I'd love to try this, but (tangential) have they fixed their screen issues? I sent back three Kobo Elipsa 2E units in a row before just getting my money back due to bright point spots on the lit-up screen, which are reportedly caused by dust caught between layers during assembly. It's a bit disappointing to spend over €400 on a device several times and discover that the manufacturer apparently can't even bother assembling them in a clean room to avoid messing up the primary feature of the device.
Readit Newstheodric commented on Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders quill-os.org/... · Posted by u/Curiositry
That's nothing. I just bought four buns yesterday!
This tool has no future. We have that in common with it, I fear.
What we really need to do is build an AI tool to filter out the AI automatically. Anybody want to help me found this company?
theodric commented on System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4 macos9lives.com/smforum/i... · Posted by u/ibobev
I don't understand why it takes 5 seconds for Chrome to open on my MBP while it's near instant on my Linux and Windows PC.
Why is eveything so slow on new MacOS?
It's always been that way. Even when I had a maxed out current-gen Mac Pro in 2008, it still launched and ran faster in Windows than MacOS.
I have seen people suggesting that it's because of app signature checks choking on Internet slowness, but 1. those are cached, so the second run should be faster, and in non-networked instances the speed is unchanged, and 2. I don't believe those were even implemented back in 2002 when I got my iMac G4, and it was likewise far quicker in Linux than in OS X.
At the time (2002), I joked that it was because the computer was running two operating systems at once: NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD.
theodric commented on System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4 macos9lives.com/smforum/i... · Posted by u/ibobev
> It is also my opinion Mac OS 9.2.2 is the greatest OS, and Mac OS, ever, but not everything that is possible in earlier Mac OS versions is possible in Mac OS 9.2.2.
I had fun with hypercard on MacOS 9. At work, even. The boss was into rapid prototyping, and I cooked up some damn productive stacks in a hurry.
It runs on the Cube and under OS 9 emulation on the new stuff.
Hypercard scripters did cool things that most users don't do today. And without those monster data centers.
I enjoyed how quick it was on my G4 iMac (Mac OS X 10.1/10.2 was a total dog) but it was never stable enough for my liking. Forced to choose between fast and unstable (OS9) or slow and steady (OS X), I chose to install Yellow Dog Linux instead (reject the premise).
theodric commented on AltSendme: Another Alternative to MAgic Wormhole? github.com/tonyantony300/... · Posted by u/nhatcher
Who needs an alternative to Magic Wormhole when its so good already?
I use runpodctl (https://github.com/runpod/runpodctl) to send files between hosts totally unrelated to runpod because it consistently pushes more Mbps than magic-wormhole, but is conceptually similar. I have made no effort to understand why it's faster.
I sure hope they manage to sort out an interface (or even an off switch) for the compiled-in touchpad gestures in KDE Plasma-Wayland that even override Touchegg, not to mention the font rendering that has been glitchy for literally years. Those are the two main things keeping me on KDE Plasma-X11, and which will see me leave KDE for something else (XFCE? NsCDE? IDFK.) if they remain unresolved after the X11 session is removed.
theodric commented on Pebble Watch software is now open source ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-... · Posted by u/Larrikin
> Yesterday, Pebble watch software was ~95% open source. Today, it’s 100% open source. You can download, compile and run all the software you need to use your Pebble. We just published the source code for the new Pebble mobile app!
Except...
> Another important note - some binary blobs and other non-free software components are used today in PebbleOS and the Pebble mobile app (ex: the heart rate sensor on PT2 , Memfault library, and others). Optional non-free web services, like Wispr-flow API speech recognizer, are also used. These non-free software components are not required - you can compile and run Pebble watch software without them. This will always be the case. More non-free software components may appear in our software in the future. The core Pebble watch software stack (everything you need to use your Pebble watch) will always be open source.
So 100% FOSS, except for the parts that are closed source now, and any that they add later.
95% is 100% free
theodric commented on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-... · Posted by u/huijzer
Ok, this is definitely even cooler than self-hosting a blog on Hetzner :) How are you using Cloudflare for this? Via Cloudflare Tunnel?
I'm currently unfortunately also behind double NAT, and my home server has been unreachable ever since as a result. I've been torn between using Tailscale Funnel, Cloudflare Tunnel, possibly a VPN with public IPs, or rolling my own thing based on reverse SSH forwarding to a Linux server with a public IP.
Yes, local nginx http server in a Debian container on a Raspberry Pi, and Cloudflare DNS and argo tunnel providing public IP and SSL.
theodric commented on New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS github.com/ravynsoft/ravy... · Posted by u/kasajian
I'm not affiliated with ravynOS, but I've been periodically following the project for a few years.
The main page (https://ravynos.com/) expresses the philosophy of ravynOS:
"We love macOS, but we’re not a fan of the ever-closing hardware and ecosystem. So, we are creating ravynOS — an OS aimed to provide the finesse of macOS with the freedom of FreeBSD."
rayvnOS seems to be designed for people who love macOS, particularly its interface, its UI guidelines, and its ecosystem of applications, but who do not like the direction that Apple has moved toward under Tim Cook (soldered RAM, limited and inflexible hardware choices, notarization, iOS-influenced interface changes, increased pushiness with advertising Apple's subscription services, etc.) and who would be unhappy with either Windows or the Linux desktop.
Speaking for myself, I used to daily-drive Macs from 2006 through 2021, but I now daily-drive PCs running Windows due primarily to the lack of upgradable RAM in ARM Macs. I'm not a big fan of Windows, but I need some proprietary software packages such as Microsoft Office. This makes switching to desktop Linux difficult.
It would be awesome using what is essentially a community-driven clone of macOS, where I could continue using a Mac-like operating system without needing to worry about Apple's future directions.
On the Unix side of things, I believe the decision to base ravynOS on FreeBSD rather than on Linux may make migrating from macOS to ravynOS easier, since macOS is based on a hybrid Mach/BSD kernel, and since many of the command-line tools that ship with macOS are from the BSDs. This is known as Darwin. It's not that a Mac clone can't be built on top of Linux, but FreeBSD is closer to Darwin than Linux is.
I guess drivers are important, which is a good reason for choosing FreeBSD :)
It's a shame that OpenDarwin didn't continue. PureDarwin seems to exist, but progress is understandably slow.