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by danieldk 5y ago
I loved my ZIP drive. At home, we had a flaky 56k6 connection. Since my dad worked at the university where he had a 100MBit connection, I would sometimes tag along with him, bring a stack of ZIP disks, and download a Linux distribution and
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by danieldk 5y ago
Because of a lack of competition, it’s the same issue as the US, but at a smaller scale (at least in most areas you can subscribe to multiple ISPs). E.g. in The Netherlands you can subscribe to a large number of ISPs. In the largest part of
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by danieldk 5y ago
Add the Netherlands. Healthcare insurance is mandatory.
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by danieldk 5y ago
Since we are piling up anecdotal evidence. I am in the NL and starting a company took, I don’t know, 30 minutes of my time? Filling in a form on a website and a 10 minute appointment at the Chamber of Commerce. Filing taxes is really straig
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by danieldk 5y ago
The Dutch artificial island 'Flevopolder' is ~970 square km. So, I wouldn't say giant when there is an artificial island that has a 373x larger surface area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevopolder I
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by danieldk 5y ago
One of the largest such projects was the Zuiderzee works, which closed a large inlet of the North Sea. Then (according to the table in the Wikipedia page), 1650 km^2 land was claimed from the sea (the land was large enough to add a new prov
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by danieldk 5y ago
I would say that it is a good gateway drug. I used Nix + home-manager on macOS for a while. It was really nice for replacing the broken macOS userland plus having reproducible dev environments. I liked it so much that I tried NixOS on a Del
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by danieldk 5y ago
(which seems to be maintained for a year, receiving security patches) Releases are maintained until one month after the next release. So, 21.05 will be maintained until a month after 21.11 is released.
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by danieldk 5y ago
Or, if you want to use Fedora, try Fedora Silverblue [1]. It uses an immutable root filesystem and offers atomic updates and rollbacks through OSTree. [1] https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/
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by danieldk 5y ago
I think the grandparent meant that if there is some leak in IOAccelerator.framework that causes excessive memory use, perhaps for some inputs this leads to swapping, leading to more SSD writes. (Just trying to guess what they meant.)
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by danieldk 5y ago
Not just FIDO2, I think you also need CTAP 2.1 for credential management/protection. E.g. my pre 5.2.3 firmware (which adds credential management) YubiKey Nano fails with: debug1: ssh_sk_enroll: /dev/hidraw0 does not su
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by danieldk 5y ago
I would try to find a key that supports ed25519, since there are concerns about the NIST curves used in ecdsa: https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/tree/doc/curve255...
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by danieldk 5y ago
It took the machine around 71 seconds. Are you including download time? On my Ryzen 7 3700X, it's done in 17 seconds.
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by danieldk 5y ago
There was Xandros Linux, which came with the Wine-based CrossOver Office to run Windows applications. Xandros was based on Corel Linux. They acquired Corel's team and Corel Linux sources when Corel gave up on Linux. Interesting tidbit,
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by danieldk 5y ago
BlackMagic tests video workloads using sequential reads/swrites. 2.2/2.7 GiB/s is pretty average for a modern NVMe SSD. Even consumer-level Samsung NVMe SSDs are faster.
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by danieldk 5y ago
Maybe they issue only crops up on AMD APUs? Though, in the linked bug report, there is also someone who has an Intel Iris Xe GPU with the same issue.
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by danieldk 5y ago
I didn’t say that. I even mentioned cables that only carry USB < 3.
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by danieldk 5y ago
To make it even more fun, Thunderbolt 3 looks like USB-C and Thunderbolt 2 looks like Mini DisplayPort. What do you mean? Thunderbolt 3 uses USB-C connectors. And you can also use a Thunderbolt 3 cable as a USB 3.1 Gen2/DP-Alt&#x2F
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by danieldk 5y ago
I have two of these. They always work without any issues: https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/723407/startech-usb-c-to-...
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by danieldk 5y ago
It's interesting how experiences differ. For me, USB-C <-> DP has been super reliable for years - Mac, Linux, and Windows. Admittedly, that was with a USB-C <-> DP (Alt mode) cable without any other functions.
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by danieldk 5y ago
It's so annoying that many monitors (e.g. common LG models) have 1x DP and 2x HDMI.
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by danieldk 5y ago
At the very least it requires DP 1.3 support of both the dock/hub and the machine that it is hooked up to for HBR3 and DP 1.4 for DSC. If either uses an older version, it doesn't work. I don't know about HDMI, there is HDMI a
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by danieldk 5y ago
Be sure to read the update at the end, since the article is partly outdated with DisplayPort 1.4. With DP 1.4, only two lanes are necessary thanks to HBR3 (and DSC). So, you can have 4k@60Hz while also having USB 3.1 Gen3 at 10Gbit/s.
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by danieldk 5y ago
Not all notebooks. I updated my ThinkPad from 16GB to 32GB RAM.
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by danieldk 5y ago
If you are using USB-C in alternate mode, it means that you forego everything else: with USB-C cable, you can basically use USB2, power delivery and (USB3 or alternate mode) at the same time. Incorrect. Perhaps with a low-end adapter, but
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by danieldk 5y ago
In a decade of using MacBooks, I had faulty RAM twice, once a broken 'f' key, once a completely unusable keyboard (one of the butterfly generations, keys would often get stuck). But at least the service of Apple Stores was very go
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by danieldk 5y ago
a Buran replica If you want to see a real Buran, Technik Museum Speyer is nice: https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/spaceshuttle-buran Though, overall, I liked Technik Museum Sinsheim more, which has both a Concorde
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by danieldk 5y ago
Fedora Toolbox is quite interesting from this perspective. It does not provide a proper security boundary, since it shares the home directory, but it is really nice to make ad-hoc development environments. Since it is built on podman/b
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by danieldk 5y ago
Yes. But since there was an initial RFC, I would expect there to be another RFC when flakes are ready.
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by danieldk 5y ago
Though, on the other hand, the comment says a new CLI is close to release, so I guess people are trying to improve things. I don't want to be too critical, I love Nix. But the experimental new UI was already in development (and avail

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