owenmakes

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by owenmakes 4mo ago
Yes, but because electricity is mostly produced by gas turbines, and you could say oil & gas companies do rule the world. Utilities mostly take care of the distribution, and are naturally monopolic/oligopolic businesses which is wh
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by owenmakes 10mo ago
In Rails 8 you have SolidQueue by default, which doesn't rely on redis
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by owenmakes 10mo ago
https://archive.is/PHa1T
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The Untold Story of Charlie Munger's Final Years(wsj.com)
7 points by owenmakes 10mo ago|5 comments
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by owenmakes 1y ago
Yeah, had to move back to my apartment, haven't gotten around to doing the setup here
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by owenmakes 1y ago
I actually delegated DNS to Cloudflare when nic.ar wouldn't take the localhost.run domain!
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by owenmakes 1y ago
Well, you're assuming there are Apple stores in Argentina (there aren't any). So any trade in would require flying to the US (or nearest Apple store).
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by owenmakes 1y ago
It's back up! iPad was still working correctly, but the connection to the VPS had dropped. I suspect network issue.
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by owenmakes 1y ago
Woah, this way cooler than what I did
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by owenmakes 1y ago
Tunnel fell down, I suspect connection issue while I was sleeping. iPad was still running the server locally and unplugged from power.
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by owenmakes 1y ago
The tunnel disconnected somehow. No idea what happened, cause the iPad was still running the server correctly, maybe network issue.
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by owenmakes 1y ago
No idea honestly, but the main reason the battery lasts so long is that it turns the WiFi off, which is why I had to install Insomnia. It was doing fine so far, with 60% battery, but decided to plug it in since it's getting many reques
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by owenmakes 1y ago
I keep mine unplugged and it gets surprising good battery life, and I think it kinda improved with the downgrade. On normal use I would get like 8-10 hrs screen on time. No spicy pillow yet, though I did have that issue with my old iPod.
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by owenmakes 1y ago
I'm with you here. I think Apple should let you install whatever OS you want in the device after the support cycle ended. But that's not gonna happen any time soon. Until then, we jailbreak.
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What to do with an old iPad(odb.ar)
192 points by owenmakes 1y ago|115 comments
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by owenmakes 1y ago
Got it downgraded, and it is a much better experience. It is actually useful, though I have yet to play around and see which apps I can load on this
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by owenmakes 1y ago
Update: Downgraded one of the iPads to iOS 6.1.3 (writing from it now). Will try to host a home server on it since I can now SSH into it.
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by owenmakes 1y ago
Ok this seems like a great idea. You need to watch/listen everything from the browser though right?
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Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?
33 points by owenmakes 1y ago|19 comments
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by owenmakes 1y ago
Don't. The video misses out on a lot of key facts from previous governments.