DHH has good taste - leaving besides application choices (some of which I changed, e.g instead of Chromium, no 1password), the configuration defaults all make sense (coming from a mac) - especially the key bindings.

Arch Linux by itself is a bit scary and requires config to make it "nice" so basically Omarchy takes away all the choices and config learning / pain - this tweet is a good summary:

> I've poured in endless hours configuring Hyprland + Arch, GTK/QT theming/scaling, auxiliary apps, and more to give you a superb base that can either be taken as-is or used to keep tweaking.[1]

Tiling window managers are great - I have young kids using computers for their hw and they prefered this over mac - windows. Which suprised me as personally it is a much bigger change for me after decades of regular windows/mac window management.

Linux / Hyperland Pros:

- I had a old pc from 2014 - which I put a minimal fresh new install of windows 10 - and it has been dog slow enough that it was waiting to be replaced. After installing Omarchy (Arch + Hyperland) it's perfectly fast and usable.

Cons: 1. Its designed to be a single user setup - the idea being u use HD encryption and login straight to the one true user. So for a shared pc its not ideal - the way its currently configured I think you need to run the omarchy bash install script for each user and also update individually for each one - not ideal for a pc shared with kids.

Really interested to see where Omarchy ends up. Its also given my usability ideas for my mac.

[1]: https://x.com/dhh/status/1932130355663761794

Which would fit in with existing uv commands[1] like `uv add plotly`.

There is an exisiting `uv lock --upgrade-package requests` but this feels a bit verbose.

[1]: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/projects/#creating-a-new-pr...

[0]: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/01/garmin-bounce-activity-t...

1. Whitelist contacts for calling and text call - installing an app is a pain for older ppl / friends.

2. Music: Why not Google? This already has headphone support and the Pixel watch hardware which support musics.

3. Maps: in case they need to go A to B. WearOS has google maps, so this should be an easy add. School bus is on google maps for e.g, so being able to check time to leave would be great.

4. Battery: 16hrs at launch is not going to age well...

Overall, despite being in the market for this, would not buy.

Features kids didn't ask for and I don't want:

Gaming: There is a market for gamification, but it seems to me the product team went overboard and spent way too much time here at the cost of making a better kids watch. I have no doubt it can and will make some kids more active, but...

Some requests:

Add simple examples and more clarity to the publish docs.

I assume most ppl would prefer to deploy via github actions[1], which the docs currently just link to a complex deploy file - can you please add some more documentation on this, or add an example of the simplest possible deploy file?

Suggestion: is it possible to use a interface (like in vercel) to connect to a github repo and build/publish on changes?

[1]: https://observablehq.com/framework/getting-started#deploying...

She had a very interesting life, I hope she writes a memoir.

Edit: She has a memoir out 10th Oct: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706251/breaking-thr...

Ancedotally the interenet seems faster.

I bought a Nest Hub Max for kids and grandparentst for video calls using Duo with family, and for one on one calls it's great especially for kids who move around, but with quantine the whole world (my version!) has quickly moved on to group video calls which ppl can enter and leave as they please.

Consequently everyone has stopped using Duo as it doesn't support that, and turns out you need to be able to easily chat with your calling group, another thing duo doesn't support.

Zoom, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger all work much better from a talking to a family group with varying tech know-how.

Zoom is a dedicated video but works much better than duo as you can make a link and drop it in a chat group for ppl to join. Duo has no such features!

So my fancy duo called machine is now just a photo display.

You could also go full hackernews and have a sensor connected to a wifi valve which shuts off the water supply when no one is in the loo.

The only truly useful thing is waking up the phone on detecting motion nearby, which could probably be done with a much simpler sensor.

I saw there is a Streamlit for teams in the future (sounds expensive) and on the forums they recommended to make a docker container and host it anywhere, which is doable, but I'd love a way to be able to just put something up on the internet for a short period of time, sort of how now.sh[1] works.

[1]: https://zeit.co/home

Plastic bags just happen to be the most pervasive and visible source of trash.

There aren't many places to throw trash, the norm is to just throw trash anywhere outside your house. Even the more upscale suburbs in the big cities have essentially no trash cans, and the garbage collection areas are open dumps, so plastic bags fly all over the place.

The trash is sometimes picked up and burnt, or other times just burnt in place, and the smell is toxic as there is generally a lot of plastic.

The whole plastic bag problem has a huge cost on basic city infrastructure: In most of Karachi, every drain and sewer pipe is either choked with plastic bags, or has just been cleared and will get choked again in due time. And so every time it rains, the city floods, and there is a grand proclamation of building more drains and sewers.

In North Pakistan, around the most remote and beautiful lakes, ones where no one lives as they are too high and remote, many have plastic bags scattered all around, most I assume carried there by the winds from nearby towns/villages, as some of the ones I visited don't get enough visitors to have thrown the amount of plastic bags I saw.

Visiting places (again) which used to be pristine not that long ago really hit home how much we humans have spread our "stuff" everywhere.

Edit: The ban is a bit too harsh. Should have been rolled out slowly, to give ppl more time to adapt, like targeting larger stores (which are in the tax net and thus easy to monitor and punish) and then rolling it to other stores, and finally everyone.

Is there a way to host these somewhere easily?

Like a git push of a notebook to a repo and you get voila powered renders (and I assume some kind of automagic lightweight kernel behind the scenes which executes the code if required).

It reminds me of DeepNote[0] though that is geared towards the producers of notebooks rather than consumers.

[0]: https://beta.deepnote.org/

So for normal use, its definitely a upgrade to a pixel 1, and a slight upgrade over the pixel 2.

- Signal is a lot less "polished" - FB has spent tons more resources on making a slick streamlined easy to use interface. Even though signal looks similar its missing all the little things.

- there is no easy to use backup. Whatsapp can backup to google drive or icloud and restore it on another phone. Signal you have to figure out how to deal with and transfer your backup file[1]. This isn't easy for regular folks, Signal needs to be able to connect to cloud storage (preferably of your choice).

- Whatsapp deals with and displays media better/faster

- calling works better. last time I checked whatsapp has easy group video and audio calls, Signal had neither.

There is actually lots more. I prefer the idea of using Signal over whatsapp, but I found it not close enough yet. Especially for non-techy ppl.

[1]: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

So why not just use Google Drive (or dropbox)?

I feel with features like secure file sharing (though only with other ppl with google accounts), reasonably good security[1] and Inactive Account Manager[2] it should work for legal docs. Especially considering Google is going to be around for a while.

I would rather use a Mozilla offering but they don't really have too many things for regular consumers outside of firefox and send.

[1]: https://myaccount.google.com/security [2]: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en

> the foundation “started with a small group of businessmen chatting at the airport while waiting for their flight, wanting to do something to help the Great Barrier Reef