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by pimeys 6y ago
Only for wifi. And you can unblock them at least in some models very easily.
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by pimeys 6y ago
So, if the machines last a long time without Louis Rossman style of issues, getting a M1 Macbook for NixOS in about a few years might make sense. Very nice.
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by pimeys 6y ago
If you run postgres, make a schema per test and do a cascading drop to the schema after the test. Name the schema either by the test or with a random string. Same applies for SQL Server and on MySQL you'd do this with databases instead
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Trying to get vaccinated in Germany: a personal experience(twitter.com)
3 points by pimeys 6y ago|0 comments
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by pimeys 6y ago
I switched from Volumio to HifiBerry OS when buying their DSP board to my rpi. The OS supports Spotify, mpd, DLNA, BlueTooth and Airplay out of the box quite nicely. The nice extra feature is how you can connect a mic to the pi, and they ha
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by pimeys 6y ago
It's been soon a year since I've been in that U-bahn line. I live close to the Karl-Marx-Straße station and before the pandemic I definitely visited every station of that line as weekend activity throughout the years I've bee
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by pimeys 6y ago
I get your problems, and I agree with you this is not always great. I'm mostly writing Rust, so as long as I have `libssl` available, I don't really need to tweak my system that much to be able to work. I definitely would reconsid
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by pimeys 6y ago
I did a month, diving directly into the deep end with flakes and all. I don't know, it really is hard in the beginning. Like, really hard. But eventually I got myself a setup I could use in my two laptops and workstation. A setup, that
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by pimeys 6y ago
I never used my old xiaomi with anything else than lineage os and I used NFC payments and a bank app all the time with my phone. You're mileage may vary I guess...
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by pimeys 6y ago
Yes. Compared to an OSX or Windows feature updates, for sure they have no effect to my day-to-day work. I even love systemd and wayland, and don't really operate with dbus... The secret of course is to make your own desktop and choose
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by pimeys 6y ago
Apt itself is great, but the PPA repos that make every dist upgrade more complex is kind of not nice. With pacman you have AUR and very simple package scripts, that lets you easily add whatever to your system that's not included in the
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by pimeys 6y ago
Nowadays you can install Arch to a zfs or btrfs subvolume and have snapshots before every update, so a failed update requires you to just reboot to the previous snapshot and do a rollback. NixOS has a similar strategy.
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by pimeys 6y ago
You'd expect MySQL 5.6.8 to upgrade to 5.6.12, not to 5.7...
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by pimeys 6y ago
And I come here always to remind people in the Apple bubble, that there are big groups of us who are not thinking like that! I'm also soon in my 40s and I had my Apple years between 2004 and 2010. I came back to Linux and kind of hate
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by pimeys 6y ago
I think what I tried to reply here is to the idea of not liking to play with the operating system. I love it. Systems programming, understanding how your OS works AND being able to go to the lowest level and fix things by yourself. It'
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by pimeys 6y ago
But what if hacking computers is my hobby? What if I actually get lots of joy digging into an operating system and how it works? Then there are no other options than the free systems... And I have been this way for almost 30 years now... An
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by pimeys 6y ago
I forgot one more thing I do: a redshift kind of system for the whole house. The lights dim and change their temperature from bright and blue during the day to dim and red in the evening, just like my computer and phone does. Circadian ligh
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by pimeys 6y ago
If you want both: a blokada-like adblocker and a VPN, setting one up with Algo and WireGuard is quite easy. I've been using it for ages and it just works without me needing to interfere. https://github.com/trailofbits&#
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by pimeys 6y ago
We have automation to turn off all lights in the apartment when nobody's home, which saves a lot of energy due to us forgetting to turn of lights quite often otherwise. Also adds nice things like turning on lights on movement in the ba
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by pimeys 6y ago
I'm completely opposite. If I don't get my tiling wm setup with just the apps I need, I'm totally lost and lose all my productivity. Be it Windows 10, macOS or the default installation of Ubuntu or Fedora. Therefore I always
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by pimeys 6y ago
Instead of _switching_, I just got a used ThinkPad from ebay for a secondary OS, installed FreeBSD to it and I'm having a blast exploring a non-Linux OS and trying things out on that side. You don't need to go all-in, but do thing
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by pimeys 6y ago
OpenWrt is more of a replacement for the market routers. It's a nice Linux-based router distro with a good/great ui in LuCI. The downside of this is that upgrading OpenWRT is a bit similar than upgrading a closed-source OS of the
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by pimeys 6y ago
I did LOTS of research on what firewall/router distro to install to my new router a few months ago. See my comment history for considering different options. I have to say choosing OPNsense has been a great choice. All the things you s
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by pimeys 6y ago
The userland version is also from the original author of WireGuard and not that bad actually. I'm currently running it in an OPNsense box to serve our internet needs. I have a connection that without VPN can push through about 400-800
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Jason Donenfeld's answer to Netgate about their WireGuard implementation(lists.zx2c4.com)
5 points by pimeys 6y ago|0 comments
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by pimeys 6y ago
Definitely better than me asking help to install some pre-1.0 KDE beta in an IRC channel somewhere in the 90's. Some helpful hacker asked me to give them the root access so they could install KDE for me. I guess that's how I learn
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by pimeys 6y ago
Now only MySQL is missing `RETURNING` from the relational databases that still matter. Postgres had it for ages, SQL Server has it with OUTPUT (with a caveat of breaking when using triggers) and SQLite finally added them on this release. U
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by pimeys 6y ago
It has one now: called evil-mode.
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by pimeys 6y ago
It works the same. What I like in sway is it's basically i3 AND i3-gaps together in an active codebase. The biggest difference you notice is when you get rid of picom the compositor, you'll get visibly snappier desktop... Without
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by pimeys 6y ago
I've been using sway a few years already: first in the office workstation with AMD card with Arch, then on my home ThinkPad T25 on NixOS and again on my hobby/travel ThinkPad X230 on FreeBSD that works so smooth and fast now. What

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