lime!

there haven’t been card fees for end users in Sweden for many years. handling cash is a lot more expensive since you need somewhere secure to keep change, you loose time at the till handling the money, and you need to pay for someone to come pick it up. the time gained from just having the customers pay with card means businesses gladly swallow the fees.

and yes, i’m always surprised when going abroad how much more analog everything is. the nordics and Baltic’s are generally at about the same level (with Estonia way ahead), but the rest of the continent feels like it’s 10 years behind. I was once asked if I really wanted to pay with card in a corner shop in Leipzig, since the card fee was €10.

not that i’m a fan of the digitalisation, it makes marginalised groups even more marginalised. i see my elderly relatives struggling with it often.

originally? a paid product. now? crypto!

jellyfin is a streaming server. get yourself a domain name and you can connect your apps to it from anywhere.

one thing i know it does from GitHub issues is it changes the names of files you download to make them “clearer”, which breaks some tools for flashing firmware and lead to a spike of reports.

Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan died.

don’t use balenaetcher, it’s a terrible piece of software. use unetbootin or usbimager.

pdfs don’t have a hard-set text size, and cbr/cbz is just a bunch of jpegs in a rar or zip file, respectively. the first one is a non-issue if you reflow and the second one can be zoomed in to. granted, neither is ideal, but it’s workable.

personally i’ve kept it to comics in pocket format.

wordpress runs like 45% of the web. that’s a big lunch

would this also apply to if you are pretending to shoot people online?

wouldn’t make much sense to put up a solar roof after doing this. it would block the sun.

i’m glad you found it useful, best of luck :)

this is more focused for sure, but it lacks the enthusiasm of the original. if i was trying to do this for work, i would appreciate how quickly it gets to the point. however, it no longer reads like this is something you’re interested in. it reads a bit wooden. i get that would happen after you’ve been told to correct your style though.

to be clear, the original article doesn’t need to be rewritten. for the future though, when you want to tell the story of how you got something working, include your reasons for doing something a certain way. if you need a self-inflicted complication, that’s not really a part of it (unless it’s funny)

your writing overall is good! it’s just a matter of information priority.

here’s a tip, dunno how applicable it is but i use it when writing technical documentation:

for each step, explain to yourself why you’re doing it the way you are. if it turns out you caused the step to be needed, rather than it being required, you probably need to rethink, or at least add the explanation to the text.

this guide, and the previous one, have a lot of weird superfluous steps. like, why use a command that includes nvim and then ask people to change it instead of just saying “edit the file”? why symlink systemd stuff to your own home directory?

the info is good, but having to separate the actually useful stuff from things that are specific to your config makes it less useful.

when moz first bought pocket and the extension was included by default, it was before they open-sourced it. this was in the NPAPI days when plugins could do basically anything on the host system. that shit got disabled the moment it touched my browser. same as the drm blob.

man, i haven’t thought about pocket for like 10 years. i remember being annoyed that they added yet another binary blob to the software.

wait, pocket makes money?

llamafile is not really “effective”. it’s incredibly impressive, but it’s the opposite of effective. it’s a collection of a bunch of hacks reliant on coincidences in OS design, and works by basically recompiling itself on the fly to work with different architectures.

if you want effective, run llama.cpp compiled with actual optimizations for your platform.

she was the face of the occupy wall street movement, but her views back then were more ancap than anti capital. while working for google she tried to petition the us government to shut itself down and hand the reins over to the tech industry, with google’s ceo as president.

the base of the APE library that powers llamafile is called cosmopolitan libC, iirc in direct reference to the old soviet term.

to give credit she’s mellowed out a lot in recent years.

it did. it lives on as the proprietary KaiOS, used in cheap feature phones.