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by hs86 5y ago
If crypto mining on their systems becomes profitable for us, why would they continue renting out their servers? Instead, they could cease their operations and become full-time miners themselves. Their pricing seems to rely on customers that
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by hs86 5y ago
Here is a recent comment from Dropbox engineers about the state of tracing tooling on Linux compared to Windows: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/boosting-dropbox-upload-... Is their assessment correct? If so, how c
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by hs86 5y ago
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
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by hs86 5y ago
Having a system-wide package manager where nearly all libraries are dynamically linked also has its drawbacks. A seemingly minor update might cause a huge cascade of dependency updates which causes common Linux distributions to tend to one
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by hs86 5y ago
I reinstalled it recently because the whatever-coins associated with my account were worth more than €500. The app itself and their GitHub repo feel abandoned, so I wouldn't be surprised if they announce its discontinuation.
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by hs86 5y ago
They managed to increase the distance the mouse cursor has to travel to open the app drawer. The worst case would be to move the cursor to the upper left and then to the bottom right. Does Red Hat monitor the mouse travel distance to measur
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by hs86 5y ago
They just shipped a performance-related change: https://www.notion.so/blog/faster-page-load-navigation It is also mentioned on today's changelog: https://www.notion.so/What-s-New-157765353f2c47
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by hs86 6y ago
This very release features a new mode [0] with reduced memory consumption. It probably still gets undercut by Gogs/Gitea, but it may be enough to run GitLab on a cheaper VPS tier than before. [0] https://about.gitlab.com&#x2
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by hs86 6y ago
Just this week, I uninstalled all my desktop mail clients: no more Thunderbird, MailMate, or eM Client. Fastmail's web app feels faster, uses fewer resources, and has the same UI on all of my computers. Instead of redirecting all other
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by hs86 6y ago
This week I canceled Dropbox, and on my Windows PC, I moved ~500 GiB from my Dropbox folder over to the Google Drive File Stream volume. I barely noticed any CPU usage from GDFS, and Dropbox.exe was also somewhat reasonable, but the fans of
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by hs86 6y ago
For me, it is also a superior alternative to Tree Style Tab on Firefox. It has better keyboard shortcuts, and drag and drop support of tabs or entire subtrees is more reliable than TST. Unloading entire subtrees and restoring them on other
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by hs86 6y ago
If you use Chrome, this might help: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/12/04/chrome-omnibox-will... For GSuite/Workspace this needs to be enabled by an admin: https://support.google.com/a
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by hs86 6y ago
It does not look good for the Electron port [1]. These ports will be removed soon due to their Python 2 dependency, and the available versions are not supported anymore [2]. [1] https://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=el
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by hs86 6y ago
There is 1. the political aspect of creating an incentive for vendors to inline their drivers and 2. the technical aspect of not having to provide a stable ABI for kernel drivers. About 2: I have no idea how difficult this is. Microsoft mak
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by hs86 6y ago
They have a nice landing page: https://raindrop.io/
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by hs86 6y ago
I am unsure between this and Pinboard.in. Raindrop certainly looks better, but Pinboard seems to have better integrations across other services. Those permanent archives are nice to have, but it does not feel that permanent without a local
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by hs86 6y ago
Why does (GNU/)Linux handle memory pressure so much worse compared to macOS and Windows? I can allocate like 50% more than my physical RAM on these systems, and the performance does not tank thanks to swapping to an SSD. Is this a trad
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by hs86 6y ago
I showed this once to a non-techie friend, and they were excited to use it. My little demo covered the difference between F and Shift+F to show how it is case sensitive, and I navigated through multiple pages without using a mouse. I assure
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by hs86 6y ago
Why do most gaming products look like an edgy 13-year-old has designed them? This trend goes from useless RGB coolers on RAM modules to tuning software for mainboards with a UI that is essentially a fancy bitmap with random interactive elem
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by hs86 6y ago
With the declining repairability of MacBooks (and other slim notebooks), I always have to think about this Pokémon comic: https://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED127/56473bf64a6...
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by hs86 6y ago
There is a lot of feature overlap between these note-taking apps, but I always find one or two missing critical features. It seems like most apps try to be a one-size-fits-all solution, and they fail in doing so. My new approach uses dedica
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by hs86 6y ago
Better link: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=110228...
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by hs86 6y ago
What is going on with Outlook for Windows? For years, it froze its entire UI whenever there was some network lag on the IMAP server, and the recent improvements for Outlook strangely focus only on their Mac, web, and mobile versions. Does t
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by hs86 6y ago
We tagged along with the deprecations of the last years (32 bit, kernel extensions, OpenGL), and right before the big payoff, our Macs fell out of support. :) Do people with unsupported macOS versions still need to modify each patch release
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by hs86 6y ago
Thanks for the name! Apparently, there were a bunch of tools with the same purpose: http://coolingsoftware.homepage.t-online.de/index.htm
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by hs86 6y ago
When power-saving states for CPUs were still new and Windows support was still lacking, there was a 3rd party tool that would decrease the idle temperature of my Athlon XP by creating artificial load with a low process priority. It would ba
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by hs86 6y ago
I like to have the same UI for all of my email accounts and the idea of yet another email address that is tied to a very unique workflow seems undesirable to me. This could have been interesting if I could use it with arbitrary IMAP/SM
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by hs86 6y ago
As a mere mortal, I am more interested in their podcast than their products. :) Hopefully, they will produce more episodes in the future: https://oxide.computer/podcast/
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by hs86 6y ago
iOS apps on the desktop and the switch from x86 to ARM have uncomfortable many parallels with Windows 8 / RT. How is Apple's approach going to be different from Microsoft's? Will they keep backward compatibility? Will the CPU
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by hs86 6y ago
One of his main complaints is "People who promote Linux, don't run Linux" and he specifically focuses on those who hold Linux-related talks at conferences on devices that don't run Linux on the desktop. Can you look at

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