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by elagost 8y ago
"Regular users" for me means someone who doesn't want to fuss too much with a desktop system; I use Fedora (or Debian until recently) because I want to spend my time administering my servers, not my desktop system that is the
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by elagost 8y ago
You've probably written about it before, but care to elaborate? Is alpine as a desktop in any way viable for regular users?
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by elagost 8y ago
Thanks for your responses. A good foil to my complaints. My experience is very selective. I agree on 5, too - I'd rather have the bug published and at least know that it's been seen and is being worked on, but still, it's a l
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by elagost 8y ago
I use F5's at work. The F5's do their job very very well, but are very very touchy. I've always considered nginx to be solid, stable, and low-maintenance. I think the opposite about F5 and am worried about this transition. 1)
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by elagost 8y ago
It works surprisingly well, and you can even share storage with the local Android system through termux-setup-storage. I've been using this for years and it's the primary reason I really enjoy Android. Another comment mentioned iS
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by elagost 8y ago
Even though it must have been very difficult, living a harder life seems to have given you a super power to transcend the silly little things that everyone else seems to care so much about. Personally I find I get wrapped up in the little t
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by elagost 8y ago
I think the burn will come later, and we won't realize the stove is being turned up until we're the frog in boiling water. Facebook is a bad company doing bad things (full of, undoubtedly, good people trying to do good things) and
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by elagost 8y ago
At the very least, I do what I can for myself and my family. I should take that as a small victory. I was talking to my uncle, a very smart man and a lawyer, about privacy concerns. He said something that will stick with me for years: &quot
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by elagost 8y ago
Hacker News is a pretty small bubble, but news about Facebook being awful is pretty mainstream at this point. It surprises me that the majority of my family can still tolerate Facebook (and instagram/whatsapp etc.) despite what is know
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by elagost 8y ago
Server-side, goaccess is pretty rudimentary, but it works really well for me.
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by elagost 8y ago
Tiling window managers are very fun to use, once you get the hang of them. They're definitely not for everyone, but they make my workflow much simpler. For anyone who uses a Mac, and has used this - how is it? It looks really cool, but
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by elagost 8y ago
I very much agree with you. I've deliberately avoided USB-C for this very reason. It's not that hard - I don't buy new gear very often, and I'm still using an old 5th-gen iPod every day - but there will be a day when I d
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by elagost 8y ago
Seems like this is the appropriate way to do this - build it into a good existing system based on encryption. Thanks for sharing it!
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by elagost 8y ago
I built something like this (a bash script wrapper around oathtool) but ended up outputting the text to a picture with ImageMagick. This is much more polished, though. Using a proprietary program for two-factor (Google authenticator or Auth
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by elagost 8y ago
I still have my old Photon Q (Sprint equivalent of the Droid 4) and the keyboard is amazing to type on. The device isn't in use anymore, but I do miss physical keyboards. I think people look at stuff a lot more than they type stuff. My
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by elagost 8y ago
The important thing: don't feel like you have to compile a kernel, complain about audio drivers, or use a tiling window manager to be part of 'the club'. The only reason I use Gnome3 instead of xfce these days is the eye cand
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by elagost 8y ago
Thunar and SpaceFM work pretty well for me. PCManFM is also another good option. They're all fairly light-weight.
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by elagost 8y ago
Older laptops tend to be very serviceable and repair-friendly. I use my VGA ports, USB, SD card, and Ethernet ports all the time. Newer laptops, from what I've observed, fall into two categories: either a)they are not shy about imitati
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by elagost 8y ago
Interesting. Since I last checked, my X220 hadn't received any updates in more than a year, and I run coreboot now, so I've stopped checking. Looking now, it seems they released one in January. Seems like my impressions were wrong
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by elagost 8y ago
My X220 does the exact same thing. Usually pretty fine though, but definitely noticeable, multiple times a week. I keep my display timeout pretty low and have a blank screen for the lock screen (slock, i3lock, swaylock).
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by elagost 8y ago
It's great that they're putting so much care and attention something that's usually overlooked - motherboards/laptops are released and often shortly abandoned by manufacturers if they're not flagship models, leading
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by elagost 8y ago
It's just a link that opens amazon.com in your browser. A single item in the dock, in recent versions, that is very easy to remove (right-click, details, uninstall). In Unity versions, it was a little more difficult to get rid of, but
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by elagost 8y ago
Apple's 2FA makes things much simpler for users who own multiple Apple devices (very easy to authorize a new iPhone from your iMac or iPad) but if you only have one, it's next to impossible to use reliably. You can't make a b
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by elagost 8y ago
Beautiful sentiment. I'd love if more people applied some basic thought to their lives, instead of just wandering into the melting pot of dystopia. Not too long ago, people had the freedom to speak their minds without being crushed by
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by elagost 8y ago
Curious what you mean by "Software eco is mostly for playing around". They run full Debian, and despite the limited I/O throughput, there are a number of relatively high profile projects that are widely used. Most people I kn
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by elagost 8y ago
Dropbox now only (officially) supports un-encrypted bare ext4 filesystems. If you plan on using XFS, BTRFS, or even encrypted ext4, you're SOL with Dropbox. https://itsfoss.com/dropbox-linux-ext4-only/ NextCloud a