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The recovery commandline solution did not work for me. What did work was using no@thanks.com with a random password, which is a locked account, which then allowed me to create a local account.

You could see where it was going when Candy Crush came installed with Windows 10 Enterprise.

If you treat Apple hardware like a subscription model where you make sure not to hang on to anything for too long (these engineering problems that happen after a couple years seems awfully convenient) then you get the arguably better OS / general computing experience without the risk of expensive hardware going wrong over time. And it's an expensive subscription model today, the days of a top spec Apple laptop for £1500 are gone, so a decent general computing experience is now at a premium.

Owning a MBP beyond a few years these days puts you in the ticking time bomb territory, at some point whether it's the soldered SSD endurance or an exploding SSD/T2 chip, it cannot be affordably repaired when it bricks.

In the meantime, hackintoshes have a little bit of life left, and Linux looks to me finally like its only another 5-10 years before the year of the desktop is here, and I say that positively having used it on and off for 25 years

How does the STT compare to Fastwhisper?

I tried a similar project out last week, which uses Ollama, FastWhisperAPI, and MeloTTS: https://github.com/PromtEngineer/Verbi

Docker is a great option if you want lots of people to try out your project, but not many apps in this space come with a dockerfile

Completely disagree on getting rid of .mjs, .mts, .cjs, etc. This has actually solved a lot of the problems we had of mixed module loading IMO

It uses localStorage to store the consent, that falls under essential needs by GDPR

Not really a big deal IMO, MacOS has loads of great software available to improve workflow. BetterSnapTool, BetterTouchTool, MOS, Dropzone, Slidepad, Raycast, TotalFinder (visor feature), iTerm2 (dropdown shell) etc.

BetterSnapTool is probably what you are looking for - for normal monitors the keyboard shortcuts for window management (modifier + arrows) are great, and for giant monitors the custom snap zones are great. My favourite feature is the ability to move/resize windows by holding down ctrl/shift while hovering over them.

These kinds of things are a big reason I stick with Mac, great ergonomics and automation.

Seems a better situation than the alternatives? You need a defensive mindset with Windows with their behaviours over the last 5 years

It makes sense if he wants to make a useful web browser and leverage third party technologies for it, Serenity is totally from scratch. This should mean more time being spent on better problems in the web browser through reinventing fewer wheels and probably speed up the development of a new browser engine, which seems pretty interesting to me.

<a href="{rewritten by js}">domain.com</a> a::before { content: "username@" }

Thanks for the tip but it didn't work for me. Unselectable in TTS Engine options screen and app crashes for some reason

I think this is easily the coolest post I've seen on HN this year

I listen to ebooks with TTS. On Android via FDroid the speech packs in this software are extremely robotic.

There aren't many options for degoogled Android users. In the end I settled for the Google Speech Services and disabled network access and used the default voice. GSS has its issues and voices don't download properly, but the default voice is tolerable in this situation.

Recently I've been building my own life ops system in Obsidian. I treat Obsidian like my offline personal CMS.

My CSS snippets for minimal theme: https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippe...

Life ops starter vault (including above snippets), with very basic cut down daily template: https://github.com/replete/life-ops-starter-obsidian-vault/

What method do you use for using oIlama with RAG like this? I

We already have CalDAV, but few implement it. I prefer using a caldav server (e.g. email host) because if you have a life in task items, and your software is proprietary and they don't care about import/export - it sucks. 2Do or OmniFocus, not seen anything better yet. I tried for ages to make tasks work in Obsidian, all the plugins, dataview setup - it just felt clumsy and kludgey to work with, so I gave up and let obsidian do what its good at, notes and templates

This could be good, however it would need an amazing panel UI to do GUI management - text only isn't quite enough IMO.

I tried hard to make task management in Obsidian a thing, and gave up, it just isn't good at it. Tasks, Checklists, all way too clumsy to rely on every day, at least for me

I signed up to over 20 todo apps yesterday, and it was miserable how clumsy UI is. If you're using task management to run your life, you are dealing with tasks hundreds of times a day and it needs to be flippin' quick and versatile enough that you can actually achieve a workflow - GTD is an excellent benchmark here. Oh and all these apps don't have start date, many of them don't even have the ability to star.

