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Johan Bové

Johan Bové

The problem with Obsidian on desktop is that it is an Electron based application and that it therefor comes with the usual Electron related problems and bugs. For example - due to GPU acceleration issues in Electron, Obsidian is starting with an unusable black screen on Fedora VM running on Apple M1. The most frustrating part: it worked for a while, until it didn't. There doesn't seem to be real attention to this issue from Obsidian's side. So good thing that machine is not my main PC.

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Pretty cool how a bug in web.whatsapp.com which occurred in Firefox since a couple of days, is being resolved so quickly by an active community and a savy and pretty cool front-end engineer at Meta. Kudos to Egrodo for their help! cf. https://webcompat.com/issues/125920#issuecomment-1682993012 and https://github.com/Egrodo

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

A couple of days with as my main OS and it's been going well. No big issues so far. Had to look up a couple of things and installed the Gnome Tweak application pretty fast to make the UI more "familiar" to me. But so far so good! It helps though that many things I do I can do from within the browser.

Johan Bové

Error run in fedora 38 (#473) · Issues · World / Secrets · GitLab

Could not start the "Secrets" app due to this issue. Switched to Keepass instead.

Johan Bové

Anyone else experiencing weird scrolling issues on the NYTimes's mobile pages lately? It just gets stuck for me suddenly after a few strolls on their home page.

Johan Bové

After struggling with a Fedora instance to get a lot of files copied from one external USB HD (NTFS) to a new one (exFAT), I tried the same sync process with Beyond Compare on Windows and it just works ... better. First of all I could not install Beyond Compare on ARM, then I found "Kompare", but kept running into various errors which stopped the sync. First HD is NTFS, and the new one is exFAT, issues are probably to be discovered within Fuse, but I cannot reformat the original HD, so there's that. Good thing there are still alternatives.

Johan Bové

Giving up on IPFS - at least for a while - having too many issues lately with the software and nobody is pinning my stuff anyway.

Johan Bové

Having to solve computer software issues is such a waste of human time.

Johan Bové

Epson's unsubscribe form is as bad as it gets. It simply does not work in any browser due to a combination of CORS issues and an impossibly crazy layer of data-mining and tracking added on top of what should be a simple form submit. So I tried the unsubscribe through Postman instead, copying the form fields I found from the web page. It got through to the confirmation page. Let's see if it worked for real.

Johan Bové

Going to help out improving Earthstar's "Letterbox" tool a bit next. Started by reviewing and testing the app and creating issues first.

Johan Bové

Perhaps having a centralized system for messaging half of the world's gamers is not maintainable?

Perhaps having a centralized system for messaging half of the world's gamers is not maintainable?

I am heavily sceptical of Discord and have had a lot of issues in the last days - nothing against the company and the apps are cool - but do we all really need to flock to it instead of having decentralized systems to communicate through?

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Does anyone actually have BlueTooth headphones that don't have issues with losing connections and such?

Johan Bové

BlueTooth is one of those technologies which are brilliant when it works, but OH SO frustrating when there are issues - and there are a lot and happen often.

Johan Bové

New addition to the MiniDisc devices collection: Sony MZ-R70

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New addition to the MiniDisc player/recorder devices: a Sony MZ-R70 in near mint condition!

Sony MZ-R70 front

No remote included, but it's not a big loss since the original remote didn't have the LCD display anyway and all the functionality is also accessible on the device itself.

I went with this non-NetMD device for the following reasons:

  • Nice big LCD screen on the device itself
  • Powered by a single AA battery - no hard-to-find gumstick batteries - Also if you're using rechargeable AA batteries, they will (slowly) recharge within the device when you connect the device using the 3V power adapter
  • Sturdy housing and buttons
  • This one has a mic input
  • Two headphone outputs!
  • I like to record music real-time - call it nostalgia - but it's part of what I like about MiniDisc - it's back to time when things went a little more slowly
  • This one does not do MDLP - but as the point above - it's part of the charm having to deal with media limitations

Some issues:

  • Louder mechanical noises when recording and playing, especially when connected to the power adapter. But it's still acceptable.