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Even with the link it makes no sense to route Ukrainian traffic all the way back to the US. All they'll do is route to the nearest downlink. Otherwise the intra-sat connections will become a bottleneck, not to mention the added latency.
Thanks!! I donate to FreeBSD too, and it even runs my daily desktop. Thanks to people like you who keep it funded.
If you advert suggests you are about to go under, but in reality you are spending money left right and center on various other charities, with only vaguely related mission statements, then you are taking advantage of the god will of your donators, that is the problem here.
This, totally. That's the reason for me too.
They do good work but the way they ask really ticks me off. And it's been like this forever, when they still featured the sad-sam Jimmy Wales pic.
They do great work but I'll rather give to archive.org that also do amazing and important work, need it a lot more and don't cry about it so much.
As hardware owner I disagree.
Both personally and as part of the management team of 150.000 computers at work, we don't use this stuff there either.
But who cares? Why not just let the command figure out the right buffer size automatically?
Well, because it doesn't. At least on the Linux version I used in the past, it defaulted to 512 byte blocks or something similarly small and it commits every block individually, leading to really slow performance with USB sticks with controllers not smart enough to bundle writes together. I wouldn't be surprised if that incurs some heavy write amplification at flash level too. Perhaps it's smart enough to figure a better block size now but this is where that habit comes from.
Another thing, creating sparse files with the seek option (simply put files containing zeros that are not actually written to the disk nor taking space, but do turn up all these zeroes when you read the file). Also something not duplicated with cat or head.
What I like about dd is that it can do pretty much all disk operations in one simple tool. Definitely worth learning all of it IMO.
Yeah it surprises me that 10 euros seems to be the minimum for pretty much every online service now.
For 10 euro you can get Netflix, Spotify. My Ring security subscription is also a tenner. Pretty much everything that has a subscription model targets 10 euro as a minimum. I don't really know why, all these tenners add up a lot. I'm even dropping Spotify now some months (especially because when I drop it, the next month they offer me 3 months for a tenner to come back, which I find a lot more reasonable as I don't use it much).
Kagi does really sound like it is easier to provide and should not cost as much. It feels like they are expecting super-heavy users. Their 50 free searches a month is not enough for me but I could probably do with 100 or 200. But there is no intermediate subscription, it's just 50 free or unlimited for a tenner.
But the fediverse doesn't use any algorithms, it just shows you what/who you subscribe to. This is the way social media should be. If I don't want to see something or someone I can just block them.
It's only gone downhill since the sites started adding algorithmic crap and filtering things out to increase 'engagement'. This made facebook totally useless for me to keep in touch with my friends.
Portable accounts are indeed important and a big thing missing from ActivityPub, I agree there.
But I'm completely over to IM now to keep in touch with friends. Social Media has invalidated its own usecase for me.
The Microserver G10 Plus is not too bad. Replaceable CPU, iLO option, half the size of the G8 (though external power brick)
The regular G10 one is pretty useless obviously. Soldered AMD CPU, cheap design etc. No iLO. It's more of a home entertainment thingy, nothing enterprise-class at all.
I agree I'm looking for something lower power too. I have three G8's but they are each doing 50W idle so I can't run them 24/7. And this is with the lowest-TDP processor that is available for them! (E3-1220Lv2, 17W TDP). The iLO alone is consuming 5W even when it's off.
I'm not sure how much power the G10 Plus draws but I haven't really considered it. It's too expensive still (I bought all my G8's for 175-200 euro each and 2 of them even had a 60 euro cashback on top of that!! So I barely paid more than 100 for them brand new. Crazy cheap pricing for a well-built 4-bay server. Each of the drives inside them cost more than the server itself :)
But 15-20W I think is very ambitious with 4 3.5" drive slots. 30W would be doable I think.
The problem with faulty memory (that could go bad after purchasing) is not knowing about it. ECC doesn't always protect you (it can only fix one bit flip, not more), but at least you will know the memory is bad. You will not keep working with data that is being corrupted.
