<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: linuxdaemon</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=linuxdaemon</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:18:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=linuxdaemon" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Plex laid off the whole player team"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1 for MusicAssistant.  I have been using it for about 2 weeks with Plex as the source, but MA as the player after "we" (my wife) decided Spotify is too expensive.<p>Handing off between devices is my current pain point with it.  It can group players so that you can do multi-room synced play, but I use that to hand off from my desktop to my phone.  You can transfer the active playlist to another device.  But in either case it's a manual interaction and doesn't "just happen".  To be fair, I didn't have 100% success rate with Spotify doing this correctly either.  Sometimes it did it, sometimes it just started in its own world.<p>The MA IOS app is REALLY rough; but I have had very good success with Xonara on ios, which is currently available through testflight.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:27:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187894</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Terminal Email: terminal email clients for every system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Assuming it's the auth stuff with 365 and the inability to create long-term app passwords; DavMail might solve the problem: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/" rel="nofollow">https://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/</a><p>It can handle the Office365 stuff (including Oauth2) and basically translates MS "junk" into standard protocols (POP, IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, etc).  So if you got that to work, you could point getmail at davmail's imap port, and continue to use it like normal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:40:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926829</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been using this unofficial client for years, so it's been a while since I tried the PWA version.  In my use, this client brings 2 things missing from PWA: notification count in the tray area, and respecting default browser for opening links.<p>I thought I could get by without a tray icon, but it turned out to be too cumbersome to have to explicitly open the window and make sure no one messaged me while I was at lunch, or whatever.<p>I use firefox for my main browser; and teams doesn't work great there.  So I have to use Edge or Chrome.  But then, when someone sends a link in Teams, it opens in that browser.  This unofficial client acts like an actual standalone app and opens links in my default browser.  Now if they sent a link that lands on some other office365 thing, there is about a 15% chance that just won't work ;)<p>But yeah, if you are able to mostly avoid this POS, then those 2 things likely don't matter and PWA is fine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:14:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934462</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934462</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Semi-related: Why do sites grab search keystrokes (like '/' on github) to force me to use their crappy search when I'm trying to find content on the page I'm currently on?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:52:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43581570</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43581570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43581570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Days since it was DNS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who administers DNS servers, I'm going to guess this is due to DNS being the first thing that gets blamed when something goes wrong; and it is almost never DNS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 19:52:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40401529</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40401529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40401529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Skyglobe
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyglobe" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyglobe</a><p>It didn't run speedily on the 286 IBM clone that we had, but it was pretty amazing to me at the time (ca. 1993)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:56:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38842265</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38842265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38842265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Bitwarden login down due to Azure outage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bitwarden's help pages state storage is in Azure cloud: <a href="https://bitwarden.com/help/data-storage/#on-bitwarden-servers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitwarden.com/help/data-storage/#on-bitwarden-server...</a><p>So if there is an observation of an issue, it's reasonable to connect those dots, plus their statement on that page "All uptime, scalability, security updates, and guarantees are backed by Microsoft and their cloud infrastructure" pretty much says any issues are MS/Azure problems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2023 15:37:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37535717</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37535717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37535717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had been using Swiftkey on my iPhone and in the middle of typing something, my keys disappear and is replaced with, what is effectively, an ad to use "Microsoft Speech Recognition".  Extremely annoying to be in the middle of typing something and having to say "no thanks" to extra MS crap they are trying to shove onto you.<p>Previously, they also added a Bing AI button to the keyboard, but they did actually make a setting to disable that.<p>Edit: Upon mentioning this to a coworker and digging into this a bit more, it may have been that I accidentally clicked the microphone to bring up that screen, and that it didn't target an ad.  I'm not quite sure what happened though, so I'm leaving my comment as is :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 12:31:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35801582</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35801582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35801582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Cloudflare is destroying the open internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Question privacy concerns with CloudFlare stating "giving up security for convenience", and then have comments for your blog post on Disqus.