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by kiwijamo 5y ago
It was indeed Arch. Not sure about the comment about Debian as IIRC it's more or less the same in Debian. Using gstreamer seems to be more of a GNOME thing than anything to do with distros.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Genuine question: Are there any actual examples of giant companies using gstreamer? Why I ask is that pretty much the only reason I have gstreamer installed on my pesonal laptop is to satisfy certain GNOME dependencies (due to GNOME, unders
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
That is possible, my Gmail is indeed firstname.lastname@gmail.com.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
When I ran my own mail server some years ago I was shocked at the amount of spam originating from Google. Definitely their IP addresses as I would routinely get other legitimite mail from the same IP ranges. Was quite a challenge dealing wi
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I generally don't check my personal spam folder. I've honestly not seen any false positives with Fastmail. But I certainly do have to check every now and then for my work O365 account which is pretty bad at marking legitimate mail
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
You seem to not realize many email providers just drop emails (often after accepting it) instead of putting it in spam folders. So even your suggestion is of no help in that situation.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I still have a @gmail.com account and every time I check it there's a whole lot of spam sitting in the inbox waiting to be classified as spam. Very strange as my main address (which I've had as my main address for almost 20 years)
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Here in New Zealand we usually use 'roster'.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Wonder if it's due to a warm cache. I never use Google (hence it won't have google.com cached) and accessing it from Firefox on my high-end Android S21 takes a few seconds to load via my NZ fibre connection. Certainty not instant.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
For example: DuckDuckGo.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I was able to enable IPv6 through the web interface when I used an EdgeRouter about a year or so ago. Even some of the Wizards turns it on for you if you want (IIRC) although you can go into the manual configuration to set it up. I ended up
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Clients don't always do this automatically. My Arch Linux laptop would often select 2.4GHz in places where 5GHz offered a much better experience. Generally it will start on 5GHz when it is close to the router, fall back to 2.4GHz when
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Fairly impressed that it runs Facebook. Out of all the websites I use, I find Facebook to be the most slow (presumably due to its heavy use of JS). This is despite most other websites I use preforming fine on my personal 2017-era X1 Carbon
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Did later editions (e.g. 95b) still run on the 386? I remember running 95b on a Pentium 166 MMX with 32MB of RAM and even that was a challenge at times!
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Having used a range of video conferencing systems, your description of Meet lines up with pretty much every Meet session I've been involved with. I'll meet the same group of people on Zoom another time and it usually works much be
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I work in Education and I have to admit things are just easier in the Apple ecosystem. Things like AirPlay and AirDrop etc are lifesavers for many of the less tech-inclined staff in schools who can actually manage to use these (and other) t
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
At work I use the macOS Desktop edition of Outlook for my work O365 account and I've found searching to be pretty good and quite fast. I'm pretty sure it just searches the local cache hence the speed. It's pretty good at sugg
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I have to use Gmail for work. I've found Gmail to be pretty slow nowdays. From HN comments on other threads I'm not the only one to have noticed this. It even occasionally fails to load and just hangs at the loading screen requiri
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
That doesn't work either. Does it work for you?
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Working for me, although it did take a while to load.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Interestingly Firefox does not seem to accept that as a valid address. It will force a a search for 'fe80::1' or even ' http://fe80::1 '. Is it just me?
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
My current home router is a cheap Microtik which does exactly what you describe. I also previously had a low end Ubiquiti EdgeRouter with the same setup as I have now. I am pretty sure the free router my ISP supplies does that as well but I
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Same here in New Zealand too. Cloudflare peers only with certain ISPs. The ones they don't peer with sees some traffic (e.g. sites on free plans) routed to offshore Cloudflare POPs around the world instead of local Cloudflare POPs. I u
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks. I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Which other SQL engines do this? The ones I'm familiar with (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL, Orcale to name a few) certainly don't behave anywhere close to how SQLite behaves.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Another question would be "Should Apache support HTTP/3?". Personally I'm happy with the status quo and would need some convincing that it's worth turning on a new protocol.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I've stuck with Apache given it is what I know, having used it for over 15 years. Despite its flaws, it does the job pretty well. I'm also more confident that Apache's code is more battle tested. On top of that I disable all
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
It's not just that the cache is invalidated, I also suspect Google changes the JS code fairly frequently enough that the browser needs to download a fresh copy (even if the cache it has is not that old and could otherwise have been reu
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
To be fair you only have to download the 70 MB once (+ the occasional updates). Gmail instead pushes its JS over and over again. Every time I load Gmail it feels like it's starting from Square One all over again but even actually using
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Not all users. ISPs around my part of the world do not behave as badly as US ISPs seem to. Most (although I actually believe it is all) ISPs in my home country do not do anything special to DNS lookups. This means there is literally no bene

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