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by kiwijamo 2y ago
I've had this happen in New Zealand but only once. It's probably a rule outside the US but not enforced as strictly as in the US.
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Having used Starlink a couple of times recently while travelling (think rural accommodations and the like such as rural areas of New Zealand and the Samoa islands) I've not been impressed with it. In every single case my 4G phone had b
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
How many people live in a 250 mile circle around their Cloudflare POP? Which Cloudflare POP I hit depends on which RSP I use. In the country I live in, our biggest RSP peers with Cloudflare in a neighboring country (as it is much cheaper fo
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
> If you search for a physical business, Google is amazing. If you search for anything physically around you, again, amazing. Maps? Find an online vendor for a certain product in your country? Google wins. This is what normal people use
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Outlook has the same searching issue. I often have to resort to manually eyeballing through my email archives to find what I'm looking for. Very annoying indeed.
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Indeed. Here in New Zealand none of the mobile carriers have deployed IPv6 on mobile (and there are apparently no plans to do so) so we are at 0% for Mobile IPv6. Meanwhile all except one of the major fixed line carriers have IPv6. I don&#x
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
High 3 and 4 figures wouldn't occur for personal backups though. I've done a big retrieval once and the cost was literally just single digits dollars for me. So the total lifetime cost (including retrievals) is cheaper on S3 than
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
I think that's pretty standard outside the Apple ecosystem. HP seem to have this on most (if not all) the laptops I've seen at $DAY_JOB which uses HP for all laptops.
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Interesting, my work HP Probook does not have that functionality. I wonder why HP chooses to do this only for some laptop lines.
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Funnily enough I have 3x 1080p monitors in front of me. Maybe I am "no one". :)
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
I live in an area that observes DST and since most devices does the changeover automatically I've never noticed the switch. Only notice when other people start moaning about it. Wonder if it affects certain people more than others.
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Strange it does prompt me to save and I also don't do any extra configuration for the Win11 Notepad. It is a fairly annoying app, and definitely worse than previous versions. But will look into what config options there are, but being
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
On the surface it does seem like a bad idea. However in practice I've found the changes Debian apply often seem to be very well thought through. I like to explore different Linux distros but I always keep coming back to Debian because
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
So Ubuntu doesn't provide apt packages so if I want to use apt I have to muck around with PPAs? I don't want to have to add a PPA for every software I install. This is why Debian is better for my use case -- all I have to do is ap
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Strange, every router I've used in the last 10+ years has done IPv6 fine. Even the RSP/ISP supplied gear I've used at friends/family houses are all fine with IPv6. Where I live all fixed line RSP/ISPs (except for on
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
> They aren’t compatible. There is a device in the middle doing a translation for you. The same could be said of the awful mess we have currently with IPv4 NAT almost everywhere on the current IPv4 network (and CG-NAT as well).
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
This seem to be common. My RSP (ISP) only offers a fixed IPv6 address/prefix on request -- otherwise they will just allocate one out of their pool as they do for dynamic IPv4 (although both dynamic IPv4 and IPv6 is fairly sticky so nor
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
I have an Android on my IPv6 network with no issues, and this is across several different router vendors with different defaults for RAs. Maybe it's not an IPv6 issue and you're barking up the wrong tree?
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Am surprised you're being downvoted. What you've described is in a nutshell why I don't use Ubuntu -- and why I stick with vanilla Debian instead. I left Windows to get away from certain things such as irritating advertisemen
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
> If you hate snaps you can just remove them. The last time I tried Ubuntu it would automatically install the snap version if I tried to `apt install` a package. Is this behavior easy to disable? Do they even ship apt packages of stuff t
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Doesn't work on Firefox/Windows either.
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
The worst examples are services that accept + when creating an account but does not accept + for logins. Believe it or not this has happened to me several times, and with large companies too. When companies started blocking + address specif
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
That is my experience as well. I have heaps of 'Masked Email' aliases for my Fastmail email account and the only significant offender I've come across is various Kickstarter projects (as I understand Kickstarter passes on my
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
This is similar to AWS S3 object storage -- AWS has over the years changed how they store their S3 data -- however as long as the API responds the same way every time it's all good. Personally I would probably do some A/B testing
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
I find it has improved heaps in recent years. Even Debian (a fairly conservative Linux distro) supports Intel wireless chips right out of the box and I understand it has support for other wireless chips as well. It's gotten to the poin
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Am curious as to where this happens. Everywhere I go around the world, train is much faster than buses (a general rule is 2x faster but express trains can be even faster). Anytime there are buses replacing train services, the bus is often a
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Tricky thing about Google is quite a lot of my contacts are on Gmail or some domain hosted by Gmail so blocking Google's ASN is a no go for me. I'm now with Fastmail -- they use Spamassassin (plus I suspect their own custom rules)
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
If I followed your strategy I would be blocking all of Google. Back in the days I operated my own mail server >50% of all spam was from Google USA... YMMV.
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
I'm fairly sure this is, I recall playing with this when I first got my Raspi.
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by kiwijamo 2y ago
Windows is pretty fast nowdays on modern hardware (especially if it's booting off an SSD drive) and Debian/GNOME is also pretty fast to a desktop as well. Slow boots off a SSD drive would point at an issue somewhere regardless of

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