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New comment by accoil in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

accoil — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:30:55 +0000

I right click the volume icon in Windows, select "Volume Mixer", and it gives me per-app mixing. Which I guess is an extra click, as with eartrumpet you can access the mixer with a single left click on the icon.

New comment by accoil in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

accoil — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:15:43 +0000

What makes that nicer than the built in volume mixer?

New comment by accoil in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

accoil — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:13:10 +0000

Yeah, not a fan of having to plug my phone in for detection.... That page should at least include a link here: https://doc.e.foundation/devices

New comment by accoil in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

accoil — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:11:02 +0000

If not anything else, I guess it could be added :) Makes me wonder though if that's a limitation of text boxes in Windows (so a translation will need to be made during loading/saving).

New comment by accoil in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

accoil — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:12:48 +0000

Probably better to get the Win 10 version if you can as it eventually got better line ending support (i.e. both LF & CRLF).

New comment by accoil in "Gitas – A tool for Git account switching"

accoil — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:27:29 +0000

I use that approach. I also make sure to not set the [user] section in my main config (and only in the included files). That way if I'm operating outside of one of my user directories git commit fails due to having no user details.

New comment by accoil in "Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32"

accoil — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:49:05 +0000

It's a common enough issue with go that they wrote a faq on it too: https://go.dev/doc/faq#virus

New comment by accoil in "LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio""

accoil — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:23:35 +0000

I've been wondering that myself. The descriptions seem to indicate that fully dragged to the left is liftkit, but my first assumption was that would be fully dragged to the right.

New comment by accoil in "‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid"

accoil — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:30:22 +0000

New comment by accoil in "Syncthing-Android have had a change of owner/maintainer"

accoil — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:22:17 +0000

This is how I've observed it: Catfriend1 has long been the owner of syncthing-fork on android, which was fork of the official client syncthing-android. It had extra features around Android that were lacking in the official client (e.g sync windows to reduce battery usage).

When google locked down on file apis a year or so ago, the official syncthing-android pulled out of google play, but syncthing-fork stuck around in fdroid as the fork was for personal purposes, and they were using fdroid for distribution in the first place.

This change in ownership is new to me, but I'm also not surprised it happened as syncthing-fork was always a personal project.

New comment by accoil in "WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]"

accoil — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:57:30 +0000

How does the Nobel Peace Prize figure into this? I seem to be on the other side that didn't hear about the award. Which is not surprising as I don't follow it, but also I haven't worked out query terms to connect it with OBR.

New comment by accoil in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"

accoil — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:21:26 +0000

Well, I guess Avalonia can solve 4 at least as you can negate a binding[1]. Good news for me as I recently started an Avalonia project, and thought you did still need an InvertedBoolConverter.

[1]: https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/reference/built-in-data-bin...

New comment by accoil in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"

accoil — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:14:59 +0000

Since it's using Avalonia, I'd say it's just X support at the moment. They've announced that they intend to support Wayland, but that was a couple months ago[1], so I doubt that's ready.

[1]: https://avaloniaui.net/blog/bringing-wayland-support-to-aval...

New comment by accoil in "My Git history was a mess of 'update' and 'fix' – so I made AI clean it up"

accoil — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 03:24:36 +0000

This project shows that git messages aren't just for other people as it's an attempt to make terrible messages usable for the person who wrote the code in the first place.

New comment by accoil in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

accoil — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 03:54:46 +0000

Oh, interesting.

New comment by accoil in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

accoil — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:43:03 +0000

The Windhawk Start Menu Style[1] uses XAML to modify the Start Menu, and I doubt that they are translating XAML to React

[1]: https://windhawk.net/mods/windows-11-start-menu-styler

New comment by accoil in "Edge AI for Beginners"

accoil — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:53:43 +0000

If it makes a difference: it's an en dash used in the readme.

I've been wondering why LLMs seem to prefer the em dash over en dash as I feel like en (or hyphen) is used more frequently in modern text.

New comment by accoil in "This map is not upside down"

accoil — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:01:45 +0000

It's also a rabbit :)

New comment by accoil in "Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes"

accoil — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:13:29 +0000

Cope? Won't they be drinking from leaky pipes regardless of a drought?

New comment by accoil in "Traps to Developers"

accoil — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:01:39 +0000

[A-z] though is a fun one though as it includes a few extra symbols between upper and lowercase.