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by fffrantz 4mo ago
Life without a car is not an exotic luxury at all, far from it, and all your points are just proving the point. Cars are a luxury, from the amount of taxes paid towards car infrastructure to the social costs associated with “the car cultu
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by fffrantz 1y ago
Sorry for double posting, missed it at the time!
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Google nerfs Pixel 6a batteries following fire hazard(arstechnica.com)
67 points by fffrantz 1y ago|52 comments
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Yep, same here. Discovered I was stereoblind quite late as well as I thought it was the norm and my brain just got used to it.
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Second that. I do see the difference at work where it's impossible to install Firefox and/or extensions; it's god awful to browse the web without it. I even installed it on my parents laptop and they never complained that ads
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Also, and it's striking to me that there never was a crackdown on this, but in a lot of countries, you cannot call yourself an engineer unless you have an engineering degree from a vetted higher-ed institution and are part of your prov
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Came here to say this. And he also gives a lot of insight on how men's clothing is made and why it's made that way. He also regularly gives tips on where to shop and what to look for. I really like the fact that it's not tota
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Gonna give this a shot! Looks promising for SharePoint sites that are internal.
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by fffrantz 2y ago
I think it should, yes. I'm going to try as soon as I can find my raspberry pi buried in the garage. It should work anywhere a USB keyboard works, realistically.
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Damned, I just purchased a new keyboard with a 2.4 GHz dongle because my Bluetooth keyboard cannot with GRUB and I got tired of having to plug it in every time I rebooted. What a cool little project. I might build a couple of these for the
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Thought exactly the same!
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by fffrantz 2y ago
https://archive.is/34wxJ
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Perfect companion to the Captain Hornblower series of books. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower
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by fffrantz 2y ago
And it seems to be totally generic, just 7 digits, and switching every 10 seconds instead of 30. Bitwarden can import them too.
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Well, I'm still running critical services on Solaris 10 everyday and will be running them for the foreseeable future. Granted it's on an airtight network, but still, every time I see CDE, I'm brought back 15 years ago. I wish
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Here in Europe , a lot of former public utilities companies and the public sector in general has been really pushing niche OSS and OpenData projects in Europe. It's not always useful (rarely actually) for the average Joe, but it's
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by fffrantz 2y ago
That's why using immutable distros is awesome. Worst case scenario, you can boot the previous version. I've been using Fedora Silverblue for a while and never got a borked upgrade. It's not without its own flaws, but if you c
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Lately, MTU has gotten up my list of things to check when stuff goes down. It seems carriers can't get their MTUs straight as of late, especially on MPLS links... I really thought we had this figured out 20 years ago...
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Agreed 100 percent. Software is the easy part. Getting HVAC, power and network up to the levels of cloud providers is difficult to get right and prohibitively expensive. For instance, the cost for a pair of redundant symmetric gigabit fiber
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Honestly, if you're not playing video games or require Windows for certain apps and if you're a little tech savvy, why are you still using Windows? It's not a rhetorical question, it's a real one. I'm really interes
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Hmm, interesting, it only binds on the IPv6 address. It does work but IPv4 does not seem to be working.
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by fffrantz 2y ago
Just tried to set it up on a fresh Ubuntu free VM on Oracle cloud and I can't seem to be able to even login after setup. Oh well, might look into it when I have more time. Looks promising though!
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by fffrantz 3y ago
The UNIX layout is also my favorite layout by a mile. The backspace and control keys position is so much more natural, I don't understand why it didn't become the default layout.
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by fffrantz 3y ago
I wonder what it means for SuSE Enterprise Linux in the long run. Are they going to migrate SLE to be bug-for-bug RHEL compatible but keep their own tools on top? What about OpenSUSE? I'm an avid SLE/OpenSUSE user and it was chose
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by fffrantz 3y ago
One thing I noticed recently during the massive heatwave we had in southern Europe is how we forgot the most basic principles for building in hot climates. For example, we enlarged windows and doors, to the point were, standing behind one t
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by fffrantz 3y ago
I've been using Leap extensively for personal projects, and I really like the philosophy of the distro, but it feels very different from CentOS (which I use at work). A lot of the tooling that has been built for SLES is included in Ope
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by fffrantz 3y ago
Honestly, zypper is nowhere as slow as dnf/yum. It feels like it's a problem with every rpm-based distro, unfortunately
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by fffrantz 3y ago
The default way zypper (the package manager) updates installed patterns is to include every recommended package in the pattern. For example, if you update the pattern "gnome", it will by default reinstall cheese, even if you unins
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by fffrantz 3y ago
I really like Tumbleweed. I've been running it on laptops and desktops for over 10 years without much problems. There are a couple of minor annoyances, like the way it handles patterns, or the way it sometimes updates large swaths
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by fffrantz 3y ago
It seems ok with podman but I can never login using the default credentials. Build time was indeed pretty long as well, and throwing all kinds of errors. I think if you set it up with an IP address, it doesn't run an nginx container to

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