They've done it to my employer. I won't go on the record but it's definitely happening.
France and the netherlands have good roads and yet they dont constantly have to maintain them.
Yes they do. In the Netherlands there's a lot of maintenance going on. Once on a trip to my workplace at the time (75km away) I counted 12 individual speed restrictions due to roadwork. I constantly had to switch between 120, 100 and 70kph. Most of it happens during the night though. I guess Germany doesn't always do this.
Also renting and the government stepping in to keep rents at a low price sounds like poverty and socialism to me. Not a good sign.
I personally like socialism and many in Europe do. The richest countries have the best welfare systems in general (like Scandinavia). Holland itself is an unfortunate exception with its Anglo-Saxon liberal model.
It's becoming more important as the housing market is out of control and buying a house is near impossible now on a modal salary. Regulation keeps pricing fair to those who need it. It's not a sign of poverty but of the systemic choices we make.
But speaking of driving in germany i found the constant tailgating and the general aggressiveness and flashing similar to east europe 10 years ago. Horrible driving culture.
This is something we do agree on :) I try to avoid driving in Germany.
What's so bad about KDE?
I think both Gnome and KDE are pretty good but Gnome's design decisions and philosophy don't match my preferences.
Well, if you use gnome/GTK apps, of course it uses gnome-keyring.
If you use Qt apps, it will use KDE's keyring. This is simply caused by the lack of standardisation in such elements of Linux desktop environments.
I tend to use mostly Qt apps, because they look the most 'native' on KDE and have the best integration. They also have the same philosophy (the more user choice and settings the better) which I subscribe to, so I naturally gravitate towards them.
And no the wifi applet always worked correctly for me (I don't use wifi on my main desktop but on laptops it works fine for me)
There's also things I don't like with KDE but there's almost always an option to change it. Whereas with Gnome there is almost never any such option, it could be there is an extension that does it but having too many extensions tends to drag you into a quagmire of version dependencies making it really hard to upgrade.
The one thing I really don't like about KWin is that the virtual desktops of each display can't be switched independently like with i3 for example. They're all stuck together. But this is a minor inconvenience compared to all the things I dislike about Gnome.
Of course YMMV and that is why we have Linux <3
If a Frenchman doesn't like French laws he can move to Germany and haul all his stuff there (and his pension, etc).
A bit offtopic but this is still something I find very lacking in the EU.
For all the good it's brought us, we still have extremely different social security in each country and if you've lived in many EU countries throughout your life it's a complete PITA to reconcile things like pensions. Some countries have state pensions, others only voluntary corp plans.. I have no idea how this will turn out when I retire.
IMO these different systems should at the very least be talking together.
Climate change is far from the only environmental problem have. Sure, it's the biggest but also the biggest to solve.
And the EU has had a consistent push to solve it, unlike the US, which for instance during the Trump era pulled out of the Paris accord.
A political organization like EU has no say in this. EU citizens already make this decision for themselves by voting with money and choosing to buy/not buy an iPhone.
I think it's important to point out that most EU countries do not subscribe to the exact same free-market vision that the US does. And the biggest country that did has recently left it.
Most of Europe is totally happy with a much more restricted free market than the US would ever allow. This is not something imposed on us people. It's what the majority wants, aka democracy.
Jeff is always a raspberry foundation supporter. I do feel a bit more pushback is needed. The other companies he mentions like Apple and Nvidia have shown considerable improvement in recent months. The raspberry is only ever harder to get.
I have a feeling Broadcom is the main problem here, they probably prioritize other customers. Which is surprising in some ways because a lot of raspberry pi foundation members are ex-broadcom or still even work there.
However I guess the other companies are willing to offer more whereas if the pi became more expensive there would be a lot of uproar (and rightly so because it defeats the purpose)
The Sony Z4 tablet with keyboard dock is great. I've fixed mine several times to keep it going. The dock is a hard plastic laptop-style affair that is perfect to use on a lap. The tablet itself is much thinner than current ipads and waterproof.
