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by pathartl 4y ago
The only plus I can see is a focus on DLNA might make DLNA not _strictly_ garbage. In reality if you don't want to use Plex and don't need to rely on DLNA, there's other options out there like Jellyfin or Emby.
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by pathartl 4y ago
I noticed yesterday how much traffic was on my 2.4GHz IoT network last night because my phone connected to it. TBH I have no problem with everything being on 2.4, I just wish it was common to have two 2.4 radios so you could have a true IoT
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by pathartl 4y ago
This comment reminds me when Apple revamped Finder to include "All My Files". To me it felt like they were giving up. "FINE! Can't find something? HERE'S EVERYTHING!" These sort of pseudo-directories honestly b
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by pathartl 4y ago
How are other manufacturers able to have better cameras in their laptops without sacrificing much?
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by pathartl 4y ago
2. The hinges on laptop displays are typically only tuned for the weight of the lid. Added weight on the lid (especially the weight of a phone) could damage it over time.
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by pathartl 4y ago
I work 100% in a git UI. Everything but merge diffs I do in Sourcetree... for diffs I use VS. It's how I've learned. Here's some of my scattered reasoning: - It's a separate, dedicated application to do just my source co
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by pathartl 4y ago
You've hit the nail on the head. So many jailbreak exploits have been done because of Webkit exploits. Allowing other engines on the phone would make them lose control over their walled garden.
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by pathartl 4y ago
Not surprising with a supposed 1.8B active iOS devices and no way to run another browser engine. I haven't daily driven macOS in a few years... from when I last used Safari it was too minimalistic and the browser features lagged behind
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by pathartl 4y ago
In my case for the laundry stuff I needed an ESP32 for all the analog inputs.
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by pathartl 4y ago
I agree with the last point, so I usually end up delegating any sort of logic handling to my automations. ESPHome will just report the state of sensors, my code figures out what to do with them.
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by pathartl 4y ago
I love ESPHome. Here's some of the stuff I've been able to accomplish: - Expose IR commands for turning our bedroom fan on/off along with some battery-powered candles - Flashed it to a Sonoff S31 to detect if our electric fir
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by pathartl 4y ago
Modern .NET is very different from the days of Framework <= 4. Ballmer yelling DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS on stage is fun, but MS's best features have been the open nature of .NET in the past 5 years. Don't like VS? Use V
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by pathartl 4y ago
... yes? I acknowledged this?
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by pathartl 4y ago
It seems to be common with Musk-linked services. Tesla Solar has been acting the same way.
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by pathartl 4y ago
The article says VS Code is getting a native ARM version. I think the author might have gotten something wrong? Sounds like VS is getting a native ARM version and other toolchains like dotnet are getting native ARM versions which will be su
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by pathartl 4y ago
It's really incredible how far they e been able to maintain compatibility for sure, but there are just objectively bad parts of the platform they're keeping around for fear of backlash. There's a lot wrong with WordPress, and
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by pathartl 4y ago
That's why I'm bringing it up in the conversation of WordPress. The platform has probably the largest slice of PHP developers out there and lack of proper debugging techniques and an ancient-feeling codebase drives a lot of the ne
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by pathartl 4y ago
I was a WP dev for 5-7 years before moving on to bigger and better things. It's easy to hate on the platform, for both justified and unjustified reasons. As a writer, it's good not great. As a low code dev, it's the best beca
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by pathartl 4y ago
Folders are something that's been needed in WordPress for 10+ years and hasn't gained any traction. It's to the point where it's beyond terrible and is a large reason I don't use WP anymore.
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by pathartl 4y ago
A _very_ consistent issue I have is my car did not come with Bluetooth audio (it was a $800 option at the time). I bought a Bluetooth adapter that just plugs into AUX. My current Android phone will not automatically connect to this device,
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by pathartl 4y ago
The major issue I've had with Bluetooth has been one of two things: - Microphone quality sucks and unless your headphones emulate two BT devices, your audio quality has to drop to a terrible early-2000's codec. - Now that I have a
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by pathartl 4y ago
Yes, but overall the RTSP implementation is absolutely terrible. Wyze cameras are a novelty, but any permanent implementation should use something better.
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by pathartl 4y ago
No, we really shouldn't. Enterprise generally does hardware refreshes every 3 years. The average consumer can take one of those machines and extend at least another 2 years out of it. Being able to securely wipe or remove storage modul
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by pathartl 4y ago
Certain things like Gatekeeper are a non-starter for some people. I certainly won't buy a macOS-based machine in the future because of it. Back in November 2020 there was an outage in Apple's cloud that handles Gatekeeper verifica
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by pathartl 4y ago
"Just replace the motherboard" and lose all of your data on it. Yes, backups are important, but there's a loss of time when you have to restore from backup or provision a new machine/motherboard with your environment. No
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by pathartl 4y ago
Work just upgraded me to an HP EliteBook 835 G8. It's got a Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U and 24GB of RAM. I do mostly .NET/ASP.NET development and it's seriously fantastic. Form factor is good, repairability is good (granted our company
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by pathartl 5y ago
> In retrospect, we built too much product. This answer is so generic, but so apt. Everyone can throw around phrases like KISS or MVP or try to implement methodology like agile, but it's so hard to just identify _what_ you want (or
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by pathartl 5y ago
Just some features I'd love to have: - LDAP integration - SSO - Customizable icons per library - Remote agent transcoding (i.e. install an agent on multiple machines on the network, give them the direct play stream to transcode instead
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by pathartl 5y ago
I get that most people use streaming services these days, but I don't think I've used one in over a year and rely solely on local media. I understand _why_ Plex adds these features, but I'd much rather see them put time into
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by pathartl 5y ago
Hot take: web apps are the best thing to happen to the Linux desktop in the last 20 years.

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