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by jwrallie 10mo ago
How do other providers avoid this issue? Do they keep changing IPs or is the traffic that comes out of Mullvad worse in quality somehow?
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by jwrallie 10mo ago
Thanks for mentioning VacuumTube, it sounds useful. I’m using a Minix Z100 running Gnome and Kodi. I use a simple Bluetooth keyboard, the interface is clunky but it does the job. I use Samba to also share files to VNC running on iOS and And
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
Having moved from one country to another, I tripped all kinda of anti fraud systems and the only way out was to share my ID with every other company. It’s annoying but one common thing is that anti fraud systems seem to require humans in th
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
Slax is cool, it used to fit a mini cd, so it was easy to carry around and boot and backup files from machines that refused to boot by themselves.
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
I can vouch for it, I had an RPi that was translating a serial port to TCP/IP in a difficult to access location, and it stayed doing its duty for years, Alpine is very solid.
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
I’d like to use it sporadically, but they charge a lot for people in academia, and for my use case it’s simply not worth it. I’m using xcas now, it’s working pretty well for my humble needs.
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
Buying used media could also a viable option. My kid likes to watch the same thing over and over, subscription content does not make sense for her. You just have to buy it slowly.
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
Been there with a team that ignores important advice, has an issue that was avoidable, ask for help fixing it, then forget all about it when you give another advice.
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
Hmm... I am sure your yaml config files would also not please your grandma. Anyway if you don't like change, there are other DEs apart from those two are more fitting. Try XFCE or Mate, they will look and behave the same years after se
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
How about a VPS running Emacs + Mosh and Blink? The only downside is that you need good internet coverage.
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
Plain Emacs certainly felt more intuitive at first contact, but Vim felt more intuitive to me once I approached it as a language. What can I say, I’m the target audience of evil mode.
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
Talking about VS Code itself (with Copilot), I have witnessed it accessing files referenced from within a project folder but stored outside of it without being given explicit permission to, so I am pretty sure it can leak information and po
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
I’ve been receiving lots of SMS lately claiming to come from “WatApp”, “whtas app” and similar instead of a phone number. I assume it can be related to this leak? Knowing someone uses a service can increase the effectiveness of targeted phi
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
Embrace, extend…
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by jwrallie 11mo ago
People are very lazy to do basic math. I always minimize the coins I am carrying by doing math on my head so that the combined value of a certain coin never exceeds the amount of the next available coin/bill, that way I never exceed th
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by jwrallie 1y ago
I like Gnome on my Surface Go, because the defaults make sense on a touch interface, but all my other computers are running Xfce. I changed the panel to mimic OpenSuse (it’s already a preloaded template) and it is perfect for using with a k
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by jwrallie 1y ago
I love xfce. It is so stable and practical.
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by jwrallie 1y ago
I went from Emacs to Vim to Vscode and back to Emacs with Doom, but I still use pretty much all of them. Vscode has copilot, Emacs has org mode, vim is great for light editing. Vim is the magic that lets me use all of those for what I want
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by jwrallie 1y ago
Changing the medium to a private conversation also means not committing to any decision publicly for as long as possible. It feels like damage control and protecting your own image (the person posting with respect to their company) as oppos
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by jwrallie 1y ago
I think there is an important difference between (1) being able to buy the same (DRM free) content supporting the authors and (2) the copies on the Internet Archive or the likes of it being the only source available. I think many will choos
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by jwrallie 1y ago
That is a tricky one. I caught myself comparing bars to a friend’s phone before wondering if changing carriers would give me better signal in a certain area.
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by jwrallie 1y ago
Yeah. It works wonders depending on the kind of people you work or deal with. Some people will go through great lengths to find a flaw in whatever they look at, and once they see one they will keep asking about it continuously even if fixin
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by jwrallie 1y ago
Is it worth it losing the ability to just put your hdd on your older laptop and booting it in an emergency?
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by jwrallie 1y ago
If you ever need to hack some subs by yourself, whisper.cpp can output .srt files and you can run the small or medium models even on modest hardware.
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by jwrallie 1y ago
Most streaming companies are forgetting what they were competing with when they started out.
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by jwrallie 1y ago
If only they did work reliably though… When the software on these locked down devices breaks down, and it does, everyone is helpless. When a zero day is found, again everyone is helpless. If we cannot understand how something works on all l
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by jwrallie 1y ago
As long as common PCs can boot an iso we should be good to go.
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by jwrallie 1y ago
Years ago I saw on TV a report where people bought several sunglasses sold in the street in Brazil and compared to the expensive brands and they all cut UV quite effectively. Not that I would trust national TV test methodologies and risk m
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by jwrallie 1y ago
I vote for it too. My favorite features are adding comments to highlights when reviewing a PDF and the tool to copy tables to clipboard that allows you to help it with the segmentation. I even got some of my colleagues that are on Windows i
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by jwrallie 1y ago
It was a solved problem with apps like Reddit is Fun from the time I got my first smartphone (it ran Android 2.2), but the fun had to end with locked APIs.

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