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mikae1··on macOS Tahoe
:D

If you gotta do it, you gotta do it.

mikae1··on macOS Tahoe
It's been working well with my NVIDIA equipped laptop and desktop machine with a Radeon GPU. I would never buy NVIDIA for Linux use again though. GPU support needs to be in the kernel, So Arc or Radeon it is.
mikae1··on macOS Tahoe
> The initial investment into getting a usable Arch desktop was horrible.

It is my conviction that very few should go down the Arch route. If you want to sysadmin Linux or learn how to do so, fine. But if you want to do something else with your computer I'd strongly recommend looking into one of the https://universal-blue.org images (I use https://getaurora.dev btw).

These are based on atomic Fedora and my experience is that they offer extreme stability while still staying on the edge of development. Could we call it NixOS for mere mortals? Probably not if you ask the Nix peeps. :)

mikae1··on KDE launches its own distribution
> I run Debian stable, and it's not immutable, but it is very unchanging. I don't worry much about system libraries and tooling.

I basically did the same with Tumbleweed for a couple of years. Can't stand the point release distros. Lagging behind a year or two when it comes to the DE is not something I fancy. Never liked Tumbleweed much though. Felt very unpolished when using Plasma.

> The blind spot then is CLI apps and tooling.

I can really recommend homebrew. Works well. apt is for the system, homebrew is for user facing CLI apps. :)

mikae1··on KDE launches its own distribution
It has always been rather insane to me that user facing applications share packages with the base system.

The atomic distro approach works a lot better for me. Would not go back to a "normal" distro from https://getaurora.dev.

mikae1··on KDE launches its own distribution
I switched to https://getaurora.dev, also two years ago, and I'm not going back to a "normal" distro.

Can recommend Bazzite, Bluefin and Aurora which are derived from Atomic Fedora but come with niceties like distrobox and NVIDIA drivers (if you need them).

mikae1··on KDE launches its own distribution
> something with lower effort would be welcome

This is a major reason I ended up with https://getaurora.dev. I layer a few things, but it comes with bells and whistles (like NVIDIA drivers, if you need that).

I can't see myself going back to a "normal" distro. I don't want to spend time cosplaying a sysadmin, I have things to do on my computer.

mikae1··on Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation
> my-blog-article-title.md seems enough, and dates usually feel like clutter, since titles are distinct as they are and you don't really need the date in the filename to do anything useful.

I love to see when a page by posted just by looking at the URL. It also avoids naming collisions. For a static site, not rendered from a db, I wouldn't want to store every post ever written in one dir either. How well does that scale? Yeah, you can probably store 100K files in dir, but it will become unwieldy and slow to load when browsing a lot sooner. Just a dir per year probably solve any such problem.

mikae1··on Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation
Too bad it doesn't quite support dates in the dir paths.

I'd like to recommend a highly underappreciated single binary rewrite of Jekyll in Go: https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll

mikae1··on <template>: The Content Template element
Timelinize, just wow. Been wishing for something like this forever. Love the idea!

Regarding the gpx support... Don't want to lead you astray, but, have you seen https://www.sethoscope.net/heatmap/?

mikae1··on The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
> Great video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M0QyOp7zqcY

Here's an even greater video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAUpxN-EIgU&t=4m24s

mikae1··on You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019)
Excellent advice!
mikae1··on You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019)
I used to burn off ticks with a lighter (revenge!) until I learned the same thing was true for them.

The risk of getting a disease is apparently higher if you handle them that way, essentially making it their revenge.

mikae1··on DeepSeek v3.1 is not having a moment
Not even Altman thinks AGI is around the corner. It keeps the hype and money flow alive though.
mikae1··on Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie'
Reading this I feel blessed having found https://universal-blue.org
mikae1··on uses this
https://usesthis.com/interviews/kicks.condor for the historic Kicks Condor interview.
mikae1··on Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people
Yup, isn't that what raising the tax in progressive way would do?
mikae1··on Electric bikes might just be the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers
> They appear to be designed without pedaling in mind, as exerting effort without proper ergonomics would quickly become uncomfortable and painful. You can actually see some such bikes in the linked article.

Came here to write exactly that. Those who design those bikes clearly don't know a thing about bicycle design. Want to use them for pedaling? Say hi to knee problems and inefficient pedaling!

mikae1··on Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos
> Videos are saved to the ./data/ directory and converted to MOV format using ffmpeg with hardware acceleration

Transcoded (ouch) or just remuxed to a mov container? Have to investigate.

mikae1··on Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration
Wait... 60 dollars per year for a third party solution just to send articles to your ereader? I'd argue that's something that should come with the reader.
mikae1··on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
Obtanium[1], F-Droid[2], Aurora Store[3] and FFUpdater[4] are some options. Signal self updates from the APK download[6].

I recommend putting proprietary Play Store apps grabbed with Aurora Store in the work profile with Shelter[5].

[1] https://obtainium.imranr.dev/

[2] https://f-droid.org/

[3] https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/

[4] https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/

[5] https://f-droid.org/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/

[6] https://signal.org/android/apk/

mikae1··on What to expect from Debian/Trixie
But you can't do that on a live system as you can with Windows or macOS. Not a problem for pre release upgrade perhaps. But I'm so missing this feature from macOS.
mikae1··on Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org
From https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/faq/:

> According to Google reCAPTCHA, Hcaptcha and Cloudflare Turnstile, I’m a robot. Although I haven’t seen an engraved plate with the label T-800 on myself yet, these days I might as well just be a rogue LLM. Does it even matter anymore?

:)

mikae1··on Pimping My Casio: Part Deux
It’s actually the default package manager for uBlue distros.

I’ve used it as my only package manager on Linux for a few years and I love it.

mikae1··on A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)
> Once you lose the autoplaying videos, the popups, the cookies, the cookie consent banners, the social network buttons, the tracking scripts, javascript and css frameworks, and all the other junk nobody likes — you're probably there.

How about a single image? I suppose a lot of people (visitors and webmasters) like to have an image or two on the page.

mikae1··on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
> If France, fair use doesn't even exist!

Same in Sweden. The U.S. has one of the broadest and most flexible fair use laws.

In Sweden we have "citaträtten" (the right to quote). It only applies to text and it is usually said that you can't quote more than 20% of the original text.

mikae1··on Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI
Being an https://getaurora.dev (Universal Blue based) user I don't notice updates at all. I don't update, updates happen in the background. What difference does "speed" make then?
mikae1··on Reflections on OpenAI
> I liked the take of the path to AGI being framed as a three horse race between OpenAI (consumer product DNA), Anthropic (business/enterprise DNA), and Google (infrastructure/data DNA)

Wouldn't want to forget Meta which also has consumer product DNA. They literally championed the act of making the consumer the product.

mikae1··on Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage
> contamination

Well, turmeric certainly has a history of “contamination”[1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/09/23/nx-s1...

mikae1··on RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor
Can't stand roundtrips anymore. Yup, I actually apply a LUT after tone mapping in darktable.
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