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bebna··on Booting embedded Linux in 0.37 seconds on an ARMv7-A CPU at 528 MHz
h stands for per hour, but it was already converted it into per day, so it got correctly dropped.
bebna··on Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos
I had to buy a new phone this year to replace one. Because it was one of the smallest packages for what I wanted, I got myself a Samsung Note 10. (Srsly, why must phones now be that big, that the regular note series looks small?)

Also I did had some small travel plans this year for every second weekend, where I wanted take my Pentax SLR out or buy myself a Sony Rx100 if space in the backbag runs out. (Moved to next year.)

But now? I'm not sure.

Yes, the dslr with its bigger sensor would be better suited to get more details in each pic and would be a much easier tool to use. But, there aren't really visible on your averaged sized print. And as long my trip isn't focused on getting pictures of animals, I don't need more reach than the short-/portrait- tele lens from the phone already provides.

But I save myself massively on packing space, weight, theft prevention and stress.

And the last point I think is the biggest deal in the end. If I travel to relax, I don't want to focus on getting the best out of my equipment to justify bringing it. (Or worse have to listen to others unasked opinion about my equipment choices.) A phone does the job and gets out of the way.

Sending pics home from a dslr? I hope you got your notebook with you and 1-2 hours in your hotelroom. I'm already done on the phone...

bebna··on Show HN: I built a minimal Twitter web app with few rules
That is the old style Retweet before twitter integrated it, those are regular tweets.
bebna··on Show HN: I built a minimal Twitter web app with few rules
Perhaps try https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ ?
bebna··on Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
Depending on the functionality you want, perhaps a synology (commercial solution) or nextcloud or even a samba box will be a better solution for privacy than Microsoft.
bebna··on New iPhone SE
I switched this year to the Samsung Note 10, because it was SMALLER than the previous budget "lite" phone I got as a short term replacement for my broken down Z3 compact.
bebna··on Apple Store leaks 4.7-inch ‘iPhone SE’ name
U know that especially pixel phones can be unlocked[0] for alternative roms without google?

Alternatively you can debloat an android with a desktop thanks to adb, when you don't want to unlock and reset your phone for a new rom.

There are already enough open source alternatives to replace Google software from android phones. Even some who replace Google play services for the apps that need it, while only having minimal contact with Google servers.

Especially with your needs it is really easy to go Google free on the phone you already own. In any other place I would think you just don't know better, but here it just sounds like an excuse.

[0] https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/how-to

bebna··on Mars could have at least two ancient reservoirs of water underground
Firefox for android and ublock origin. If you got amoled, add dark reader perhaps too if you like.
bebna··on Human Interface: Backpack harness innovation
You can tape it. Easier to do and to carry on the field.
bebna··on Launch HN: Visual One (YC W20) – Event recognition for security cameras
Than what is your selling point against all those Chinese cloud based services?
bebna··on Rollerball pens that use fountain pen ink
If you get your hands on it:

Rohrer & Klingner dokumentus or sketch-ink

First one is certified document proof, the others work the same, just that the used pigments are not as hardened against chemicals to allow strict iso certification.

They are both fast at drying and once dry, won't give a inch to water. Not even coloring the water and marking the rest of the paper, where it flowed.

bebna··on Rollerball pens that use fountain pen ink
If you have the rollerball: A G2 cartridge fits, just add a small padding to the end. I used a cut down eraser from the back end of a cheap pencil.
bebna··on Kodak Alaris warns the TSA's new airport CT scanners can damage undeveloped film
MF is cheaper to acquire in film. Because of the big negatives, u do can make high resolution digital copies from them.

Uninteresting for most photograhic fields, because of the big and hefty equipment to a APS-C/FF system, but it could make sense for someone doing landscape or architecture. Those bigger lenses have less of a problem to keep the "resolution" high before it hits the sensor/film, that gives small things in big pictures more detail.

bebna··on New 10.3″ Waveshare E Ink Monitor
I used an Kobo Aura HD (~2013 E-ink tech), with linux and is was almost fast enough to keep up with aafire. Using vim on a arm mx507 wasn't that fast anyway, so that the screen wasn't really a problem. It would have been a useful system for when you only stay in the console, switching over to firefox was a full screen refresh that needed a sec, so I tended to avoid it. Sadly I didn't get the USB controller to accept my external keyboard in its OTG mode, which was a hack in of itself, so I dropped that project again, but I still look from some time to time for a way to do it again.

