Hacker News: exographicskip

New comment by exographicskip in "Ghostty 1.4"

exographicskip — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:33:28 +0000

iTerm on linux would be the dream! I wanted to switch to ghostty for the performance and sane defaults, but it’s just not feature complete with iTerm yet

New comment by exographicskip in "Ghostty 1.4"

exographicskip — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:24:29 +0000

That’s a neat trick! Didn’t know setting env vars was possible in ssh configs

New comment by exographicskip in "What I Self-Host"

exographicskip — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:52:48 +0000

foobar's rock solid. I have a portable copy on a mounted NAS share and it's great for transcoding and being an ad hoc music player while setting up new computers

New comment by exographicskip in "Gemini 4 Argon"

exographicskip — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:50:17 +0000

Well said! LLMs are excellent at translating my intent to what the domain's norms and definitions are.

The problem with google'ing 2 years ago was a combination of SEO hijacking and sheer ignorance on the user's end.

Critical thinking is a necessary ingredient regardless of the tools being used

New comment by exographicskip in "Thunderbird for iOS"

exographicskip — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:05:54 +0000

I’m still not over Google Inbox being shuttered.

Between the pinned emails, helpful rendering of calendar events like trips/hotel bookings, and sane defaults for swipe actions, it worked really well out of the box.

Strangely enough I’ve settled for MS Outlook on iOS. It has a facsimile of Inbox's features and works well enough with gmail and outlook.

Just not as good of ux and the pinned emails don’t work on mobile (desktop only).

Would love for a new Thunderbird iOS app to get away from MS but have never been enthusiastic about the desktop client

New comment by exographicskip in "Thunderbird for iOS"

exographicskip — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:49:52 +0000

I’ve seen this too. Finder is useless when copying a large amount of files -- especially small ones.

Used to work at the Apple store and it was incredible how a handful of customers dropped thousands of files onto the desktop which in turn brought Finder to its knees.

Probably generating thumbnails or indexing is my unscientific guess

New comment by exographicskip in "Thunderbird for iOS"

exographicskip — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:35:57 +0000

Lol

New comment by exographicskip in "Thunderbird for iOS"

exographicskip — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:35:29 +0000

What do you like about mailmate? Went to their website and it’s pretty spartan. No idea what makes it worth an annual subscription

New comment by exographicskip in "ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust"

exographicskip — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:51:17 +0000

re: ms office, you should take a look at visigrid for the excel bits.

It's also rust based and very polished with a cli tool for automation. Can't speak to feature parity as I'm not an accountant or someone who traffics in spreadsheets but it suits my needs to the point I don't reach for a company subscription.

That's the bar for an AI generated app that I'd like to see your Adobe CC/CS apps hit.

I'll keep an eye on your repos!

New comment by exographicskip in "ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust"

exographicskip — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:38:36 +0000

Based take

New comment by exographicskip in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

exographicskip — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:30:19 +0000

How does the 80/20 rule apply to sota models?

Been seeing this term bandied about seemingly overnight -- it’s giving me baader-meinhof vibes

New comment by exographicskip in "Show HN: Jotbus – a shared encrypted scratchpad for coding agents"

exographicskip — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:45:24 +0000

A priori sounds like delta by the same team as zed. Taking a look now

New comment by exographicskip in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

exographicskip — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:36:44 +0000

Normal for r/localllama or r/localllm maybe

New comment by exographicskip in "Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol"

exographicskip — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:31:40 +0000

That was a good read! Bit of a diatribe and don't wholly agree, but I can empathize with the author

New comment by exographicskip in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

exographicskip — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:09:01 +0000

Came to linux much later but absolutely agree.

While being able to customize everything is nice, I prefer a curated experience that nails the defaults so I don't have to tweak it.

macos used to be that way from leopard to mountain lion IME. Now I'm considering switching back to a linux workstation bc I can't stand liquid glass and the devolution of a desktop OS becoming a mobile OS

New comment by exographicskip in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

exographicskip — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:05:28 +0000

Frameworks getting there. Display and keyboard aren't as good as macbooks or thinkpad, but repairability and Linux support are top notch

New comment by exographicskip in "Dots: Always-on agents"

exographicskip — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:34:49 +0000

Didn't know codex was supported in opencode! After anthropic's shenanigans earlier this year I didn't even try to get it working

New comment by exographicskip in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

exographicskip — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:21:28 +0000

He won the popular vote the second time around, not the first.

The electoral college is deeply undemocratic.

Strong argument the States are neither democratic, nor republic; they're a plutocracy. Exacerbated by Citizens United.

New comment by exographicskip in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

exographicskip — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:59:35 +0000

Haven't tried, but you could try building from source: https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram

I used gram predominately on the macbook neo and it worked well as a low-spec devbox

New comment by exographicskip in "Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5"

exographicskip — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:54:16 +0000

> TTS - for Piper TTS, trained to speak like SHODAN

I didn't know I wanted this! Can just imagine asking how to make a Trinidad Sour and being called an insect lmao