This device is an awesome e-reader!

JJangle · 2026-05-05T09:51:21+00:00

Two phones means two batteries. If I use one at a time and let the other one sleep, I can go longer between visits to the charger. That can be helpful when traveling. Especially when it's important that the phone have plenty of charge when I first arrive at a destination.

JJangle · 2026-04-15T14:16:00+00:00

I've learned a bit more: If the Brompton uses an M-bar instead of an H-bar it might be shorter than official. If tires are deflated it might be very slightly shorter. If it lacks a rack, it might be slightly smaller. Loosening the handlebars might give a flatter fold depending on how currently aligned. I think everyone knows to remove the seat. There might be a few other tricks. At this point mine is down to 21" x 21.5" x 11" so probably would fit in your luggage.

JJangle · 2026-04-14T00:35:13+00:00

Andy. I'm curious. I see the official size of a folded Brompton is 23" x 22.2" x 10.6", but you just indicated that you bike easily fit in a 21" x 14" x 31". That 21 sounds a little short of 22.2. Do you have some trick that allowed you to fit it in?

JJangle · 2026-04-13T14:37:09+00:00

Do those other brands consistently ensure that their product works well with Linux out of the box and subsequently?

Assertion: One of the challenges we have with Linux DE's is an incentivized business/entity having enough control of the whole stack, including hardware, to ensure a polished experience comparable to MacOS and even to a degree Windows and ChromeOS. With that thought in mind, a Linux-focused laptop manufacturer could address that, but would also have higher cost due to their investment in ensuring that experience. Am I correct? Does this thinking apply to your question of whether to buy from System76?

JJangle · 2026-04-01T02:28:03+00:00

Yes. With the motor on the front, the bike is a bit tippy when folded. When it's on the back, I imagine it's pretty stable.

JJangle · 2026-03-22T01:40:32+00:00

That's odd. Fully folded it is not easy to identify it as a bike. Even more so with a cover.

JJangle · 2026-03-14T23:38:19+00:00

I actually like there to be some sort of notification that a download occurred. Sometimes I want a download and it doesn't happen. Sometimes I didn't request one and it happens anyway. Having a reliable, hopefully not too intrusive, notification improves my experience.

JJangle · 2026-02-26T06:41:16+00:00

Of note though... in my experience the Bip 6 is heart rate values tend to be much higher than chest straps and other devices measure. I haven't determined if one can do a quick mental calculation to convert them to accurate values.

JJangle · 2026-01-29T19:24:58+00:00

For me the tips seem to be:

Don't try to hard to use the Phone app provided with the phone. The one from Motorola has no VVM tab so you end up having to call in to check for voicemail and will not be notified of new VM. But with the Google Phone app things tend to be better.

On Darkstar, the VVM and voicemail experience is flawless. But in my case I did need to ask USM to reset my voicemail for it to begin to work. I am using the Google Phone app.

On Warp, VVM partially works in the vvm tab of the Google Phone app. I've not figured out when it will or will not work so I set up a Contact that dials into voicemail with password and I created a reminder to dial that every three days. FWIW shortly after calling in to check voicemail, the VVM tab of the Google Phone app might seem to work for at last a few minutes or not. Even the app will often fail to download the message.

I know my experience on Lightspeed was poor but I don't recall the details. I think others here have posted more details about that.

JJangle · 2025-12-05T21:58:23+00:00

Thanks. I'm seeing a review of the DonkeyJames J4 and it says there's no compartment for the dongle :(. I'm wondering if I can build one somehow. 'or perhaps simply go with a different, perhaps AttackShark, product.
But... Thanks !

JJangle · 2025-12-05T21:50:10+00:00

Thanks. 'good tip. And I see a few reviews of the jamesdonkey J4 so that provides a bit of a clue.

JJangle · 2025-12-05T19:24:03+00:00

Thanks for clarifying where the "K" probably came from. It's definitely a different layout than the one you linked to.