Greyscale works as syntax highlighting, you do can get used to it after time. But what greyscale does to you is that isn't that interesting to you anymore to look at the screen, so you do start get "bored" from it and the eye starts to wander around looking for something else perhaps pretty to look at. Nice if you want to look often enough out of the window, but annoying if you have work to do.

For at dark at night coding it isn't that bad. But having an AMOLED with the right colourscheme and low lightness setting is more pleasing I found.

bebna··on New 10.3″ Waveshare E Ink Monitor
Does anyone got weight?
bebna··on Back to Microsoft: Using Windows again so I can use Linux effectively
Reddit R/surfacelinux is full of that what you are looking for.
bebna··on Back to Microsoft: Using Windows again so I can use Linux effectively
Yeah, but most surfaces do run Linux,why not dual boot?

I worked with Windows 10 WSL/WSL2 for a year now just to understand how one could setup windows as a good workspace for my colleges. And I do have to say even with the vastly more performant WSL2, docker is slow and annoying if you are used to Linux docker or xampp under windows.

bebna··on The Light Phone
Basically the Blackberry of old.

I miss those things. Shame they killed BIS in my country, so those are mostly unusable today.

I think the best way to achieve it all again is to create a set of interlocking apps who help you get things done instead of wooing you with animations for android and create your own distro with those apps pre-setup based on CyanogenMod/LineageOS/etc. This way you can use existing hardware, gain productivity and still be able to access tge appstore for everything someone needs for their personal work flow, like the tan generator of your bank.

bebna··on Syntax Highlighting Is Backwards (2018)
Intellij allows switching of theme with a keycombo, just clone your regular theme and edit it for focusing on comments. Same goes for other editors like vim where changing colours can be done fast.
bebna··on Vandalize Your Car
U do are limited in the amount of chrome and reflective material on the car.
bebna··on My Last Macbook Pro
I hate to plug a Microsoft product as mainly Linux user, but do checkout the surface line.
bebna··on We’ve already built too many power plants and cars to prevent 1.5 ˚C of warming
Can I be your Guinea Pig? guinea-pig at bebna de
bebna··on REST and GraphQL framework to build API-driven projects
Just look at the awesome selfhosted list and you will see that php still dominates.

In my city, php is still in the top 3, too.

bebna··on Should C Programmers Learn C++, Go or Rust? (2018)
I'm probably the exact opposite, I'm more a Jack of all trades, master of none. I jump from language or framework to another without any remorse, just trying to do the best given time, resources and project needs. I did work with c (text template engine lib / x11 gui app / personal kernel module / dpdk userspace networking / arduino & pi baremetal stuff / ...), C++ (mostly some qt stuff for my old blackberry Q10), Java (I'm probably one of the few who liked Swing...), Go (backend servers), Python 2/3 (Some webdev, mostly admin scripts), PHP 4-7 (web/cli...), js (basic stuff and jQuery, trying to get into dart and flutter next...)

When I try to see my self in the shoes of a primary C dev, I wouldn't see Go as a concurrent to C, but more as a less annoying scripting language. Every time when I switch from a "typed" to an "untyped" language, I do need a longer time to "feel at home" again. Therefore I think Go could be good language for a C dev for small tasks on the site, like creating small cli tools for the buildchain or generally inhouse, things like that what one normally tends to look at python for. Go makes it easy to create a good cli interface, easy to document the format of a config file and writing a test. Deployment is also easy thanks to that is just a static blob that comes with everything that it needs. So no worrying about if the right interpreter is installed on that dev server, just copy it over with scp and it works.

bebna··on Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing
So how long till transparent aluminium?
bebna··on No, Your Instagram ‘Influence’ Is Not as Good as Cash, Club Owner Says
> Your audience needs to trust you. If your audience knows you are shilling for someone, they fundamentally can't trust you.

Some audiences just don't care or even think about that. And that audience are the main targets of those companies.

Do really think, that the sneaker community really cares about trusting a reviewer, if all the company needs to say to raise the prices, is that they produce that colour in a limited run?

bebna··on Brexit – where now? The flow diagrams
> which she's already agreed to do

No, she implied it. And May isn't really known to keep her promises in the first place.

bebna··on Brexit – where now? The flow diagrams
It wasn't in the wars either.
bebna··on Minimum Viable Personality (2011)
Aww, I hoped for a talk about presenting the minimal needed personality as an introverted coworker to his team.
bebna··on The Zipper Rule on German Roads
Stau is a bad example for most cases, but yes you will always get some who think they know better, even if they had to learn in the driving school that lane jumping makes it just slower for everyone.
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