Kualk
@Kualk@lemm.ee
- Comment on Putin hints Russia to start making previously banned missiles 2 days ago:
World is on path of escalation.
- Comment on Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat 5 days ago:
If you read comments to the original article, it is far from new idea and some farmers have used for a long time.
- Comment on Moscow stock exchange stops trading in dollars and euros 2 weeks ago:
They held 8.5 to 9.5 range for just about 1 year. Before and after it was 16-20% range.
Source: base.garant.ru/10180094/
- Comment on Moscow stock exchange stops trading in dollars and euros 2 weeks ago:
There are valid concerns of economic overheating from huge internal investments.
Russia is experiencing standard consequences of rapid economic expansion: salaries are rising up, labor market is constrained.
One negative point is high interest rates, which are held high to slow down economic expansion.
Sanctions have impact, but the impact is falling very far from expectations.
- Comment on Moscow stock exchange stops trading in dollars and euros 2 weeks ago:
Chinese currency took 53.6% of all Russian trade in May of this year.
Compare this with just 1% 2 and a half years ago in the beginning of 2022.
Russian financial system is already prepared for this scenario and absolutely no serious impact is expected to occur.
These events (sanctions and switch in trade) will simply accelerate transition of Russian economy away from dollar in the trade.
Russia and China already use each other’s currency to settle trade between each other. World manufacturing and world resource store are now exclusively connected and now fully control internal inflationary pressures.
EU and US are not able to control price inflation and are forced to guard their economies through additional tariffs. For example, recent introduction of tariffs on Chinese made electric cars demonstrates loss of competitiveness of western economies. Cars are complex products that require a lot of energy to produce. As a result they are a good subject to aggregate economic efficiency.
In other words if this continues China and Russia will be able to dictate the rate of currency inflation in the non-dollar space (read BRICS future currency control).
At the same time dollars that used to work inside Russia-China trade space, is continuing to get pushed out into the dollar space and causing upward inflationary pressure on the dollar. This forces US Fed to keep pumping freed up dollars from the dollar system to keep inflation down in the dollar space.
There are 1st signs of economic slowdown in US and fed is currently unable to react quickly due to the need to pump excess liquidity from the dollar system.
So, all this impact on the dollar for questionable impact on Russia.
- Comment on Men over 30, anyone use a toupee/"hair system"? 3 months ago:
I agree with others that best policy is to shave bold or very short. I do #1, because i find it most convenient.
If you really want to check the product it is best to go to product website (they usually promote and sell). Read their legal statements. Most of them will point there that product makes no claims of medical use, it is just a supplement, it is not FDA approved. It is for entertainment purposes only.
The legal small print on the website itself will tell you if you should buy or not. It protects website from liability and they gamble that most people don’t read it.
You will spend less time going through legal statements than looking for “other people’s unbiased opinion“ on internet. The latter may not even exist as products can be rebranded every 6 months.
- Comment on Men over 30, anyone use a toupee/"hair system"? 3 months ago:
I don’t have problem with hair, but I like shaving to #1.
- Comment on I broke nextcloud and i cant fix it 5 months ago:
This is a major reason to use simpler technology.
I can’t help you, but i had a similar experience with similar technology. I spent lots of time recovering content. I succeeded, but i have software development experience. I didn’t want a repeat of that.
In the end I picked windows file sharing for home networking and filebrowser for occasional access to data files from outside of home networking.
Web dav is a very good alternative. Apache web server will be easier, but nginx can be made to work.
Joplin is another good alternative, which is based on web dav.
You can pay around $2-$3 a month to shared services provider for hosted web dav.
- Comment on I am tired of corporatist technology and I need help to get away from it. 6 months ago:
You can pay for dreamhost, namecheap or any other shared hosting plan that provides WebDAV. Some provide unlimited storage. I am not sure how realy unlimited it is.
Buy domain and host empty website. Turn on ssl using hosting tools. Dreamhost provides you with free certificate for that. Namecheap charges after 1st year.