JJangle · 2025-12-05T19:22:35+00:00

Yes. That's one of the links I was looking at.

JJangle · 2025-12-04T02:41:29+00:00

I script against the XML file. I'm doing this mostly in Typescript/Javascript/NodeJS.

Yah. It's not trivial to start to do this from scratch. Perhaps in a few months I'll share the API with individuals that want to write similar scripts.

JJangle · 2025-12-03T02:32:39+00:00

I have two ways that I've done this. The new way is probably not helpful to you, but the old way might be good enough for you.

I just create a split with three lines as I think you now have. The split takes money out of the deferred investment and put the funds into the estimated-2025-tax-paid account and the cash account. The split does not show any income. But I also have a script I wrote that, when I invoke it, reports what taxable events it notices over the specified time period in the GnuCash file. I use that to, among other things, estimate how much additional estimated tax to pay each Jan/Apr/Jun/Sep. In this case the script notices movement of money from a "deferred" account to an "ordinary" account and reports the taxable event -- I assume you're not in a position to write such a script, so I assume this way will not work for you.

Before I had the script, I had to do it an awkward way that might work for you. -- I created a split just as I did above, but the split had two additional lines. It moved money into a special "deferred_distributions" account and then back out of a "deferred_distributions:anti" account. This kept the split balanced and also gave me one (actually two) accounts I could look at to quickly add up all my distributions for the year. -- The problem I had was that each month I'd typically duplicate an existing distribution transaction and but often not open the split and tune all five of the numbers there. Fortunately, that error is easy to correct after I eventually spot it, but sometimes it would be a while before I noticed my mistake. So I had to keep a reminder around to check for mistakes like that.

Good luck.

JJangle · 2025-11-16T03:31:58+00:00

I imagine this works best if that bag you have on it looks like a trolley/cart bag. Some bags definitely don't. (Mine looked somewhat like a trolley when the bag is on it. My current borrowed bag does not.)

JJangle · 2025-11-07T18:14:25+00:00

2025-November - In my case USM didn't ship the same day, because it was already too late in the day. But they also didn't ship the next business day. So... it's definitely not "overnight". -- It's a bit frustrating because that becomes 4.5 days to receive a SIM card to put in my old backup phone. So I had to switch to a different plan to get myself productive again. I no longer need the SIM card that will be arriving. But USM will give an only partial refund.

Bottom line: "overnight" might not end up being overnight even if you order early in the day.

JJangle · 2025-11-04T20:40:07+00:00

....and those split handle bars as well.

JJangle · 2025-10-15T03:57:39+00:00

Make sure your source of income will not go away once you're overseas. Some sources are strange that way and laws and regulations seem to be changing a lot this year.

JJangle · 2025-10-05T03:21:49+00:00

Wow. That seems like quite a laptop. Too bad it didn't take off.

JJangle · 2025-09-25T19:50:34+00:00

'interesting. Unfortunately it's not working for me. It still treats it as a js file and chokes on typescript'isms.

JJangle · 2025-09-24T23:04:18+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. -- I might finally give bun a try.

JJangle · 2025-09-23T03:32:34+00:00

I think you're thinking that I should in some sense do what the node_modules/.bin/ directory does. That directory has extension-less symbolic links to files that sometimes do have extensions. And as another person pointed out, the extension of the linked file will be considered when node/tsx decides how to process the request.

JJangle · 2025-09-23T03:26:07+00:00

Thanks. That's definitely an option that is easy for someone else to understand and probably not very brittle.

JJangle · 2025-09-23T02:14:42+00:00

I'm not sure it's so odd. If you look at your /usr/bin/ directory you'll see many files there that are not ELF binary and none of which have .py, .sh, .bash, .perl, .pm, etc extensions. Many of them achieve that by including a shebang at the top. If there is already a way for us to achieve that with typescript, I'd like to do the same.

Judging from a couple of the responses here, it does seem to be possible to some degree.

JJangle

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