avhception

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   by avhception 6y ago

   It's interesting to compare this to what is happening with smartphones / ARM and Intel / x86.
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   by avhception 6y ago

   I got my first computer around the time that happened, a humble Pentium 1. It was only much, much later that I learned about Linux, then FreeBSD and the whole history behind UNIX, RISC machines and all that - at a point when it was mostly h
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   by avhception 6y ago

   To add a perspective here: Being offered help, especially in a way that says "why don't you do X?" can often provoke a reaction that tries to justify oneself. You want to feel validated in your self-pity, and if the solution
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   by avhception 6y ago

   https://securescrypt.com/ If you click through on the links, you'll be rewarded with a whole network of equally bad websites full of probably fraudulent companies, fake cryptocoins and what not.
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   by avhception 6y ago

   I think the term "free software" is a marketing failure because you'd always have to add "as in free speech, not free beer". In German you can differentiate that, "frei" vs. "gratis".
6. 396.▲
   by avhception 6y ago

   Not only by pirates. As a Linux user, I need it to watch my legally bought DVDs since there is no viable other way.
7. 397.▲
   by avhception 6y ago

   If there only was a version of this thing with a more serious storage (like a small onboard NVVMe or something) and a boot path like coreboot or EFI... is there mainline 2d / 3d acceleration nowadays? Could even release a USB-C dock so
8. 398.▲
   by avhception 6y ago

   I manage that through ansible
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   by avhception 6y ago

   > hard for them to get into the apprentice system? Speaking as a German, it's also a failure to integrate these people properly. The small bakery in my home town closed down, too. Immigrants are in no short supply, but there are a f
10. 400.▲
    by avhception 6y ago

    Crimea has strategic value for the military though, the port of Sevastopol houses the Russian Black Sea fleet.
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    by avhception 6y ago

    Editing a config file for a program should not be more complicated than opening the file in your preferred editor, no matter your distro. Snaps break that. I can't understand why they would break such fundamental thing and seemingly do
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    by avhception 6y ago

    I've got an ansible playbook that modifies my ~/.config/lxc/config.yml for certain deployment scenarios. Due to LXC now being a snap, the file is simply not there. I guess it's 5 layers deep in namespaces, overlayfs
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    by avhception 7y ago

    I guess there is a niche, not every enterprise spends millions a year. We're a pretty happy customer that spends maybe a few thousands every month, if there are enough of us it could already be a sustainable business?
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    by avhception 7y ago

    While not exactly cheap in absolute terms, there is the Blackbird from Raptor. It's a single-CPU board, cheaper than Talos.
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    by avhception 7y ago

    I've had a system with two quad-core CPUs running at 100% load under my desk for many days, whisper-quiet.
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    by avhception 7y ago

    Thanks for your work! At the moment I'm running unison on Gentoo, Fedora and even FreeBSD hosts. There is even a ppc64le host running Fedora. On Fedora I'm using unison251-text from the croadfeldt/Unison COPR. On Gentoo it&#x
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    by avhception 7y ago

    I can't praise Unison enough. I've been using it every day for over 10 years and is easily one of the most useful pieces of software I've ever come across. I've donated multiple times over the years.
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    by avhception 8y ago

    UEFI implementations are a bugfest, with every other board exhibiting a new idiosyncrasy. I probably don't even remember half of the bugs I've encountered. My favorite one was when the integrated EFI shell wouldn't scroll, so