8fingerlouie

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by 8fingerlouie 4mo ago
Any iPhone user with a measure of privacy knowledge will experience the same. I'm using NextDNS for DNS level ad blocking as well as iOS built in tools, and I get ads for women's hygiene products (I'm male), travel, dining, s
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by 8fingerlouie 4mo ago
I kinda just outgrew it. I migrated from Homey to HA, and with 2500+ entities across some 250-300 devices the HA Green performed well. It would sit at about 55% RAM usage with 5-7% CPU load, so in no way resource strained. My storage howeve
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by 8fingerlouie 4mo ago
I was recently looking for an upgrade for my aging HA Green, and I had an 8GB RPi5 with a m.2 hat, case and PSU selected, but when I checked prices I could get an 8GB Zimaboard 2 that includes 32GB eMMC for $10 more than the RPi, and that g
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by 8fingerlouie 5mo ago
I classify them even further. I have broadly the same list as you do, but stuff like WhatsApp, Messenger, and other "non primary" communications platforms have silent notifications in the sense that they're not allowed on the
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by 8fingerlouie 5mo ago
I'm merely reflecting on what reality is showing. In a software house with 1000+ developer, we're using AI everywhere. We have plenty of skilled engineers to validate the output of LLMs, but instead of spending 3 weeks developing
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by 8fingerlouie 5mo ago
Everybody is AI coding these days, and if you're not, you may find yourself out of a job soon. You still need skilled engineers to "operate" the AIs and to verify the results, but why on earth would you spend 3 weeks coding s
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by 8fingerlouie 5mo ago
C++ seems like an odd choice for developing desktop apps in 2026, but I guess if it works, it works.
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by 8fingerlouie 6mo ago
I've been telling people this for years. Yes, you can self host, but you'll end up with a SLA on your spare time as well as you working hours. I've long since thrown everything with a user count > 1 out.
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by 8fingerlouie 6mo ago
But did it really warrant running an openclaw machine to do that ? Claude Code, Codex or something else running on your laptop could also have done that, and with Claude Cowork / Dispatch you could leave Claude running on your laptop a
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by 8fingerlouie 6mo ago
Probaly this : https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1rl8rxw/aws_datacenter...
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by 8fingerlouie 7mo ago
> since 1972, which is only 44 years ago Thanks for making me a decade younger :)
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by 8fingerlouie 7mo ago
I mean, in 53 years we have added 27 leap seconds, so in 119 years you'll have to set your alarm a minute earlier if you still want to arrive on time.
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by 8fingerlouie 8mo ago
MacOS recently solved this "issue". When rebooting a FileVault encrypted machine, where it normally "hangs" asking for a user to unlock it, you can now SSH into the machine, but instead of getting a prompt it interprets
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by 8fingerlouie 8mo ago
Assuming you need to “get up and go”, like a refugee situation, what are the chances that you’ll find a drive that can read Blu-ray disks, versus the chances that you’ll find a LTO tape drive ?
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by 8fingerlouie 8mo ago
No recommendations, just brings back memories of the “good old days” with QIC-80 tapes and ZIP drives, both of which came with “desktop” in mind. I still have a ZIP drive around with a parallel port connector. I haven’t owned a computer wit
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by 8fingerlouie 9mo ago
Ukraine is taking out tanks and helicopters, as well as infrastructure daily, using 3D printed drones and AliExpress electronics. Not suggesting anyone tries it, but modern warfare has evolved. Just like the tanks changed warfare in WW1, an
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by 8fingerlouie 9mo ago
While we very rarely have temperatures below -20C in Denmark, i have yet to experience a "drop" in performance from it. Granted, it becomes a lot noisier in very low temperatures, but it "does the job". I'll add tha
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by 8fingerlouie 9mo ago
I've used Linux (and FreeBSD) for decades. My first linux distribution was Yggdrasil Plug & Play Linux Fall 1994 ( https://github.com/jtsagata/Yggdrasil-1994 ). Windows stuck around for gaming. My experience may
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by 8fingerlouie 9mo ago
My Vaillant air to water heat pump is "effective" down to -28C, and has a resistive heater element as a backup in case the COP value flatlines (as in if COP is 1, it doesn't matter). My cheap air to air heat pump in the summe
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by 8fingerlouie 9mo ago
Same principle as I use everywhere else, if I pay for it, I'm not seeing any ads, and if I do, I'm no longer paying. Cancelled Netflix for the same reason, as well as their draconian attitude towards "account sharing" me
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by 8fingerlouie 9mo ago
It works well enough, but it's not without flaws either. The desktop version works reliably, if you can get macOS to keep shares mounted for long enough, and mount them on request. The scheduler is also kinda wonky. The iOS version has
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by 8fingerlouie 9mo ago
It does. It uses PhotoKit to access photos, so it basically uses your Apple Photos app (iOS or Mac) to download the photos. The only scripted solution I can think of that works with ADP is osxphotos[^1], but that also uses PhotoKit, and req
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by 8fingerlouie 9mo ago
WebDAV is like the 12V plug in cars. Its certainly not the optimal design, but it exists in pretty much all cars, so we use it because it's there, and because of it's universal presence, its also hard to replace. The sad part is,
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by 8fingerlouie 10mo ago
> You do not need S3 in your house. Just use the filesystem. For your home, no, you don’t need it. But if setting up a remote backup, ie at your parents / in-laws / children / summerhouse / whatever, S3 can help cut d
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by 8fingerlouie 10mo ago
I've been using Verbatim all these years, but truth be told, I'm considering stopping. Blank media is becoming harder and harder to come by, and prices have increased to 2-4x of what they were. For now at least, I have enough medi
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by 8fingerlouie 10mo ago
Except, they're not. They're in iCloud, backed up to my NAS at home, backed up to another cloud vendor, backed up to two different external hard drives, stored in separate locations, as well as archived on Blu-Ray M-Disc media, al
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by 8fingerlouie 10mo ago
Use private mode browsing, click the easy option of allow all, and rejoice that cookies are cleared when you close the tab.
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by 8fingerlouie 10mo ago
They were founded by ex Apple employees, so there's that.
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by 8fingerlouie 10mo ago
As far as I know, everything iCloud and Apple Intelligence runs off of their own data centers if you happen to live "near" one, but you could still be using AWS and/or Google as well. I live near the Danish Apple data cen
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by 8fingerlouie 10mo ago
depends on where in the world you live. If you live in a region where they operate their own data centers, you will be running on Apple data centers. If not, you're running on a mix of Google Cloud and AWS (IIRC). They used to use Azur

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