for hi-fi audio: real-time processing, equalizer, MPD and FFmpeg
I expected that USB cable to be $250+ but I see them for $50-$70 which is still super expensive for a USB2.0 cable. But I guess if you like the look of it, it makes sense.
frantathefranta··on How many ants live on Earth? (2022)
Growing up in an area with big ant hills, I just can't wrap my head around the fact that there are more ants by weight than all other mammals combined. Because I can imagine a small forest with multiple of these ant hills which undoubtedly have millions of ants, but at the same time an apartment building with a few humans in it would surely outweigh all of those ants. So where are all the ants hiding?
frantathefranta··on Hackers Crack Subaru's Connected Services to Access Data, Door Locks and More
Should I opt-out if my Forester has been bought used and I've never activated Starlink with my own credentials?
frantathefranta··on The most viewed articles of 2024
I use the "Most Popular Wikipedia Article Today" widget on my iPhone and all of those 3 were featured multiple times. Feels like lot of the mobile views are from people clicking on these articles just to see what's up (usually things are trending due to someone dying or a scandal). Still I'd think it should count.
frantathefranta··on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
Would you happen to know what the rule is on Yubikeys and the like? I assume if it's PIN-protected, it counts as a password but what if it's just set up for tap-to-unlock?
frantathefranta··on PCIe trouble with 4TB Crucial T500 NVMe SSD for >1 power cycle on MSI PRO X670-P
Slow week but people probably enjoy the methodical troubleshooting.
frantathefranta··on Botan: Crypto and TLS for Modern C++
It's nice in NixOS, but my experience on MacOS isn't great. It could be due to me having an x86 2017 Macbook Pro with only 8GB of RAM but I regularly have to wait for bug fixes to update my system.
frantathefranta··on Botan: Crypto and TLS for Modern C++
Same for me, found out what botan was because my nix managed KeePassXC package would not compile. Had to switch to the brew cask for the time being.
frantathefranta··on Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts
You probably know this but it's good to run a cluster with an odd number of nodes. You don't even need another full node, just a quorum node like a RPi.
frantathefranta··on What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase?
What's the difference with letter Ch [0]? When it's capitalized at the beginning of the word, it also looks like uppercase C and lowercase h.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch_(digraph)

frantathefranta··on M4 MacBook Pro
Out of curiosity and also because I'm wondering which specification to potentially buy in the future, how much RAM does your MBP have?
frantathefranta··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
Oh yeah I definitely forgot about that.
frantathefranta··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
I looked into it and supposedly 14 Pro is 0.8 mm taller and 0.2 mm thicker.
frantathefranta··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
I might upgrade soon anyway but is there something preventing iPhone 13 Pro to not fit? I'm not aware of any changes between that one and 14, 15 and 16.
frantathefranta··on Linux 6.11 Released
Yes, but also most people would probably not want that to happen to the Linux kernel. That's why people wonder about contingencies.
frantathefranta··on LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear
Projectivy launcher works pretty well.
frantathefranta··on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
Most of the classic cars destroyed in movies are replicas built specifically for the occasion.
frantathefranta··on Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub
Third here, it's the easiest tool to setup dotfiles that work on machines ranging from RHEL7 to latest MacOS. Haven't dealt with Windows dotfiles though.
frantathefranta··on Passkeys: A shattered dream
I've tried it and it works on GitHub. Sites seem to be hit-or-miss for now. Tip if you want to use it with the browser add-on, it needs to be manually enabled and you also need to remove any YubiKeys from the system because it will prioritize them over KeePassXC
frantathefranta··on Passkeys: A shattered dream
KeePassXC has support for passkeys now. However I've only managed to make it work with GitHub. Bitwarden does not work for now (although their passkey implementation for log-in is reportedly in beta).
frantathefranta··on Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights
Yeah it's much easier to deal with terrible service when your return ticket with Ryanair doesn't cost more than 20 EUR. In the meantime the cheapest flight I was on in the US still cost $200.
frantathefranta··on The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)
Well his Soviet escapades seem to suggest that not all of them were wholly humorous.
frantathefranta··on Nvtop: Linux Task Monitor for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs
And similarly from people who consider Nvidia to be the "Gaming GPU" company, not understanding why it's so big now.
frantathefranta··on Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users
Me and my wife have the exact same iPhone with the same AT&T setup. Also on the same latest iOS version. She doesn't have service at our house, I do. Bizarre.
frantathefranta··on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
I mean yeah, I'm definitely an outlier. Neither me and my spouse have student debt which helps massively. And while we've done it without the help of parents, I'm pretty sure some of my friends got some kind of assistance that way.

Columbus is nice because it still feels kinda small and driving is still super comfortable because you can get anywhere in about 15 minutes. I still prefer to bike to work because it feels nice but I'm definitely in the minority here doing that.

frantathefranta··on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
I live in the city proper. It's Columbus OH just to make it easier for you. I live ~10 minutes from downtown. I'm sure you'll find a way to reason that's not a major city but it is (multiple Fortune 500 companies HQ'd, major league sport team etc). It's also bigger than Portland and Denver (but not their metro areas, see why people use that term?). The metro itself is similar to Portland or Austin in size.
frantathefranta··on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
Just about 2 million people in the metro area. Not the biggest, but not 100k.

Since I can't reply to your later comment yet, I might just do it here. I live in the city proper. It's Columbus OH just to make it easier for you. I'm sure you'll find a way to reason that's not a major city but it is (multiple Fortune 500 companies HQ'd, major league sport team etc). I live ~10 minutes from downtown and the house was 290k.

frantathefranta··on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
I have anecdata on the contrary. I'm 25 and with my wife have a household income of ~150k. We own a house in a Midwestern major city, and so does 80% of our friend group. I realize it's an outlier, as should you, because most of the country doesn't have 800k minimum starter houses.
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