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:07:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34698672</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34698672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34698672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Gripes with RSS after one week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google Reader gives a good example of why one may want to host an RSS reader on their own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 21:11:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34200784</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34200784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34200784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Using Mastodon to power blog comments"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://cactus.chat/" rel="nofollow">https://cactus.chat/</a> exists to do just that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:07:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34083329</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34083329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34083329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Show HN: Codeium – a free, fast AI codegen extension"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It looks like after 3 more minutes of testing, it's a me problem.  There is one particular file that goes bonkers, which just so happened to be the one I had up.  If I start a new file in that project, or work on an existing file in a different project it's fine and the completion works as expected.<p>I can't make it work with the one file, but yeah...not a codeium problem at all.  I'll be sure to test at least 5 minutes next time ;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:51:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33889299</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33889299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33889299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Show HN: Codeium – a free, fast AI codegen extension"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm definitely for any alternative to an MS solution (especially one where I have to give them actual money to use it), but I had kind of the same experience.  Not extensive testing, and I'm using it in PyCharm, so I don't know if that changes the behavior.<p>The completion was weird.  I tried to type "#Function to return the value passed". And it started to autocomplete with what I typed and what it was suggesting all jumbled up and completely unintelligible.  Once I hit tab, it completed correctly, but it didn't make any sense until I hit tab, so I couldn't really see what I was completing until it was done.<p>The more I played with it, I noticed it started to not actually suggest anything.  But the codeium plugin is just showing a wait spinner in my status bar, so maybe it's getting pounded with HN people testing it right now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:14:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33887879</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33887879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33887879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Ask HN: Why do you like Visual Studio Code?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, remote is actually "killer": <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/2692" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/26...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:44:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33695467</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33695467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33695467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Writing down what I do in Obsidian"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought "yes", but just tested and turns out it's more like "kinda".  It doesn't do a full sync on shutdown, but if something is modified it sends a sync push , and that change will get picked up after a few seconds.  So if you have a note that you modify, and then allow a few seconds, and then close...That modification will show up on other devices outside of a full sync.<p>But you can't open joplin, create a note, and then immediately exit and expect the note to show up on other devices.  It will still exist on the device it was created on, so it's not lost, it just hasn't synced yet.  It will automatically sync the next time you start joplin though.<p>In my case, I use the vim key bindings, and am so accustomed to hitting "<esc>:w" (which does perform a sync) when I'm finished writing the note, I never noticed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:34:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532153</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532153</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Stop Writing Twitter Threads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>DisplayName @username
Do I want to read a full length article in bite size chunks? That are sometimes arbitrarily
1/4<p>DisplayName @username
Split across a bunch of little cards with a number to piece them together at the bottom?
2/4<p>DisplayName @username
No, I do not.  It's a bunch of extraneous crap that I have to filter out to read the actual point
3/4<p>DisplayName @username
It is the wrong platform for that kind of content, and people are cramming it in anyway.
4/4</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:10:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333367</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333367</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Disney Plus to Raise Prices by $3 a Month as It Launches Tier with Ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just like on the Disney channel they don't have ads, they have programs "brought to you by our proud sponsor"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:46:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32426525</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32426525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32426525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Baserow challenges Airtable with an open source no-code database platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks.  I'll have to keep an eye on that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:26:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32001499</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32001499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32001499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "Baserow challenges Airtable with an open source no-code database platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I want an open source competitor to airtable.  I use airtable very minimally, but what I do is on my phone, and makes use of barcode reading via the camera.  I don't think any of the open alternatives support mobile, and I'm fairly certain none of them handle barcode reading (yet?).  So far I think I'm stuck with airtable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32001031</link><dc:creator>linuxdaemon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32001031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32001031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by linuxdaemon in "My quest for the perfect window manager (2004)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Specifically I am forced to use the horrible disaster that is MS Teams for work.  So far, screensharing on Wayland with electron-based apps doesn't work.</p>
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