Create directory on the website using hosting tools and turn on webdav on that directory. It can be password protected. Turn on password protection and disable public access using hosting tools.
That will give you a disk that can be mounted on Windows, Linux or mac. From home or coffee shop. It will act as your remote storage and you can access it using Explorer or Finder. Most tools will read content of remote disk without any restrictions.
Create another directory and leave public access to have public sharing directory only you can change (keep passwords).
Create another directory or use one of your private subdirectory with application Joplin and you get free and open source notes and todo system. That system can encrypt all your notes with master password. I recommend it: joplinapp.org
The might be other apps…
- Comment on Request for browser based podcast player 7 months ago:
I can’t figure out how this is better than jellyfin I already use.
- Comment on Request for browser based podcast player 7 months ago:
Podgrab looks interesting.
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- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
You are best served by NixOS.
Normally Arch or Debian is a great option, but not this time.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Gnome web is not usable. It crashes.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5: available now! 8 months ago:
The bridge is free, but underlying software is paid service subscription.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5: available now! 8 months ago:
Hi, can someone point me to a good resource where I can ask for DIY solution of home speaker.
I need home speakers that can play music and messages from home machine.
Target music is something like jellyfin, messaging is not decided.
Goal is to have a speaker per room like Apple speaker, but controllable from Linux.
- Comment on Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly' 8 months ago:
My personal Mac laptop lost connection from video card to board. It is a well known issue in older models.
That was the last Mac I bought. I didn’t see a reason to drop $3k when I could get something as good for half the price.
But I risked if Linux would run on hardware…
- Comment on Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly' 8 months ago:
Yes and no.
Yes, one can buy at least mouse.
No, when I take laptop I don’t want to carry 2 additional devices. Extra keyboard for laptop is a ton of extra space, which makes if harder to use laptop on smaller desk.
Laptop no longer can be used on my lap. The core use case is broken. Thus, it is not the hardware I want to use.
By the way, I have no issues like that on Asus laptop that was much cheaper to buy. To be fair it has its own set of issues, but those don’t bother me as much.
- Comment on Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly' 8 months ago:
I use Linux for home and Mac for work. My Mac is older Intel based with software bar for F keys. If in the past 10 years ago I was into Mac and owned one… I no longer see the reason for Mac.
Hardware choices are not a selling point
Context bar makes it harder to use for programming. It is not a sell for me.
Mouse pad frequently jumps cursor.
Keyboard feedback is cheap.
Software is not impressive either
Usability wise Gnome is better than OS X for me. No ctrl key on right side is terrible.
Due to Windows subsystem for Linux v2 I am starting to think Windows is better for Linux development than Mac.
MAC M1, M2 laptops have good battery life going for them.
- Comment on Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly' 8 months ago:
They should make hardware people want to buy.
Hardware that’s worth the price.
Lately they failed on both counts and failed 1st means never had a chance at 2nd.
- Comment on I have never seen an ad in the past 6 years. I use android phone, windows PC and Android TV. Keen to hear when was the last time you saw an AD ? 8 months ago:
It is good to know, but it will only work until MSFT decides to enforce things.
Linux is s better alternative to have no ads.
- Comment on I have never seen an ad in the past 6 years. I use android phone, windows PC and Android TV. Keen to hear when was the last time you saw an AD ? 8 months ago:
How can you claim of no ads on windows 11?
It is loaded with ads in start menu.
I have kids PC and I see that.
- Comment on I have never seen an ad in the past 6 years. I use android phone, windows PC and Android TV. Keen to hear when was the last time you saw an AD ? 8 months ago:
Which version of Windows?
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
I stopped using YouTube at least 3 years ago. When they changed discovery algorithm to show me the same videos.
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 8 months ago:
What is a CP instance?
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 8 months ago:
This creates a question. Not this specific content, but on the political side of the content. It may be illegal in US, but legal in Russia and vice versa.
How does fediverse address this?