pinephoneguy

Many European states (some of the better ones) are still monarchies.

I have to wonder what they're missing here. Heated seats sound pretty straightforward: some MCU, a MOSFET driver, maybe an RS485 transceiver. All of that stuff should be done with commodity hardware.

They effectively own the majority of personal computers in the US. They're able to extract rent from everyone this way and for most people there's nothing they can do about it. Once you're really dependent on one of Apple or Google's platforms leaving it is extremely challenging even for technically inclined people.

Skin and eye damage from the sun is permanent and cumulative. The trick is doing things in the sun without exposing yourself to it too much (and not letting the exposure discourage you.)

Or maybe the same kind of person who prefers a smaller phone tends to wait longer before replacing it.

It's a shame it runs Android and not PalmOS.

There are many people who argue that the middle and working classes actually have less say in democracy (as opposed to say, monarchy) because the people at the top can easily afford to buy out all the media.

Tech people should embrace rejection.

Teams is awful. I don't know how people actually like these closed IM apps to begin with but Teams is one of the most poorly behaved ones.

The problem with email on iOS is that there's no way to do instantaneous notifications without paying Apple at least $100/year for a custom app with a certificate to do push. The mail app only does polling (no IMAP IDLE) so the latency on notifications is very high there.

The consequences of the iPhone on the internet are extreme and I don't think most of the people involved in internet protocol design have fully realized just how bad it is.

Sure I could go all out for a while but what do I do after that? I'd imagine partying and not working for a year or two would cause my mental health to further deteriorate and to have that while being broke would be a catastrophe.

(context, I lived somewhere for two years where cycling infrastructure was very well maintained during the winter.)

The reality about the winter is that cycling in the winter is fucking cold. The forward movement exaggerates the wind chill. You have your hands on the handlebars and are still trying to wipe the snot off your face. You can't insulate your body correctly so the heat from biking is shed while the rest of your body doesn't freeze. You have to wear gloves to insulate your hands and have to keep your torso in this very narrow band of comfortable temperatures. It's absolutely miserable compared to driving just like the summer is.

It's nothing like walking which is much more natural and easy to adjust for. It's certainly unpleasant but not quite as much as biking.

Also "we need to get past the mental block we have" is a bit weird. No we don't. Maybe that "mental block" is there for a reason.

People hate X11 and apps that use older toolkits but I can move Windows around my under powered PinePhone in real time all day long on Fluxbox.

Windows graphics/widget APIs were the only nice thing about it IMO.

My understanding is that if you're able to rescue a ship you have to return it to its owner and they're supposed to compensate you.

IIRC BSDs had containers first but they worked slightly differently.

Even if they aren't being "forced" (and I would argue they are) it's unpleasant enough that you should be able to understand why there's a protest.

Some of the job descriptions I've seen from recruiters are so bad it almost feels like a trap. Like if you respond you'll be blacklisted for being desperate and have a harder time finding a legitimate job.

I saw an email the other day that offered 50-60k/y in the Midwest. Remote would be "considered" after 6 months if you "behave." Masters required PHD preferred.

Just write the app for Linux (or even better, build a web page instead.)

They're both unacceptably bad and I'd go without a phone if I had to choose between the two.

Apple once again killing a cool idea by not making it open.

The App store is one of the most disappointing things to happen to personal computers. Instead of empowering indie devs it shut them out and empowered corporations.

Also FLTK, TCL/TK, and X toolkit.

I just run them with unit scaling. The digitizer is accurate enough, especially if you live an OSK window open and stick to keyboard shortcuts. I prefer the extra screen realestate.

I do. I run Fluxbox on PostMarketOS. I use dino with jmp.chat for mms. I use emacs diary+git for calendar. I have some custom power management service I wrote shortly after getting the phone so it gets long battery life. My bank and brokerage both have decent web sites.

I'll never go back to a non-Linux phone, I'd rather not have a phone at all than tolerate the older mobile OSes.

I will never run your app if you build it this way, that sounds absolutely awful. Just write a GTK app or if that's too hard a CLI app since the CLI is first class on the PinePhone.

I've found just doing everything yourself and sticking as close as possible to a normal desktop config works best.

Or putting the scroll bar back, or getting rid of the awful client side decorations.

My favorite thing about Gnome is that I don't have to use it. It's there so that the subsystems get used by normal people and bugs get hammered out and I can do the same thing with a small shell wrapper.

Lots of interesting stuff.