maples37

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by maples37 24d ago
I've been a big fan of https://alternativeto.net/ and using their "open source" and "self-hosted" filters. Even looking through the non-FOSS alternatives for a particular application/site can b
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by maples37 2mo ago
About a year ago, I found a YouTube channel[0] which consists mostly of a really smart guy (with a proper background in electrical engineering) buying cheap electronics from eBay/Temu/AliExpress/etc, taking them apart and ide
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by maples37 2mo ago
I'd like to try passkeys out. I actually tried again on Amazon in response to reading the comments here. But it just.... doesn't work? I'm on a laptop running Ubuntu, I use Firefox as my browser, and I use 1Password as my
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by maples37 2mo ago
Microsoft also didn't do themselves any favor with that naming scheme. In the current generation (I think?), you have: - Xbox X - Xbox S - Xbox Series X - Xbox Series S Compared to: - PlayStation 5 - PlayStation 5 Pro or: - Nintendo S
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by maples37 7mo ago
The extension IDs are UUIDs/GUIDs, so 128 bits of entropy. No site is going to be able to successfully scan that full range.
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by maples37 7mo ago
Okay, though, for very small hobbyist payloads, though, wouldn't hydrogen balloons be feasible? Some quick math tells me that you can lift approximately a kilogram of mass per cubic meter (at sea level, anyway). If your balloon's
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by maples37 8mo ago
To anyone going down this route, there's a surprisingly deep rabbit hole when you look into "how copy the bits off the drive and into a .wav file". There are a lot of places where errors can be introduced: the quality of the
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by maples37 11mo ago
Do you have any tips and tricks to share? I'm running a self-hosted instance on an old desktop PC in my basement for me and a couple family members. Performance is kinda meh, and I don't think it's due to resource constrain
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by maples37 11mo ago
In my case, I want file/photo syncing, calendar syncing, and contact syncing. Nextcloud provides all 3 in a package that pretty much just works, in my experience (despite being kinda slow). The Notes app is a pretty nice wrapper around
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by maples37 11mo ago
If they make their own distro, though, they're not really gaining more control. They're just enabling even more choice for someone who's looking for alternatives. Let's say, hypothetically, that Valve releases SteamOS t
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by maples37 11mo ago
I was about to comment that SteamOS is based on Arch, but after looking at the actual graphs, they've got SteamOS as its own separate category. I wonder how much of that is "hackers and experimentalists", versus random gamers
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by maples37 11mo ago
and for me, the one (rather niche, I might add) game that didn't "just work" was working just fine after trying a different Proton version - which is literally as simple as opening the "Properties" page and using a
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by maples37 11mo ago
You wouldn't be the first to suggest pneumatic delivery of burritos https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
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by maples37 11mo ago
Is there any reason to believe that deleting a ChatGPT conversation is anything more than "UPDATE conversations SET status='user_deleted WHERE conversation_id=..."?
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by maples37 11mo ago
Apparently they have a "unexplained crashes must have an explanation determined" policy ever since there was a trend of uninvestigated unexplained crashes that were canaries in the mine for a security issue. https://blo
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by maples37 11mo ago
Some alternators ironically require electricity to make electricity. They don't have permanent magnets inside, but instead use electromagnets. So from a stone cold battery, if there's not enough power to get those electromagnets
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by maples37 11mo ago
As of 2013, manual cars (at least Mazdas) can still be roll-started, as long as the engine computer has enough power to function. My CX-5 even has a wireless-pushbutton start, not a physical-key-in-the-ignition start, but I've still be
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by maples37 11mo ago
Can confirm. Daily drive Linux for software development, and have a Linux on a laptop for gaming (Silksong anyone? :D). I keep a Windows 10 partition around on the laptop for Fortnite with friends, but that's about it. I was actually
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by maples37 11mo ago
I recently bought a Samsung television, which came with a bunch of the smart nonsense. During the whole setup process I was thinking "I have made a mistake, I need to return this ASAP" but forced myself to continue clicking &quot
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by maples37 11mo ago
Can you share what the experience is like debugging with gdb directly? I'm new enough that my first debugger experience was Visual Studio, and I currently use IntelliJ IDEs which provide a similar experience. That experience consisti
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by maples37 11mo ago
Can you share what the experience is like debugging with gdb directly? I'm new enough that my first debugger experience was Visual Studio, and I currently use IntelliJ IDEs which provide a similar experience. That experience consisti
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by maples37 1y ago
Do you know how the GoG version handles achievements? I'm very used to the Steam achievement system, but obviously that's not an option when you're not using Steam.
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by maples37 1y ago
> This is similar to 'ssh -L' functionality, but does not use SSH and requires a pre-shared symmetric key. I already have SSH set up and functional, what advantage does spiped offer?
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by maples37 1y ago
GrapheneOS not only provides a sandbox for Google Play (meaning it's just another app with no special privileges, and you can grant/revoke permissions (including network!) as you desire), it also heavily promotes user profiles for
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by maples37 1y ago
Apparently the GrapheneOS folks are talking with an OEM[0], which would allow you to buy a phone with a secure, private, non-spyware operating system straight from the factory. I already own a Pixel running GrapheneOS, but if this happens I
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by maples37 1y ago
There's an Android app which seems to surface this exact same data: https://github.com/dh4/WeatherRadar
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by maples37 1y ago
https://xcancel.com/KeithSakata/status/1954884361695719474 spoiler: he doesn't talk about any of those 12 people or what caused them to be hospitalized
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by maples37 1y ago
https://archive.is/XHuGW
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by maples37 2y ago
American perspective, but how about running them like the USPS? I don't know the intricacies, but from what I've gathered, the USPS is operated by the government and intended to teeter right around the line of self-sustainability.
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by maples37 2y ago
The key difference here, though, is that all of those electronics are integrated into, and do not break the path of, the absolutely-must-work hydraulic path. Throttle-by-wire is a different beast entirely. If you step on the gas and don&#x

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