stevewillows

I've been using your app for a while now. I love it. It's worked flawlessly from the get-go, too.

Thanks for making this! Having keys to adjust the brightness is such a blessing for my workflow.

A few times I've gone to Portland specifically for the food and for Powells. It's easy for me to lose a weekend browsing and skimming -- and when you need a little rest, there are plenty of areas to hang out and chat with whoever you went with.

It's unfortunate that this is such a rare feature for a city.

Yabai is awesome. You can partially disable SIP, which I believe is required since the scripting extension needs it to interact with the dock. But you don't need to completely disable it.

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Disabling-System-I...

it's annoying, but you can go to the hamburger menu in the top right > settings > and uncheck 'ask to use app'. Leave this tab open in the background and you won't be prompted again.

There's also i.reddit.com, which works really well.

It might also be worth recording normal conversations you have around the house as a fallback. You can always cut it up later and feed it into these systems.

Best of luck to the two of you. I really hope you don't ever need this technology.

This could also be an excellent move if they're planning to expand RPAN into a proper streaming platform. There's definitely potential for it.

I bootcamp'd Windows LTSC on my old late 2013 MBP. Your friend's experience is similar to mine. Everything is smooth and the magic trackpad 2 works flawlessly, which used to be an issue with Windows.

I won't switch back to Windows, but if I ever need to, I'd definitely consider using a MBP for it.

I cannot tell you how much I love tld-list and now wee. As a recovering domain addict, I've spent an unreasonable amount of time on your sites. :)

For domain hunting, tld-list is a godsend. Thank you so much for this!

pretty slick. For web apps, I've been using this as a zsh alias to launch whatsapp and a few other similar sites without any toolbars (etc)

    /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --app=https://web.whatsapp.com --kiosk

are you actually banning people or using automod to automatically remove their posts?

There's no benefit to banning the bad folks, since, like your guy, they just create a new account.

    author:
        name: [baddude1, baddude2]
    action: remove
    action_reason: "Troll / Spammer"

In my subs, this one condition does the most work. I also filter off low karma and new accounts to prevent spammers, trolls, etc.

I think a lot of people have the same experience with paper vs a device -- even an e-reader. Even if it's just a placebo, it's still valid.

I had an old Kindle Keyboard (wifi.) I struggled reading off of that thing -- whereas this new Kobo Libra actually looks like paper and is a breeze to read off of, which may also be a placebo. :)

are kindle fires eink? If not, you should check out some eink -- its so much better than an LED/LCD etc screen.

It'd be worth trying out a proper ereader. I picked up a Kobo Libra so I could get back into reading and away from audiobooks a bit. I've read studies that the brain can't tell between the two, but I was halfway through an audiobook recently and realized I had no clue what was going on.

I bought this as my summer project -- basically, 'Steve, let's retrain your brain to focus on long form reading again.'

What I like about an ereader / eink is that its not some flashy screen with a bunch of stuff going on in the background like an iPad or whatever. The screens look great and have an amazing refresh rate these days.

The Libra is a 7" screen, which I figured should be good enough to read PDF'd magazines in landscape -- and I was right [1]! This uses KOReader [2]. While the images themselves aren't the same as a color magazine/screen, it's good enough. For epubs everything is exactly as you'd expect.

With my own ADHD, the initial get-down-to-reading is tough, but I've noticed that it is getting easier with each session. And it is also getting to the point where I am looking forward to reading.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/9hncMyI.jpg

[2] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=295612

I spent the better part of last night comparing e-readers. I really want something that is large enough to comfortably read a magazine (PDF), but everything seems to be 7" or so.

I'm with you. I can't wait until we have a proper A4 / letter sized e-reader -- or better yet 2x A5 that could close.

I haven't kept tabs on the e-ink scene outside of a little digging twice a year. Outside of refresh rates, it doesn't seem like a lot has changed. The price is still up there and the screens are still roughly half of what they should be.

I fell in love with the general idea of e-ink with the Pebble watches (Sharp's Memory LCD.) Having a device that just works and doesn't require frequent charging is such a pleasure.

What I really don't understand is why e-ink hasn't consumed the mobile market (like the Yotaphone.)

edit: proper paper sizing

yeah, a printer like that would be pretty great -- and two color printing?! What more can anyone ask for?

These sorts of projects are always on my mind. For a while I was looking into building what is essentially a Telex / typewriter output.

Thanks for this!

well, this is very reassuring! Weird that the face would print every time -- what a waste.

I had thermal printer for a while for another purpose and loved it. It was so handy to have --- but ultimately, thermal paper isn't great for the ol' environment.

Do you still use the thermal printer for lists and stuff?

I really regret not picking up a Little Printer when I had the chance. I've considered building a networked thermal printer, but its not quite the same.

My dream is to have a 2" impact printer (e.g. receipt printer) for to-do, grocery, etc, lists.

I really don't want to have a life of joy and pure bliss that relies on a thermal printer. I love the concept so much.

