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- Comment on Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr 2 days ago:
I’ve missed both projects. What were they? Are they like Jackett or Prowlarr?
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 6 days ago:
Yes, I do agree. If only Apple allowed compete and true removal of some apps (not hiding them, but completely removing some system apps), and allowed Safari upgrades, that would be quite decent phone for an average light use. I’d use it, I think.
Also, since we dream here, if the system was open source and drivers too, and all that… theoretically, we could run a slimmed down OS that would allow some apps to run.
My point is, in some sibling comment, that software is more of a problem than hardware. I have a usable (hardware wise) iPhone 4S, but it’s useless software-wise.
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 6 days ago:
It’s great to hear, thanks for the feedback!
I meant any spare parts, so in your terms they are sketchy spare parts, I guess. Yet, it’s better than nothing though.
My primary concern is the software part though. I have plenty of phones that never broke, but all of them hit the software wall and it was just easier to buy a newer model.
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 6 days ago:
With all respect, I still think an iPhone is a better chance at having spare parts many years ahead. I am confident I can find some spare parts of iPhone 4S. Would that hold for FairPhone or a similar phone? If not, the benefit is an illusion. Unless, I think, you can produce that part yourself.
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 6 days ago:
That’s exactly the issue, and the bigger one. Theoretically, Google Pixel 1 could be upgraded software-wise with the newest Android, while the hardware can work longer. So, I’m not really interested in repairability (except the battery replacement, obviously) as much as in software longevity.
My iPhone 4s is still going strong, even despite numerous falls. The software though, it made it useless. I use one as a digital voice recorder sometimes, but that’s the only idea I had. It can shoot nice pictures too (in a bright daylight), and be a nice smartphone for a kid. (Because it’s very limited, and also small, and also cheap.) But the software made it useless.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 1 week ago:
Sorry, I’ve lost my capacity to discuss this further, for today. I’d try, but that’s the best I can do.
I gave your point a better thought, and I mostly agree. I should have formulated my reply better, perhaps, but I didn’t have much capacity for that either. I live in Ukraine, and I’ve spend the childhood mostly in Russia with relatives, so I know it first hand. You won’t persuade me they are strong. They are not. They are a paper tiger. I don’t believe they even have nukes (that work reliably).
The problem is, they are stronger than Ukraine. That’s why we need help with them, we won’t win alone. Russia’s allies aren’t pussies, while we have no allies, only partners. US switched from being a ‘won’t give more than the minimum’ partner to ‘capitulate, lol’ unreliable partner. They are closer to enemy now, and they’re owned by fucking russia. Russia is good at generating friction, and I afraid people believe that fiction.
Have you even been to Russia? I didn’t understand, honestly, as I have an impression you say that Russia is strong and powerful. I don’t believe so. But that does not mean they are nothing to worry about.
Look, they send some soldiers to attack some positions on the front, they would more likely die, these poor souls. Yet, they can bring harm. They can kill someone’s on our side. They can ruin something. En masse, they achieve something, with a great price of about 1,000 personnel a day. They send missiles and drones, which are intercepted en masse. You cannot imagine how much better the air defence became over these years. I bet that’s one of the best air defences in the world right now. Yet, it’s impossible (or super difficult, at least) to intercept all the missiles. They still do harm.
Right now, we have no electricity, heat, and some cities like Kyiv, there’s a catastrophe. That’s a combination of factors, including political, corruption, and of course Russians. They terrorise civilians all the fucking time, all the time, starting in 2014, not even 2022. Nobody gives a flying fuck about that. Imagine Ukraine targets Moscow and casually murdered some tens of people in some high storey building. The world would yell ‘how dare you’s. All that, it’s allowed for Russia, but others, they must play by the rules. It’s not even expected of Russia. The number of war crimes they commit daily is unimaginable. Nobody gives a fuck. It’s some kind of a show for an average westerner. I’m sure there are huge masses of people who’d sincerely ask whether we still have that war. Yeah, we do. Because they don’t help us as much as they could. The EU gives Russia more money than they give Ukraine.
We fight alone. Remember, a couple of years back, they were threatening everyone with everything, including nukes, if the EU or the US would dare to give us this, give us that. These partners of ours, they gave us some technologies, they gave us F16s, patriots. The Russians? Did nothing.
They are very good at lying, they create fiction and many buy that fiction. They are weak. They’d collapse within a year or two, if that’s not for China. They are anything, but strong. They are not even winning this war. The issue is, we fight alone, and we fight what others believed in being a second military in the world. Turned out, they are second army in not only Ukraine, but in Russia too. (Kursk offensive.)
They are weak, but it doesn’t mean we would automatically win without help and doing anything. We would not. But we fight alone. Nobody sent their troops to fight for Ukraine. China, North Korea, they did. The world? Does nothing. Business as usual, isn’t it?
