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by hs86 6y ago
What is the deal with Google's syncing apps? "Backup and Sync" still misses features like Files On-Demand/Smart Sync available in OneDrive/Dropbox and deleting files online pollutes the local trash/recycle bin
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by hs86 7y ago
They switched from per-user licenses to per-computer licenses. I am not sure how this works with previous lifetime licenses. With my lifetime Arq 5 license I can upgrade to a single computer license with 50% discount and to a 5 computer fam
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by hs86 7y ago
If they keep all third parties out of their kernel, could this ease a possible x86-to-ARM transition?
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by hs86 7y ago
As a tmux user the missing mouse support was a deal-breaker. It seems like I have no excuses left to remain on mintty. :)
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by hs86 7y ago
I am currently using Feedly with their recent "Leo" feature and it is really interesting how well it works. It requires some setup and imho is a bit expensive (Pro+ plan required) but this announcement should give a good overview
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by hs86 7y ago
The Dropbox client is just vastly more reliable. I never had any sync issues with it and it is still the only one which supports both Delta sync and LAN sync and their automatic "Smart Sync" still works better than what Google off
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by hs86 7y ago
I never owned an iOS device personally and when I offered my help to an older relative who wanted to bookmark a page on their home screen, it took me like 10 minutes to find out that I have to scroll horizontally on that Safari share menu.
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by hs86 7y ago
The spam folder in my Fastmail account usually got only one or two spam mails in a month but recently it went up to ~10 per day. The only change that happened around the same time was that Keybase added some crypto-play money to my account
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by hs86 7y ago
What if they are ok with this? What if the device vendors use this lack of stable ABI to put an expiration date on their products? Android phones don't get more than 3 years of support and my fear/tinfoil theory is that the vendor
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by hs86 7y ago
I am not sure if this is good or bad. On the one hand it gives hardware vendors an incentive to contribute their drivers directly into their kernel but on the other hand most Android phones are now restricted to one old kernel version due t
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by hs86 7y ago
Most features can be covered by a few VSCode extensions like these: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yzhang.m... https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mushan.v... Other code
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by hs86 7y ago
My last clean install of Windows was with Vista and since then I have done in-place upgrades without much hassle. There is no hardware left anymore from the original setup and it even survived several mainboards, switches between AMD and In
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by hs86 7y ago
Interestingly, their Mac app supports chapter marks but in Chrome, Safari or the Windows app they are not supported.
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by hs86 7y ago
It is like Tree Style Tabs but with better keyboard shortcuts, handles a tree of the entire browsing session and not just for a single window and it can act as a session manager where you can close entire (sub-)trees without losing their tr
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by hs86 7y ago
I think, it is strange that there are so few passively cooled high end laptops. Most devices with these ~5 Watt Intel CPUs are in cheap Chromebooks with <= 8 GiB RAM or in expensive ~2000 € devices with weird hybrid tablet form factors.
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by hs86 7y ago
On macOS and Windows their various builds are also available over the Homebrew and Scoop package managers: https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/homebrew-openjdk https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop&#x2F
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by hs86 7y ago
I am currently trying out this Chrome extension [0] which brings a mini map to each website and my first impression is rather positive. The performance impact might be a little too much on my older laptop but on the desktop it seems fine (f
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by hs86 7y ago
Some time ago I tried Bitdefender on Windows and it immediately MitMed itself so that it could append green check marks after every search result on Google to signal me that that site is 'safe'. There was no browser extension from
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by hs86 7y ago
libebml is in the Ubuntu universe repository which means that it is not supported by Canonical. And in the Debian changelog for this package I don't see any mentions of a security issue that was fixed 16 months ago: https://
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by hs86 7y ago
Until September 2021: https://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup These version numbers are a little confusing because 11.3 now has newer ZFS features than the latest release from the 12.x branch and upgrading f
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by hs86 7y ago
I haven't listened to it yet but this very recent podcast episode has someone from the Google Earth team on it: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/07/02/google-earth...
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by hs86 7y ago
A few weeks ago they canceled my Paypal payment subscription due to "technical reasons" and now it seems like only credit card payments are available anymore. This is a little scary because credit cards are not that common here in
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by hs86 7y ago
Do you know if there are any plans to add some desktop option into the installer? Something simple like tasksel [0] that just adds some curated (and minimal?) selection of packages after the base installation and starts the appropriate disp
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Windows 10 May 2019 Update Feature Focus: Light Themes and Sandboxes(anandtech.com)
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by hs86 7y ago
This seems to run on a VM that dynamically adjusts its RAM size according to the current usage. Does a VM like this have any kind of file cache?
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by hs86 7y ago
I am left-handed and the IntelliMouse Optical was my favorite mouse. It broke after a couple of years and then I just bought three of them in bulk packaging for the same price! Today, I use the SteelSeries Sensei models which kind of are mo
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by hs86 7y ago
After reading http://techtrickery.com/keyloggers.html I am not sure if I ever want to have Xorg installed anymore. Wayland is great but it seems like having a fully featured *nix desktop without XWayland installed is still
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by hs86 7y ago
MailMate on macOS even though I only use a fraction of its features. eM Client on on Windows, because is it comparable with Thunderbird in managing my mails but also comes close to Outlook with its calendar and contacts management. Unlike O
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by hs86 7y ago
Leave the Defender/Firewall untouched, don't install any additional "security" software and increase the UAC level to the highest one [0] that even prompts for changing important Windows settings. Obtain all 3rd party to
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by hs86 7y ago
I wonder why each of the three major BSDs ended up with their own hypervisor implementation instead of sharing their code. There is now bhyve on FreeBSD, vmm on OpenBSD and now also NVMM on NetBSD. Is this kind of diversity a good thing?

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