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I only do tinkering once. After that, it usually stays that way for as long as the option/setting exists and doesn't break.

For example, in 1996 I tweaked the buttons on Total Commander's main button bar (was called Windows Commander back then). I still use that same button bar today, 30 years later. Only some icons had to be replaced. I try to do the same in Linux, but...

There are some programs where this just doesn't work. Firefox for example has a bad habit of deprecating settings and adding new ones (with wrong defaults, because... money probably). It needs tinkering all the time.

Players with auto-reverse have 4-track heads. Using one of those, you can read all 4 tracks at the same time. But the best would be a rotating head (helical recording) like VCR or D/CAS I mentioned. That can use the whole width of the tape, not just 4 tracks.

So get a used D/CAS, keep the mechanical parts, replace the brains with ESP32, and post the project on HN. :)

- Default route is over tor and you didn't make an exception for ssh.

- Hide where you are in the world from your employer, who owns the server. (On vacation?)

- You're hacking the server.

You mean like D/CAS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D/CAS

How is that a valid argument? They're not even in the same industry, let alone the same "stage" (market?). But the examples are good - for the opposite argument. Very few of them had problems because of a new company entering the stage.

US Steel - down because of deindustrialization, but it's still big

Standard Oil - broken up almost immediately by antitrust law

AT&T - also split by antitrust lawsuit, but then bought back the split companies and it's big again

Union Pacific - lost the top position because BN (from BNSF) bought more railroads than them, but it's still the second. It's also kind of hard to grow if you have to build rail tracks... in US.

Pennsylvania Railroad - failed to compete with interstate highways built in 30s and jet airlines starting from 60s when their main revenue was declining industrial heavy freight.

International Mercantile Marine Co. - might be a valid example

American Tobacco Company - broken by antitrust laws

U.S. Rubber Co. - I don't think they were that big in 1910. There were a lot of competitors.

Central Leather Company - ran out of leather and the investors liquidated the company to buy oil and gas shares instead

Amalgamated Copper Mining Company - ran out of copper.

He said "Nokia". Nokia had usable keyboards, not that tiny BB thing where you need child fingers type with.

  https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_e70-review-96.php
  https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_e90-1857.php
  https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_5730_xpressmusic-review-385.php

I had the E70 for many years. The keyboard was amazing, even better than the E90.

Total Commander for Android has plugins for ftp(s), sftp, smb (windows shares), webdav, dropbox, gdrive.

https://www.ghisler.com/androidapp.htm

https://www.ghisler.com/androidplugins/googleplay/

1) Putin won't come for the rest of Europe.

2) Even if the does, why attack Moscow? Russian civilians have nothing to do with the war and we're not barbarians.

3) Even if we wanted to, Moscow as a target is so big that dead reckoning starting from Portugal is probably enough to hit it. There are also a lot of other means of guidance, including sun/stars, Gee and public FM radio stations.

4) And why dones instead of ballistic missiles?

They're very important. They help us (a small part of us) to be more violent apes, and find more targets for out violence.

Technology never changes the human nature. It only makes it more efficient.

I'm not sure the responses could be trusted.

No contraception before the '60. A couple could have sex once a year and still produce lots of babies.

ccache for portage is broken since at least 2010. Because each package source gets extracted and compiled in it's own versioned directory, with each new version the cache is invalidated by the different path.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/346063

All I can say is that Gentoo specifically forbids downgrading glibc. I think it's the only package where they did this. [1] The .ebuild is full of patches and workarounds.

[1] See line 873. https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/sys-libs/glibc/...

> at some point the system state would break and you'd have to reinstall

My advice is to start using btrfs snapshots. Make a backup snapshot, run the updates, and if anything breaks, just "btrfs set-default" to the backup snapshot and everything is working again.

xcalc wasn't good enough?

I'm using it as my main OS. I have it installed on 4 machines: a RK3288 SBC, a RK3588 desktop, a x86-64 desktop and a x86-64 laptop. Main incentive for me is customization.

- It makes it very very easy to patch any package before they're installed - just put the patches in /etc/portage/patches/<pkg name>/, and that includes the kernel too.

- I can exclude package features that I don't like. For example, my Firefox doesn't try/offer to turn on the wifi.

- I can also exclude entire packages that I don't like, because the entire dependency chains can be eliminated by disabling USE flags. For example, none of my systems have systemd or dbus. Since last year I don't even have openrc anymore (the other Gentoo service manager). One of them doesn't even have udev. I tweaked it so much, I'm not even sure I can still call it Gentoo.

Why would we need another Earth? If we had the tech to go there, we would implicitly also have the tech to live permanently in space. Why drop ourselves into another gravity well when we just escaped from one?

The communists are helping us fight capitalist surveillance... Oh, the irony!

Can't read the full article, but I suspect the results have nothing to do with cancer.

Criteria was "disease recurrence, new primary cancer, or death". That would include all causes of death, including heart attacks, stroke, and all the other causes of death prevented or reduced by exercise.

That would not be the smart thing to do. Sanctions would hurt EU economy more.

There are a lot better responses: reduce copyright length, to let's say... 50 years? Make everything after 1976 public domain. EU economy could even get a boost from that.

Or, if EU wanted to keep this limited to justice, denounce extradition treaties for all but most serious crimes (expecially not allowing any future Assange to be extradited), repeal laws that forbid bypassing DRM protections and reverse engineering.

Source?

I draw the line at menus + mouse support. Has menus and usable mouse? => It's a TUI.

MC has a TUI. vi doesn't. Don't know about emacs - never used it.

DOS programs had real TUIs, with menus, popup dialogs, resizeable/movable windows, mouse support, etc. How can you say pico, nano and vi have TUIs? Those are worse than a command line.

(I'm not including Emacs here because I never used that.)

It's not for you. It's for companies. They're implementing it first for person-to-person transactions just to test the system. Wouldn't want a big corp to lose millions of euro because of a bug!

Not everyone.

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-u...

This is probably what pushed them to accelerate the implementation.

> to convince payment processors that phones can be trusted to manage finances

Phones can NOT be trusted to manage finances. They should issue EU credit/debit cards instead.

Well... no so much in practice. My bank automatically enrolled my personal phone number into the system. I asked them to remove it 2 months ago. One month ago I received a reply that they're working on it. I may be the only person in this country that asked for this - they're now probably thinking which is cheaper: to pay the GDPR fine, repeatedly, or patch their banking software and re-certify it, or maybe refuse to have me as their client.

Anyway, I don't know if you actually read GDPR, but the government (& various agencies) and the bank are both exempted from GDPR. They will all know everything I bought through this system, from where and at what price.

Anonimity, at least until someone figures out who owns the wallet.

Attempt at ... what? All the national payment systems are already working. They're now interconnecting them.