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fold3 | 2 years ago | on: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

To be fair, It's more comparable to MP3 players in the 50 to 100 usd range. (See zishan, f.audio, hiby, shanling, fiio, xduoo) The difference is it is using open source hardware and software. Chinese MP3 players have little repairability, limited to no modding and a terrible OS. This tries to fix that. Still expensive in my opinion but I'm waiting to see if people make interesting things out of it.

fold3 | 2 years ago | on: Mastodon Is the Good One

Mastodon is hard to use because people using social media don't expect to read anything before starting to use a service. TikTok, Instagram,etc really succeeded in frying people's brain over their addictive patterns.

Just the idea of a protocol that can be interacted with over different clients and different instances is hard to grasp.

IMO, Mastodon has to find ways to be more accessible in the onboarding process without compromising on the decentralization feature.

But it's not easy to do that without text?

fold3 | 2 years ago | on: F-Droid: Android FOSS app store

I could not make it work. Did you had to do anything special?

From what I learned, only apps that target Android 12and above could have this background update feature. I'm on Android 13 but none of the apps I use updated. I had to switch back to using the f-droid privileged extension.

fold3 | 2 years ago | on: APCA Contrast Calculator

Accessible Contrast Relative to Font Size and Weight APCA reports lightness contrast as an Lc value from Lc 0 to Lc 106 for dark text on a light background, and Lc 0 to Lc -108 for light text on a dark background (dark mode). The minus sign merely indicates negative contrast, which means light text on a dark background.

fold3 | 2 years ago | on: First automatic JPEG-XL cloud service

Iirc, cjxl is smart enough to do it automatically.

cjxl input.jpg output.jxl

The cjxl --help and cjxl -v -v --help pages are very well done and you'll find the option to explicitly set the option on if you wish to do so.

fold3 | 2 years ago | on: E-ink is so Retropunk

From what I know the improvement is minor but noticable. There is less ghosting, a bit more contrast and it's more reactive to the touch. The newer models can even play videos half decently (i.e. you can somewhat understand what's going on on the screen)

fold3 | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server

I use this as a docker instance running on my old laptop. It just took a minute to set up and works really well. The sync is as good as apple notes or whatever commercial software there is.

Only issue is i could not sync with an old iphone running iOS 12.

fold3 | 2 years ago | on: JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going

Even if JPEG-XL could be considered only 'marginally' better than JPEG, and as good or even worse than avif/webP in some specific context, it is unique in the fact that it can also do lossless, HDR, extremely high res, complex color channels, generation loss protection, multi layers, advanced authoring features, etc... It's not a format only meant for the web but plenty of other use cases such as in science, medecine, art print, etc.

And not only that, it's reasonably fast to encode on consumer hardware.

JPEG XL has the ambition to supplant all the images formats of the next 20+years.

fold3 | 2 years ago | on: Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul

It's not about the meaning, more about the vibe and how the vibe is delivered. Just read those tweets as you would read a collection of poems. While poetry more often try to give a feeling of beauty, dril tweets are mostly to make you feel funny or laugh.

fold3 | 2 years ago | on: Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface

I really like it, it's fresh and friendly. it has a narrow option to have that compact spacing like iosevka which is my favorite. I can't use regular width font anymore after being use to narrow width.
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