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juliand··on Tesla Cybertruck Accelerator Pedal Trim Recall
It seems so, since the same page appears in the wayback machine since April 19th[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240419224958/https://www.tesla...

juliand··on The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
OP provided a little bit of more context in another comment. It was a public school.
juliand··on Azure dropping database support for MariaDB. Users advised to migrate to MySQL
What's wrong with them? If you happen to have some sort of microsoft dependency, they are a good choice for you. Not perfect, as any other cloud provider, but a good choice nonetheless.
juliand··on Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
Thank god my dependency on Google services keeps going down with every year that passes
juliand··on How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong
Playlists. I can migrate them to Apple Music but the order in which I added each of these songs is important to me and the last time I tried to export them, such an order was lost.

I know I might be the minority but that's what happened to me the last time I wanted to try something different from Spotify.

juliand··on Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight
It took them 2 hours and 40 minutes to complete the easter egg
juliand··on Spf13 is leaving Google
Thank you for your work on all those different technologies that have made our life easier! Feel proud of all of it!
juliand··on Phone number has been used too many times
It is fair to say that the answer came from a volunteer, although supervised by Google.
juliand··on Amazon Sidewalk
Is there anyway to opt out of this?
juliand··on Latino Programming Language
Here are some code examples for anyone curious to see how it looks

https://github.com/lenguaje-latino/latino/tree/master/ejempl...

juliand··on LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
Mine has remained intact even without a case (with the usual wear of course, but no cracks).
juliand··on LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
I am a s10+ user and recently I ditched all the different google version of my phone apps. I decided to use samsung's version of the calculator, calendar, files and contacts apps.

They seem solid enough for me and some of them present better integration with the Samsung ecosystem . Those apps are also integrated with different third party providers including google .

I still despise bixby but I'm very satisfied with the rest of the phone.

juliand··on Signal Is Back
As a power user I find what you said to be strong points of WhatsApp Web. For instance, I want it to alert me as soon as there's a web connection and that's only possible with the current connection model and for security measures I think it's safer to have only one instance at a time.

The connection reliability is a hassle but usually when you're in the desktop you also have a good wifi connection and even though the web client loses connectivity temporarily it keeps working as good as it can.

On the other hand it's easy to forget that you have an active session in other apps such as Telegram unless you keep track of it in your app. Someone you share your laptop with can just open the Telegram app and they'll be able to see my chat conversations be default.

I know some of these things might be something you'd prefer but I choose the hassle instead.

juliand··on How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products
> Also, I find it annoying that you can't message someone on WhatsApp without adding them to contacts.

The trick that i use is to type their number into the domain wa.me in the following format https://wa.me/xxxxxxxxxxx

That allows you to open a chat to that specific number without adding them to your contact list.

juliand··on 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
You have to jump to the article's conclusion.
juliand··on Launch HN: Sidekick (YC S20) – A hardware device to connect remote teams
I wish you the best of luck in your new endeavours.
juliand··on Improving DuckDuckGo
Link to the related Help Article

https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/atb/

juliand··on What Microsoft got right about power users, but not quite
I feel like the author is nitpicking over small issues just because it's Microsoft.

They already admitted that they were wrong about Open Source and even though there is room for improvement, I'm happy that they are supporting power users more and more.

juliand··on Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
If it's a recurring payment then yes, it should be under PayPal's My Preapproved Payments.
juliand··on Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”
With Google Duplex I'm sure we're heading towards a future where a computer is going to be answering all our customer support calls without us knowing about it.
juliand··on Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
Is it me or the car seems to steer slightly to the right, just before the impact ?
juliand··on Stephen Hawking has died
Thank you for everything
juliand··on Introducing Surface Book 2
This should be the linked page. A lot more of information than the blog post.
juliand··on Ending support for Android Market on Android 2.1 and lower
They announced Project Treble back in Google IO to combat fragmentation. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/here-comes...
juliand··on Speeding Up Rendering Rails Pages with render_async
It's good to see useful libraries still being created for Rails. I plan to use this on one of my projects. Thank you.
juliand··on Major routing issues on the Internet
Same here. Not sure if Pingdom is acting up or they legitimately can't reach my site due to the problems reported by Cloudflare or something.
juliand··on KeepassXC – A cross-platform community fork of KeepassX
bitwarden was mentioned in a previous thread as a free and open source alternative to lastpass. It works on mobile and the desktop. Maybe it's worth to take a look - https://bitwarden.com/
juliand··on Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
Just for the record, I did the same on one of my small azure machines:

  CPU model:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2673 v3 @ 2.40GHz
  Number of cores: 1
  CPU frequency:  2394.441 MHz
  Total amount of RAM: 3439 MB
  Total amount of swap:  MB
  System uptime:   6 days, 15:49,       
  I/O speed:  20.1 MB/s
  Bzip 25MB: 4.27s
  Download 100MB file: 6.15MB/s
juliand··on Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
They do, however, offer over 2x disk space in some of their plans. 80GB in LightSale and DO vs 192GB in Linode
juliand··on Google’s lawyers are asking to find Oracle’s lawyers in contempt of court
Especially with that animated gif above the fold. I had to scroll to a point where the animation was completely hidden to be able to read comfortably.
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