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by darrmit 7y ago
I love the idea of System76 and Coreboot and keep checking in on them every few months but the story seems to remain the same - horrible battery life. I can’t see dropping over 1k on a laptop that barely lasts 4 hours out of the box.
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by darrmit 7y ago
I really love the idea of a Linux phone but my big concern is that of stability. I spent many years running Android/F-Droid trying to find a balance between usability/stability and privacy and ultimately just ended up on iOS. I de
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by darrmit 7y ago
This seems to be common with the product teams I’ve interfaced with. Good intentions, but bad prioritization and little incentive to do anything other than cater to the big revenue drivers.
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by darrmit 7y ago
“The bottom line, as Drum points out, is that “even moderately high levels of lead exposure are associated with aggressivity, impulsivity, ADHD, and lower IQ. And right there, you’ve practically defined the profile of a violent young offend
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by darrmit 7y ago
It’s not just the keyboard, either. I’ve been buying Macs since they switched to Intel in 2006 and the most recent MacBook Pros are the most problematic I’ve ever had. - Bluetooth seems to be fundamentally flawed at a hardware level. AirPod
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by darrmit 8y ago
For years I ran 2 1080 27's - one portrait, one landscape - off of my MacBook Pro. Last year I decided to try a 28 inch 4K at work, which led to purchasing a 30 inch 4k at home. I also purchased a laptop stand so I can put the laptop o
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by darrmit 8y ago
This is accurate. If you have a substantial Windows Server / SQL etc. spend via an Enterprise Agreement then MSFT will essentially give away their cloud services to you. I’ve seen crazy 90+ percent discounts on Azure and Office 365. St
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by darrmit 8y ago
I made the jump to CleanBrowsing a few months ago from OpenDNS because OpenDNS caches records really aggressively and was just generally stagnant in terms of feature set. I've been really happy with performance and privacy. I configure
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by darrmit 8y ago
I think there’s an element of truth in this - you should fight to stay relevant and constantly measure yourself against where you want to go. However, I don’t think tenure is something to avoid, and I certainly don’t think interviewing thre
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by darrmit 8y ago
Couldn’t agree more. I hung out on forums most of my teenage years and still have friends I talk to today nearly 20 years later. I think it was easy to make friends that way because everyone there had a baseline of common interests.
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by darrmit 9y ago
I did CIS too so I could avoid math but now find myself regretting it. I always enjoyed math but my middle school teachers were more concerned about yearbook planning than teaching and I always suffered from that. I’ve actually recently sta
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by darrmit 9y ago
One of the biggest differences in my mind between the Internet described in the article and the social networks of today (at least for me) is the forums and IRC channels I frequented were filled with people who genuinely enjoyed talking to
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by darrmit 9y ago
I have dealt with this off and on for years. My relationship with my smartphone has always been love/hate. I actually even did go to a dumphone for several months and enjoyed the disconnect, but the lack of maps and a camera ultimately
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by darrmit 9y ago
Wasn’t aware of these, but just solidifies my move away from 1PW.
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by darrmit 9y ago
I’ve used all of the alternatives and each has pros and cons. I’ve settled on Bitwarden at the moment but may end up moving back to KeePass (again) to gain control of my data. I’ve had to refer to KeePass backups months down the road when I
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by darrmit 9y ago
Perhaps I could have clarified better, but I was speaking to the various nasty security issues they’ve had mainly. I also find their apps to be ugly as sin, but that’s a personal preference.
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by darrmit 9y ago
I can’t figure out why LastPass is still so popular. Ease of use since it’s completely browser based? They were early to market? I don’t get it. So many better designed, more secure options out there. KeePass, Bitwarden, or 1Password to nam
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by darrmit 9y ago
I'm sure this might be an unpopular opinion here, but my experience has been that when you do normal business collaboration - WebEx, etc. - in Linux, you spend more time fighting to make things work than you do actually working. Chrome
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by darrmit 9y ago
Mozilla must believe that privacy conscious users make up a small percentage of their user base. There's no other explanation for moves like this and their "differential privacy" fiasco from August. Between that, broken U2F s
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by darrmit 9y ago
Love Fastmail - been a happy customer for several years now. Also look forward to the Advent blog posts every year.
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by darrmit 9y ago
With the Unifi line it doesn't matter how easy the terminal is since the config gets overwritten by the controller on each re-provision. So not only do you get to figure out what config works via terminal, you also get to insert it int
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by darrmit 9y ago
Unifi gear is great until you need something that the UI can’t do and figure out you’ve got to load a custom JSON config file from the controller. Their support is also atrociously bad. The Unifi product is getting better, but I sometimes w
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by darrmit 9y ago
Interesting. I've seen it work natively on Fastmail, and recently even Google, but the add-on itself wouldn't work in FF57. Maybe it will soon.
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by darrmit 9y ago
I went ahead and paid the 10 bucks for a subscription and was able to get everything setup with a FIDO U2F YubiKey in under 10 minutes. The 1PIF import was flawless. The only complaint I have is it appears the FIDO support is limited in Fir
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by darrmit 9y ago
Wow this actually looks really promising. I’ve used KeePass off and on over the years but always defaulted back to 1Password because of the browser plugins and mobile experience. I even tried Pass but it was just too painful to setup and ma
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by darrmit 9y ago
I'm patiently waiting for improved profile support and better Chrome add-on support before I can abandon Chrome entirely. Been running Firefox for my personal browsing almost exclusively for years (with the occasional Chrome use) but I
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by darrmit 9y ago
Thanks for this. Was waiting patiently for the push this week after getting tired of Nightly builds.
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by darrmit 9y ago
I tried DDG several times over the years before finally sticking with it about 2 years ago. Now it feels weird to go back to Google because I've gotten used to using some of the bangs. I love DDG and what they stand for, and I'll
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by darrmit 9y ago
I too am from the extreme eastern part of the Piedmont (Wayne/Johnston) and we always said "drink" to indicate something other than water or tea. A Coke is a Coke.
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by darrmit 9y ago
Even prior to the leak it seemed (to me) like it would be hard to improve on the 6s/7, and the keynote confirmed it. From wireless charging to FaceID it just feels like a bunch of incremental, gimmick-y changes.

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