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jjcoffmanon Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

im surprised this is so far down, this has changed so much of my setup. Ive swapped from pretty much all managers to this and its been a lifechanger

jjcoffmanon Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig

If your browser doesn't play nicely and obey robots.txt when its headless I don't think it's that crazy to block the browser and not the user.

jjcoffmanon Why is Bluetooth sound quality bad on my Mac

I popped in here to post this. The aggregate audio device setup in the Midi setup assistant works really well for me. There is some loss in quality still, but definitely not as bad as before.

It also solved a problem I was having where the input volume would progressively get quieter as I was speaking making it so no one could hear me on calls.

jjcoffmanon 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

It doesn’t have to be big car manufactures though. In fact there are already many golf cart manufactures which can drive on roads with speed limits lower than 40 (or something like that. In CA)

Most cities now have 40+ limit roads though which makes it impractical or impossible to use them. A tweak to that law would make them viable. Also, brand new they are like $10k

jjcoffmanon 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

Well, I think this is letting perfect be the enemy of good. You could definitely improve the support for these types of vehicles and add incentives to purchases and use. As one example in CA you can’t drive on on roads that have a speed limit higher than like 40 or something. So adjusting speed limits in towns or providing exemptions for city streets’ right lanes or something would go along way with adoption.

I’m not saying you would ban cars, just incentivize using more economical modes of transport. My family of 4 would happily use a golf cart if my community had support for them on city streets.

jjcoffmanon 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

Something I’ve thought a lot about is why don’t we have more support around golf cart and golf cart adjacent vehicles? They are fairly cheap compared to a car, can be BEV, drive around on most city streets, fractions of the weight and danger to pedestrians etc.

I know it doesn’t work in a lot of areas due to weather etc, but it seems like an obvious stop-gap solution.

It is also kind of “cool” to drive around in a golf cart

jjcoffmanon Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware

Orca ftw