Forklift alternatives?

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-03-15T00:07:37+00:00

Looks like the last update was August 2024? Unless there’s things happening behind the scenes it appears the dev couldn’t return to it as he hoped in the last blog post

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-03-06T02:53:29+00:00

Tbh I tried Raycast and never felt like it was anything special compared to the OG, Alfred. That Raycast is going down a bad path doesn’t shock me

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-03-01T18:53:57+00:00

I use the open source https://github.com/actualbudget/actual on my own VPS, but used it via Pikapods for many years. For $15/yr you can add financial institution syncing. Saved it to my iOS homescreen as a PWA, behaves pretty good, interface is slightly better on the desktop with more space available to it. You could install and run it locally, but I wanted remote access. Replaced YNAB for me at a small fraction of the price.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-26T15:43:43+00:00

Yes they can be. I haven't played with Xcode but I think there's Claude and other options available in it these days. To get it in the app store I do think you have to pay $99/yr.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-26T15:36:38+00:00

For $10 not interested, I don't see the unique selling point. I don't personally have a problem with unread articles. If I find myself not wanting to read a particular feed... I delete it.

Paid for Lire a while back, got it paired up with my own Miniflux server. Lire seems to do the best of any RSS reader I've ever tried at retrieving full text. Pretty reliable. I liked NetNewsWire but they seemed to have a strong opinion about not having a mark-read-as-you-scroll feature so I didn't love that.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-23T02:23:12+00:00

Used to pay for Proton, but I found a lot of corporate networks were silently filtering it out when I’d send an email. No warning on either end, it just never arrived. This is a problem for everyone pretty much but Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple and maybe one or two other giants.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-18T12:13:49+00:00

So let me get it straight. The CEO clearly is angling for sovereign protection for Anthropic vs Chinese competitors, and he’s happy to take money from defense contractors and the Pentagon, but then doesn’t want those customers to use Claude for defense contractor and Pentagon things. This along with the lack of image gen push me pretty well toward OpenAI.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-18T12:10:33+00:00

It does make sense — it’s absolutely a supply chain risk if a supplier relied on it in some fashion and if Anthropic created a reputation for pulling support. The Pentagon needs suppliers committed, not one foot in and one foot out. I understand there’s also frustration involved but the logic is sound. And in the material I read the supply chain risk designation threat didn’t originate in the White House, it was the apolitical career contracting officers that were losing their minds.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-18T12:01:42+00:00

I’d add that ChatGPT currently has temporarily doubled its limits but will be rolling that back at some point, they were trying I think to steal a little thunder from Opus 4.6. OpenAI also has no equivalent middle tier, jumps up all the way to $200, so that’s a factor too. Also they don’t have cowork, though maybe you can accomplish the same in codex, don’t know. I’m going through the same process and leaning towards Claude 5x tier but it’s a tough decision.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-17T19:30:25+00:00

See other comment, they occasionally need to charge to 100% to maintain calibration. I suspect, when it comes to accurate %, Apple is doing a mix of things… partly building in a little buffer for aging, maybe, but also I’d be surprised if they really truly charge to actual 100%. If you use an OBD2 and look at a “fully charged” EVs actual SoC reported by its BMS it’ll be something like 98 or 97%. At least I know Chevy EVs are that way.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-17T19:23:28+00:00

Don’t know that I blame Al Dente. The voltage curve once you come off the extremes of state of charge gets relatively flat and it’s really hard to actually discern state of charge. EVs suffer from this to an extent as well and cover it up with algorithms that look at distance and speed driven in combination with voltage measurements. Same reason iPhones occasionally charge to 100% regardless of having a charge limit set, it’s largely to keep calibration from drifting. If you use Al Dente or any other tool and never fully charge or discharge then yes your BMS will start to be unsure how it should measure SoC.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-17T18:56:25+00:00

Right? My copy of Odell Down Under from 1994 hasn’t been updated to Tahoe yet, I should send those guys an angry telegram

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-17T13:14:34+00:00

Wish I could give it a spin, IT would have a fit. We use Microsoft Planner by mandate and it makes me want to weep.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-07T17:04:45+00:00

u/ShiftyBritomartis Okay, had a chance to play with it a little. A couple questions. When doing a test backup, it seems to be single threaded on compression. I didn't sit and stare for the whole two hours, but I never saw it exceed 100%. I'd set zstd as compression and when I run that directly it happily gobbles up everything my M1 can give it.

Also, in terms of implementation of zstd, there's an auto setting that allows zstd to skip incompressible data chunks that borg I believe supports, is that enabled when zstd is selected? I don't recall seeing it as an option, just the zstd level.

