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- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 23 hours ago:
Are you saying I could get Linux running on my Fairphone 3+?
Mind you, yeah, 3G switch off would then make life difficult…
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 1 day ago:
Enterprises just lease desktops / laptops and replace them with the latest version of Windows… my team used to be after reasons to get the latest OS / laptop, now IT have to prise them out of their hands
- Comment on World Backup Day 2 days ago:
Yep, hence my comment…
You should see the fear on people’s faces when I suggest they restore a backup - esp. on Production.
My advice (to combat their fear) is to take an offline backup that has some kind of checksum and then immediately restore it.
That gets them past the initial fear and then we progress onto other backup strategies… if needed.
- Comment on World Backup Day 2 days ago:
Backups… fine
When’s the World “test you can restore” day?
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 3 days ago:
Ok, didn’t think about “unlimited” actually being slower - thanks for the insight.
I’m running a pfSense f/w at the edge, so split horizon DNS and haproxy are already sorted… I’ll check out wireguard - should be straight forward
Thanks
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 3 days ago:
I’m considering going this route - just to hide my (static) home IP.
What’s the rough sizing I’d need for a VPS? I’m guessing the smallest possible, but with the best / unlimited data usage?
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 days ago:
Ok, so setup a DC (in a VM on your linux laptop), install Win11 joined to that domain, create a local user, then leave the domain & destroy the VM…?
Or install Linux 👍🏻
- Comment on Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line 6 days ago:
Dunno how long you’ve been online, but you should’ve seen searching before Google came along… it’s still better now.
But, there was not much tracking back then…
- Comment on Vivaldi, now with added VPN 6 days ago:
Was that the one with the vertical task bar that couldn’t be changed??
Or is it better now…?
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- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 1 week ago:
Everything I get usually has it’s metadata updated / overwritten by Musicbrainz anyway
But, yeah, it’s slow going if you’re in a niche…
I’ve created / updated a few albums in there and it takes a few minutes to get it all done, but there’s some satisfaction in giving back
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 1 week ago:
They’re my preferred platform for buying music.
I purchase from Bandcamp, should I be looking to move over?
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 week ago:
Yep, it’s something that more people need to consider to keep their free (as in the source code is not a prisoner) software going
It looks like jellyfin costs ~$500/MONTH just for their hosting fees: opencollective.com/jellyfin
If everyone using jellyfin contributed $1/month, I bet that would be covered
(No, I’m not affiliated with them)
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 1 week ago:
Think I’d rather pay that towards the development of Jellyfin
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 weeks ago:
I’m just glad I’ve still got my MythTV running.
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 2 weeks ago:
IMHO each new version of Windows looks & feels different to the last anyway, so most (general users) wouldn’t know the difference - they just need a web browser an email client and an office suite.
That 1 Windows-only program they use is probably not compatible with the next version of Windows too
- Comment on Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform 3 weeks ago:
Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe
They really tried hard to make an acronym fit…
A bit like SHIELD
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 3 weeks ago:
We had a nice Thai curry here (and no, I don’t live on Thailand)
- Comment on The right-to-repair movement is growing as wins stack up 3 weeks ago:
Just to chip in, whilst I agree that Fairphone is not a truely interchangable modular phone, it does have the ability for some modules to be replaced.
The Fairphone 3 even had the ability to upgrade with better ones to create the 3+
I don’t think the newer models are doing that though, which is a shame
- Comment on The right-to-repair movement is growing as wins stack up 3 weeks ago:
I know this is a little OT, but I repaired a dead Karcher pressure washer this weekend… a little effort and I’m much more likely to purchase / recommend them in the future.
If the manufacturer’s grip is too tight, I’m going elsewhere - and I’ll be more loyal to them
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 4 weeks ago:
I’ve only been in a Tesla with an Uber driver, so not paid attention to it… but no indicator or wiper control?
Jeez.
I’ve had a couple of cars with automatic wipers and they’re not that great… Having no controls would do my head in
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
No User Tracking
We don’t collect personal information from users. We don’t track users. We don’t sell user data. We have no affiliation with any advertising companies.
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 1 month ago:
Not sure what to make of this, they’ve got the potential to put a million qubits on a chip, but there’s only 8…
And others have had quantum computers for a while now… so… 🤷🏼♂️
- Comment on Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy. 1 month ago:
Yep, totally agree - it’s just getting awareness up.
When I start explaining this to friends & family they give me the same blank look that I gave them when they talk about nutrition & exercise…
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 1 month ago:
Presuming you can put OpenWRT on it, it’ll be fine as a single box
IMHO, I just prefer having it all as separates and then fix / change / upgrade parts as I go - but I soon run out of places to hide them
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 1 month ago:
Is the ISP supplied box also your wifi?
If not, IMHO I’d use the ISP equipment as a pass-through modem (if possible on that model?) and have a separate OpenWRT / pfSense firewall do all the heavy lifting for DHCP, DNS, ad blocking, etc
Depends if you’d then need another WAP, of course
- Comment on Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers 1 month ago:
There are already multiple cases of Russian trawlers breaking cables¸ gas pipelines, etc.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 month ago:
Thanks, I was following this thread and wanted to say the same thing
I’ve kept updating shops that change, new houses, parking, etc… it’s great. I even used it on vacation (when the SO wasn’t looking)
My global rank is #1554 and ~#130ish in my local country, but #12 in another country I barely visit, so it shows where more people should
complain lesssupport more. - Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 1 month ago:
Don’t point at the HQs, point at their mansions / golf courses / private islands
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
I’m in the same boat: can’t hear any difference.
But, I have GBs of 320k MP3s… is it worth converting to Ogg ?