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by minimaul 6y ago
You may struggle if your ISP requires PPPoE, but otherwise this is a great pick :)
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by minimaul 6y ago
They're all visual appearance tweaks - the mac version doesn't have as many customisation options yet - but it's being worked on!
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by minimaul 6y ago
I'm a big DeaDBeeF user on mac, and it has reasonable Cocoa UI (so it looks and feels native!) - this is actually pretty unusual for players on the platform! I make a few tweaks (it's open source, so you can!), but it is very plea
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by minimaul 6y ago
Unfortunately, even buying from Amazon (with eg Amazon.co.uk as seller) doesn't help with this completely, because of Amazon's stock co-mingling setup.
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by minimaul 6y ago
My nearly decade old HP laser printer works just fine with M1 - it talks AirPrint, macOS bundles a PCL driver, and HP have released drivers for M1 too...
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by minimaul 6y ago
This is quite risky - previous beta updates (such as Big Sur) did break installing updates on older OS releases in the same APFS container, and some beta updates have in the past done incompatible APFS updates that broke the ability to boot
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by minimaul 6y ago
This is built in to iTunes (or the Music app on newer macOS), but it comes with caveats - it doesn't really cache the converted files, so if it has to resync them it generates them each time.
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by minimaul 6y ago
Depending on what you like to listen to, streaming services don't always have it available. I like game soundtracks a lot while developing, and there's a very limited selection on services like Spotify. It's getting more vari
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by minimaul 6y ago
ffprobe even handily has a -print_format json option, for machine readable output :)
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by minimaul 6y ago
This is quite nice. I maintain an app personally to do similar things - I also generate .m3u8 playlists. Unfortunately it uses ffmpeg's AAC encoder, which isn't the best. I went for using XLD's command line tools on mac to en
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by minimaul 6y ago
When running the business I run, I want vendors that I can call, but not vendors I have to call. Being able to do everything important about a service myself is one of the criteria I use for selecting services, including cancellation. A
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by minimaul 6y ago
I'm a fan of Arch on the desktop, and I wouldn't recommend this. The strength of Arch on the desktop for me is that it is a rolling update distro - that you are always up to date with the newest driver updates, mesa, etc. This is
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by minimaul 6y ago
Yep, I'd also love a third person mode for this game. Not even for motion sickness, it just feels wasteful to put so much effort into character creation and then basically never see your character during gameplay.
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by minimaul 6y ago
I can confirm that I do care about native res as a mac user and heavy gamer (but I mostly end up gaming on windows for obvious reasons). Scaling has never failed to look utterly terrible for me. Scaling from eg 1920x1080 -> 2880x1800 loo
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by minimaul 6y ago
The one thing in the article I agree with without reservation though is that you should always have a backup of your pool! ZFS makes doing good backups easy, with zfs send | zfs receive.
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by minimaul 6y ago
As always with RAID-style setups, there’s an inevitable trade off of cost vs capacity vs performance. There’s still a place for RAIDZ/RAIDZ2, and in my opinion that place is storing bulk data that isn’t too heavily accessed or that nee
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by minimaul 6y ago
For Windows, there's also the lovely Papercut: https://github.com/ChangemakerStudios/Papercut-SMTP The relay mode for Maildev looks interesting though, but also vaguely terrifying as an accidental way to send test
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by minimaul 6y ago
I do a pool called backup with two raidz vdevs - 7x3T in one raidz vdev, and 9x4T in one raidz vdev. Data is striped on each of the two raidz and I lose one 3T and one 4T's worth of capacity. This allows me to lose any one drive at a g
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by minimaul 6y ago
Based on using CentOS + DKMS, Debian + DKMS, and Arch + DKMS :) Some of these have prebuilt modules too, but as community projects they usually lag behind kernel releases to the main distro, and that can be a problem. So I always end up usi
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by minimaul 6y ago
I don't expect this to land any time soon, if ever. It's a very large change, and very complicated. It's been in progress ever since I started using zfs, and that was years ago :) It's worth noting you can expand a RAIDZ
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by minimaul 6y ago
I've used both, the reasons I favour zfs over btrfs: - I've corrupted btrfs filesystems with compression just through normal use, on hardware that is fine . This may have been fixed, but it was on relatively recent (post 5.x) ker
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by minimaul 6y ago
I'd argue the main advantage that ZFS gives is one that this article tries to dismiss - the article seems to assume that a lot of ZFS deployments are not multi-disk, or not RAIDZ? I can say that at both work and home, I have only ever
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by minimaul 6y ago
The nice thing with using smaller hardware that is also super quiet is that you can just leave it on your desk - in this case the machine is on a secondary input to one of my monitors - a Dell that also has a built in USB switch, so changin
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by minimaul 6y ago
Hm, fair enough! I have a NUC8i5BEH here that is used as a linux desktop for testing and the fan spins up annoyingly often (and it's quite loud when it does). Maybe the cupboard is just enough to muffle it :)
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by minimaul 6y ago
How do you find the NUC for noise? I've found that the CPU fans on them are annoyingly loud, and that they are a particularly irritating shrill frequency - and that they start ramping up at relatively low CPU usage. I found going sligh
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by minimaul 6y ago
I also run a home VM server for several things, and you can do very very well with consumer hardware - and you don't need to go super high end. One of the biggest disadvantages with using older enterprise hardware is that the power dra
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by minimaul 6y ago
> I don't think anyone ever said "Let's use C# because I like it." Then let me be the first :) I have advocated for C# at previous workplaces because of this, and I use C# + .NET Core for some side projects - on linux
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by minimaul 6y ago
It’s interesting, I think I have exactly the opposite experiences here on a 2018 15” (personally owned) and a 2019 16” (work laptop). For Bluetooth, I flat never have problems. I use Bluetooth headphones (Sony) and a Mac keyboard and touchp
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by minimaul 6y ago
I'm really surprised at that - I've been running Big Sur as my main OS on my personal laptop since dev beta 2 and it's been pretty solid. A few small rough edges but it largely just works for me.
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by minimaul 6y ago
(disclaimer, I'm a current customer and have been for a decade+) They're expensive, they have a data cap (but it's generous), and don't currently offer the higher g.fast or FTTP speeds, but: - the support is consistently

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