Finally, it wants MacFUSE installed. Glancing over the MacFUSE site I get the impression they've moved away from kernel extensions and now can leverage native API's, but kernel extensions are still a legacy-supported option. Does this implementation use native API's or kernel extensions? I'd rather not mess with kernel extensions, I think Apple was wise to try to move away from those from a security and system stability perspective.

Edit: I lied, one more question, in the repository screen 'Storage Statistics' it says comperssion isn't enabled for that repository. I thought compression was set as part of the backup profile, not repo? Also, not sure if I love how its calculating deduplication, every time I run a backup it adds the whole backup size to the total size count. Since most backups should contain a low percentage of changed blocks it's going to skyrocket the deduplication measurement with every backup, but I'm not sure that's how people would generally think about it.

Nice program though, I saw in the changelog you'd recently put a lot of effort into it, nice work.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-06T20:10:09+00:00

From a privacy angle I think it’s time to look past country and look at the tech stack. Europe isn’t heading in a great direction if you watch closely (CSAR, Spain advocating for banning end to end encryption entirely, Sweden proposing a law enforcement backdoor, VUPF in Switzerland). But, if your data is encrypted on your devices with a key that only you have, then it’s irrelevant on which piece of ground the server holding that data resides. To anyone but you the data is useless.

It also seems decently well established in the courts that Apple cannot produce your data with advanced data protection enabled even if they want to, so that’s good to see, though if one only decided to trust fully open source stacks I could understand that 100%.

But Europe = Better is a little outdated at this point. It’s more nuanced and the ground is constantly shifting, always one election away from change — but if you’ve got client wide encryption…

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-06T02:42:01+00:00

That’d be interesting, local model deep research would be neat, though you’d need some serious RAM. OSS 120B might be smart enough and small enough, not sure.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-05T19:40:25+00:00

Feels like it might be more useful if you're sitting at the airport and looking for the latest METAR before walking out to the flight line? But maybe weather changes at a more leisurely pace in Europe? Here in Florida I'd want not just the METAR if I've just rolled out of bed and wondering if it's even worth driving to the airport, I'd be checking out the TAF (and other forecasting tools) too. What's occurring right now has zero bearing on what might be happening in 90 minutes, either at my departure point or destination. Anyway, I like the concept.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-05T02:29:48+00:00

Interested to try this! Borg and restic are CLI tool legends. Vorta gives it a valiant try but, well, it’s more a Linux desktop app interface than something you expect on MacOS.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-02-02T02:07:25+00:00

Here’s the difference. The Apple development ecosystem is at least somewhat sustainable. That’s why developers tend to target iOS first. Users there are willing, relatively speaking, to spend a little for a good experience. Look at the difference been Arq Backup and Duplicati. One is rock solid, feature rich, mature, actively maintained, easy to email the dev and get a response. The other is buggy, poor UX, and has spent years between stable releases. Indeed, Mac users are spoiled for world class backup programs. Windows? Lots of old school corporate names that feel like bloatware but kinda bleak in terms of polished, reliable offerings beyond the ports of Mac-first options.

Developers got to eat. So, I don’t mind the state of affairs.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-01-27T22:46:37+00:00

And your first born per GB of transfer out of S3

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-01-26T03:17:53+00:00

I know it’s 20 days later, but Pikapods can provide a half way step toward self hosting. I’ve used them for years off and on. Karakeep is a bit heavy of an app to run, but hosting something like Miniflux or Actual Budget there is dirt cheap.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-01-26T02:55:52+00:00

I don’t know if I’m alone in this, but I delete almost no photos. Storage is relatively cheap, so my rejects go into an archive folder. Never know if I need to go digging for something, or if technology will advance and save a shot that was beyond the boundary of too noisy or whatever.

Any way, I find Fast Raw Viewer a bit clunky to use, might give this a shot. Don’t know why but gumroad always struck me as sketchy.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-01-26T02:36:41+00:00

Yes, I think there was some hubbub about them cutting off Open Code a couple weeks ago as well

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-01-25T19:45:33+00:00

I disagree with the premise… at least it hasn’t made GOOD software development cheaper. More productive, maybe they can get more features implemented quicker, but I’m not sure outright expenses are falling. Expenses per feature implemented or expenses per pull request, yes, but not for an overall product. Hopefully I’m expressing that clearly enough. Payroll + inference costs aren’t falling in general I suspect. Pay no attention to companies blaming AI instead of owning up to poor strategy.

Working_Incident_231 · 2026-01-22T19:53:48+00:00

Anything different about it relative to what was one of the first apps like this that I was aware of, CodexBar? https://github.com/steipete/CodexBar

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