Russia is showing the NATO is a hoax, and the EU and the US are not different to Russia, they are paper tigers too. And unfortunately they are successful at it, because the USians are dumb enough to elect someone who’s an enemy’s agent. The EU, I don’t know, it looks like they don’t quite understand they are next if were to lose. And the worst thing is, if Ukraine would lose, they’d fight for Russia against Europe, or just die, so … I don’t know what the EU thinks, they appear to not understand the situation, and are too afraid to actually act.
So my point is, fuck the US, I don’t believe they’d return to normality any time soon. Even if they would, they’re unreliable partner and you cannot trust them. They are falling into irrelevance, by their own stupidity. The EU though, they should find some nerve to actually do something and stop being terrified.
It’s not as simple as ‘Russia is strong, so let’s not provoke them’ or ‘Russia is weak, so let’s do nothing, Ukraine would deal with them without any help at all.’
Their might is rather irrelevant, I’d dare to say. It does not matter. You must answer yourself whether you’re okay to live in the world where Russia is a winner and is given everything they want. Or you want to live in the world where the aggression is persecuted and there’s rule of law.
If there’s rule of force, and you can do everything you want if you’re strong … well, I might die by that point, but it still be quite funny to see the US thinking they’re the strong ones, too big to fail and all that … it would be quite entertaining to observe their fall off their illusionary pedestal and thrown into irrelevance by some brute force autocracies that are actually stick to each other. Unfortunately, that’s a very depressing scenario for many of us who’d been relying on that unreliable partner.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 1 week ago:
Why is it shitty? Ukraine is the only one country that actually fights Russia, with everyone else sitting there too terrified to even fart. Not enough ammo, not enough political pressure, if at all. No real sanctions on the shadow fleet.
Any chance you’re from Russia or working as a Russian propaganda mouthpiece? If not, and you’re from the west, I guess it’s time to stop fucking being afraid of your own shadow and do something.
It’s the worst ever situation for Ukraine, because these fuckers target civilians only, they’re unable to do a fucking thing on the front lines.
I’m from Ukraine, so you might stop fucking around persuading me of all the mighty and powerful great Russia. I’m sick and tired of the idiots of ‘don’t underestimate the Russia’ camp. I mean, I agree, as an enemy, it’s dangerous to see them as complete and absolute idiots. But apart from that, they are actually complete and absolute idiots.
For what’s it worth, now we know the American rich are actually even dumber than that, so easily captivated by the Russian honeypots. But again, that doesn’t make Russians all mighty and powerful. Ukraine struggles with this war because it gave up its nuclear status, for the illusion of security guarantees from Russia (LOL), and USians (LOL, who turned out to be straight enemies), and Britain (which helps, but there are buts about it). That war won’t even be started, have Ukraine its nuclear status.
But Russia did its homework well, by accumulating russofiles across the globe. So instead of topping them in the 90s, the idiots were so helpful to ‘save Russia.’
Honestly, I see no point in overestimating them either.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 1 week ago:
My opinion is that they are overestimated.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 1 week ago:
It’s irrelevant and learning to write a couple of words is a nice skill.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
Thanks! So, why does it matter? It’s a server, you can have it to do the job unattended. Or does it affect other services and you’re unable to use anything else before it finishes?
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
If not joking, that would you want a huge amount of ram for on a server?
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
Imagine buying one for cheap because it has some bad blocks and it’s unreliable to keep real valuable data on it! I have a 8 TB HDD bought for like less than a $100 a decade ago, from a friend though, as he had some bad blocks there. I host only media for the HTPC there, but it’s been a solid all these years. And when it dies, sad, but nothing valuable that I cannot redownload.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 1 week ago:
Not yet there, I think. It’s not that fast to fall from economy number one to irrelevant peripheral country. They’d get there quickly if they’d not change the track, but it would get them much more than a year. A decade or two is my guess. But I believe in Americans, they’d manage that idiot and his clique, I believe.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 1 week ago:
What do you mean by USA question mark?
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 1 week ago:
I bet Russians en masse are dumb enough to not know that infamous fact.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 1 week ago:
Russians? LOL. The best they can do is to fucking eat the poor little bird, as their economy is fucked and they are stupid enough to not understand why. Stop believing into miracles. Russia is a shit hole not much better to Nigeria. (Sorry Nigeria, I’m sure you’re much better than that, I just have no good example to compare to.)
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 week ago:
It’s much worse than I anticipated! Thanks for explaining! I hope to see as little laptops with the key as possible.
- Comment on Is it safe the new Syncthing-Fork v2.0.14 on F-Droid? 1 week ago:
Ok, thanks. It really sounds like a simple solution to the problem. I think even if it does drain battery for some reason (e.g. a repository with a huge number of files), this could be automated, like the on/off switch to run the app to sync and be done with it.
