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by spystath 22d ago
Seriously? I'm not saying it's the best app around but the family uses Conversations and we never really have any real issues. Even for the septuagenarians in the family I just set it up once like 7 years ago and they still use it
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by spystath 1mo ago
It's very unlikely to have any meaningful effect. CXMT DRAM will also be hoovered up the moment it hits the market at the same inflated prices. Even if they had the capacity (they don't) why flood the market when you can just prin
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by spystath 2mo ago
Exchanged a US proprietary platform (Visa/Mastercard) for another US proprietary platform (Android/iOS).
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by spystath 3mo ago
You are right that it's due to housing but in my opinion most of unaffordability comes from immense pressure due to tourism. Housing situation is better outside the touristy areas (and Athens). If anything Greece has seen massive house
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by spystath 3mo ago
Obviously installing anything from AUR must be done cautiously and there have always been sketchy (as in improperly built/packaged) packages in the past but seeing actively malicious injections is concerning. I think there are two main
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by spystath 4mo ago
There are not enough words to describe how much I hate Akamai EdgeSuite. So many random validation loops and 403s across different physical computers, different operating systems, different connections and even countries. A couple of servic
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by spystath 7mo ago
Despite the HN title (and while the focusing optics are similar), the structure in the article was directly milled with an ion beam (FIB), not electrons.
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by spystath 7mo ago
There is an implicit shame in disgrace but faceless entities have no shame. They'll just put out another press release written in corporate newspeak by an LLM and move on withe the plans anyway. This is standard Google behaviour. They
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by spystath 10mo ago
Alternatively: https://xon.sh/
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by spystath 1y ago
Chrome is the dominant browser. Sad as this may be removing it from Blink means de facto removing it from the spec. That being said, I'm not against removing features but neither this or the original post provide any substantial rati
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by spystath 2y ago
In a lot of cases on a residential line you can't even pay for a public and/or static v4. The option simply doesn't exist. Many ISPs just force you to buy a "business" package for 3x the cost with a bunch of other f
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by spystath 2y ago
Issue (1) has been a long-standing issue and a prolonged back and forth [0,1] between NVIDIA and Xorg/Wayland devs about implicit and explicit synchronisation protocols. It looks like the explicit sync protocol is in the process of get
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by spystath 3y ago
You don't have to use a browser . I had very good results with Weasyprint [0]. And there's also PrinceXML [1] if you're willing to pay. [0]: https://weasyprint.org/ [1]: https://www.princexml.com&
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by spystath 3y ago
I think that's a relatively simplistic way of viewing this. Although I don't disagree with the core argument, Google will always implement and ship "standards" that fit their business model or their vision of the web.
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by spystath 3y ago
Oh yes, I understand that. I only wish that ECC support in general starts getting more traction in consumer electronics. Nowadays (unless you go to super noisy super expensive server hardware) maybe with an AMD processor maybe a motherboard
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by spystath 3y ago
More RAM is always nice but I'm secretly hoping we'll start to see more ECC support in the future. With these humongous modules and even with a teeny tiny bitflip probability corruption chance becomes non insignificant.
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by spystath 3y ago
The hold-back feature is so extremely out of touch with reality "There seems to be something wrong with your request, try reloading this page" Good luck getting this ad infinitum you are on an environment that Google doesn't
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by spystath 3y ago
I was there too, in the 1.0 days, and still am. But these days are gone, Firefox is not coming back. Back then Firefox was immensely better than IE. As long as the other alternatives are just as good, there is no reason for the mythical &
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by spystath 3y ago
> how do we protest this? You do not and you cannot. It was written in stone once Chrome dominated the browser market. What Chrome (Google) wants, Chrome (Google) gets. Despite all the good engineering Google wants to sell ads, that&#x27
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by spystath 3y ago
They closed the gates when their specific niche has been captured so that they can extract maximum value. As a result interoperability between services is dead. Fediverse is a valiant effort but the barrier to entry is relatively high, even
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by spystath 3y ago
Regardless of the DE preference I believe the Gtk/GObject/GLib ecosystem is quite well designed and it's relatively easy to reason around and get into developing with even without using C since there's a ton of available
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by spystath 4y ago
It may happen eventually but they have no incentive to make it so. They've captured a significant part of the corporate market by bundling with O365 for Enterprise. Teams has fulfilled it's purpose just as Office did. At least Off
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by spystath 4y ago
I don't think that's true since about a year ago. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...
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by spystath 4y ago
I know it's been repeated a million times by now, but NAT is not a replacement for a firewall. Most residential routers are deny in by default so you get zero incoming connections from the internet unless you open the relevant ports, e
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by spystath 5y ago
Unfortunately at 4k nothing over 22" is 200+ dpi. It's definitely better than the run of the mill 90-100 dpi monitors but not enough to fully eliminate the need for AA. You need to push around a great amount of pixels to have cris
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by spystath 5y ago
Powers my router, running on an APU2. The run-from-ram-with-overlays configuration makes upgrades relatively painless.
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by spystath 5y ago
Teams, Slack and Discord don't want to talk to each other. They want their own silo with their own users. XMPP, Matrix, or anything, for that matter, can't fix that.
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by spystath 5y ago
Well, manual interventions are rare [0] and almost all of them nowadays are due to the odd package restructuring. Usually the package manager will notify you about a conflict between two packages and won't proceed (so nothing will brea
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by spystath 5y ago
One is their DirectX extension that only works on WSL2. It allows you to access the DX API through a shim driver. You can now have a Linux application that needs access to /dev/xdg which is only available in WSL2. https:/&#
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by spystath 5y ago
For every couple "just works" cases there is a corresponding "doesn't work at all". Given the diversity of the PC as a hardware platform there are going to be edge cases. There is no avoiding that. I'm fairly c

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