Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 6y ago
It is a pity iPhones are tied to Apple and iOS (mostly - see the recent news about Android on an iPhone 8) without the possibility of escape which many Android devices offer. For iPhone to be an alternative to Android in this respect it wou
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
In the dawn of time when Cirque [1] launched the glidepoint - the mother of all touchpads - I used touch to click on Linux and OS/2. To give an idea of how long ago this is, the thing was connected to the PC through a 9-pin serial inte
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
If I may respond in the same way, but simpler: your (and I normally don't use these personal labels on this site but here it is necessary) mistake is that you try to respond to a concept by attaching labels to either the response or
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
They probably thought it smart to use the same acronym pattern as SLAPP to give their concept a boost in public perception, not realising that the idea behind SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, a method to silence criti
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
More or less the same as a stock Android device has, the difference is that it keeps on sending data to Apple instead of Google. If you trust Apple at their word about being good stewards of your data you might think this is OK. If you see
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
There is a better way: Google-free Android. You get to use/keep one of the many supported Android devices without giving either Google or Apple insight in whatever you happen to be doing .I've been doing this for more or less as l
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Or 'plain and simple' XMPP with OMEMO [1] encryption. This is easy to host yourself using Prosody or Ejabberd or another XMPP server, Conversations (or one of its forks) on Android, Monal or Siskin or iOS, something like converse.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I use a private Searx instance which includes searches over my own document archive in its results. To achieve this I made a new Searx 'engine' [1] - which is essentially a proxy between the Searx instance and another search engin
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I've been using an Aoyue 968+ [1] combined hot air/soldering station for a number of years now to repair equipment (phones, monitors, laptops, whatever happens to break down). The thing costs around €170 in Europe, I got mine for
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> I can’t imagine any Dell or Lenovo feeling so solid after 7 years... I'm using a ~14yo Thinkpad T42p as one of my daily machines (using it to write this post), it feels as solid as when it was new. The battery still holds enough p
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
...which, if it turns into a cultural habit, will both protect against getting infected but also make future humans more susceptible to diseases since their immune systems have not had enough exposure. It might also lead to an increase in a
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Only if the machine lent itself to the installation of alternative operating systems, whether that be some form of Linux or Windows or anything else. That would imply the hardware would need to be open enough for drivers to be developed. Th
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Real Programmers Drink Tea, have you not heard? Anyway, 1 a day, max. Tea on the other hand is not counted in cups but in litres, the cup I use holds about half a litre. I go through 3-4 of those on a good day, 1-2 in the evening. During th
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Should intellectually curious people be afraid of arguments about, well, anything? It is in the confrontation between dissimilar thoughts that understanding can arise after all, those who just preach to the choir end up neither enlightening
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Not specifically eBay, I meant all sorts of second-hand selling methods, from Craigslist through eBay and similar sites. Nothing special, really, just the normal way of getting rid of stuff which just ends up taking up space otherwise.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
There is a marketplace where you can sell those boards which more or less serves the same purpose, probably at a lower price point.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
It almost feels like HoTMaiL all over again. For those too young to remember, Microsoft bought Hotmail (forget the silly CamelCasing, we know that HoTMaiL was HTML + mail by now) which was based on FreeBSD+Apache and was champing at the bit
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
To put your question in a footwear-oriented perspective: Out of curiousity, why do you prefer shoes made of nylon or leather over those made of lead?
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I assume that by 'men' you mean 'cores'? If so, the host has two 6-core/12-thread CPU's (X5675@3.07GHz) and 128GB of memory, the internal array is populated with 8x146GB, the machine is hooked up to a NetApp DS
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
The advantage of a #1->#2 strategy is that it gives time for the healthcare providers to prepare for the eventual inrush of SARS2-patients. They can get needed materials, information on how to best treat those who are infected and buil
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
> To my knowledge, these decisions have not had to be made yet. According to people working in health care in Stockholm they have used these policies for a few weeks now [1], the article (from the 2nd of April, 2½ weeks ago) contains two
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Tegnell has quickly become a rather controversial figure in Sweden with a large host of detractors on one side and a fanclub on the other side. There have been several calls from experts in the field for Sweden to change its policy [1, 2, 3
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
You do have to keep in mind that hospitals in Stockholm - which is currently the epicentre of infections in Sweden - have adopted a policy to not admit people with a 'biological age' of 80 or over to intensive care, nor will they
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
https://www.facebook.com/polisen.sodermalm/posts/33302423503... Here's the Swedish police giving some insight in how locked down Sweden is, run it through a translation site or just look at the image to under
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
> Despite popular belief, Sweden _is_ under partial lockdown Sweden has implemented voluntary restrictions on social contacts as well as a partly enforced limit on social gatherings. Some gatherings of more than 50 people are left alone
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Noooo.... that 90's style annoyed me to no end as it was just as cookie-cutter copy as the current crop of vector art. For some reason there was one thing which made is especially annoying: the fact that nearly every person in those il
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
I use Proxmox on a server where it manages a herd of containers plus a few VMs for those times I need to run Windows. On a single DL380G7 Proxmox shepherds the following: Containers: - router (OpenWRT) - mail - web - media (serves audio, vi
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Not surprising to me, I've been using x2go for many years now and have hardly ever had it crash - I can't remember the last time but it is sure to have happened... I guess. I'm using it both within a LAN as well as over a VPN
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
If that is half a GB Firefox would be crawling. Here is is around 60MB on a well-used machine with an ancient FF profile.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Hourly backups with rsnapshot - which serves more or less the same task but does it without a fancy UI - take no more than the size of the changed files plus some space for file system metadata. If Time Machine takes half a GB on a quiescen

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