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by okanat 1y ago
That's the thing: the amount of sysadmin role I would like to play for my family is nearly 0. And, no simple file sharing or accessing NAS systems shouldn't require a "sysadmin". They should work out of the box for a con
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by okanat 1y ago
I think you are the one recommending an electronic screwdriver for nails. Non-techies care about whether their systems continue to work with minimal effort and they are assured that the system is secure and I care about providing almost no
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by okanat 1y ago
You don't need to be able to build them. Just sign them or sign the keys that sign the third party blobs/binaries. Then your motherboard firmware will be able to load your GPU and other third party blobs to UEFI memory. Similarly
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by okanat 1y ago
It does though? And CUDA a freaking GPGPU programming framework? My parents and other family members give 0 fucks about it. I actually helped more people to setup CUDA on Linux since the environment is so hostile to closed-source and/o
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by okanat 1y ago
> > Because they literally cannot > Nixos works fine, thanks! me: "Linux is not suitable for non-technical users of my family to keep up-to-date with minimal effort and I don't want them to be dependent on me to solve sma
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by okanat 1y ago
No. I use RPM distros like OpenSUSE. They just don't ask the necessary questions just notify you. So if you installed SAMBA to share files or printers, the distro update will break stuff without telling you. A user-friendly OS should r
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by okanat 1y ago
RPi doesn't exist due to Broadcom. It exists despite Broadcom. Using RPis can be a huge PITA, if you'd like to do something a bit more complex with the hardware. HDMI, the video decoders are all behind closed doors with blobs on t
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by okanat 1y ago
> Why do you think Linux can't do auto-updates? Because they literally cannot. Linux package managers like to ask deeply technical questions. Even on Ubuntu dpkg will occasionally ask about configuration file changes and expect you
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by okanat 1y ago
Windows update automatically installs all drivers nowadays. Once installed all drivers keep working since Windows doesn't break compatibility that often (one can still use Win 7 drivers on Win 11). With Linux any driver compiled from s
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by okanat 1y ago
Smaller phones has always been limited in performance, batter life, the app support and the camera quality. Camera is the most important factor and battery is the second. General population doesn't buy phones every year and they don&#x
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by okanat 1y ago
This would not fly in a court. I'm writing this again in the context of German legal system (and most of the continental Europe is similar). To argue a good faith argument, you need to be paying the debt as long as the service is provi
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by okanat 1y ago
Because the final ELF binary is linked to contain page aligned segments. Segments define how should the binary be loaded into memory and what permissions they require. If you have a 4KB segment that is marked Read-Write followed immediately
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by okanat 1y ago
I don't know how it is in the US. However in Germany, this is a great way to get charged interest on your debt and hefty legal fees. It is also one of the ways to guarantee that you're not getting a new bank account, place to rent
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by okanat 1y ago
Every operating system, that's relevant in 2025, needs that concept. It is called NUMA. At some point you cannot model the system ignoring the memory affinity / closeness to the cores. Modern AMD CPUs are literally consist of core
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by okanat 1y ago
In Germany companies have to have 14 days, no questions asked return for products and services ordered online. If they don't accept it, you can report to a consumer protection agency and sue the company.
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by okanat 1y ago
This is a persistent stupid take but many HN readers are also on the wrong side of the consumer protection. Those startups don't make money out of thin air eh? Once again. The full consumer protection would be banning behavior-based ad
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by okanat 1y ago
I wonder how much of this is actual advertising working (proven by independent A/B testing) and how much of it is big tech bullshitting their shareholders and customers. Even Veritasium had a video ~10 years ago, describing Facebook&#x
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by okanat 1y ago
My watch is a genius. It doesn't even need charging. It charges when I move my arm.
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by okanat 1y ago
I think this is a bad analogy made with good intentions. Guns jam because the physical nature of the material is simply degradation. You need to actively fight against it by producing higher precision guns, use more advanced / tougher
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by okanat 1y ago
Isn't what the norm? Europe is not the US. Each country has its own living standards and completely different tax laws. EU doesn't unify them. In Switzerland one pays much less tax. In Netherlands it is possible to get 30% tax bre
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by okanat 1y ago
Usually one earns half to a third of net wage in Germany compared to East Coast US. A maximum of 100k total cash compensation is usually the norm for mid-size companies. That is for the most senior engineers. It is also taxed almost at 50%.
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by okanat 1y ago
Mozilla Corp is a for profit organization owned by a non-profit foundation.
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by okanat 1y ago
Yes. At the same time though, the airline companies cannot infinitely increase prices.
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by okanat 1y ago
Yes. Wayland is designed to be flexible of what does the drawing and where (currently only shared memory and EGL surfaces are implemented / supported). So it needs to define monitors as abstract concepts. They are called outputs and th
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by okanat 1y ago
Active Directory is not one single product. It is an ecosystem. Windows desktops, Windows servers, Microsoft Office, Azure, third party apps running on Windows using Windows APIs and Microsoft server products are all supporting it. Here is
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by okanat 1y ago
It really depends on the size of the business. With smaller businesses it is easy to use alternatives. However any business beyond 1000 employees will give in to shareholder pressure and adopt distrust as its core value. Microsoft Active Di
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by okanat 1y ago
Every UI framework that runs on Windows has to communicate using Win32 API at the lowest level. Here is the guide: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/hidpi/high-d... Every GUI application on
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by okanat 1y ago
Still? It is the best and the most mature cross-platform toolkit. Among both open-source and proprietary ones. It is the default for embedded / industrial UIs and automotive. At least in Europe but I think many US companies like Autode
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by okanat 1y ago
With WSLg, Windows runs a native Wayland server under Windows and it will use Xwayland to display X11 apps. You should be able to use any GUI app without any extra setup. You should double check the environment variables though. Sometimes .
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by okanat 1y ago
Natively in X11? No. Even with Xrandr. It is no. But you can obtain the display size and then draw things differently using OpenGL but now you're reinventing the display protocol in your drawing engine (which is what GLX is after all b

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