If I were you I should be worried about legal claims from facebook.
Readit Newsr-spaghetti commented on Show HN: The First Non-Smart AI Pendant (NotFriend) notfriend.org/... · Posted by u/Yenrabbit
r-spaghetti commented on EWritable – e-ink tablet news and reviews ewritable.com/... · Posted by u/SushiHippie
I've had a Kindle Scribe for just over a year, and my micro review is: "It's like paper, only much more expensive."
The writing experience is good. I use it for largely bullet journaling of things I need to do. It works well, but honestly a paper notebook would work nearly as well. I had hoped to get nebulous other benefits, I'm not exactly sure what, but maybe exporting or templates or viewing from multiple locations. But the software is fairly slow and fairly minimalistic.
Honestly: It's an e-reader with minimal pen functionality. What it has over a notebook is: It lays flat, and it's easy to erase. I do use it every business day.
Downsides: Page flipping is maddeningly slow, and the pencil is $50 if I lose it, and $1 nearly every time I drop it (replacing the nib). I've had a number of close calls where I thought I lost it and didn't look forward to the cost of replacement.
I'm amazingly close to selling it on ebay and replacing it with either a notebook and pen, a Boox Note Air 3 (non-color). I hear ReMarkable is coming out with a new one soon too.
What about the fact that those kindle products are equiped with amazon apps that are preinstalled and can not be deleted. Apps and infrastructure that share your personal data with god knows who?
r-spaghetti commented on EWritable – e-ink tablet news and reviews ewritable.com/... · Posted by u/SushiHippie
Every now and again, I see stories about Onyx and their tablets pop up and I have to dust off this old comment of mine [0]. I've since sold the tablet and picked up a remarkable that I am very happy with and have modified in many ways.
Long story short: - Onyx still doesn't release kernel sources
- Onyx still uses outdated and vulnerable builds of Android, with questionable settings such as disabling SELinux
- Their devices are very chatty back to servers in the PRC.
- Their digitizer API is still hostile to developers.
- They shut down their support forums when the chorus of disgruntled customers began to get too loud
And even worse, they are using "anti-China movement" as an excuse to not comply with the GPL. This company is shit and no one should give them any money. And yet, all of these "review sites" (full of every kind of affiliate link imaginable) can't help themselves from riding the gravy train of free product from this company.
Edit: And then there are large threads like this [2] where people recognize all the problems and try to "secure" their devices. （ ´_ゝ`）
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041543
[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hsn7kx/onyx_usin...
[2]: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=64718a04c...
I have the same experience with a Onyx Boox. No more updates after 1 year. As (european) consumers rights require a working product for at least 2 years, and security updates are an essential part of a 'working product', it's easy to return it to the seller (not Onyx).
I think this is a good idea. I can see many uses, but I believe the free tier is a bit restricted (32 emails per month).
You can set up a Catch Webhook [1] + Outgoing Email [2] automation in Zapier and it gives you 5 emails/day for free. Admittedly it is more complicated than using this, though.
[1] https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496288690317-Trig...
[2] https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496305915917-Send...
I'm no Zapier user, but I think you need a Professional account (€18.73/mo) to use webhooks.
r-spaghetti commented on Apple Maps on the web launches in beta apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/ingve
Ha ha ha Apple still thinks 'the web' is Apple or Microsoft
(https://support.apple.com/en-us/120585) and Firefox is not supported at all.
It's time to shake the last rotten apple from the tree.
Is that the real Jack Dorsey?
r-spaghetti commented on NPM package is-even has over 140k weekly downloads npmjs.com/package/is-even... · Posted by u/r_singh
It even depends on is-odd (375K weekly downloads). The script kiddies have taken over.
r-spaghetti commented on Ask HN: Startup Devs -What's your biggest pain while managing cloud deployments? · Posted by u/tj1516
Vendor lock-in
r-spaghetti commented on Apple reverses course on death of Progressive Web Apps in EU appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/astlouis44
Switching to Grapheneos on a Pixel phone and e.g. Debian on your desktop gives your better privacy and an open infrastructure. The hardest part is finding a goal for the thousands of dollars you save.
I used to like having different projects open in different windows and easily differentiate between them with their color schemes. Kinda like setting a terminal to open with a random color profile
It seems like vscode and sublime want to change the scheme across all the windows.