It's sad that this was the last tablet Sony ever made.
In addition to that, if you have a high-DPI laptop display and you want to plug it into a low-DPI desktop monitor (or vice-versa), good luck getting the scaling to work in a usable way.
Sure? This is exactly the thing that Wayland was supposed to solve. Only X has one DPI for all screens.
I still use X because I'm on FreeBSD and I even got multi-screen multi-dpi scaling to work there, with xrandr settings but indeed it was not fun. In Wayland it should be click & play though.
I kinda come here because it doesn't have this :)
But this is the good thing about it, people can extend it as they wish.
What the VCs have to understand is that if their greed makes them push Bitwarden to engage in silly tactics, they risk driving away their customer base.
They don't care as long as they can extract their profit before that happens. This is VC, they will prioritize medium term gains over long term stability.
The alternative would be a proper electron app.
MS can do it. Look at VS Code.
It's strange how they make some of the very best electron apps and also some of the worst (teams sucks on windows and Mac too and I don't see how their new edge-electron will fix that because it's also just a rebadged chrome just like electron)
The problem with teams isn't electron. It's the project management that prioritizes new features over making the existing ones work smoothly. The web version won't solve this as it's simply the same thing.
They're not. They're basically giving up and pointing to the web app that has always existed.
In 2G GSM there was this limit, because GSM used very strictly managed timeslots for each call. If a phone was too far away, its signal would arrive out of bounds of the timeslot and this was the reason. The protocol didn't have any compensation built in.
However 3G and onwards were based on CDMA tech (which was the competing 2G tech to GSM), which is very different. CDMA doesn't have strictly managed cells, but rather the basestation picks the signals out of a cacaphony (very simplified). So the same issue doesn't apply.
2G was much more static than CDMA, it had a strict capacity of a number of calls per cell. But the range (up to this 30km) was pretty good because when a phone transmitted the air was clear. CDMA cells used to 'breathe': Have much lower reach during busy times (because weak signals could no longer be identified) so gaps could drop in the network. ON the other hand, 2G got busy with a fixed capacity.
2G did have prioritisation though when the network was full. If you called 112 (the international emergency number) it would kick someone else off to make space for you.
Yum yeah... That's the one I miss!
I always wondered how they get the eggs so round but one time I saw them make them.. They fry the egg on the burger plate but in a metal ring. Cool idea.
Here in Spain they've never gone.
The breakfast menu has been cancelled here though since Corona and never returned :'( I miss my sausage and egg muffin.
I have this book and it's excellent. However many topics have since become heavily outdated with things like SIP, the signed system volume, APFS etc.
I wouldn't recommend it now.
Hmm. I'm not sure what to think of all this special build stuff. I moved from macOS to FreeBSD + KDE mainly because I felt that macOS was becoming too dumbed down.
And I actually like the UI and configurability of KDE.
So no, I'm not going to use it but it probably could have made me move to FreeBSD a few years earlier. But with this kind of 'copycat' I always wonder if they manage to support a large enough ecosystem to make it work well. After all the biggest selling point of macOS is traditionally the 'just works' principle. Using FreeBSD as a daily driver I know the hardware/driver side needs a lot of tinkering. Which I don't mind, but macOS users would.
I also wonder about their business model, it seems to be a company?
With stable I think you mean quarterly?
I'm on latest myself, the guys maintaining the desktop tools are really good, often it takes only a day or two for a new KDE version to make it to my computer.
Only right now with 5.26 there's a PAM compatibility issue they're waiting on a backport for. But also there it's clear what's holding it back.
Yes I do. With KDE. I'm very happy about it. I moved from macOS as I disagreed with most of Apple's choices in recent versions. Now I feel in control of my computer again.
I'm not into laptops though and I heard the latest WiFi cards may be a problem. For me it's not an issue at all though. But I suggest to try it out :)