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New comment by abhinavk in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

abhinavk — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:13:10 +0000

On iOS atleast, Live Activities are separate from Notifications. So I can still monitor food or grocery delivery even though I have turned off their notifications.

Now a few apps have started sending notifications through WhatsApp because they have my phone number. e.g. Amazon

New comment by abhinavk in "Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)"

abhinavk — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:50:10 +0000

6(ax) works on 2.4GHz too.

New comment by abhinavk in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

abhinavk — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:27:28 +0000

He wasn't always a narrator.

New comment by abhinavk in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

abhinavk — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:26:07 +0000

Crew ain't a single entity.

New comment by abhinavk in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

abhinavk — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:03:44 +0000

You know `/etc/passwd` doesn't really have passwords in it.

New comment by abhinavk in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

abhinavk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:36:13 +0000

Maybe you didn't read the draft. It's either a delayed April's Fool joke or AI slop. Even if you take it seriously, it will require updating every v4 device in existence.

New comment by abhinavk in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

abhinavk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:14:45 +0000

Firefox has a new Chrome-like profiles support as of v149.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management

New comment by abhinavk in "Honda is killing its EVs"

abhinavk — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:57:52 +0000

Which are a lot more efficient than an ICE.

New comment by abhinavk in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

abhinavk — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:07:45 +0000

Motorola Mobility vs Motorola Solutions. Different companies. Different owners. Different nationalities.

New comment by abhinavk in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

abhinavk — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:14:13 +0000

The elected president of Iran is more like a Chief of Staff to the actual leader.

New comment by abhinavk in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

abhinavk — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:28:56 +0000

Gboard for iOS has been discontinued though. On top of that, 3rd party keyboards are a bit limited on iOS (which might be a good thing for some people).

New comment by abhinavk in "The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today"

abhinavk — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:46:47 +0000

The previous iteration was actually running on top of webview2.

New comment by abhinavk in "A lot of population numbers are fake"

abhinavk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:08:19 +0000

Bangladesh has one of the most fertile lands on earth producing rice (which can feed 5x people wheat does), no desert and a little bit of mountains (hills actually). Gangetic Plains are also in Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. These places are not comparable to anywhere in the world sans East China.

New comment by abhinavk in "The dank case for scrolling window managers"

abhinavk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:46:49 +0000

niri also uses smithay. jay is its own thing.

New comment by abhinavk in "The dank case for scrolling window managers"

abhinavk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:24:04 +0000

I have been using niri for almost an year now. First with waybar, now with Quickshell (which DankMaterialShell is baed upon).

There are many other implementations of this paradigm if niri doesn't feel/work right to you.

- PaperWM (for Gnome; the original)

- mangowc (dwm rewrite but has a scrolling mode)

- scroll (fork of sway)

- papersway (based on sway)

- hyperscrolling (hyprland plugin)

- karousel (for KDE)

- PaperWM.spoon (for macOS)

- komorebi (for Windows)

New comment by abhinavk in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

abhinavk — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:53:23 +0000

They are in Canada.

New comment by abhinavk in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

abhinavk — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:17:06 +0000

That's still using Cachy's kernel. Cachy uses a different scheduler and compiles for x86_64_v3 instruction set. It won't get you a world-shattering boost but ~5% is what comes up in benchmarks.

New comment by abhinavk in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

abhinavk — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:51:54 +0000

It's the Arch way. A beginner shouldn't be using Arch, Gentoo, NixOS or FreeBSD etc.

That's why there are myriad of distros.

New comment by abhinavk in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"

abhinavk — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:31:45 +0000

niri is based on smithay which is also used by COSMIC.

New comment by abhinavk in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"

abhinavk — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:29:34 +0000

You are conflating Window Manager with Task Switcher programs.