m5r

I was halfway across the world when I needed to make a lot of phone calls to my bank back home. So I pulled up Twilio's docs and built this app to make phone calls and send SMS from anywhere.

I tried monetizing it by selling it to digital nomads but this kind of problem is not recurring enough or painful enough to justify them paying for it So I ended up open sourcing it

Comment · 3 years ago

A study about this from researchers based in Netherlands was recently linked to on HN. They found a correlation between a drop in juvenile crimes following a GTA release.

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Comment · 3 years ago

You're being overly optimistic. I wasted half a day trying to dual boot arch alongside my existing windows 10 install on a dell xps 9700 a few months after it got released in 2020. I could not even get a DE working because of some issue with my dGPU driver. I had my fair share of driver issues with manjaro as well but it was much easier to get going than arch despite the rich wiki.

I can imagine it's easier to install on older~ hardware with no dual boot though.