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Can I downgrade from Plus to Standard?

Yes. To downgrade you must first make sure that your account meets the constraints of the Standard plan — meaning that you have only 1 remote vault with less than 1 GB used.

Based on how other subscriptions do this: "downgrading means downgrading at the end of your subscription or on renewal". Is this not a bit unfair? Users (me included) have already paid for the full subscription and even if one decides to downgrade, content is being taken away that was already paid for. I wanted to move down to the standard plan because I am not using it fully using and now changed to the standard plan thinking I'd keep plus at least until the end of what I've already paid for. Though that's not the case and now my pro subscription for the remainder of the time period was taken away.

Can this stance be changed so existing users can either double the remaining time or keep pro for the remaining time and downgrade once the paid for period is over?

Is it possible to introduce a trial? I'd want to make sure that the features work as described and am curious how smooth this works when not using your Macbook often. Like whether it will sync them in the background when the laptop is closed. Should I simply buy and go for a refund via Apple if it doesn't work out? Though I feel like this might be worse for you.

Tried it out just now as a free user and it synced thousands of completed reminders as `- [x] ...` for each. It's hard to make the jump to pay for this when I cannot test it out fully.

I've always been interested in these fintech APIs but wonder what competitive advantages the companies that build on this have compared to one another. What differentiates a company building on this from another company building on the same API? It seems like the execution would differentiate them the most? I feel like I am missing something here. Could someone enlighten me?

It might be worth mentioning LiteralStrings from [PEP 675](https://peps.python.org/pep-0675/) and how you should use them to prevent SQL injections. I'm not sure this blog adds much to the discussion when it comes to when to write SQL and when not to. It does not cover the struggles, the benefits, and the downfalls.

Why not use QMK [1]? Both of the author's keyboards (Anne Pro 2 and a TADA68) support QMK, there's a lot more to do with QMK, and it's on the keyboard itself.

[1] https://qmk.fm/

That is a very pessimistic way to view and discredit someone else's great achievement. I can definitely say that at least in Belgium, it is very possible to do this as a middle class family. Also to note that there are still sponsors who do help out as well.

Focusing on the important part again, hugely proud to see Belgium represented like this and to see the ambition of Zara.

I think this is due to how car dependent North America is. There are so many aspects that are missed in these pictures or what you are for example experiencing. It's not that you're situation is improving, it's most likely not. But that's not due to car independent cities being bad, it's because changing from being car dependent to car independent is hard and takes time.

I would recommend you have a look at Not Just Bikes on YouTube, a Canadian that moved to the Netherlands. He talks about car independent cities in Europe, more specifically The Netherlands and compares it to car dependent North America. Here is a video that talks about how these "car independent" countries are still the best to drive in compared to others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RRE2rDw4k.

Regardless, I would recommend you check out a few other of his videos, most importantly his series on the US non profit organisation "Strong Towns": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SXXTBypIg&list=PLJp5q-R0lZ.... It think it's about sharing the message that placing public transport, cyclists, and pedestrians in the forefront is better for almost everyone involved, including drivers, and especially people who live in cities and towns.

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I don't think this is as impressive as they think it is. On the contrary, this seems to be a very very small number that I wonder why it's mentioned in the first place. I don't use these GUI frontends, but if we ever want any Linux distro to be more user-friendly. Almost everything should be available.

Also I noticed that Elementary is taking a 30% cut (with a 50c minimum) which I find obnoxiously high. We have been complaining about Apple and Google, yet "we"(?) cannot seem to be doing better ourselves. It's a bit disappointing.

Definitely agree! I would recommend the YouTube channel "Not Just Bikes" which has a series about the book Strong Towns and in general focuses on better city planning: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0intLFzLaudFG-xAvUEO-A

The terrible layouts of US cities and neighbourhoods are what keep me in Europe. There is nothing you can do in the US without a car because it's so car dependent and it wastes so much time compared to walking or biking places. The beautifully walkable cities you find in Europe are so much more enjoyable to live in.

I am currently using Yabai without disabling system protection as my company would not approve of disabling system protection. I wish many of its features were possible without it. It's _better_ than nothing, but it's still pretty bad without disabling it.

Those all seem like features any modern programming language has. Nothing here particularly distinguishes PHP from the rest of the crowd. I don't think anyone is surprised by the fact that PHP has classes and some niche methods integrated in most standard libraries.

I would like to go one further and say most other more modern programming languages do each of these better. It's always a good idea to look what is beyond the horizon.

From what I hear, this isn't only about repairing iPhones. In a previous court proceedings the man was ordered to remove the logos from Apple because he imported the parts from China to refurbish iPhones. These were not genuine parts and they were being sold as refurbished iPhones.

This court case bas brought on by Apple because he did not properly remove the Apple logos. He used a permanent marker to "remove" them from the parts. Apple did not agree that this was a proper way to do it.

As much as I am for the rights to repair. I would say that Apple has some grounds here.

You can use networkd to make it easier, if you like using systemd that is.

Too bad that the owner/maintainer doesn't really like an open API. The only way to interact with the backend seems to be using the cli or trying to figure out the API yourself.

No, Go does not need this and I do not want it to get these useless "features". Go is simple and it gets things done with an amazing standard library. Use a different programming language if this does not suite you. Every programming language ends up with its own implementation of these "concepts" that it is hard to keep track. What is so difficult about for loops? It's simple for everyone and you don't need to learn new concepts because it works.

This looks interesting. For now I've been using the + suffix on my G Suite account: name+alias@example.com. The only downside to this is the fact that some websites don't have proper email validation and say that this email address is invalid.

