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dijital commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster

neogodless · 13 days ago

This might have some merit for some people.

But the talk of abuse is also heavy-handed.

I've spent months testing and trying out RAW photo editors, and months trying out Linux gaming.

Linux is incredible, but my experience with Windows is still better. As many that still use it can attest, you can disable almost any annoyance. It's extremely stable. Things just work including brightness controls, fractional scaling, high refresh rates and high FPS gaming, and my favorite RAW photo editing. I could switch to a less enjoyable experience with Linux but I choose not to after extensive evaluation. I don't spend any money on Microsoft services, no Office or OneDrive subscription.

But my decision isn't permanent. My hobbies, software use, gaming selection, etc. can change over time, and Linux is getting better while Windows is getting worse. If it's ever "abuse" and I can have a better experience with Linux, I won't hesitate to change. But it's also a lot of effort to try out alternatives, and dual booting is slow and annoying. Plus when I dual boot to Linux Mint the kernel fails to boot every other time and I have to select an older one, reboot, select a newer one, reboot. It's a huge waste of time. A bad experience and I have chosen to avoid it and try again in another year or two.

dijital · 13 days ago

Worthy mention of RapidRAW for photo editing on Linux: https://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW

dijital commented on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe noheger.at/blog/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/happosai

iLemming · a month ago

One of the most annoying things after installing Tahoe for me, that for no good reason an ordinary app would randomly lose its focus. In the midst of my typing. This is unbelievably preposterous and I just can't stop hating Apple for this crap. How the fuck this is acceptable? I just have no words. What makes it even worse that I couldn't even complain about it on their support pages - they just keep removing my comments for being "non-constructive". This is some random bug, and many people have complained about it, how am I suppose to make it "more constructive"? Send them the exact configuration of constellations, the number of monitors I use and their positioning angles, log the keyboard rate and delay, the latency, the level of magnetic interference caused by my Bluetooth devices, etc.?

dijital · a month ago

I've been troubleshooting this on and off since early December.

There's a handy Python script here to show log which application is stealing focus: https://superuser.com/a/874314

If you find it's SecurityAgent then you might be hitting this bug: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/807112

I suspect it's related to a JIT privilege management app my company uses.

dijital commented on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023) thecascade.dev/article/le... · Posted by u/loughnane

aborsy · 4 months ago

What are good static site generators (SSGs) to create a simple minimalist academic-like website?

It seems Astro or Hugo (potentially with Tailwind to customize CSS) are good options. Astro felt more complex than needed, on the other hand, writing html/css manually doesn’t work well either (predefined layouts and easy to use style customization options would be needed). I couldn’t find a suitable Astro theme either (most themes seem to be made for companies, or needlessly fancy, and a few for individual blogs).

In the process of figuring this out, I was surprised how complicated designing a website has become. There are so many frameworks, components, integrations and significant dependancies that I wondered how web developers keep up in this ecosystem.

dijital · 4 months ago

Quarto (https://quarto.org/) is well regarded in academic publishing and supports website projects: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/.

dijital commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) · Posted by u/david927

Soupy · 4 months ago

"Google maps but for old maps": https://pastmaps.com

This is a solo startup that I've been working on for 2 years now. It's a labor of love and I'm very lucky and thankful that it's big enough to surprisingly pay all of our bills. Still constantly feeling FOMO over all of my startup buddies working with AI and LLMs while I plug away at old maps and GIS .

It gets ~80K MAUs and just slowly and consistently is growing organically through word of mouth through history focused communities. I'm currently playing with expanding the coverage internationally as I still only support the US which is a wickedly fun project.

dijital · 4 months ago

Nice project! The National Library of Scotland has a nifty tool focused mainly on the UK and Ireland that does something similar (with a paid print service attached): https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/marker/

dijital commented on This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024) blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-0... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

gbbcf · 5 months ago

I don't quite get how he's actually serving the page. Does `hugo` contain a webserver, I thought it's a static site generator

dijital · 5 months ago

It's further down in the article but he's using `hugo serve` which renders the static site and serves it in one command.

Not entirely sure how he's doing TLS from a quick skim of what he's shared though.

dijital commented on When we get Komooted bikepacking.com/plog/when... · Posted by u/atakan_gurkan

BozeWolf · 6 months ago

I felt betrayed as well. Just paid €30,- the month or so before because I liked the app and the service, but I also needed more maps. It offered great value to me. If I knew 80% of the employees would be fired, inevitably leading to a degrading service, I would have never done that.

It is weird, but I do not trust the app any more in planning routes either. Sometimes i have the feeling bugs in the planning part already appear. The stability of the service for sure decreased.

Also there are more nag screens about the premium offer (dude I paid for the other great offer already!).

Very unhappy with this. I hope the komooters build an alternative. I’m happy to support them. I know that eventually I might get betrayed again.

For today I planned another route with komoot. If somebody knows an alternative? I like the komoot user photos because it gives an impression of the (gravel) roads. Plus the suggested routes and the planning ux are great. Im stuck with komoot for now.

dijital · 6 months ago

The article mentions one example: https://wanderer.to/. Haven't used it personally but seems promising (albeit less "social" than something like Strava).

dijital commented on CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app comaps.app/news/2025-07-0... · Posted by u/gedankenstuecke

jamil7 · 7 months ago

I haven't followed whats going on with Organic Maps but I continue to use it and have donated to it in the past. Why the fork?

dijital · 7 months ago

Previously discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961908

Original letter regarding the dispute with Organic Map is here: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareho...

dijital commented on FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding phoronix.com/news/FLAC-1.... · Posted by u/mikece

masklinn · a year ago

That’s nice although probably not of much use to most people: iirc FLAC encoding was 60+x realtime on modern machines already so unless you need to transcode your entire library (which you could do in parallel anyway) odds are you spend more time on setting up the encoding than actually running it.

dijital · a year ago

For folks working in bioacoustics I think it might be pretty relevant. I'm working on a project with large batches of high fidelity, ultrasonic bioacoustic recordings that need to be in WAV format for species analysis but, at the data sizes involved, FLAC is a good archive format (~60% smaller).

This release will probably be worth a look to speed the archiving/restoring jobs up.

dijital commented on Organic maps: Experimental feed based public transport mapping github.com/organicmaps/or... · Posted by u/anewhnaccount3

dikkechill · 2 years ago

Thanks for bringing this up to hackernews! The challenge for OrganicMaps is to make it privacy preserving and offline usable, which means on device routing and getting as much information on the device as possible.

The referred document concerns the existing static part, it's a rather cumbersome to build it yourself at the moment. There is some routing logic in the app - I think from the Maps.me time - but currently disabled. The idea is to redesign this - in the mentioned ticket - and divide it in static (e.g. stops, routes) and 'live' data (e.g. schedule changes). It requires an efficient infrastructure. It's all volunteer driven. If you want to help, feel free to contribute!

dijital · 2 years ago

It seems like the serverside resource requirements to help with the privacy preserving aspect (and also to avoid DDoSing the data providers) would be non-trivial for a FOSS project like this.

I was wondering if a torrent-based architecture, where clients share updates with each other would help reduce the load. Any idea if it's been considered or would it just overcomplicate it for the number of clients involved and/or the latency for updates be too much to be of use?