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I saw this title and thought "the Australian craigslist is open source?" Then I realized I was confusing Gumroad and Gumtree.


I thought Disney had the rights to publish Ghibli movies in the US.


They did, but the rights expired. GKIDS now has the theatrical and home video rights to Studio Ghibli films in the US (except for Grave of the Fireflies).


In September of 2012, I bought a T430 from Lenovo. I loved that thing! Covered it with stickers, even upgraded it as the years went on.

Eventually, it had a Core i7-3820QM with 16GB RAM, 1080p screen (with an adapter), SSDs (plural, I put one in the UltraBay)... I installed Coreboot with Tianocore, upgraded the WiFi card... I even modded in the keyboard from a T420.

In June of 2022, 10 years later, I bought an X270 off eBay. I could still use the T430, it was just starting to feel sluggish... I just felt like I needed a new laptop. I'm very happy with the X270 and I hope to use it as long as possible.

It was also fun to start covering it with stickers all over again!

I still have the T430, it's just not being used and it's sitting in a storage locker (with my vintage computer collection).


>I could still use the T430, it was just starting to feel sluggish

A cleaning and re-paste will bring it back. If on windows maybe time for a windows re-install.

Typed on a T430 via BSD that was just re-pasted and cleaned, not sluggish anymore :) If you are interested *BSD, I can confirm both NetBSD and OpenBSD works great on the T430 I have.


I think it's currently running either Arch or Manjaro (I forget which) and maybe a quick re-install and cleaning of the fans/thermal paste could help. I dunno, I just got the feeling that I wanted (needed?) a new laptop...


When I visited San Francisco, I totally went to Amoeba Music. Loved that store. I've now made it my mission to go to local record stores whenever I visit a new city, as well as go to the ones in my city!

Also, I walked around the Golden Gate Park carrying my bag of records... and then someone tried to sell me shrooms.


As a zsh user, I've been meaning to give fish a try. I keep adding plugins to zsh to make it act like fish (like command autocomplete) that I might as well try and/or switch to it.


My only annoyance with fish is when I copy bash one liners and forget, and get errors or issues. Otherwise, fish is fantastic.


There's a nice way to halfway-fix that issue. It makes use of the fact that most bash commands that we copy are prefixed with a $ and a space. It also requires your terminal emulator to have a way to hook into the paste mechanism and edit the to-be-pasted text. To my knowledge, Kitty and iTerm both have this feature.

Basically, the terminal will replace each line of the pasted text that match (start with)

  $ rest
with

  pbash 'rest_escaped'
or more elegantly

  \$ 'rest_escaped'
We will then define a function with either of these names in fish.

This function will start (if not exists) a persistent background bash instance connected on both ends to FIFOs, with the same lifetime as your fish session. We then pass the `rest_escaped` to one FIFO, capture the output from the other FIFO, and echo it.

Because its a persistent session, stuff you copy that makes use of variables or bash aliases all Just Work. Being able to blindly copy-paste the entire bash codefence from a github readme.md is especially nice.

It all happens automatically after a one-time setup, and overall works pretty well for me. Here is a demo: https://i.imgur.com/HdqGkRk.png

This is the fish function

  function \$
      if not test -f /tmp/bash_daemon.pid; or not kill -0 (cat /tmp/bash_daemon.pid) 2>/dev/null
          echo "Starting bash daemon..."
          bash ~/scripts/bash_daemon.sh &
          sleep 0.5
      end
  
      echo "$argv" > /tmp/bash_daemon_pipe &
  
      while read -l line
          if test "$line" = "###DONE###"
              break
          end
  
          echo $line
      end < /tmp/bash_daemon_out
  end
And this is the bash script `~/scripts/bash_daemon.sh`

  #! /usr/bin/env bash
  
  rm -f /tmp/bash_daemon_pipe /tmp/bash_daemon_out
  mkfifo /tmp/bash_daemon_pipe
  mkfifo /tmp/bash_daemon_out
  
  echo $$ > /tmp/bash_daemon.pid
  
  while true; do
      read cmd < /tmp/bash_daemon_pipe
      { eval "$cmd"; echo "###DONE###"; } > /tmp/bash_daemon_out
  done


This is nice! But you should probably use $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR or /run/user/1000 instead of /tmp


Wow! This is fantastic! I will have to set this up ASAP.


Same situation, but I have the feeling that eventually I'll like the customizatability of zsh more than the convenience of Fish because I'm already too opinionated in my own configuration, and transferring to Fish might be more of a hassle than a gain. But who knows maybe someday it will be easier to customize Fish to my liking, but for now the ecosystem doesn't seem to completely fit my needs.



Since myself and everyone I know refuses to acknowledge this "name change"... what map apps do you guys recommend?


Per the link, they're just following the US Geographic Names Information System updates. What _should_ be the standard here, if not to follow the official naming policies?


How about a non-US standard?


OpenStreetMaps has excellent maps, and there are many apps that use it. Unfortunately their search is usually not that good.

I use Organic Maps, and also have OsmAnd. Great maps, poor search. I'd love to know if there's an app with better search.


Well, at the moment OSM has the tag

"official_name:en-US"="Gulf of America"

but it changes regularly (see https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190). How the map providers deal with this tag is up to them. There's actually a huge discussion how to deal with this. It's... complicated:

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-o...


That sounds reasonable. name:en is still "Gulf of Mexico". That way I suppose the app can choose whether to use the general English or US-specific name.


VPN to Mexico, or just set your device location outside of the U.S.


In the Czech Republic at least, Google Maps now shows "Mexický záliv (Americký záliv)". I'm not sure which countries still see the original name other than Mexico.


Apple Maps still refers to it as Gulf of Mexico.


If Apple decided to call it the Gulf of Steve, they might just be big enough to get it to stick.


Sticking it to Trump by switching to a bad maps app.


I think that people are uncomfortable with the idea that Google Maps is centralized and can unilaterally change what you see. Having an offline version of a map helps protect against sudden change (go forward or retroactive).

As an aside, I do really like organic maps. I keep it installed with downloaded maps for when I travel to places with poor signal, including hiking trails.


Oh, so you just blindly agree with whatever he says and just blindly use Google services whilst ignoring the reasons people might have issues with them?


If I had to stop using services or buying products every time they advocate for something or do some change I disagree with I would have to live in a cabin in the woods.


"The extreme version of this position is unreasonable, therefore the moderate version of this position is also unreasonable"

Is there a name for this fallacy?


If everything must be political, would you mind explaining your support for venture capitalism that comes implicit in the act of commenting on Hacker News?


Should I update my router over SSH while I'm at work, or should I just wait until I get home?


Do you have people or services at home who would be upset with an interruption until you get home? Plan for the worst reasonable case: upgrading will fail and knock your router offline until you can fix it or replace it.


Go for it! What's the worst that could happen?


The animated background works in Chrome, but not Firefox. There is one CSS rule that Firefox doesn't like. If you open the Firefox devtools/console and type this, it'll fix it:

document.querySelectorAll('img.mantine-Image-root').forEach(i => i.style.flex = 1);


Currently I am using http://www.swish-sftp.org/ on Windows and http://macfusionapp.org/ (via https://osxfuse.github.io/, see also https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/SSHFS) on OS X to mount SFTP servers.

Mountain Duck looks promising. For whatever reason the current solutions for SSHFS on Windows/Mac are slightly out of date.


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