I tried to use tmux as a terminal multiplexer on sway just so I could make it remember a setup of terminals for specific projects. That way I could simply do `tmux-command start project-name` and have it automatically open a setup of windows and panes. Though I found it unfortunate that I had to learn new shortcuts that are different for shortcuts elsewhere. A simple example but which was a deal breaker was in order to work with its clipboard system, you had to use different commands. Does someone with more knowledge of tmux know whether it's possible to get rid of the prefix command somehow? I know about the i3 version of tmuxinator, but it doesn't support sway unfortunately. I might make something to automatically open a list of windows on a specific workspace for sway.

Could we talk about how horrible Tumblr's "privacy form" is? It is literally impossible to decline.

I wholeheartedly agree with you. I'm not using another email client because I don't want a dumbed down version. I simply want a less buggy and faster feeling Thunderbird. Just some polish here and there.

I use Thunderbird on Linux.

I'm moving soon and could use the multicurrency support. I'm also graduating college so got to do all of this on my own now, I guess I'm your perfect new customer. Compared to all of the other apps, why would I for example choose you? Do you also have some more information on the credit card linking? Do you support debit cards? This is crucial to be honest. And what about UK bank accounts?

Am I wrong to think that Thunderbird development still seems so slow? As far as I understand, they put a new team in charge. But since January this is the first new release and it doesn't look like much has been added/changed:

- New app menu

- Preferences in a tab

- "Full color support"

- Better dark theme

- Attachment management

- "Filelink improved"

I've been using Thunderbird for a few years now and I still feel like it's just not as good intuitive as for example Apple Mail. You need addons to have proper threading support, it looks so ugly on anything but Linux (as it's a GTK app so you can change it), Exchange support is lackluster (I get constant disconnect messages even though it's fine just minutes later), and just generally using it is not convenient which I cannot even begin to describe.

I'd love to pay for Thunderbird if it makes for a proper development cycle with fresh updates that are actually useful.

I've used them all: Postman, Insomnia, Paw, and other online web apps. Unfortunately none come close to being usable for large APIs imo. Some of the problems I faced off the top of my head (it's almost 2 years ago now since I tried them all though, but I haven't seen much change to be honest):

Insomnia: doesn't really have any support for documentation stuff. It is just an HTTP client that if you share your workspace with your team, is some kind of documentation. But you cannot share this outside of your organisation.

Postman: their documentation implementation seems one of the better ones, but Postman itself just isn't very DRY. For example we have a slightly different authentication scheme which isn't supported so we had to add a simple Javascript snippet to each request, but keeping all of them updated is impossible. I personally also wasn't a big fan of their client and it's not very user-friendly imo.

Paw: honestly pretty good. I asked them a few years ago to implement this and keep me posted. They eventually implemented some documentation stuff, but it's proprietary and using a plugin to convert to RAML or something else is a pain. When I used it, it also wasn't very expansive. It also faces the same problem as Insomnia: you are not able to share it outside your team. Though it also requires everyone to buy Paw and own a Mac. I switched to Linux a few years ago and so don't use my account anymore, that I paid for.

OpenAPI/Swagger: OpenAPI itself is great, but the website GUI that Swagger converts it to is basically useless for large APIs. You cannot nest anything and it is not very good for public documentation.

RAML: I personally love this syntax the most. Though there barely is any support for it. You cannot find any mature library or application that can convert it to actual usable documentation pages. It's also honestly a big pain to write all of the documentation at once.

BlueprintAPI: this is just way too barebones. I immediately stopped using it after trying it.

There were some others I tried, none really noteworthy. It's been a while as well so it's possible that some of my opinions are out of date.

If you were to compare it to the new Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 which uses a 10th gen Intel chip and is marketed to have 17 hours of battery life, I think it'd be more than twice as powerful and that one would last just as long if not longer. But again, that might be an apples to oranges comparison with the different chip generations. But Apple always is a bit behind on adopting those new chips.

We also found time and time again that it was faster than opencl for what we were trying to do and the hardware available to us on cloud providers was Nvidia GPUs.

Were some benchmarks done perhaps or could you provide some more low-level reasons as to why CUDA was more performant? I'm not experienced with CUDA, just generally interested.

I also have to say that I am a bit skeptical of Nvidia as I have never received any proper support for Linux development on Nvidia GPUs for drivers and generally tracking bugs on their cards. It was so frustrating that I just switched to AMD GPUs that "just worked". How is this different for these kinds of use cases? Does Nvidia only care about their potential enterprise customers but they don't care about general usage of their GPUs on Linux? It seems to rub me the wrong way and I don't understand.

Looks really nice. I am wondering who is reading eBooks on their computer though. Isn't it annoying to be reading a whole book on your computer?

I'm using Mattermost for communicating with one team and I absolutely hate it. It feels so completely unfinished, like it's some kind of proof-of-concept? I don't mean to diss on Mattermost, I'm actually very excited to see them getting funding as Slack has like their name implies: slacking. What has Slack done over these past few years? Exactly, nothing! I don't mean that good software needs to keep updating, no not at all. It's just Slack can improve so much and it's just sitting there. I am really looking forward to replacing Slack with something else.

For all of the people going to suggest Matrix or something else to me, hold your breath. The reason I haven't switched is because communities haven't switched and neither have companies.

Why did you finish the book? I just don't finish the books that I find a drag to read. I won't listen to the podcast, but everyone is free to have their own opinions.

Why everyone is recommending even more work for on your summer leave is beyond me. I'd personally recommend Ready Player One, perhaps use an audiobook (I love them). I personally listened to the one voiced by Wil Wheaton and it was fantastically done. Definitely recommended! It is a lot better than the movie in case you're wondering.

I'm moving to the UK soon and was looking at Monzo for my bank. Looking at Monzo, not Revolut, and others, which ones would everyone here recommend for bank accounts, debit cards, and credit cards?