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ndrake··on Wired headphone sales are exploding. What's with the Bluetooth backlash?
My daily headphones are the Google Pixel USB-C earbuds, but they seem to be no longer made. Anyone have good recommendations for similar style USB-C headphones w/mic?
ndrake··on Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
https://symfonium.app/ is great on Android. I've used it with both Jellyfin and Navidrome
ndrake··on Beets: The music geek’s media organizer
Anyone have suggestions for automating CD rips into a Beets workflow?
ndrake··on The Atari 1200XL fiasco
Atari 800 XL <3
ndrake··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
Can you confirm if role is fully remote or hybrid? Job posting says fully remote. Thanks!
ndrake··on Mac(OS)talgia
https://infinitemac.org/
ndrake··on Gumroad CEO is no longer hiring junior/mid-level software engineers due to AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933256
ndrake··on David Lynch has died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTrTtzTQrv0
ndrake··on The story of Rogue
https://larn.org/
ndrake··on Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
This isn't bad: https://github.com/sqlpad/sqlpad/tree/master
ndrake··on Show HN: I made a split keyboard for large palms
How long have you been using the glove80? I'm a smaller handed KA2 user but have been eyeing up switching to a glove80. Any complaints or trouble switching?
ndrake··on Original Pirate Material
"You won't find us on AltaVista"
ndrake··on Don't upgrade to macOS Sonoma 14.4 yet: plug-in compatibility issues
Per: https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/java-on-macos-14-4

"The issue was not present in the early access releases for macOS 14.4, so it was discovered only after Apple released the update."

ndrake··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)

  Location: Pittsburgh, PA USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: JS, TS, React, Angular, Java, Spring, AWS, Node, Hybrid Mobile (Cordova, Capacitor), SQL, sysadmin
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jD4QwyKaGoX6MA04DTzPch3BEx9dScAv/view?usp=sharing
  Email: <HN username> @gmail.com
ndrake··on Microservices are hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
ndrake··on KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration
And if you're used to Emacs/Readline keybindings, those will work in most Mac text inputs
ndrake··on Teams is killing my Mac every day
I was having throttling issues with a new 4k monitor. Teams seemed to make the issue worse. Pointing an external USB cabinet fan at the laptop has resolved my issues.
ndrake··on Last Call BBS: The last game by Zachtronics [video]
https://www.zachtronics.com/last-call-bbs/
ndrake··on Creating Pixel Art (2010)
That looks great. Some of the outdoor backgrounds remind me of Rastan.
ndrake··on [dead]
https://status.gradle.com/ is reporting errors, include with JCenter Downloads
ndrake··on Kinesis Advantage 360
Bluetooth, wireless linking between both halves, backlighting, ZMK firmware
ndrake··on Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One
Relevant TMBG: https://youtu.be/r9qLD3NtR94
ndrake··on BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution
PoC: https://github.com/google/security-research/tree/master/pocs...
ndrake··on HomePod Mini
The footnote on that item is a bit disappointing:

"Not compatible with non-HomeKit Thread devices."

ndrake··on LICEcap: Simple Animated Screen Captures
Make sure you have the .gif extension on your filename. Fixed it for me on Catalina. See https://github.com/justinfrankel/licecap/issues/71#issuecomm...
ndrake··on Show HN: Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
I use the following found zsh function to log each each command to file by date. I've definitely found value in looking up less frequently used or complex commands.

# Custom history logging # From: http://blog.andrewhays.net/love-your-terminal # https://web.archive.org/web/20130525150720/http://blog.andre... function precmd() { if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then FULL_CMD_LOG="$HOME/.shlogs/zsh-history-$(date -u "+%Y-%m-%d").log" echo "$USER@`hostname`:`pwd` [$(date)] `\history -1`" >> ${FULL_CMD_LOG} fi }

ndrake··on Flashing Builds from the Android Open Source Project
https://flash.android.com/
ndrake··on Why Are Alphabet Letters Arranged How They Are?
This doesn't answer the question, but it's a great TMBG song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRYw-pqSdKo
ndrake··on Leaving Pittsburgh because of industrial air pollution
https://smellpgh.org/visualization

https://alleghenycounty.us/Health-Department/Programs/Air-Qu...

ndrake··on Tesla Cybertruck
Reminds me to the car from the opening sequence of Another World: http://firsthour.net/screenshots/another-world/another-world...
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