foepys

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by foepys 22d ago
Many larger businesses have a contract with Microsoft for their Windows licenses and then go to Azure because they already get billed by them.
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by foepys 22d ago
Quite a few places do not accept Amex and many that do probably don't know they do or they would disable it.
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by foepys 23d ago
Microsoft fumbled the Windows ball so hard, everybody i know got rid of their Windows PC and either went to Android/iPhone or got a Mac or Linux. At work we can freely choose which OS we run on our machines. Guess what everybody wants
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by foepys 2mo ago
Billion USD grocery chains operate on 2-3% margins just fine...
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by foepys 3mo ago
Are you using the Windows Terminal app? CMD or Powershell are yanky but Windows Terminal solved a few icks for me. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -e
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by foepys 4mo ago
Russia is currently placing Russian citizens in the occupied parts of Ukraine exactly for this reason. If there will ever be a vote whether the Donbas Oblast or the Luhansk Oblast want to rejoin Ukraine, you can bet the vote will be pro Rus
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by foepys 5mo ago
Same in Germany, although the employer can forbid this but needs to do this explicitly. Most employers don't forbid personal data on work machines or using your work email for personal things.
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by foepys 5mo ago
It also has something to do with the so called "Hackerparagraph" [1] under which whitehat hacking is basically impossible in Germany. Even writing a program that could potentially be used for hacking is a crime. If you followed th
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by foepys 6mo ago
It does. You can also do it by hand via the right-click on tab menu
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by foepys 6mo ago
Not illegal per se in Germany but you won't find a legal job that doesn't require you to have a bank account. Benefits will also only be paid electronically (exceptions for some asylum seekers apply). You also cannot get a tax ref
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by foepys 7mo ago
A study last year concluded that while AI coding feels faster it actually isn't. At least in mid 2025. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772
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by foepys 7mo ago
Not only that but vibrations play a big part as well, especially on ICE vehicles.
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by foepys 7mo ago
Since .NET 10 still doesn't support Type Libraries quite a few new Windows projects must be written in .NET Framework. Microsoft sadly doesn't prioritize this so this might still be the case for a couple of years. One thing I cred
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by foepys 7mo ago
That's not correct. You don't have to give your credit card details or even be logged in but you are still required to have any Visual Studio license. For hobbyists and startups the VS Community license is enough but larger compan
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by foepys 7mo ago
But they also have over a billion cash at hand. I imagine at that scale and customers being private, the amount is pretty stable and Starbucks can just do whatever with this since it's extremely unlikely that customers demand all their
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by foepys 8mo ago
This is typical CDU conservative talk from Merz. He is on a war path with anything Angela Merkel did because she saw him as politically inexperienced and shunned him. So he had to work for Blackrock. The CSU (the Bavarian equivalent and per
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by foepys 9mo ago
I don't know what you are doing but I have my Arch Linux running since about 2013. I needed to intervene a few times, I think 4 times in total but the base installation in from 2013, now nearly 13 years ago.
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by foepys 10mo ago
Sometimes it's not about doing nothing but only being allowed to do the same stuff over and over again to do because there is "no budget" to rewrite the codebase to automate the process.
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by foepys 1y ago
Google will require you to authenticate with your real name and/or government ID which is something a lot of FLOSS developers don't want to do.
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by foepys 1y ago
OpenWISP states in its docs that you should be running at least 20 devices to make it worth it. [1] So it's not supposed to be a easy way to manage a few devices for home users. > However, OpenWISP may not be the best fit for very s
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by foepys 1y ago
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936992
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by foepys 1y ago
Try replacing "social media" with "fast food" and think about how hard that would be for parents to control.
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by foepys 1y ago
Are you driving fast(er than with a ICE vehicle) in corners? Since EVs have a very low center of mass, drivers tend to take corners a lot faster than they would in ICE vehicles which is very hard on the tires. A friend got hit by this as we
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by foepys 1y ago
True for heating but warm water is in demand all the time.
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by foepys 1y ago
Using heatpumps you only need a little electricity to heat quite a few homes with district heating. But there probably is no nearby district to be heated.
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by foepys 1y ago
Because it would have catastrophic consequences on the world order. Normalizing nuking your opponent will invite Russia to nuke Ukraine, China Taiwan, and North Korea South Korea. The USA will not let Israel nuke anybody.
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by foepys 1y ago
I have a VAG ICE vehicle and had a problem with the navigation system not working. When I brought it in to get it fixed, they apparently put a completely new version of the software on the hardware. Suddenly everything was fast. No slow lag
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by foepys 1y ago
Counterpoint from me: I've been using Jetbrains tools for over 10 years as well. Mostly Webstorm and Rider and it's all working well. Sometimes there are bugs, yes, but I had plenty those in VSCode and Visual Studio as well. Aside
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by foepys 1y ago
Zero downtime doesn't mean redundancy here. It means that no request gets lost or interrupted due to a container upgrade. The new container spins up while the old container is still answering requests and only when the new container is
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by foepys 1y ago
Easy: because next to 100% of EU government computers run Windows and MS Office.

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