On iPhone, I use sushi train, and it does automated sync via Shortcuts (a built-in app for light automations), via timers or other events like charging. It works perfectly fine for my use case. It syncs my notes multiple times a night, plus during the day while on charge or when I join trusted WiFi networks. I expect the same can be achieved on an Android. So, really, the CLI version might do the job plenty good, I believe.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 week ago:
Is it? I mean, if I have Linux installed, you know.
- Comment on Is it safe the new Syncthing-Fork v2.0.14 on F-Droid? 1 week ago:
How does it handle the battery life? Is it run all the time or do you just start it to sync when you need it?
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 1 week ago:
In other words, a slave wants to have their own slaves, instead of being free.
- Comment on Starvation 1 week ago:
You’re welcome to read Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 2 weeks ago:
Wine was never developed by Epic, as far as I know. Wikipedia showed nothing about Epic, not a word.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 3 weeks ago:
Can you explain this DNS thing further, please?
I start with what I understand. DNS stands for domains name system, which means a huge database of domain names and their IP addresses. When I ask for a website, DNS tells my computer / browser which IP addresses to look for, to reach the website.
At home, I have Pi-Hole and Unbound. The first one censors DNS addresses by not including domains that serve advertisements. It can work with various DNS providers, including those from Google or Cloudflare. Unbound allows me to self-host DNS database, periodically fetching it from somewhere. That way my ISP may not see … here I’m not sure what, DNS lookups? It sees which IPs I reach, so I assume there’s no big difference, if they’d want to know which resources I reach for. Frankly, I don’t understand this solution entirely, perhaps unbound is for something different. I used Pi-Hole without it for years, only recently I added unbound, because it was quite easy to do with DietPi distro.
Cloudflare actively promotes their WARP service, for people to use their DNS servers. They have three options, four ones, three ones and two, three ones and three. My guess is they theoretically can analyse these DNS lookups for some reason. (E.g. by partnering with three letter agencies, doing some service for them.)
What is DNS in the context of my website being registered with them? When I reach to my website, it any other website registered with them, what would happen? Isn’t the record everywhere already? I cannot understand what this means in this (different, isn’t it?) context.
The rug pull scheme ‘now you pay us for DNS too!’ seems unlikely, for some reason. If it’s no different from what they provide as a free service. If it’s something else, I assume you can migrate to any other registrar, unless you’re too heavy into their ecosystem.
On a personal note, I’m not too heavy into their ecosystem, I hope. I have a couple of static websites hosted for free with Cloudflare Pages. Plus I have a bare metal file server with images which is shared to the internet with Cloudflare Tunnel. I’m nobody with a few readers, tens of posts and hundreds of images, and I chose this architecture because I don’t understand how to properly self-host my blog on a residential connection (meaning dynamic IP behind a CG-NAT or what it’s called). When I do, I may drop them in favour of a simpler architecture. But also I was curious how it works.
So, saying all this, I still don’t understand what this them being an authoritative registrar means in this context. Perhaps I lack some web dev skills to understand that properly. When I had my domain with Squarespace, they allowed more than Cloudflare, but I lack understanding to properly formulate that, to even understand what it was. I think I could host my top level domain with Cloudflare Pages only when they are my registrar, while having those Pages on a subdomain was trivial even with a different registrar. If I remember that correctly now, I might’ve been confusing some things here.
Thanks for your previous explanation, it was quite informative.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks! I haven’t thought of com as being the real TLD, actually!
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks! Now it’s a bit more clear now.
To contribute to the discussion, I remembered that with Squarespace (my previous registrar), I had unlimited redirects, which I used heavily. I am not really sure about the unlimited part, perhaps that was hidden somewhere in the interface, and they have limits, and I just never saw them. But I remember Cloudflare communicated I have like 10, so I decided to not use it for nice-to-have but not really needed things. E.g. I used a subdomain for a blog, and created redirects for typical misprints in my name. Was handy, but not really needed. I should have document this, but I was too busy at the time, and now, almost a year later, I don’t really remember. There were differences with Cloudflare and Squarespace.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 3 weeks ago:
My first registrar was Google domains. As always, they killed the business. And sold it to Squarespace. I’ve been their customer for a year or two, nothing bad I can say, except the price was about 1.5 or even 2x of that from Cloudflare for com domain, so I migrated there. I have no deep understanding of the nuances, so I cannot say whether Cloudflare is a bad actor. At least I trust them to not elevate the price, as it’s not their primary business, sell domains.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 3 weeks ago:
I see that, but what does it mean in practice?
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 3 weeks ago:
I have my domain with Cloudflare too, and at this point, I’m not aware of these DNS servers. Can someone explain it a bit? I know what DNS is, but I don’t understand what’s the use case for having them elsewhere. I’m not to argue, just didn’t know where to register a domain, so I went with them. I’m concerned with the future of the domain either, but don’t understand the issues at this early point.
- Comment on Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos 4 weeks ago:
It’s even worse than advertisement. As it’s useless.