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gempir··on Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast
I own a Sony A80J and this is also what I was measuring. I'm thankful I did measure this before just blindly turning the feature on.

I have a Bose Soundbar also with Chromecast and that one doesn't suck down 25W+ while on standby and can thankfully turn on the TV via HDMI CEC.

Sadly the whole OS experience is shitty on the TV. It's 2500€+ TV and the UI is sluggish, Tv takes at least 5-10 Seconds to turn on each time and still comes with the classic google ad like interface.

I bought a Chromecast remote that works via bluetooth to somewhat make the remote feel a bit faster, but it sadly just makes a tiny difference.

Nvidia Shield still feels like the only real option when you want a non sluggish Interface on your multi-thousand euro/dollar purchase.

gempir··on More content by people, for people in Search
Bread recipe

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gempir··on More content by people, for people in Search
Corporate Art Style, also referred to as Big Tech Art Style, Globohomo Art Style and Corporate Memphis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/corporate-art-sty...

gempir··on The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance
Ironic that it's http
gempir··on Ask HN: Do You Trust Grammarly?
Their cookie consent form already breaks a bunch of rules by being very much opt-out first instead of opt-in for alle the marketing and tracking cookies.

This doesn't give me a good feeling that they are focused on privacy.

gempir··on Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable
Jira? Yes! Properly self hosted with skilled SysAdmins which don't allow every employee to install their favorite plugin. Then it runs fast and reliably.

The UI is very configurable and has many power user tools, like their search is very good and has so many features.

The Language for writing text is bad and sadly not even the same on other Atlassian products. Please just let me write markdown.

Confluence is another story. It is one of the better tools for documentation, but it's generally slow no matter who runs it. It has very quirky drawbacks like a page needing to have a unique name in a space even if it is in a completely different tree structure.

The editor itself from confluence hangs so much and has destroyed pages multiple times for me, thankfully the history is decent and you can recover usually.

gempir··on Chatterino is a chat client for Twitch chat
Written as native QT C++ Application instead of a browser based solution.

https://github.com/chatterino/chatterino2

disclaimer: I have contributed to Chatterino

gempir··on Valetudo: Open-source cloud replacement for vacuum robots
To be fair I never tried the original software so I don’t know what I am missing. It has very good mapping I don’t miss a feature you listed.
gempir··on Valetudo: Open-source cloud replacement for vacuum robots
I own the Z10 Pro flashing wasn’t super complicated and it now completely auto updates itself. Zero problems. All the features work. I haven’t even found a bug in the UI
gempir··on Next.js Layouts RFC: Nested routes and layouts, designed for Server Components
You need some form of backend if you want Server Side Rendering, and SSR is why most people opt-in to a React framework.

And then you already have a backend so it's an easy jump to just using Nodejs on your backend as well.

But a lot of people also just use NextJS as is and never build any server side code and just run their own API beside it.

Or use other frameworks that don't include any SSR features, such as Create-React-App

gempir··on Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole
I think for me 90% of the joy of a mechanical keyboard is customization.

- You get to chose the keycaps

- You get to chose the switch type

- With QMK/VIA you get to completely change the way your keyboard works (If I had this on a Apple Magic Keyboard I might have been happy with it)

I don't want some crappy software that achieves this, none ever work as good as a firmware solution. I plug my keyboard into any PC and only send the commands I want.

You can configure a mechanical keyboard to be even less silent than the Apple Magic Keyboard. I have some colleagues who really hammer down on those Magic Keyboards and they can get loud.

Also it sits good with me that I can have my keyboard layout in version control[1].

[1] https://github.com/gempir/keymap

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gempir··on Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman
I tried very hard to convince the hoppscotch devs to adapt something like .http files so they could be stored in version control. Only a few tools get that right.

https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/870#issuecom...

Sadly I don't think they never understood the actual goal of it. And just added github to sync to or something like that. Which isn't what I was looking for.

