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mdwalterson Ask HN: What niche task/tool websites have you built?

I was inspired by GitHub Projects' new table layout to make it into a really simple to-do list website. I wouldn't say this is complete, but it does it's job.

https://tables.pages.dev/

mdwalterson Ask HN: What's the best CLI installation experience you've ever seen?

pnpm. Really fast, and user-friendly. Too bad it's not backwards-compatible with npm. I use it for all of my Node.js projects, but I sadly have to use npm when jumping into the frontend of project I volunteer on.

Another one would be Nala, I used this as my day-to-day apt frontend before I switched to Fedora. It makes the UX much more better than apt for daily usage.

mdwalterson Wii U

> Nintendo advertizing this as a Wii accessory, when it was actually a new console, really hurt this thing.

True. I don't get how people don't know they bought this, and thought it was an accessory, what would a black rectangular box and GamePad do for the Wii?

mdwalterson Submission 500000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mdwalterson Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use?

I really like this way of working, I have a hard limit of workspaces of 1, mainly because I want all of my stuff in one place. I should really try having multiple workspaces for tasks one day...

mdwalterson Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use?

Did that almost a month ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37007315

mdwalterson Ask HN: Am I the only one who is sick of seeing posts/ads by Skio.com?

They're just job ads?

mdwalterson Fish – A friendly interactive shell

Not OP, but I use Starship with fish and bash, it shows me my git repo's status without having to run `git status`, which is very useful for me.

mdwalterson Support ActivityPub for merge requests

Is Codeberg planning on implementing this?

mdwalterson Ask HN: Developers, are you afraid of AI taking your job in the next 5 years?

Not really. But let's face it, AI can do the job faster than a human, but someone has to review it's code, though. It kind of reminds me of GitHub Copilot, it would possibly output a GPL-licenced snippet, and it wouldn't warn the user.

mdwalterson Packaging software is something that takes work

The first (mechanical) computer was made in 1822, and the computer has origins dating back to the 17th century.

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

mdwalterson Ask HN: Could you share your personal social handlers (X,Mastodon,Threads) here?

Mastodon: https://furry.engineer/@mdwalters

X: https://twitter.com/MDWalters124 (probably deleted)

Reddit: https://reddit.com/u/pancakeflipper124

Lemmy: https://pawb.social/u/mdwalters

Most of my others are on https://fursona.directory/@mdwalters

mdwalterson Ask HN: What tooling do you use for organizing/offloading your thoughts?

I have a little notebook which I keep some of my ideas in, so I can go back to them when I feel bored.

mdwalterson Hacker News Guidelines

+1 to your modification. It wasn't obvious what the word tangents meant, so that modification may do well as it explains it a bit.

mdwalterson Ask HN: What languages was HN written in?

The backend is written in Arc.

mdwalterson Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager

I forked one of these websites, and added more apps to it (developer included all of the app icons in Yaru, so this was an rather easy task). Personally, I wouldn't want to make my own, for a number of reasons.

mdwalterson Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager

Link, please. Or were you referring to the organization name?

mdwalterson Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager

This project seems very well made; someone should fork it to make a more active revival project.

mdwalterson Poll: How do you read Hacker News?

View what? The poll?

mdwalterson BRICS announces 'historic' admission of six new members

The only problem with this is that it's too long, and not easily memorable.

mdwalterson Squabblr – A social media platform that combines Twitter/Reddit

You'd might want to do a Show HN of this. Haven't checked it out yet, but it seems cool so far. I was doing something like this, but it's Discord + Reddit.

mdwalterson LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6

As a personal user of calender versioning, it solves some of my problems with sematic versioning, telling when it was released at a glance, and it makes it easier to apply; just look at the date, making it 0-1 clicks. Sematic versioning, on the other hand requires you to remember the last version, and apply accordingly, which takes 1-3 clicks for me.

mdwalterson Mission Center

Found out about Mission Center a while back, it successfully replaced GNOME Task Manager for me, all it needs is functiality to kill processes

mdwalterson Elon Musk Plans to Remove Headlines from News Article Links on Twitter/X

Has he even talked to the team about any of the features he introduced?

mdwalterson Ask HN: Switch to Ubuntu, or Stay with Fedora?

> they gave up on Mir and Unity and now run a lightly modified GNOME on Wayland.

With Extensions Manager, you can disable all of the system extensions, install the User Themes extension and GNOME Tweaks, and in Tweaks, set every setting that is set to Yaru-* to Adwaita/Default, and you should get yourself a stock GNOME Shell. Except for the Ubuntu Font, of course.

(I'll never forget the time I ran GNOME and KDE at once and created KNOME. Lots of my friends got angry and claimed I "took KDE with my greasy GTK fingers." The horror.)

mdwalterson Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

I used gtkcord4, and I didn't get banned. I used Vencord, didn't get banned either. Of course, I wouldn't reccommend using any of these for the saftey of your account, as I was dumb back then and never learned about the risks.

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Also, one Discord alternative I would reccommend is Revolt[1]. Great community, and was famous for being featured in a No Text To Speech video (and my friend's server had a brief cameo too!), and it's adoption of discriminators (i.e. randomguyabcd#5408).

[1]: https://revolt.chat/

mdwalterson Tell us about the project you would like to make

Last night, I had a crazy idea: What if I ported Fedora to the Wii? People ported Debian, Arch Linux, and Gentoo Linux to the Wii, why not Fedora? I named the project Fedorii, and planned to be based on Fedora 17, because 32 bit PowerPC support, and sort-of recent, despite being 21 releases away from 38, and released in 2012 - just a hair over a decade. Recent enough for a 17-year-old console. I'm currently gathering materials for the project: Wii-Linux kernel[1], Fedora 17 source code, and reading up on the Wii's internals[2][3].

[1]: https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii-Linux

[2]: https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/wii.htm

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(processor)

mdwalterson GPT-5 Is Public

Why can't I choose the GPT-5 model, hmm?

mdwalterson Poll: Which distro do you use? (2023)

+1. I suggest taking this up with hn@ycombinator.com, and seeing what they think.