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by vetinari 2y ago
>> Parent seems to care more about 'not polluting something i see all the time'. > Yes, this. Like "My Documents" (or "Documents" nowadays)? Now that's some dumping ground.
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by vetinari 2y ago
Well, there are very few apps worth paying for. Out of these that are worth paying for, large percentage are a very niche.
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by vetinari 2y ago
Switch to subscriptions was caused by many different factors, like non-existent way to sell upgrades to new versions through app stores or forced BS activities by appstores with crazy deadlines. And yes, more regular, even though lower, cas
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by vetinari 2y ago
It is user friendly, just picky, who it's friends are ;-) More seriously though, you are probably bringing assumptions, that are specific to your current OS, and frustrated, that your existing experience is not 100% transferable. This
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by vetinari 2y ago
Software like Quickbooks is easy to run via RemoteApp. In fact, many probably do that, because it makes for easier maintenance. (I've seen several companies to run Dynamics AX exactly this way, for exactly this reason). With Solidworks
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by vetinari 2y ago
Many businesses do not run Windows Enterprise, but plain-old Pro. Not every business is a big business, capable of reaching to these SKUs. What they can do, is to run WSUS. Though today, many businesses do not have on-prem Windows Server
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by vetinari 2y ago
This got improved with Windows 10/11, though. Now, there are cumulative patches every month, so there are always just few patches to catch up (cumulative update for windows, cumulative for dotnet, defender, defender data, msedge, anyth
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by vetinari 2y ago
S24 doesn't have the bixby button at all.
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by vetinari 2y ago
When mentioning ancient utilities, I'm still on Disk Inventory X.
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by vetinari 2y ago
Proactive is fine, if you know what is the overall impact. There's another: proactive idiot is worse than the class enemy[1]. [1] "Class enemy" or "třídní nepřítel" (cz) might be an unknown term in itself - https:
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by vetinari 2y ago
Slavic, not Russian.
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by vetinari 2y ago
GP was talking encryption, not protocol. Randomly changing topics will get you banned from any crypto work too.
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by vetinari 2y ago
> The meaning of "bear's service" originally comes from a fable about a man and a bear. The bear wanted to help the man by killing a gnat which sat on his forehead. As a result both the gnat and the man died. Basically, by
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by vetinari 2y ago
From your own link: > Recently, in [MV21 ] MTProto 2.0 (the current version) was proven secure in a symbolic model, but assuming ideal building blocks and abstracting away all implementation/primitive details. Translation: it is sec
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by vetinari 2y ago
Well, if you think that AES-256 that MTProto uses[1] is some wonky algorithm... [1] https://core.telegram.org/mtproto
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by vetinari 2y ago
> Recently german generals on a video chat were targeted by the russians, wasn't too hard, they did not use any encyption at all They used Webex. Doesn't Webex use any encryption at all?
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by vetinari 2y ago
> The telegram protocol has been found to have issues that are, if not malicious, amateur level mistakes. Please provide evidence of such issues. Because at most, the issues with MTProto were at the level of "we are not familiar wit
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by vetinari 2y ago
It is an abstraction layer over systemd-networkd (server) and NetworkManager (desktop). It is a self-inflicted problem where a solution is another layer of abstraction. Red Hat ships NetworkManager on server too, so they have unified config
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by vetinari 2y ago
And then 'apt install firefox' or 'apt install thunderbird' installs it back.
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by vetinari 2y ago
> able to do what snap does for Canonical for years. Exclusive control over the only available apps store? Not going to happen.
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by vetinari 2y ago
Chrome 124 processing ozone flags is broken. If you set up ozone platform using chrome://flags, it will affect you. You can start with manually specifying --ozone-platform and then in chrome://flags, set ozone platform b
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by vetinari 3y ago
The original ixSystems explanation was what made the most sense: their engineers spent more time developing freebsd itself than trunas. Unlike on linux, where the ratio was different. So it's not a surprise, that they prefer the better
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by vetinari 3y ago
They are failing in being present in markets; Google won't sell in more than half of EU countries at all; never mind the countries outside EU, Google sells only in a handful. Meanwhile, Samsung products are widely available and markete
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by vetinari 3y ago
Is Mozilla Foundation political activist organization? When you donate to MF, you do that in order to further MF mission. Political activism should not be that[1]. When Eich donated to his cause, he did to organization that had the cause in
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by vetinari 3y ago
64-bit windows cannot run 16-bit code. VM86 mode is not available when in 64-bit long mode either (though it could be used via virtualization).
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by vetinari 3y ago
The article is detailing a device that has dual protocol support: TB and USB. It prefers TB in one case and USB in another. I don't see any ambiguity here: it goes down the list: USB 4, TB, USB 3.1. The Intel macs are missing USB 4.
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by vetinari 3y ago
There's no interop story between Thunderbolt and USB. Thunderbolt is packetized PCIe over USB-C connector in the alternate mode, that's all, similar to DisplayPort over USB-C. Even the cable is different than USB. With TB, you kno
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by vetinari 3y ago
On BSD, OpenSSH doesn't need to detect whether systemd is running or not (that's all that libsystemd does). The answer is always no. Magic, indeeded.
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by vetinari 3y ago
> "4K 120 FPS" - uh no, you're not getting that on an iGPU You are not going to get that from many dGPUs either. You might get that from the high end in the last or previous gen, but not from the midrange or 2-gen-old mode
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by vetinari 3y ago
Affinity (Photo) still doesn't support tablets properly. You can play around with parameters affected by pressure and tilt, but here Adobe (and Krita) are ahead.

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