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I've been looking at eink monitors for a while, but specifically waited for the modos flow.

  - No barrel connector for power! This is huge and why I did not buy a dasung
  - Mostly (?) open source
  - The UI/UX seems already very polished for the alpha version according to some reviews

Too bad they don't offer a B/W version with the frontlight. From what I understand the readability in normal daylight is much better without the colour (filters). Going from my experience with my e-reader I would not want to miss the front light.

Hopefully it gets backed and I'll be able to see if I can make it productive for coding and writing at the end of the year.

My wife moved to Belgium for me 8 years ago and also has dual citizenship. She assumed it would be fine to travel on Belgium passport + ETA but that's not allowed.

She also had to go through a very expensive process to renew her British passport last minute.

Silly system.

It's such a nightmare at my current job as well. Everything always just breaks and needs investigating how to fix.

Even putting aside the MITM and how horrendous that is, the amount of time lost from people dealing with the fallout got to have cost so much time (and money). I can't fathom why anyone competent would want to implement this, let alone not see how much friction and safety issues it causes everywhere.

I really like the new way the 'undo' works, it's much more intuitive! Especially combined with the redo it will give me even more confidence to play around.

The whole operation log was already so nice. It's saved me a few times when I did some stupid things, but also invited me to experiment and learn :).

I have been super happy to discover jj a few months ago. I am on the path to go from barely getting by with git ui's to be able to do vcs magic with jj.

I'm in a very similar situation: been using git for a long time, but anything more complicated always via some kind of UI (often intellij).

Been using jj without significant issues for about a month and been super happy to be comfortable using the cli and slowly ramping up to more complicated operations.

The documentation still assumes a lot of inherent knowledge which sometimes makes it a little difficult. I love seeing blog posts like these and hopefully some more in depth resources will appear over time. Steve's guide is good, but there are still gaps for me :).

Next I want to learn some more revset language and become a bit more fluent with rebase operations. I love the more simplified cli, conflict resolution and op log!

I love the idea of litestream and litefs and do use it for some smaller projects, but have also been worried it was abandoned. The line is quite thin between "done" and "not maintained".

There clearly still is some untapped potential in this space, so I am glad benbjohnson is exploring and developing these solutions.

Great that the new release will offer the ability to replicate multiple database files.

> Modern object stores like S3 and Tigris solve this problem for us: they now offer conditional write support

I hope this won't be a hard requirement, since some S3 compatible storage do not have this feature (yet). I also do use the SFTP storage option currently.

I have the same issue, but the other way around. I cannot charge my laptop (framework 13, amd) from my power bank. Which sometimes would be super useful.

I don't know nor understand why it doesn't work and if it's a bug in the power bank or the laptop

For this cold spell it's a little too late, but the solution for this to add some heat-coil/heat-wire on the bottom of the heat-pump housing that you can activate in those conditions.

The issue is that the defrost mode will defrost all the ice from the fins, but it freezes again before it can all drain through the small drain hole on the bottom of the housing. It's somewhat a known issue with air source heat pumps, sadly. I've not run into this issue myself, but on a Dutch speaking forum (tweakers) there is a long thread about this modification to "survive" the cold spells with this small modification.

You can manually attack the ice with a heating gun or hair dryer to remove it, but that's a faffy.

I think manufacturers should, and probably will, add something like this themselves in the future.

I wanted to like atuin. The idea is great. But it just could not match the instant search that ctrl-r with fzf offers sadly. There is always a noticeable delay that annoyed me and made me revert back to fzf for search.

For me another issue was that I needed to do more keystrokes for the same behaviour (search a previously ran command and execute it).

Fuzzy shell history search is just one of those mind-blowing things. I love my history, it's such a trove and I can trust it to work as some kind of external memory (it's enough to vaguely know the kubectl command, or that I want to "du -h | sort" to see what is using disk space, etc).

I also wondered the same and could not recognize any of the normal speed cubing methods.

On computers, with a real keyboard, I prefer blank keycaps. I don't mind a qwerty layout, I just set it to dvorak in software.

I've been using dvorak for 10+ years now and have always used it on my (Android) phone as input method too. In my experience it's not a positive nor a negative to use dvorak on a mobile phone. My brain is so used to dvorak now that I just keep it on dvorak.

I'm intrigued by your number. That's less then 1000 kWh per year. Given that you say you do use 'modern appliances' like dishwasher and a washing machine it seems extremely low.

I have a fairly small house, with only 2 adults, that's full electric (appliances, cooking, hot water, heating). We have a dishwasher (used every other day) and we also use a washing machine (and sadly often the heat pump dryer because there is no space for a drying rack).

We use, all in, about 4000 kWh/year. About 750 to 1000 of that is for heating the house and hot water. My idle usage is higher then your average, which is somewhat crazy. I have about 30-40W for the ventilation system, about 20W for modem/router/wap, 10W for home server and the rest is for fridge/freezer I guess.

Even just cooking on the induction hob, or using the (electric oven) will already blow your entire day budget. Let alone a dishwasher or washing machine cycle.

I'm fully aware that the biggest improvement can be made in being aware of your usage (which I am, I monitor it carefully) and try to be more mindful about it. Yet it's not easy to lower the numbers significant.

Some years ago, as a single, I also was (well) below 1000 kWh/year. But that was without a dishwasher, or dryer. And generally cooking less often/fancy then my wife currently does. Work from home with 2 adults (with big monitors, a beefy desktop, etc) also adds energy usage.