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rocketvole··on Show HN: Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux
How is this any different from any other open source dictation apps?
rocketvole··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
could also use wblock for custom filter lists
rocketvole··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
we're getting closer with the nova redesign
rocketvole··on We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
I remember this! Its crazy because the comments section on that thread seems more curious about the setup (with albiet one long thread about home costs). Massive contrast to this one.
rocketvole··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
same. still rockin a 2016 era dell xps 13. I was about to pull the trigger on a few laptops but I always psych myself out because I assume prices will drop and I can pick them up secondhand. big mistake...
rocketvole··on 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent
I feel like this has already been a thing, at least in the US. In aldi, there is a popup when paying that asks if I want to bnpl.
rocketvole··on DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi
stories like this give me hope. If a company is willing to pay for this dingus's ticket (or they can afford to pay out of pocket), I might be able to break into the cybersec industry :)
rocketvole··on Minuet, a KDE application for music education, calls for testers
man, my respect for kde continues to increase
rocketvole··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
You could replace "robotics" with "AI" in what you wrote above, and it would sound like what people were saying about llms when they first came out. Not trying to glaze one way or another but historically this take is outdated.
rocketvole··on After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch
Electronic devices that only need to do a handful of basic things like smartwatches and ereaders theoretically have less software complexity, which makes writing good software for them theoretically easier. in the age of ai, the threshold of "complex" has changed drastically- giving rise to even more open source adoption. Open source versions of these sw/hw tools seem to be a natural step forward.
rocketvole··on Resetting Xbox
I feel like these games exist- they just aren't popular, or are typically subpar in one way or another. The problem is that I feel like video games have become like music- there is innovation happening in genres, but there are so many and have fragmented off so much that I cant really recommend to you a game I find to be genius because there's a good chance that you can't appreciate the gameplay. That's not a knock on you or anyone else as a gamer.
rocketvole··on Apple is going to raise device prices, but when?
if they are using the next gen iphone soc it'll have 12gb soldered on.
rocketvole··on Microsoft will end Office 2021 support in October
Does anyone know how to get math and formulas to play well if I am switching to libreoffice? This is genuinely my only concern. It seems that inline formulas are difficult and clunky to edit.
rocketvole··on Fuck You, Bambu Lab. Go Ahead, Sue Us
It's really hard to recommend Prusa for the average person when non-enclosed printers go for 1k usd and multifilament is >2k, while creality and bambu go for 700 for multifilament, and much cheaper for single filament.

I'm not saying is the wrong thing, but it's the same reason casual users look at framework and balk at prices.

rocketvole··on PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons
The tech behind this is fascinating- isn't this just how a wiimote works? So simple yet shocked that no one has thought of this before. Pricing seems incredibly reasonable as well (30$ for a lifetime license). If I didn't have a VR headset I would've bought this instantly.
rocketvole··on Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests
could try lobsters, pretty much everything posted is the same
rocketvole··on Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta
where do open source apps fit into this philosophy?
rocketvole··on Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance"
Ada Palmer is also the author of "Terra Ignota" which is a highly philosophical and operatic sci-fi series. Incredibly ambitious and unique imo- highly reccommend
rocketvole··on MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
From the perspective of someone with a touchscreen windows device, I agree. I rarely used the touchscreen not because it wasnt useful, but because it was unwieldy on windows.

I bought a 2 in 1 and the experience is much better, simply because i can detach the keyboard and use it as a massive tablet. its not as fluid as an ipad, but most of the time its simply mildly annoying to get to the app/browser i want, then I scroll and tap the same way I would on an Ipad. On my regular touchscreen laptop, I have to lift my fingers to use the interface, which simply adds delay for... the ability to scroll a pdf, afaik.

All this to say simply shoehorning touch on a mac is a pretty bad idea simply because the hardware, in its current iteration, is not there. I wonder if they'll release a "macbook touch" thats more akin to a surface for their touch interface.

rocketvole··on Framework 13 Pro
priced at $1,300 for an i5 with no ram, storage or operating system. Macs really are killing it right now
rocketvole··on List of World Naked Bike Rides
...can I ask why?
rocketvole··on YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney
the fact that I'm into a lot of the topics that you've listed but have never heard of these creators simply underscores the sheer scale of youtube
rocketvole··on Rockstar hackers set to release GTA 6 data breach as 'demands not met'
yes
rocketvole··on Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch
I mean, a lot of the issues that they says they'll fix can be patched with third party tools. They won't get rid of ads or tracking, or anything significant. affect their bottom line.

As someone who has never owned a mac, the only reason I would buy a pc at this point in time is to install linux on it.

rocketvole··on MacBook Air with M5
I think its because compsci people know what they need to a greater degree than other majors. It's easier to upsell a computer to someone who doesn't really know about computers.

It could also be possible that compsci kids have a powerful desktop at home, or are more savvy with university cloud computing, for any edge cases or computationally expensive tasks.

rocketvole··on I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
i think orcasclicer suffers from the same issue. Not really sure why some oss projects struggle with this issue and others don't (notepad++)
rocketvole··on “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
this is personal anecdote, but I've noticed that the overall quality of comments has plummeted quite drastically within the last few months. It's a little disappointing since its why I left reddit. Thankfully, the insightful comments are typically still there- just typically buried further down the thread.
rocketvole··on Apple Just Officially Ushered in Podcasting's Generational Shift
this is truly a seismic shift. I also wonder if it will now be easier to block these ads- there is no need for a sponsorblock type "time skip" when we can just identify ads based on metadata.
rocketvole··on GeForce Now Brings GeForce RTX Gaming to Linux PCs
dang, I thought for a second that they were "Now" getting serious about drivers for linux.
rocketvole··on Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
a lot of people buy rpis because they are the only reasonable option for connectivity with power. I'm not sure what other devices you can get that have gpio and mipi connectivity with the ability to (potentially) run vlms and llms on them.

I daresay they could charge more than a comparably specced computer (if they don't already) and they would still be a viable purchase.

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