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by antonyh 8mo ago
I switched bank in the UK due to enforced app use, from Starling to Nationwide. They use a card reader to issue codes, so I can still use the web. I see this as a much of a must-have as physical bank branches with real cashier services.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I popped open a WD 'My Passport' drive, 4TB. It's exactly that - no SATA connection at all, only a USB on a custom board. I should have guessed this, it really is too short to have much in the way of other electronics. Thanks
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by antonyh 8mo ago
The big ones with a separate power brick, I've not looked inside the smaller USB-powered ones. My interest was in the >8Gb desktop drives. I'd imagine they're the same deal, but hard to say from the outside. I did have a p
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Admittedly I've not been tracking price, only availability, and only in the size I might need.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I've shucked WD MyBook drives, just a plain SATA inside. I guess that it's cheaper to have a stock drive and a cheap SATA-USB adaptor in a shell than do custom electronics. I've not heard of any that are otherwise, but I&#x27
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Maybe shucking USB HDDs is the short-term answer.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I read it as both, but UK suppliers have stock of various SATA HDDs available in large and small sizes. It's hard to say if prices will rocket or availability decline, or both. I don't normally advocate panic-buying, but if it&#x2
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Competent is not the same as good. I can do the very basic things I need in Sheets, but the moment it needs more than =A1+B2 then it's uphill all the way. I also don't know how performant it is with larger datasets. I use Libre Of
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I don't think the world needs another protocol, we need to leverage the ones we have. This space (text-based real-time messaging with media attachments) is feature complete, there's nothing left to add. The remaining value-adds ar
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by antonyh 8mo ago
This is fantastic. As an absolute beginner in the language I've added to my list of learning resources for Gaeilge. I've tried to find a better scan of the book online, but it's not anywhere - there's some Máiréad Ní Ghr
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Only in a system where the buyer sets the price.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I use Sonatype Nexus OSS, it works fine.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Then they are fools. I left a one-star review and uninstalled it.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Apple News+ is so bad, it's literally unusable. Unfortunately I can't unsubscribe without paying MORE. I use all the other services on a family subscription except this one, but if I remove it the total cost goes up. I hate that I
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Sounds really clean and simple, combined with classic developer diligence and hard effort to get it built right. Thanks for sharing.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Trust it to proxy artifacts from the web? Yes I think so. Trust it not to leak credentials? No, that's something that is never taken for granted. Trust it to hold a full history of uploaded binaries? That depends on the value of the re
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I've not done enough Rust to truly know, but it looks reasonable from looking at the tests, a few models, some implementation code. It doesn't use the 'unsafe' keyword anywhere, but that's not necessarily an indicat
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I appreciate the honesty about using Claude and the time it took to build this, and it shows how things can look when guided by someone who knows what they are doing. On the other hand, it also shows that it took three weeks, so why should
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I tried Boox (Note Air 3 Colour) but it wouldn't run the one 'android' app I needed - O'Reilly bookshelf. Returned it and got an iPad instead. Seemed ok but only half supports apps. I didn't have it long enough to s
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Obsidian has a paid subscription sync service and is free but not open source software. Joplin has a paid subscription sync service and is free and open source software. It's a different business model, but it's possible.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I've heard of Hurd, but never felt tempted to try it. That could be an interesting option.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
All I want is init scripts and X11, but the horizons are shrinking. I've already compromised with systemd, and I don't like it. I see BSD in my future, or at least a linux distro from the list here https://nosystemd.org
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I was kind of hoping this would let me have ads that I get paid for.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
One would hope code reviews could pick up these deceptions, but then again they would spot the use of forbidden functions too albeit much later in the dev cycle than is optimal. Breaking the build early is a solid idea, before it's eve
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Amazon UK is the only reliable source of Pentel Energel 0.7 Green rollerball pens. For everything else, there's other places.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Any other car company would create an S / X MkII.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I'm outside the US, and boycotting Amazon for anything I can get elsewhere (which turns out isn't everything, but best efforts and all that). The shift towards AI is either a very bad thing (as per Microslop and the raft of recent
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by antonyh 8mo ago
The only tools pinning me to Windows were photo editing apps (Capture One, Adobe), and some music apps (Reason, a whole bunch of other apps) that I barely used. Cut over to Debian about 4 years ago when my laptop started having thermal issu
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by antonyh 8mo ago
It should have been an option, even dumb old CSV if it needed structured data. I didn't bother trying to natively ship and used promtail instead, to get it into Loki, so I could query via Grafana.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Wow what an idea, that would work so well and give me a trivial way to build apps to do alerts, monitoring, shipping to remotes, and whatnot in virtually any language.

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