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by leonroy 4y ago
Over time I've tried to whittle down my homelab and move more of it to Microsoft 365/Google Suite/iTunes Store with mixed results. Currently my must haves are: * Router - pfSense - https://www.pfsense.org/ *
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by leonroy 4y ago
My Economics A-Level helped me immeasurably in understanding the basics of macroeconomics, supply, demand, fiscal and monetary policy and the most valuable (for me at least) opportunity cost. I've used Khan Academy to quickly get up to
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by leonroy 5y ago
> This is so sad, really. We are NOT companies, we're not robots only driven by free will, we don't live in an economy. We are hardcore social animals with huge biological & affective needs, this is scientifically proven. I
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by leonroy 5y ago
I met my wife through Yahoo Groups back in 1999. My friend met his wife through Tinder in 2018 and just got married. They're tiny data points, but I don't think there's a problem with the apps in that respect. You can still f
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by leonroy 5y ago
I've been self hosting since the early 00s. I used to host: * Email (for years rolled my own using Procmail, Postfix, Squirrelmail before finally using Zimbra Email Server - an all in one software package) * FreeNAS/TrueNAS for st
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by leonroy 5y ago
I feel this living in London and seeing my parents having achieved a measure of success at a younger age far greater than my own. But not every country has seen this level of affluence for the generation before ours and indeed not every rac
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by leonroy 5y ago
Is that using Docker on Beanstalk or Tomcat on Beanstalk? Because oddly enough Beanstalk only supports Corretto 11: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/platform...
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by leonroy 5y ago
The first time I even heard about caloric restriction I thought it was out there. I did eventually try intermittent fasting and after skipping breakfast and lunch I was rewarded with a pounding headache from the lack of my daily morning muf
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by leonroy 5y ago
I read the book after a recommendation on this site in fact. It was eye opening to say the least how conditions like ADHD, PTSD, childhood trauma, anxiety and depression have both psychological and physiological effects. Some of which are s
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by leonroy 5y ago
It's alarming and irresponsible for any country to perform an anti-satellite missile test but there is a level of hypocrisy from the countries condemning - some of whom have also conducted such tests in the past; China as recently as 2
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by leonroy 5y ago
Been using Ubiquiti access points and their Amplifi consumer hardware. Their product range itself is hit and miss. For example their first AC access points weren't well received, their second range (AC Pro onwards) were very well recei
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by leonroy 5y ago
I would hope in any future scenario we'd avoid burning a living world like the Earth and instead harvest resources from a dead planet like Mercury or Venus. That said, seems the Earth was once inhospitable around the time Venus was &#x
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by leonroy 5y ago
> my G5 has not been my daily driver for a good couple years; my daily driver is the Raptor Talos II So I looked up the Raptor Talos II. It's a $7k (starting price) workstation running IBM Power9 RISC based CPUs which are typically
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by leonroy 6y ago
Companies usually give in to avoid bad press so we’d be unlikely to hear about it. In this case the leak is public knowledge now so CDPR have even less incentive to pay.
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by leonroy 6y ago
Alas the Great Suspender just fell prey to malware after its creator sold it off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846504 I think Apple have the right idea with app review on browser extensions for Safari.
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by leonroy 6y ago
Tested IBKR today - I was able to place a simple Limit order for GME stock which was good till close but when I refreshed to view my list of orders it shows as Cancelled. Tried it twice, did the same thing each time.
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by leonroy 6y ago
Ack, still a bit too recent and bit too raw but here goes. Last side project which ended up becoming a bit of a rollercoaster was Brring Conference, a conference calling app where you could schedule conference calls ahead of time and it&#x2
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Microsoft has a fake extensions problem in its Microsoft Edge Store(ghacks.net)
7 points by leonroy 6y ago|0 comments
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by leonroy 6y ago
I think helping strangers vs helping family are different. Helping strangers is a very strong form of altruism. You come into their lives, you perform a service or deed and you leave. It could be a recurring thing, like assisting in a soup
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by leonroy 6y ago
Wondering if divers can determine up from down in the absence of surface light? I’m guessing they could use the direction bubbles from their air supply are travelling...
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by leonroy 6y ago
> This anxiety of pushing out at fix - at the risk of undoing other working functionality - ought to be addressed first. It really depends on how urgent the fix is. Naturally you want the fix to be as isolated as possible so it does not
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by leonroy 6y ago
Mind weighing in on the pros and cons of your experiences in the UK vs France?
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by leonroy 6y ago
I imagine op is referring to 08-09 which was touted as the biggest economic crash since The Depression.
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by leonroy 6y ago
not the OP, but I find BIG by Matt Stoller and Notes on the Crises by Nathan Tankus a nice break from the mainstream press. Insightful, well considered and non-dramatized writing on important subjects: https://nathantankus.su
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by leonroy 6y ago
You are right, Nespresso and especially Krups pods are ridiculously wasteful. To put something compostable in a vessel which will take 100s of years to biodegrade feels perverse. That said if people started to make coffee in espresso machin
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by leonroy 6y ago
The title of this blog post strikes a chord although whilst I love writing with a fountain pen, transcribing my notes to computer later is a royal pain. It's also irritating to have bunches of notes in Apple's Notes app, in Conflu
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by leonroy 6y ago
Here’s a look at how and why Valve lost their way and hopefully an indication that they might be on the path back to making great games again (although I personally think their new focus has more to do with competition to Steam from Epic an
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by leonroy 6y ago
Why Intel did not buy ARM is something that puzzles me... In 2016 ARM sold to SoftBank for $31B. In 2016 Intel had a market cap of ~$170B and about $17B cash on hand. I'm no M&A analyst but surely given their fundamentals at the ti
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by leonroy 6y ago
I see the vote so far is unanimous on iPad - any folks have opinions of the Surface lineup as well vs the iPad?
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by leonroy 6y ago
ebay is the easiest but if the item is going for less than £10 don’t bother. Freecycle is also good as are forums like: https://forums.servethehome.com/ If you have a LOT of gear - ie. rooms full of the stuff as I found in

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