axelthegerman

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by axelthegerman 21d ago
Or maybe the majority of people buying a new damn phone every other week just prefer it'd be a tablet
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by axelthegerman 1mo ago
We really don't. If that finally does happen, people are quick to adapt to change it will use one of the many alternatives, maybe even one that's interoperable or open so we're not in the same mess five years later
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by axelthegerman 3mo ago
Unfortunately for the foreseeable future you'd need a cheap Android or iOS device for those apps and whatever you want as daily driver. I don't think you NEED to open your online banking on your phone every day. Just use cash and
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by axelthegerman 4mo ago
Also should have been easy to design an OAuth like flow where the government that seems to care so damn much about age verification to attest someone's age in a privacy respecting way - only yes/no if the person is of the desired
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by axelthegerman 5mo ago
Try writing your own code like it's 2025
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by axelthegerman 6mo ago
Great explanation, very reasonable. Except that before they did and then they didn't without any proper notification (release notes don't count for significant changes like this). They should have just added a pop up or at least e
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by axelthegerman 6mo ago
Works so great on new devices like smartphones. Except not. And so easy to set up on a home computer. Except it's not always on and doesn't come with backups. I'm not saying S3 is where it's at but might need a bit more
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by axelthegerman 7mo ago
And most folks getting stuff done with Rails ain't be filling out surveys to boost their stack - or maybe that's just me. So everyone just stop worrying what everyone else thinks or seems to think and just use the right tools for
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by axelthegerman 7mo ago
I hope they'll execute this one well. Have been waiting for a wallet product from Stripe for a while, but maybe less juicy margins than on top of credit card fees?
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by axelthegerman 7mo ago
And how great it will be to troubleshoot any issues because everyone is basically running a distinct piece of software
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by axelthegerman 8mo ago
Gotta say this is pretty cool. Love some of the nostalgia on the homepage. Personally not a nextjs fan but finding a modern alternative to WP will pay off for many businesses
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by axelthegerman 8mo ago
> Tell it what git commands to explicitly run and in what order Why don't run the commands yourself then?
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by axelthegerman 9mo ago
This! Sure you might need a Google account for your android but you don't HAVE to use all their services. First just don't use Gmail, docs, search, chrome and co. But even better get a Pixel with Graphene and Google's invasiv
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by axelthegerman 9mo ago
E2EE is definitely nice, however if you communicate with many people using other email providers your emails still end up there unencrypted
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by axelthegerman 9mo ago
It never really worked. Most businesses just paid for customers that were going to or already found them anyways. Not saying ads don't work at all, they definitely increase awareness.
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by axelthegerman 9mo ago
I don't see why upgrading a motherboard to one with a newer generation CPU is not valuable. Or why going 16 to 32 GB RAM a few years after buying it first isn't. Yes full upgradability of each component would be pretty nice but no
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by axelthegerman 10mo ago
Or more like "be careful with the power you give your LLMs"
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by axelthegerman 10mo ago
> we had to spend time fixing the broken test even if the changes had nothing to do with the initial change. In response to this problem, it was decided to break out the code for each destination into their own repos. One could also chan
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by axelthegerman 10mo ago
Right let's add more layers that always solves everything. No language or abstraction is perfect but if someone prefers pure functional coding, Rails and Django are just not it, don't try to make them. Others like em just as they
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by axelthegerman 10mo ago
Oh that's one of the best news in the smartphone world in a long time. It's impossible to escape the Apple/Google duopoly but at least GrapheneOS makes the most out of Android regarding privacy. I still wish we could get some
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by axelthegerman 11mo ago
CDN is not the same as DDoS protection. Cloudflare does both but some providers do one or the other. You can use any CDN no matter if you use Cloudflare or not (shout-out to Bunny CDN btw, very happy with them - they do one thing and do it
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by axelthegerman 11mo ago
This!! Everyone seems to "really need" that unlimited scalability of AWS & Co - but they'll happily scale your compute and the bill for you. Sure maybe you'll get lucky and they waive it. But sometimes going down is
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by axelthegerman 11mo ago
> [...] just want to get a “degree” /maximize scores to get a job, There is little interest to learn. Seems to be more and more common these days in general :-/
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by axelthegerman 1y ago
If the industry wouldn't have pushed React as the magic bullet that is always to be used it could have stayed an awesome interactive frontend library. In some cases it's just not what you need and SSR etc are more important - then
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by axelthegerman 1y ago
While Rails indeed tries to support old versions for a while I found that many devs are eager to stay on top of upgrades (which also has been less painful the last few years and definitely when done incrementally) Fair there will be some ol
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by axelthegerman 1y ago
And to have buy in it needs to exist first :) Like websites nowadays being usually designed for mobile and desktop devices
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by axelthegerman 1y ago
Solar and battery for refrigeration seems a waste. If you own a house I'd look into very old school options like digging a deep hole to store your food in a dark&cool place - forgot the name for it but it'll work for weeks or
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by axelthegerman 1y ago
By more efficient you mean taking hours to settle? And no inflation as in Bitcoin level volatility and up? I'd love an efficient and cheap option to move funds online - especially for micro payments too. But so far I haven't heard
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by axelthegerman 1y ago
It's ridiculous that we live in 2025 and most people in North America have apartment buzzer systems that don't work with "long distance" calls or forward to multiple phone numbers. [freshbuzzer.com](freshbuzzer.com) does
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by axelthegerman 1y ago
This!! Even modern cars have some trouble knowing the actual speed limit of the road you're currently on. In Canada I don't think the speed limit is ever higher than 110 or 120km/h - limit to 130km/h and have an override

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