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Pfeil commented on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable androidcentral.com/phones... · Posted by u/Bluestein

imp0cat · 2 months ago

Can you use double tap to wake when you just need to check the screen? This will also reduce the mechanical stress on the physical unlock button.

Pfeil · 2 months ago

Not sure if there was an option, but I would not want to enable it anyway. I want to avoid baby fingers to enable the screen ;) I remember I enabled it with my previous phone, though, so could work for some.

Pfeil commented on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable androidcentral.com/phones... · Posted by u/Bluestein

guappa · 2 months ago

Yeah it's great! I want to put off the screen and instantly after going off, it reads my finger and goes on again!

Who came up with that idea?

Pfeil · 2 months ago

Reading this on my Fairphone 5 and can't reproduce this issue. But I admit that sometimes I just want to see the lock screen and accidentally unlock the phone. Therefore, I still agree. The back is the better position for the fingerprint reader.

Pfeil commented on Visualize and debug Rust programs with a new lens firedbg.sea-ql.org/... · Posted by u/alex_hirner

forrestthewoods · 3 months ago

Please show me this being used to debug a real program. Toy examples that don’t do any real work isn’t interesting. My confidence that this work for an actual program is approximately zero percent.

Pfeil · 3 months ago

While I am not so negative, I'd also like to have a demo with a real example. Even if it does not scale, I think this could make debugging interesting at least for beginners and their smaller code bases. Rust is called a language that is hard for beginners, and I think every approach into easing things should be welcomed.

Pfeil commented on Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet agent-kilo.github.io/jwno... · Posted by u/agentkilo

bsnnkv · 3 months ago

Jwno can do this! https://agentkilo.itch.io/jwno/devlog/871672/scroll-jwno-scr...

Pfeil · 3 months ago

Neat! This looks pretty close, at least for the base principle. If I had a windows machine I would definitely give it a try.

Pfeil commented on Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet agent-kilo.github.io/jwno... · Posted by u/agentkilo

Pfeil · 3 months ago

I always disliked the chaos that happens quickly with application windows, and loved the idea of tiling. But none of them really worked for me practically until I found PaperWM around a year ago or so (gnome extension). It has few core shortcuts and feels more natural. Like you would really arrange applications directly on your desk. It does not limit itself by your screen width and has the nice default that a new window appears to the right of the current window (configurable). You seldomly have the need to re-arrange windows, because the default just fits 99% of all cases. In addition, you still have the comfort of gnome. No hacky config files just to get wifi working or so. For work we have OSX, and I am really missing it there (I am using rectangle there instead). https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM?tab=readme-ov-file#usage

Pfeil commented on Forced to upgrade herman.bearblog.dev/force... · Posted by u/SpookyChoice

creole_wither · 9 months ago

From looking at their website, that is 8 years of software updates. Not 8 years of Android version updates. Apple has released security updates for 10 year old devices such as iOS 12.5.7 which released in 2023 and runs on iPhone 5s.

Pfeil · 9 months ago

FP5 owner here. IIRC, this is a guarantee for security updates at least, yes. There was some promise on how many major android updates they guarantee I think, but I forgot the details. I also wonder if and how far the promised minimum will be exceeded.

That said, I am just glad Fairphones are usually relatively well covered by open source versions of android and other operating systems. Even if I may need another phone for banking apps and all that annoying stuff in 2030 or so, I can at least safely re-use it for other purposes. My "old" Android is now nothing more than an offline mp3 player, which is kinda sad.

Pfeil commented on Oasis AI oasis.decart.ai/starting-... · Posted by u/rbaudibert

madeofpalk · 10 months ago

Unselectable text:

> Currently, our app is available on Desktop Chrome only. Please switch to Chrome for the best experience.

The best experience? I guess seeing this message technically is an experience.

Shame they didn't make a website for people to use though. Oh well, next tab!

Pfeil · 10 months ago

Funny, I just used it on Firefox for Android and it worked.

Impressive, but practically unplayable because, for example, the moment grass comes near to the camera it will likely halluci-spawn a wall or something right before the camera (behind the grass). Every time I saw a place to walk to, I was never able to reach it because of similar effects. But: nice idea.

Pfeil commented on Using static websites for tiny archives alexwlchan.net/2024/stati... · Posted by u/ingve

itohihiyt · 10 months ago

> I think Zim does not really fit into the discussion because it does not rely on easily exchangeable standard software like a file explorer and browsers.

Zim is very much based on the file system. Each note is a text file and if it has attachments or embedded images they go into a folder named after that text note.

Whilst not in markdown the markup used is easy to understand and convert. Zim itself allows you to copy a note to the clipboard in pandoc markdown and export the note to markdown and/or html (though admittedly the styling for html it atrocious).

Pfeil · 10 months ago

Yes, but you rely on a working installed software. If it is not properly maintained, you will need to switch at some point, and therefore change your current workflow. The assumption here is that file and web browsers will exist for a long time and not only make the data sustainable, but also the way you use it. Some of the other approaches shown in the comments make the browser not only the viewer, but also the tool. I am not saying zim and obsidian are completely different, but the assumption made above is significantly less likely to hold for these tools.

I am not against zim or obsidian. In fact, I currently use plain markdown wit vs code, which boils down to a similar situation. But vs code and its extensions may be gone in a while and then I will have to look what to do.

Pfeil commented on Using static websites for tiny archives alexwlchan.net/2024/stati... · Posted by u/ingve

itohihiyt · 10 months ago

Why not use a wiki? Zim desktop is text based local first. It doesn't handle videos but everything is handled. Search is good and you get the other benefits of a wiki. No mobile client, that I'm aware of.

Pfeil · 10 months ago

Markor is an Android Text Editor with Zim (and other markup) Support, althogh I never used the Zim compatibility. But it is probably worth a try.

I like that zim is not automatically a hosted solution but a local app. I would love to see more local apps for archiving solutions and PKM. I just have some issues with the Zim app itself. It works nice for some of my use cases, but not for all. And I wish it would just use markdown (I know it has limits). Stuff like that.

I think Zim does not really fit into the discussion because it does not rely on easily exchangeable standard software like a file explorer and browsers.

That said, I believe that notetaking applications mostly exist because file explorers do an extremely bad job and integrating applications with them is too limited or at least too reunified. Look at what these applications offer. 80% of it is actually the task of a file explorer.