Not hosting my own data is a dealbreaker though unfortunately, so I stick with 2Do which I think is massively under-rated and has brilliant sync options. 2Do is a one man band and I'm worried we might not see another version. Making smart lists based on tags, due dates, starred, and then being able to make multiple smartphone widgets for multiple lists is not something I've seen anywhere done anywhere near as good.

Godspeed OP, this looks like a great first release and hope you make it work.

I used gemm:2b with ollama last night and the model was around 1.3gb IIRC

DivestOS is the next best thing to GrapheneOS. The founder, Tad, has contributed a massive amount to privacy on android, I've used it for a few years. It's based on LineageOS and has similar device support..

Excellent, finally in stable. Have been using Nightly and more recently Mull specifically for extensions like 'I still don't care about cookies', 'ublock origin' and 'dark reader' which make the web on mobile at all practical.

Firefox browser share is like 2-3%. Please consider using it, the internet will be a lot shittier without Firefox as an option, and it is the best option for privacy and ad-blocking.

Silicon circuits do not have microtubules, if we were to pretend that Penrose is right about this hypothesis of consciousness. Consciousness as awareness is not equivocal to intelligence, which is the product of information processing. It is a complex subject. We do not really know whether these neurons are aware or not, it really is not understood. But yes I do wonder, why _human_ brain cells? I guess they are the best candidate for specific reasons.

Your HN username matches my thoughts perfectly, thanks for sharing this.

I have no idea how this is considered ethical when consciousness and sentience itself is not yet well understood. But maybe a lab-grown BPU made of human brain cells having a better power/performance ratio than the new SoC integrated ML chipsets around the corner justifies the potential enslavement of an bioengineered lifeform.

npm install brainslave

My guess from this magical talk is that this allows recording of stereoscopic video using two cameras with an additional LIDAR data stream that with processing could enhance the 3D depth effect when viewed in VR. 3D Video+?

The excalidraw plugin is one of the best in Obsidian. Very good for note-taking

Because its still in major development? Huge refactors are going on still under the hood. It's a project with a small team working in their free time with a big goal and its some way off. I mean, a BSD-based open source OS binary compatible with mach binaries ... it's very cool IMO and I hope more people get involved

Do you think operating systems look polished early in development? Of course they didn't. Most of the work going on isn't visible in a UI. From what I gather in the discord there have been some quite large refactors going on under the hood

Window management becomes a whole other thing with really large monitors. I recently got a UHD 43" and to make the most of it I designed a custom grid but struggled to find an optimal solution. BetterSnapTool with custom snap zones works but is a bit clunky. Lasoo has the exact imagined solution I wanted (keystroke > grid representation appears at mouse pointer > drag window size) but doesn't yet support custom grids. I've requested the feature but not exactly hopeful.

I could see that yabai could be a solution but haven't committed to a proper setup.

Anyone else using a single large monitor? FancyZones on Windows (PowerToys feature) looks pretty good, but I got sick of autoupdate BS random driver breaks (common linux thing) and went full mac.

My custom grid for 4K 43" snap zones in case anyone's interested: - diagram: https://imgur.com/a/axTw1tI - 3840x2160 1:1 grid: https://imgur.com/a/pUSoafG

RIP Intel users

Interesting project. Slightly related is Ventoy [0].

Install Ventoy onto a USB disk drive and it will create a bootable partition that can mount your Ibootable images (including ISOs) onto your baremetal from the second partition it creates. In effect you can just load up a USB drive with ISOs and install onto baremetal from them. Super handy for distro hoppers and appealing if you don't want to fart around with network boot but just want to install something on a computer. I was trying to install Windows 11 and just wondered if there was an EFI thing that could just mount my USB, and Ventoy exists and works pretty well. I actually couldn't install windows without it on one system, just didn't like something about my installer media...

[0]:https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html