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by spinax 5y ago
It's especially bad on a site like HN - an account only gets a downvote capability if they've received what is it, 400 upvotes? - so you're assured that every downvote you receive is someone who says lots of things other peop
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by spinax 5y ago
I had to dig a little bit to get a better view of "will this make a mess of my email if I try/test it without commitment?"; the tl;dr is basically: (a) there is a DeltaChat subfolder in your IMAP storing the messages; (b) the
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by spinax 5y ago
F-Droid builds in batches, about 3 days per batch (see monitor.f-droid.org). All the APKs are signed at once and published together so it should show up soon. Per the dev, the last beta is essentially what became the stable release so you c
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by spinax 5y ago
Not only is the new stable there, cketti has been posting all of the betas leading up to this on F-Droid for quite awhile. :) You have to manually look once in awhile in the F-Droid client for newer beta builds to opt into using.
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by spinax 5y ago
Whoogle is a Google anonymizer and stripper-of-chaff, searx is a content aggregator on top of that same concept. While similar in the first context, searx provides a secondary layer of interacting with many search engines for well rounded c
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by spinax 5y ago
Just to share for readers, what are your personal RAM/CPU/disk usage measurements? The instance I use is shared with a small group so my numbers above may be skewed.
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by spinax 5y ago
Ctrl+F shows nobody has mentioned searx yet, so let me - you can have your cake and eat it, too. searx uses modest resources (2G disk/2G RAM, cloud server friendly) and gives you all the results from all the search engines without bein
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by spinax 5y ago
vim: https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-autosave
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by spinax 5y ago
Not only simple browser plugins per the other reply (and a plethora of non-crashing mobile apps, whereas mobile PDF reading apps crash on me all the time) - the ePub format is just a zip file in disguise with plain text (HTML) inside and ma
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by spinax 5y ago
nod I think these are two branches of the tree and this problem is more in line with role disclosure (I'm not saying this well - for example, the need on job postings to list the actual salary range up front, like I know some non-US
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by spinax 5y ago
These articles never seem to touch on the point which matters to me: I don't want the workplace social peer pressure of who makes more, or less, etc. and the drama which comes with it. The belief that every employee wants there to be o
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by spinax 5y ago
US: quick search says Yes, at one time however it's was abandoned in 1994: https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:gm... Current US trademark holder is a financial group: https://t
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by spinax 5y ago
Completely understood by me, hopefully I said this in a way that was productive. :) Per-app passwords have their use cases and I think techs have been banging on it in open source for awhile, example: https://www.happyassassin.ne
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by spinax 5y ago
Use case: I have an unattended cron task polling my IMAP account to archive the mail every 4 hours. I specifically use an IMAP read-only unique ("per-app") password for that script/connection; under no circumstance should tha
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by spinax 5y ago
> For those who want multi-domain email services for a lower (flat) price, look at mxroute I was very interested and very seriously considering signing up, until I read this: https://mxroute.com/docs/do-you-support-2
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by spinax 5y ago
H&R Block wanted to upcharge me additional $$ just to fill out a Schedule D on top of the $$ tier fee (the past few years these forms were included in that tier price). They lost a long term (10yr?) customer by trying to grift me this y
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by spinax 5y ago
It has been my career experience that 5+ digit employee companies more resemble Chiba City than they do the USS Enterprise.
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by spinax 5y ago
System Ops (at scale, large company, lots of teams) in a nutshell: you did not build the system or choose what kind, it was most likely installed using vendor defaults by the systems owner and you were called in because it's misbehavin
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by spinax 5y ago
> added a log trimmer config for squid I feel your pain - I'm curious, was it a drop-in /etc/logrotate.d/ config which was sending a HUP? I don't run squid but Google'd up that it will take a USR1 to rotate
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by spinax 5y ago
> You can run gunzip < /mnt/brokensystem/var/log/messages.1.gz from that other working OS to read text logs; you can also run journalctl --root /mnt/brokensystem to read journald logs. It's subt
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by spinax 5y ago
As a systems guy with a focus more on ops, I agree. It's not all roses - journald/journalctl and binary logging can go die in a pit of fire for example - however setting LimitNOFile= in a unit is just really, really nice (as well
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by spinax 5y ago
Quick bootstrap: you normally want a "helper" to handle downloading things and running the compile steps (it can all be done manually, and in fact you have to bootstrap yourself the first time that way). I prefer this one, pikaur,
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by spinax 5y ago
RedReader is a fantastic reddit mobile client for Android - they are rolling out a new version right now with a ton of community contributions (both bugfixes and new features). https://old.reddit.com/r/RedReader/co
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by spinax 5y ago
> If I type in `apt update && apt update -y` I can be sure that my computer will be usable after a reboot As from my other replies, that's awesome - you're looking for a usage paradigm that is not what Arch is for; it r
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by spinax 5y ago
> I had 700 packages or so updating You absolutely ignored your Arch system for far too long and most likely missed important News notifications that manual actions were required, it happens now and again. With updating 700 packages at o
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by spinax 5y ago
This is part of the agreement for using Arch, it's not a system you can ignore , you must actually pay attention to these news items. The upgrade tool I use actually shows new news to you front and center when performing an upgrade so
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by spinax 5y ago
Using the 80/20 rule, most AUR packages are simply the build script ("PKGBUILD") instructions and perhaps a patch if required, etc. (or say adding a missing .desktop file). The process involves your AUR tool (I use "pika
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by spinax 5y ago
> Arch is fine hobbyist distro and you for sure have to live on he edge, but I wouldn't use it for anything you expect to be able to use every day at a moments notice. I disagree 100%. This laptop I'm typing from now was instal
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by spinax 5y ago
I agree, RPM is similarly just as easy amongst others who all sort of stick to a single control file design. This exact DEB ergonomic pain of files all over the place keeps me at arms length, it's clunky (to me) and the build process w
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by spinax 5y ago
Real life +1, Google is used for the basic Android setup needs and that's it, all other needs are non-Google services (well, technically NewPipe is Youtube because who doesn't like a good cat video). One key app most people will w

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