I use IntellIJ and the http client does it and it works very well. But sadly the rest of the http client is annoying just basic stuff like reading the response is always a few more clicks than I want and compared to Insomnia so much harder.

gempir··on Can I have a smaller Prometheus
Prometheus follows the OpenMetrics standard I'm not sure what you find propietary about that or specific to prometheus.

https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/main/s...

gempir··on You want enabling CSS selectors, not disabling ones
It doesn't work on iOS 13 only grid gap works
gempir··on Apps Getting Worse
At least the social bar can be removed in the settings if I recall correctly.
gempir··on How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket
I'm so confused why their Cloud offering is so different than their Bitbucket Server.

Because Bitbucket Server had syntax highlighting probably for more than a decade now.

gempir··on Disable comments make static analysis tools worse
Why is the interface to a third party library not to be analyzed?

I'll have to use it anyway so this way at least I can be more sure when calling the API what I need to pass or not.

I mean all of that applies to any library you ever import. You still have control over it in the means of commit hashes etc, so it won't randomly break. So it makes sense documenting the API for yourself if there is no documentation.

gempir··on Disable comments make static analysis tools worse
People will find other ways around it, maybe they'll just grep your error output and return a zero return code if it's in there instead.

You need disable comments, but they need to be very fine grained by default.

I'm thinking of several very relevant cases for disable comments. Like your first example of the camelCase issue is very real to me.

We are served JavaScript from a third party that we have little to no control over, I want to type that JS with Typescript. So I created some .d.ts files. But they use snake_case for their function names.

When I then type those functions, I get complains from my linter that it's not camel case. This is where I need my escape hatch.

gempir··on PNG files can be animated via network latency
The protection is not against people like you. It's for the average joe.

Knowing how to use the dev tools makes you like a 1% in the world. And blocking out 99% with a simple div or something is a pretty good ROI

gempir··on Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
I tried so many ways to avoid that "feature" but they keep changing their implementation every few weeks.

It's super frustrating.

This is my current uBlock filter against it, I think it still works?

google.com#?#div:has( > div > div > h4:-abp-contains(People also))

gempir··on Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
They have good reasons for doing so. Watch this talk if you actually want to learn why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8

If you don't, use something else. But using Signal is for sure a lot better than using Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp.

gempir··on Tell HN: HN Replies Data Security Incident
Personally my lazy solution to config files is using ansible-vault.

It basically lets you encrypt your secrets and store them in your git how much you want. You then only need one password when decrypting the vault.

gempir··on macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass
That part is so perplexing. Apple wants you to use that folder! Multiple useful things are stored in it, but you have to jump through hoops to go do it. It should be added as a favourite by default.
gempir··on Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc
At least with Logitech you have the option to use the software once to flash your desired DPI to your mouse and be done with it and remove the software.
gempir··on IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Custom Firmware, Soldering
ZHA is Zigbee Home Automation. It's basically the part of Home Assitant that deals with zigbee devices. So it's like first party vs something like zigbee2mqtt which then hooks into Home Assitant.

Makes a little less work configuring etc, but not all Zigbee sticks are supported. Check support here

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/#known-workin...

gempir··on IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Custom Firmware, Soldering
Yeah you can. You can get something like a CC2531 which works great aswell. Not sure If it's supported by ZHA yet but https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/ worked very good with my CC2531. I just switched to the Conbee because it was supported by ZHA and I wanted my lights etc to directly connect to Home Assistant with ZHA.
gempir··on IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Custom Firmware, Soldering
I wish there was a way to completely avoid the app. I have a bunch of Aqara devices that are Zigbee and they never even talked to Xiaomi because I only connected them to my Conbee without ever installing any Xiaomi App or whatever.

I wonder how hard it is to add an ESP8266 to the lamps and just control via the ESP.

gempir··on IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant
The docker Synology setup is very good in my experience. When an update is available for HA you can just clear the container and start it again, provided you have correctly mounted the volumes.

I even got my Zigbee USB Stick working, you just gotta start the container once via the terminal on the synology and then I can clear it later to update it etc.

gempir··on As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever
I think it's awful Discord is used in that way. Discord is not indexed by Google or other searchengines. All the content will slowly be forgotten.

Typescript has very big Discord server full of useful information and help threads which would be super nice to be able to find via Google. So I hope either Discord starts creating "crawable" channels or communities start moving away from Discord again.

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