choobacker (u/choobacker)

choobacker commented on All Kindles can now be jailbroken kindlemodding.org/jailbre... · Posted by u/lumerina

choobacker · 7 months ago

This looks great. Is there by out-of-the-box usable e-reader that supports SSH? Air still has some manual steps/maintenance.

For comparison, I've used PostmarketOS on Pinephone, and it required a lot of fiddly to get a poor experience.

But maybe the simpler usecase of "just reading" has good solutions?

choobacker · 7 months ago

Looks like I could use https://github.com/PNDeb/pinenote-debian-image on my PineNote.

choobacker commented on All Kindles can now be jailbroken kindlemodding.org/jailbre... · Posted by u/lumerina

yoavm · 7 months ago

This! I've worked on https://github.com/bjesus/air as a completely alternative and open source UI for my Kobo Clara HD. PostmarketOS support on the device is great and very recently an important patch that will allow us to use Wayland was also merged: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merg...

choobacker · 7 months ago

This looks great. Is there by out-of-the-box usable e-reader that supports SSH? Air still has some manual steps/maintenance.

For comparison, I've used PostmarketOS on Pinephone, and it required a lot of fiddly to get a poor experience.

But maybe the simpler usecase of "just reading" has good solutions?

choobacker commented on On Bloat docs.google.com/presentat... · Posted by u/ingve

graemep · 7 months ago

Software does matter. It affects time spent and convenience.

I definitely stay with my bank (Lloyds in the UK) partly because they have a good website, and I will not bank with HSBC because their app will not work if you install things from outside the Google App store (and logging into the website needs the app, at least for me at the moment - I think that can be solved).

choobacker · 7 months ago

> I will not bank with HSBC because their app will not work if you install things from outside the Google App store

I have this requirement too, since I like to use F-Droid.

My point isn't that there are no such users. My point is that product managers in banks don't care about F-Droid users, since there's so few of us that it's not worth them worrying about.

Many websites are giving up Firefox support, and Firefox adoption is much higher than F-Droid.

If a bank app happens to be okay with F-Droid, it's not because they look out for the needs of F-Droid, it's simply by happenstance.

choobacker commented on On Bloat docs.google.com/presentat... · Posted by u/ingve

choobacker · 7 months ago

I agree with his issues with dependencies.

But I'm not sure about his other stuff.

"Avoid features that add disproportionate cost"

I expect part of the problem here is that it's often not clear what the value of features until it's available to customers.

Even the costs of bloat are unclear. Take his bank website example. Do we really think many bank customers are choosing banks based on their website's latency? Banks compete on things users actually care about, like interest rates or fees.

Lots of software inevitably won't meet our ideal standards, because given the cost of developers it's not worth doing things The Right Way.

choobacker commented on You Don't Need a Terminal Multiplexer on Your Desktop xn--gckvb8fzb.com/you-don... · Posted by u/matrixhelix

simpaticoder · 7 months ago

Another great example of the eternal question, where the indirection go? Note that when browser tabs were invented this same debate happened.

choobacker · 7 months ago

+1. I think that about summarises it.

Window managers can plausibly already do a lot of what other software can do, yet in practice, popular workflows tend to assume very little from the window manager.

I try to avoid terminal multiplexers in favour of Sway/Emacs/dtach/SSH multiplexing, but I still often reach for tmux.

choobacker commented on You Don't Need a Terminal Multiplexer on Your Desktop xn--gckvb8fzb.com/you-don... · Posted by u/matrixhelix

bee_rider · 7 months ago

No it wouldn’t be just as easy.

Source: this is a description of my own workflow and preferences, so I’m the ultimate authority on the subject, haha.

choobacker · 7 months ago

> Source: this is a description of my own workflow and preferences, so I’m the ultimate authority on the subject, haha.

It's fine to choose your workflow by whatever criteria you decide, but on a post about workflows on a discussion forum, it's reasonable for mvdtnz to continue that discussion and not be laughed at for doing so.

choobacker commented on No longer writing my own damn HTML claytonwramsey.com/blog/n... · Posted by u/claytonwramsey

natnatenathan · 7 months ago

I have always written my own static blog generator, moving from PERL to Ruby and most recently Python. I find the other blog systems are too complicated for what I want. Plus, I think I like writing the generator more than writing actual posts.

choobacker · 7 months ago

+1.

It's nice to have to a set of programs I moderately care about, so when I'm learning another language I can port them to it.

They're unimportant enough that I can comfortably experiment, but important enough that I want to complete the rewrite.

My "blog engine" is a nushell script that uses pandoc and built-in XML support to convert markdown into a site+feed.

choobacker commented on OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release openwrt.org/releases/24.1... · Posted by u/pm2222

1vuio0pswjnm7 · 7 months ago

How does the size of OpenWRT compare with the size of NixOS.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-minimal-can-a-nixos-image-...

https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning

choobacker · 7 months ago

Size is a limiting factor for so.e hardware and architecture too.

NixOS works well for x86-64 and aarch64, but not so much armv7l, as so many consumer routers are.

The PC Engines happens to be x86-64 with decent storage expansion, but for sure if you want to target armv7l, NixOS is not a good choice.

choobacker commented on OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release openwrt.org/releases/24.1... · Posted by u/pm2222

choobacker · 7 months ago

Tracking config via VCS is great, but the automatic changes is what then makes it tricky to understand what you've actually configured.

choobacker · 7 months ago

I had a look more into this. https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/114kv0y/weeding_ou... has some people with the problem that I'm trying to avoid.

I see the fresh re-install suggestions probably work but that's tedious and risky.

choobacker commented on OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release openwrt.org/releases/24.1... · Posted by u/pm2222

patrakov · 7 months ago

> OpenWRT is pretty great at offering features and security for consumer devices

That's a misconception. Nobody actually cares about security for packages that are not in the default install. For example, the initscript for sstp-client disables certificate validation unconditionally, see https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/25212

choobacker · 7 months ago

Good job on raising that issue. TIL SSTP.

> Nobody actually cares about security for packages that are not in the default install.

Probably an exaggeration, but it's clear there are some packages that are insecure out-the-box.