pinephoneguy

These people are moderate libertarians, not the right. If it was the right and if they were copy/pasting from BLM it would be a violent White supremacy movement. That's just not going to happen.

They're protesting the quarentine when re-entering the country. That's why so many Americans are involved as well. My girlfriend lives there but I can't visit her because of this.

Not for 2fa. There are standards for that and they don't need smartphones. Also: I would trust the security of a computer owned by someone without a phone more than that of the average smartphone at this point.

This might all be a distraction from a bank run.

Moderate libertarians hate welfare programs but their parties rarely win so their candidates often run under the GOP. The GOP just likes the status quo.

As someone who was hardly threatened over the vaccines after the president who’s party had control of the legislator did everything they could to force it on everyone I think the US’ position is wrong.

If I’m going to be honest: round corners on a computer feel unnatural. There’s skeuomorphism but it’s all a facade just like the second stories on strip malls in nicer suburbs.

>This could scarecely be less true of modern earbuds.

No software at all runs on those phones without Apple allowing it. They’ve censored Xscrensaver because they were worried about the political thoughts users might have while watching it. The AirPods aren’t controlled yet but most of the apps are forced to put disclaimers on the screen if you pull up anything controversial and if we’re being honest, most people are probably listening to the same pop music that is being pushed as “culture.”

Why do they have to go through apple’s servers? Why can’t users select an alternative push provider? Why can’t apps be allowed to just maintain their own socket if the user is ok with the battery impact?

Also no push notifications which at this point is the only reason to bother with native iOS apps as everything else is off limits anyway.

He's doing some very advanced stuff. Stock options get very convoluted as well, just don't do things you don't fully understand.

My Pinephone is a laptop replacement first and a phone second. I almost never make calls so it works well enough.

It's easier than you might think to just go without. I'd highly recommend it.

“Just do it.” Frameworks absolutely suck, don’t use them. Normalize your data and just build things one step at a time.

HN people are very much for censoring ideas they don’t like too. You could get banned last year for grumping too much about the COVID vaccines.

There are many people who argue that even having a discussion about side-loading apps is dangerous.

If you let some authority tell everyone what’s dangerous to talk about you give them absolute power. That’s far more dangerous than people taking some well understood medicine when they might not need it.

I wish instead of emojis they just included a “sixel” strip codepage with one character for every combination of 1x6 pixel strip (this only needs 64 code points.) You could draw your emojis and the editor would then compose these strips to send them. People do it with Braille now but this would make the images much smaller and get rid of the space between the pixels.

West Virginia is near the bottom and Maryland is near the top, I’m pretty sure I’d much rather live in West Virginia though.

Lol. That’s what I keep telling my friends after my third mug of vodka.

The similarity between AirPods and the in-ear Radio device in the book is striking. That was something I never thought would exist or become popular.

Pop music rots your brain (yes, country is just another kind of pop music.) it’s fake culture pushed by the same well connected people that run the news.

Also urban areas tend to get destroyed very quickly because of the culture the media and politicians connected to it push to the people living there (a Marxist oppression ideology with no categorical imperative so why not steel? There’s nothing you can do to improve things.) As soon as decent transit and walkability shows up everyone leaves.

Someone in Indiana honked at me for using a crosswalk yesterday thinking I was supposed to yield to them for some reason. I think people from rural areas and suburbs just aren’t used to driving in smaller streets.

>After all of that happening can we at least agree that email is not a good substitute for Reddit?

Absolutely not, I have Reddit blocked in /etc/hosts as there appears to be nothing of value there at all these days. Sorting threads by vote count is brain damaged and brain damaging. Also everyone has email and it works fairly well. Viacom can’t just come in and “buy email” so they can kick people off for having certain opinions like they did Reddit. Despite new people asking the same questions on mailing lists, new discussions are often the norm unlike Reddit where the same mediocre garbage is always pushed to the top and the same uninformed comments fill the comment sections.

Not to mention, every day the Reddit UI gets more and more awful and they seem intent on destroying the site over it.

You could always write the UI twice: once with WPF and once with gtk.

>Most 2fa IME: banks and such are fine with it. Coinbase definitely works.

The solution to the SMS problem is to use VOIP. I personally very much like JMP.chat.

Really you should just stop using Google analytics. I know all the data is really fun to look at and can even be useful but it’s a bit like poisoning people just for walking into your business.

Closed software is impossible to predict and pathological behavior is too profitable. You should never use closed software.

You could just chroot into normal GNU based user spaces before they screwed it up between all the namespace stuff and then later restricting exec. I even ran X11 apps on my Android a long time ago with zero virtualization overhead.