CaptainBern

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by CaptainBern 3y ago
That's fair. From the post my impression was that auto-update is forced, so users don't get a say in whether it can download in the background, if that's not the case then disregard that part of my comment.
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by CaptainBern 3y ago
I agree with you. Bugs happen, that's just the way it is. But my issues with this aren't really related to code: * downloading without user 'consent' (in the loosest sense of the word) * and mainly: a proposed fix being
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by CaptainBern 3y ago
An easier fix could be to just add a toggle so users can decide for themselves if they are fine with the app downloading unprompted or not. (This is just based on the post, the app could very well be behaving that way already but since the
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by CaptainBern 3y ago
The article did not mention that as far as I can tell. >The app checks for the update every 5 minutes or when the user activates the app. >Normally, when the app detected the update - it downloaded it and stopped the 5 minutes interva
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by CaptainBern 3y ago
Why download updates at all without the user knowing? Is prompting before downloading such an awful user experience in comparison? Or, you know, prompt once per day and add a 'remind me in x days/minutes' option? The whole ta
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by CaptainBern 5y ago
Thanks for the list! I didn't knew about the 'New' 3DS. Though, I would still argue a 4K upgrade is a little far fetched. Nintendo hardware has always been less powerful than that of its 'competitors', who only rece
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by CaptainBern 5y ago
Yeah, I agree with you. The rumors that have been going around didn't make much sense IMO. (Has Nintendo ever done a hardware upgrade that would have been as drastic? Genuinely asking). Also yes, the original kickstand made me wonder
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by CaptainBern 5y ago
Those original consoles are becoming more rare, you could have probably sold it for close to what you originally paid for it, exactly because of that older SoC!
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by CaptainBern 6y ago
WhatsApp actually provides an APK download on their website[0]. I'm not entirely sure whether they keep it as up-to-date as the version on the play store though. [0]: https://www.whatsapp.com/android/
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by CaptainBern 6y ago
I personally have a "vanity" domain that spells out my last name (the TLD forms the last two letters). So I just have <firstname>@<domain> for personal stuff, and then for example git@<my domain> for github, spot
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by CaptainBern 6y ago
I would even go as far as to suggest setting up your email with your own domain. This way switching providers is as easy as just changing a few DNS settings. I've been running that setup for a few years now and it has been flawless. Sp
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by CaptainBern 6y ago
This was posted a while ago on the gaming subreddit. The creator posted some interesting comments there so I'll link the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/h8ayq8/i_made_a_min...
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by CaptainBern 6y ago
You're absolutely correct about the noise. Those 1U servers sound like a jet taking off pretty much the entire time they run. However, there's plenty of motherboards that are ATX (or E-ATX), so they fit in regular cases with littl
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by CaptainBern 6y ago
You could get older server hardware pretty cheap, and just run everything on a single physical machine, no? For example, I picked up about 96 GB of DDR3 ECC ram for around 75 euros. A quick check on ebay, and the same amount of DDR4 is sell
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by CaptainBern 6y ago
There seems to be a real problem with those Samsung SSD's on Amazon. There's quite a few reviews where people even received a fake SSD, the only thing that gives it away is the connector[0]! I decided I wouldn't take the risk
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by CaptainBern 7y ago
The thinkpad T470/T480 dual-pipe dGPU heatsink is a drop-in replacement for the iGPU version, so if you buy the version without dGPU, you can pretty easily double your heatpipes quite cheap. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/
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by CaptainBern 7y ago
> 2) {- comment -} probably comes from another language (which one?) but I'm always surprised by the cleverness of language designers, even when there is no need for it. Haskell has {- -} style (multiline)comments.
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by CaptainBern 7y ago
Datacenters are not desktops though, which I assume is what X11 is used most for. But, like I said, my comment was just my impression regarding the matter, based on the blog post I linked. Thanks for your reply! :)
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by CaptainBern 7y ago
I'm under the impression it's more like NVidia does not want Linux users, or at least has turned some WM developers against them[0]. [0] https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
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by CaptainBern 7y ago
He's also the author of Termite[0]. Pretty impressive how many projects he's been involved with. [0] https://github.com/thestinger/termite
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by CaptainBern 7y ago
My girlfriend was in Barranco at the time of the earthquake and had to leave the building because she and her family felt unsafe (in all the years I've known her it's the first time they actually thought it was serious enough to e