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dewey commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
reacharavindh · a day ago
Am I missing something? I have a LG nano something TV that has many “smart” features, but I never let it connect to my WiFi ever. Since day 1 it has been hooked up to an AppleTV. Can I not buy any fancy smart TV in 2025 and use it as a dumb HDMI display for AppleTV?
dewey · a day ago
Same. I have not seen the interface of my TV for years (Only the input switching UI when switching between my Apple TV and Xbox). This really isp pretty much a "dumb tv" with a setup like this.
dewey commented on If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?   newyorker.com/news/fault-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
dgb23 · 3 days ago
This might sound stupid or obvious to some, but I found a way to read books more frequently: Read multiple books at once.

For some reason, I read more often and am more motivated when I can switch between books. When I tried to focus on just one, I always got the feeling that I sort of have to read it and that turned me off.

Another issue is that I read very slowly and think a lot when reading books, but that's apparently just how my brain works.

dewey · 3 days ago
Same, and this is one of the great advantages of ebook readers to me. I can go to the cafe in the morning to read, and then pick which book I'm in the mood for. Sometimes I only have a short amount of time so I'm reading interview-style books (One of my favorites is https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/192420/lunch-with-the-ft/978...) that you can read in bite-sized portions.
dewey commented on Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s   uncloud.run/... · Posted by u/rgun
wg0 · 10 days ago
Okay could you please share your thoughts as a user:

- What databases you want to work with?

- What functionality you want from such a UI?

- What database size we are talking here?

Asking because I am tinkering with a similar idea.

dewey · 6 days ago
Thanks for asking. I think one barrier with self-hosting is still that setting up a database isn't as easy as on DigitalOcean / Supabase. I'm an experienced self-hoster but running my own database still sometimes makes me a bit anxious as I have to set up scripts to do backups, set up scripts to see if my backups are being done correctly, set up metrics to see backups sizes, database sizes etc.

I just wrote this up here, in case someone else can point me to an existing project I'm not aware of: https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/what-i-wish-existed-for-se...

dewey commented on Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers   businessinsider.com/uber-... · Posted by u/sethops1
dfxm12 · 6 days ago
So many times on this website, people say, "I will pay for the service to get rid of advertising." You pay for this service and rides aren't getting any cheaper. It is naive to think any company isn't finding ways to monetize your behavior, whether you're paying them or not.
dewey · 6 days ago
When people say they are going to pay for an ad free product they very often underestimate how much the service would cost them. This is often a price higher than what they would be willing to pay.
dewey commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto   twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
donkeylazy456 · 6 days ago
My question is, which real-world problem is actually solved by crypto? All I know is transferring money over the border gets much easier than pre-bitcoin era.
dewey · 6 days ago
Donating to projects and websites who don't want their PayPal wallet to be locked and can't rely on a bank account.
dewey commented on Bad Dye Job   daringfireball.net/2025/1... · Posted by u/mpweiher
chris_wot · 6 days ago
My favorite reaction to today’s news is this one-liner from a guy on Twitter/X: “The average IQ of both companies has increased.”

My friend, that was NZ prime minister Robert Muldoon who was quoted as saying “every time a New Zealander emigrates to sun themselves on the beaches of Bondi, the average IQ of both countries increases.”

dewey · 6 days ago
dewey commented on Making RSS More Fun   matduggan.com/making-rss-... · Posted by u/salmon
ASalazarMX · 9 days ago
RSS has been traditionally used like an email client rather than a streaming service. You don't read every email, some go straight to spam or the trash bin. RSS is a time saver, not a time waster.

I can see that some feeds, like serializartions or low-volume/high quality content, is desirable to be consumed in its entirety, but the 80/20 principle seems to also apply to RSS feeds too in general. Specially if your RSS list reaches double digits.

dewey · 9 days ago
A bit weird to make blanket statements about a tool like that. Some people read all emails, some don’t. Just like some people only subscribe to people’s personal blogs and want to read all of them.

Some might want to use it as a news aggregator and quickly browse through headlines. There no right or wrong usage of an RSS reader or “traditional usage”.

dewey commented on Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s   uncloud.run/... · Posted by u/rgun
wg0 · 10 days ago
This look really neat and great! Amazing job!

BTW just looking at other variations on the theme:

- https://dokploy.com/

- https://coolify.io/

- https://demo.kubero.dev/

Feel free to add more.

dewey · 10 days ago
There's a good list here: https://dbohdan.com/self-hosted-paas

I'm always looking for new alternatives there, I've recently tried Coolify but it didn't feel very polished and mostly clunky. I'm still happy with Dokku at this point but would love to have a better UI for managing databases etc.

dewey commented on It’s been a very hard year   bell.bz/its-been-a-very-h... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
brazukadev · 13 days ago
When 99.99% of the customers have garbage as a website, 0.01% will grow much faster and topple the incumbents, nothing changed.
dewey · 13 days ago
A lesson many developers have to learn is that code quality / purity of engineering is not a thing that really moves the needle for 90% of companies.

Having the most well tested backend and beautiful frontend that works across all browsers and devices and not just on the main 3 browsers your customers use isn't paying the bills.

dewey commented on Migrating Dillo from GitHub   dillo-browser.org/news/mi... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
CuriouslyC · 14 days ago
Github is fine for discoverability but as a development platform I think it's going to die. Public issues/PRs are a cesspool now and going to get worse, and agentic workflows are going to drive companies to want to hide how the sausage is made. People will gradually migrate to alternatives and mirror to Github while it remains relevant.
dewey · 14 days ago
I’d guess most revenue comes from enterprise accounts which are not public.

u/dewey

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