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New comment by nout in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

nout — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:54:19 +0000

I actually like the conventions. Movie name and a year in parentheses and then it can be whatever. E.g.

Movie (2016).whatever.zzz/whatever.mkv

New comment by nout in "Introduction to Obsidian"

nout — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:34:43 +0000

It's like the people that build their complex arch based linux distro just to run neofetch and btop.

New comment by nout in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

nout — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:33:44 +0000

Jellyfin is great in that it just works. I managed to install it on Samsung TV with Tizen OS and it has been just solid experience for many years now.

New comment by nout in "Introduction to Obsidian"

nout — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:09:23 +0000

My suggestions to new users are: Start small, just create notes for whatever you want to (actually) remember and create impromptu TODO lists. Ignore the whole Knowledge Database / second brain thing. Learn the obsidian keyboard shortcuts really well. You can build a structure in your notes later when you actually see what's good and what needs automation.

New comment by nout in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

nout — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:23:28 +0000

That's... literally the point I just made in my reply?

New comment by nout in "Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war"

nout — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:48:45 +0000

I think the main cause (that's actually quite anti-capitalist) is that banks and people at power have the ability to create money out of nothing, to lend the money into existence, while devaluing everyone else.

It was very interesting to me where I finally understood how banks (and the overall system) create money. As a bank you start with 0 money, you lend 100 to some person that you "deposit" into their account at your bank. So now on your books you have 100 in liabilities (the money that the person has in your account) and 100 in assets (the money the person owes you). So accounting is balanced. You did not need money to start with, as a bank you just "lend it into existence".

New comment by nout in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

nout — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:45:40 +0000

Unrelated comment nudging people to use nostr instead of the centralized established solution.

New comment by nout in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

nout — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:27:36 +0000

If any major nostr relay goes down, no one notices. That has happened many times, the network is very resilient to that.

New comment by nout in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

nout — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:25:52 +0000

The comparison here is to something like TCP/IP. TCP/IP never goes down. TCP/IP is a protocol, the servers may go down and cause disruption, but the protocol doesn't really have the ability to "go down". Nostr is also a protocol. The communication on top of Nostr is pretty resilient compared to other solutions though, so that's the main highlight here.

If tens of servers go down, then some people may start noticing a bit of inconvenience. If hundreds of servers go down, then some people may need to coordinate out of bound on what relays to use, but it still generally speaking works ok.

New comment by nout in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

nout — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:45:12 +0000

Use both. These do different things.

New comment by nout in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

nout — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:40:09 +0000

How do you get it running on Android?

New comment by nout in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

nout — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:31:30 +0000

And our AIs can give us insight into what is the highest salary that the given company can offer.

New comment by nout in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

nout — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:28:06 +0000

It's just that pico8 has much larger ecosystem. There's a new great game almost every day. It is sort of annoying that it's not FOSS, but on the other hand the team/author has sustainable business.

New comment by nout in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

nout — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:17:18 +0000

Am I really the first one to mention pico8 in this thread? Anyway, pico8 is another option that has a bit different spin, but you also implement the games in Lua :)

New comment by nout in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

nout — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:44:11 +0000

I think more folks are now interested in the "Linux" or "Graphene" market and since the phone hardware development is not as rapid as it used to be (from 1yr cycle to more than 2yr cycle), I think this gives more stability and wiggle room for folks to do Linux and/or Graphene. I'm patiently waiting for what happens with the Motorola + Graphene integration/plan. If they provide good hardware + preinstalled Graphene, I'd buy it.

New comment by nout in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

nout — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:31:57 +0000

It took me a while to orient myself on that picture, until I realized where Spain is... :)

New comment by nout in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

nout — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:35:43 +0000

It's interesting that the package managers become choke points that can be used for government overreach. Luckily Linux is open source so I expect there will be options that just don't do this from principle.

Otherwise my Intel NUC server with Debian is 2 years old, so I expect the honest age would be 2 years? I may have parts for some old PCs to put together that could get adult software I guess...

New comment by nout in "AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers"

nout — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:05:49 +0000

With AI you can do that, or smaller companies can do that. It levels the field.

New comment by nout in "Android Developer Verification"

nout — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:00:01 +0000

That's seriously horrible. There are 5+ open source android apps that I use and want to continue using that are not available on Play Store, but rather through alternative stores (like Zapstore, Obtainium).

If I get a phone with preinstalled Graphene OS (like the upcoming Motorola phone), then does it avoid this stupidity? Or even with Graphene it prevents me from installing apks?

New comment by nout in "Android Developer Verification"

nout — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:54:28 +0000

EU is schizophrenic enough that it often produces very conflicting directions, opinions and policies.

One thing EU loves is regulation though, so I expect they will introduce preemptive regulations to enforce strict ID verification as well as regulations to fine big companies for breaching user privacy with strict ID verification policies.