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New comment by jacek in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

jacek — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:12:54 +0000

I got it last week and I absolutely love it. There are just a two devices I've got in my life that I think are perfect. This is one of them, other being my Steam Deck. It is so small that I can actually carry it in my pocket all the time and read a few paragraphs whenever I have a minute or two. My scrolling time went down dramatically.

New comment by jacek in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

jacek — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:57:41 +0000

I tried it on my Samsung phone. Keeps crashing, "recovery" just deletes everything and you start over from scratch. No session lasted more than 5 minutes.

New comment by jacek in "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"

jacek — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:27:16 +0000

I've been a Kagi user for months now and was really looking forward to testing this. However, I cannot find the download link. The page does not really contain any information on an actual release.

EDIT: I found this in the docs:

> The alpha version of Orion for Linux is currently only available to [Orion+ supporters](../orion-plus/orion-plus.md) and can be downloaded from the [Billing Dashboard](https://kagi.com/settings/billing) under the Orion browser section.

So I still can't test this. Only for Orion+ supporters.

New comment by jacek in "YouTube No Translation"

jacek — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:44:45 +0000

Thank you! I'll use it.

New comment by jacek in "YouTube No Translation"

jacek — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:43:51 +0000

YouTube Row Fixer

New comment by jacek in "YouTube No Translation"

jacek — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:51:51 +0000

It is incredible how many addons I need to make YouTube usable. Here's my list (all Firefox):

- uBlock Origin - ad block

- SponsorBlock - to skip in video ads (some other nice features like highlights too)

- YouTube Row Fixer - for the tiles to adjust to the window

- Return YouTube Dislike - self explanatory

- YouTube No Translation - thanks for the suggestion!

New comment by jacek in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"

jacek — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:33:50 +0000

True, longer would be better. And if the platform was truly open, we could just treat phone like PCs. You can still install Linux on a 20 year old machine and it will work.

At least this is 5 years from "the end of placement on the market". So more realistically it should be around 7 years from release.

New comment by jacek in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"

jacek — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:31:39 +0000

I agree that the platform should be open. I played with PostmarketOS on one of my old devices and I really wish I could just install Linux on my other devices to make it really usable for the years to come.

New comment by jacek in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"

jacek — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:25:56 +0000

> They should switch to an SOC with mainline Linux support so you don't have to throw it out in three years.

Starting 20th of June this year (so 3 days ago) every new phone released in European Union will need to have software updates for at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market. This might be the first one released under new regulations. Also looking at Fairphone's history it looks like they really support their phones for a long time.

New comment by jacek in "Kagi Assistant is now available to all users"

jacek — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:37:03 +0000

It's right there in the article:

> An important note: We are enabling the Assistant for all users in phases, based on regions, starting with USA today. The full rollout for ‘Assistant for All’ is scheduled to be completed by Sunday, 23:59 UTC.

New comment by jacek in "Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?"

jacek — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:05:22 +0000

I would absolutely pay for the development of an independent, open source, privacy oriented and user friendly browser. I would never pay for the shitshow the Mozilla Corporation is.

I would find $5-$10 per month perfectly acceptable.

For now maybe donating to Ladybird [1] and Servo [2] makes more sense?

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[1] https://ladybird.org/ [2] https://servo.org/sponsorship/

New comment by jacek in "YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month"

jacek — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:58:36 +0000

Let's not forget https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube for Android TV/Fire TV.

New comment by jacek in "YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month"

jacek — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:57:02 +0000

NewPipe/PipePipe are Android alternatives with background play.

New comment by jacek in "YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month"

jacek — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:56:13 +0000

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube is an option for Android TV/Fire TV. Even SponsorBlock is included.

New comment by jacek in "ElevenReader by ElevenLabs"

jacek — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:02:50 +0000

I love the idea as I listen to a lot of podcasts and an occasional audiobook.

The first impression is not that great. There's nothing natural about the voice. While individual words and phrases sound good, there's still no decent cadence and intonation. Feels flat and robotic.

However, I will definitely experiment some more.

New comment by jacek in "I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever"

jacek — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:16:24 +0000

http://archive.today/FGqCu

New comment by jacek in "COSMIC Alpha Released"

jacek — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:21:49 +0000

I had a look at COSMIC on Fedora [1]. It is fast, stable and usable, but feels little unfinished (it is an early version after all). It is not my cup of tea (maybe I am too comfortable with KDE Plasma 6), but I am glad that there's a new solid option for a desktop environment. And unlike other with DEs, where interest and development quickly fizzles out, this will probably last as it has the System76 backing.

One issue that I had is fractional scaling for Electron (and older X11) apps on Wayland (same issue with Gnome and most DEs). Apps are blurry. It seems that only KDE Plasma figured it out. Plasma has an option "Apply scaling themselves", which just works.

[1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ryanabx/cosmic-epoch...

New comment by jacek in "Lindroid"

jacek — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:15:18 +0000

I would love to try it out on my Android tablet. Being able to run Linux with a real desktop browser and development environment would be really amazing.

New comment by jacek in "Guix on the Framework 13 AMD"

jacek — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:16:30 +0000

I use KDE Plasma 5.27 (6 with many improvements is around the corner) on Wayland and fractional scaling is handled very well, nothing is blurry, no hacks required. If KDE recognizes an app that is not Wayland compatible (like most Electron apps), it will just run it in X11 mode (there's a setting for that, enabled by default).

See the screenshot of my settings: https://imgur.com/a/VQHD5vT

New comment by jacek in "Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update"

jacek — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:19:45 +0000

That's not the first story like this. It seems like more and more often the QA is done by users who have not signed up for it. Why can't a multibillion company do a proper QA?