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by alerighi 5y ago
What is the point of a modular IO if I cannot get an ethernet port? Or today only the old school people like me prefer to use a wired LAN connection whenever possible and hate using Wi-Fi that is unreliable and slower? I don't understa
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by alerighi 5y ago
I disagree. If you configure it, it will cost you a ton of money. The base configuration doesn't have even basic ports. At contrary, today at work we bought for 900 euros (700 without taxes), plus less than 100 euros for an extra 16Gb
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by alerighi 5y ago
> long, random, unique passwords for every service Using a password manager is not that difficult. Then you really have to worry about one password, the one to unlock the password manager, and don't even have to think about the othe
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by alerighi 5y ago
> This is so much complexity though, compared with the experience of Firebase. Good for keeping more devs employed though. The solution of Google is not less complex. Rather the complexity is hidden, that if all goes well is good, when t
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by alerighi 5y ago
I checked the man for resize2fs and the copyright notice is from 1998, so I guess that even back in the day was possible to grow ext2 filesystems. Shrinking them I don't know, it's still a feature that not all filesystems supports
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by alerighi 5y ago
These has two problems, first it will impose you to use the official or a compatible GitHub interface, not the command line or whatever git GUI interface you want. Even with that, it is impossible to use offline, while your git history is l
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by alerighi 5y ago
Why can't you do that with triggers? By the way subscriptions seems a good idea in theory, in practice polling is often the best solution. There are not a lot of applications where you need the data that real time (I mean with a latenc
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by alerighi 5y ago
Unfortunately in my country even landline phone lines don't work on power outages, since with the transition to digital only lines (with VDSL) is the router that inside has an ATA to which you connect your landline phone. In fact you h
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by alerighi 5y ago
You can buy an ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) to convert old analog phones to VOIP, and then use it with whatever VOIP service you want. Just be sure that the adapter supports pulse dialing since you want to use it with a rotary phone (not
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by alerighi 5y ago
I recently switched back to Linux after not using it as my main OS for a couple of years. I was surprised how better it got, one example, everything worked well out of the box, and I installed Arch Linux not Ubuntu, no problem at all, GNOME
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by alerighi 5y ago
Package management is to me one of the biggest benefit of Linux. Whenever I have to deal with Windows/macOS machines I find myself in the middle ages having to install the software manually downloading it from the internet and having t
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by alerighi 5y ago
You have a limited view of what the free software movement is. It's not all about software (despite the name), but most generally a movement that wants to go into the direction of a decentralized and more open internet, where all centr
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by alerighi 5y ago
On a workstation, I don't see so much problems. Considering that most people uses an user account that just by typing sudo (or of course spawining a process that invokes sudo) you become root without a password (because we are all anno
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by alerighi 5y ago
For no good reason to me. Stallman predicted years ago things that only now are getting the attention of people, most notably the fact that with proprietary software it's the software that controls the user and not vice versa: just see
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by alerighi 5y ago
I don't get why you would really want to run Windows 9x with another DOS. It was only used as a bootloader, when Windows started of course the Windows kernel would get full control of the system, leaving MS-DOS only resident for compat
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by alerighi 5y ago
They could at least let you download videos for which the author specified a free license, such as Creative Commons, or videos that are public domain. There are a lot of these videos so why not?
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by alerighi 5y ago
That can be good for a user like me, because I can easily deal with an external set-top-box to watch TV channels (in fact I already have one, that also lets me record TV channels and even stream them on my LAN and outside with a VPN, that i
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by alerighi 5y ago
I don't want streaming services inside the TV. I have a media center PC for that purposes, that is faster than using the UI of the TV, and lets me play all the file formats that I want. > No one I know (except my parents) watches ch
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by alerighi 5y ago
How cares? I mean, sure if you want to do a shiny applications for consumers, you care. But 99% of the business software doesn't care and wants something that just works. I use alert, confirm and prompt a lot because it's the simp
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by alerighi 5y ago
This. I stopped writing shell script for the exact reason. When something is more complex than launching a couple of commands, and involves for example JSON processing, I write the script in python. I realized it after wasting multiple hour
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by alerighi 5y ago
Smart TVs are shit. Especially the modern ones. They got worse rather than better! They are slow and laggy, even doing the most basic things like turning on or changing channel. It was faster the CRT that I used 20 years ago, and it had to
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by alerighi 5y ago
Planned obsolescence. We should really make that practice illegal at some point... but we are too busy imposing people to get rid of they perfectly reliable 20 years old petrol cars to buy crappy new electric cars that will break for a soft
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by alerighi 5y ago
What proof? A receipt from a shop barely lasts the 2 years warranty product if you don't photocopy it, because it's printed on thermal paper. And a lot of people doesn't either keep it. Also is this service going to be mainta
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by alerighi 5y ago
And if the proof of concept does work, you take all the code that you written, throw it away and rewrite it? Probably not. I've seen too much "proof of concepts" go into production because they worked. Except when someone els
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by alerighi 5y ago
Even if that is the case, what is the reason to forbid the access to the camera completely? Just remove the stock camera app with the proprietary algorithms in them. And let other applications access the camera trough the stock Android came
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by alerighi 5y ago
The thing was that with computers we had the BIOS, that defined an open (well, in the first days it was proprietary but became a de facto open specification) that allowed interoperability between hardware and software, to the point that it
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by alerighi 5y ago
I don't agree. Developers should be able to develop whatever app they want, and not the apps that Apple decides that can be developed. Modern smartphone have a lot of potential that cannot be exploited only for policies. One example is
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by alerighi 5y ago
It's not. Because then someone else has to maintain the code you written, and if he cannot see any common pattern in your code he will make 10x the effort to understand the code, that means wasting time and thus loosing money for the c
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by alerighi 5y ago
Probably because they introduced it afterwards, and thus to not break compatibility with all other apps they tried to make it transparent to the developer. Except it's not. I get that Apple is going into the direction of forbidding loc
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by alerighi 5y ago
> If you can get jailed for speech, you can get jailed for encryption. Not in any democratic country. How can you prove that I'm using encryption? How you even define what encryption is to make it possible to have a law that bans i

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