With the others, I've still got three Pebbles and I love them all equally. The two OG Pebbles needed a piece of paper between the vibrating part and the screen, but the 2HR has been perfect.

These concepts are all so great. Chumby is another I've always admired.

The overall workflow for this app is so intuitive. Really nice work.

This is perfect -- and will also be perfect for cooking large meals.

I never thought I'd want a rotary phone with modifiers.

It's actually got a neat interface for finding contacts

https://youtu.be/0euCWf0FpOA?t=679

The video is worth a watch. The overall use / nav is remarkable considering it only has a few buttons and a dial.

Cool idea. It's a shame it doesn't accept TLDs like .party, though.

It was the next day -- but I get what you're saying.

I think it ultimately boils down to persuasion and the environment. When you're surrounded by 'faith', you can pin a lot of things onto that -- much like how some folks buy into horoscopes, homeopathy, statues, prayer cards, etc.

I know someone who considers themselves to be really lucky because they win a lot of contests -- but they only win a lot of contests because they enter a lot of contests.

This isn't unlike some christian experiences within extremely charismatic circles.

For me, I've had a slew of crazy 'spiritual' experiences that I can't quite reconcile now that I've stepped away from the church. In a sense it can be quite haunting.

In my late teens I had a bunch if warts on my hands. It was really gross and I was appropriately self-conscious. The church I was part of had these INSANE / aggressive faith healers or whatever come through once a year. A bunch of crazy stuff would happen each year (e.g. people quitting smoking en masse after smelling an overwhelming stench of cigarettes followed by something resembling fresh baking...)

The overall tone was 'spiritual' -- either through anticipation or expectation, I'm not certain.

We were sitting around and my buddy suggested I go up re: the warts, but I really didn't want to. He said that he had warts as a kid and his Dad prayed over him for healing. The following day the warts turned black and fell off (gross) -- and that was it. No scarring, etc.

So we prayed for healing over these warts and I didn't think much of it. I'd seen this sort of fruitless petition many times, so it wasn't anything out of the ordinary.

The following day I was getting out of the shower and noticed that all of the warts had turned white. I washed my hands in the sink and sure enough, the warts all came off.

These days I chalk this up to persuasion / placebo -- as if somehow something clicked in my mind to trigger some sort of targeted healing... but it's still extremely hard to reconcile this experience.

When you're in this environment for years on end, or even a weekend (church camp), everything is spiritual -- and even normal things like a bag of salad that seems to last longer than expected is made out to be something it isn't. I don't view it as healthy, but regarding your friends' experiences, I can totally understand the experience, emotions, etc that make something like that seem real.

Yabai gives the basic i3 experience. It's not as polished, but it's pretty great once you figure out a good config.

i3 has the benefit of being in an OS that doesn't use a super key for everything.

For Yabai, I mapped caps as HYPER -- which is good for most combinations.

The main struggle with reddit apps are the lack of mod tools. Only Alien Blue and Apollo have a simple method for working a queue. I still prefer Alien Blue's tools in this respect, but a lot of content fails to load with it.

Apollo should be the official app.

I used to love Rocket League, but it seems like every time they make a change, it goes against the community.

First they took some fun, casual games (alternate modes) and made them competitive. The competition isn't the worst, but doing this removed the ability to rematch. Since the games weren't as popular, you'd often find a really great group where both teams were fairly balanced and rematch a dozen times.

This was fun.

They took that away along with the 'Labs', which were alternate arenas. Some went into Rumble (Rocket League with fun tools), but it just wasn't as fun.

With the recent move away from keys, they totally borked their item system. Suddenly near worthless items would cost the user $8. They may have adjusted this, but I've all but stepped away.

It's a shame to see the game slowly go downhill. They had a perfect balance a few years ago that allowed casual and competitive people to enjoy the game. Combine this with the eSports, and everything should have cruised along nicely.

well, my prediction is that a new startup will appear with the intention of getting people offline. It'll start as an event organizing platform with comments.

A year or two in they'll add chat so people can keep in contact before and after the event.

A year after that it'll pretty much become a new online social network built around interests that are tied to an event, leading the company to create a new feature called, 'groups.'

... and we'll end up back where we started.

Make sure they're not for parts. All you really need is the main logic board, but it's nice to start with a complete unit.

The best iPod Video is the Enhanced / 5.5 that has the 'search' item. An 80gb version of this also has more RAM, which I don't think is utilized at this time, but it might down the road. This may not be accurate now, but it was a few years ago.

The 80gb will come with the fat back. If you do the mod I did, you can use the slim back from the 30gb.

It won't be $15 -- but an affordable player that is great with Rockbox is the SanDisk Clip+. It's got a decent screen, really small form factor, microSD.

My main Rockbox'd unit is an iPod Video (5.5) with an iFlash Quad (up to 4x microSD cards) and a 2000mAh battery. Not the most expensive project, but not as cheap as the Clip+.

My guess is that the parent is talking about the Sansa c200 or something similar.

yeah, the 5.5 is the best. Such an easy mod, too. Combined with Rockbox and it's a near-perfect media player.