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This is where I try to buy most of my electronic equipment now. The shipping is quite fast to my location (faster than Amazon Prime) and the prices are usually pretty competitive.

It is, and I am not a member. I just stay logged out and read only

Modern standby is an absolute disaster. It is shameful that the industry adopted and pushes this now.

i would not say it's "exactly HN". lobste.rs articles are much more programming focused. majority of posts you find on HN you would not find on lobste.rs

which is fine, if that's what you want, but, as a daily reader of both, they aren't even close to being the same thing

I enjoy that most instances are small and will remain that way. There are a few that may grow to the point where scaling could become difficult, but there are ways to combat that.

What the author sees as problems with mastodon (decentralization, moderation differences between instances, etc) to me are the strengths of mastodon. It's the whole dang point.

Most mastodon instances aren't trying to be another twitter. The ones that are and do want to scale will inevitably run into scaling issues that any large platform full of user-generated data will run into. I'm just glad that there are different instances so when one big instance runs into scaling problems, other instances can just keep rolling along unaffected by it

I think talking about mastodon as a singular entity is fraught with problems because it's simply not that

I went Kubuntu, even on my gaming PC, decided to cut my losses as far as any games that don't work, and it has been worth it. I'll never return to Windows. Proton + Steam + Heroic has made so many games easily playable and installable, and my game backlog is so big, that I'll always have something to play. (I don't play any games with anti-cheat issues on Linux, only play a few multiplayer games at all)

Sure, if I need a deep-level photo editor like Affinity Photo (or some other occasional-use tool that does not have what I consider a good enough equivalent on Linux), or a situation where I'm bought into ecosystems and particular tools somewhat (music production - plugins + Studio One) I may turn to a secondary machine with another OS. But these are very specific use cases.

For 90%+ of my daily home PC use, it is all Linux.

I am so glad to be out of Microsoft's realm for the most part now. It feels good not dealing with the BS of Windows. Computing is enjoyable again.

If Canonical ever crosses a threshold where I feel like they're becoming too much like the corporate operating systems, I'll switch to something else, and switching will be relatively easy.

Yeah the fact that the large transfer to Tides happened at the same time that the Tides CEO became General Counsel for Wikimedia seems pretty gross (and I say this as someone that in general would agree with Tides' mission otherwise)

To quote the page this HN submission links to: "Concerns expressed then focused on the secrecy of the grant, the break with the participatory grantmaking principles the Foundation had until then embraced, and the fact that the transfer coincided with Amanda Keton's move in the 2019–2020 financial year from General Counsel of the Tides Network and CEO of Tides Advocacy to General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation"

I love this and am glad to see it every time it is mentioned somewhere. It makes me long for the days when OS UIs were like this

I always seem to hit the period key when I am in Safari somehow when I'm intending to hit the spacebar. I have now turned off slide-to-type and curious to see it that helps fix that... also disabling the " . shortcut " setting too

This is one of those things where I think there are 2 or 3 layers of math concepts above the concept of isogeny that I have to understand before I can understand isogenies.

I tried following a trail upwards from isogeny and most of the related terms I didn't understand either. Nice.

Nah, enterprise servers often can idle 200W+ easily. I know from experience.

Current Dells pull that much without even an OS installed, just sitting idle at a boot screen.

At least cosmetics do not affect the gameplay or fairness in any way. I think that's an important distinction to make. In Diablo Immortal you're paying for actual gear or items that help enhance that gear.

I have no problem with people buying fancy skins (or companies making money on them) because it doesn't provide players any advantage.

However, do I think sometimes even cosmetics can get rather expensive / predatory / addictive? Yes, they're not immune to other problems. Especially when they come in loot boxes. Rocket League has some neat cosmetics but I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $20 for a neat looking goal explosion or whatever...

This is why I've slowly moved off of Google products altogether (Gmail, Drive, etc).

I still use YT Premium / YT Music but am now thinking I will get rid of these too. I will just block ads (no longer have any "smart devices" that need Youtube's streaming app since I have an HTPC) and find another streaming service. I always enjoyed Tidal and may go back to them. I might even see about using those third-party YT sites so I can curate my subscriptions/etc there instead of in my Google account directly.

The one thing that's been super annoying has been the amount of online accounts that don't let you change your email address. Most of them are shopping carts or mostly pointless crap, at least. But right now I still have to log into Gmail because some things have to go there (until I decide to contact 30 different companies directly to see if they'll change my email address, or just leave those accounts/histories behind completely)

I really want to get to a point where I am never logged into a Google product at all, though I imagine there could be content I have to be logged in to view- not sure

It's been like trying to draw a long-taken poison out of my system and constantly finding more to remove

You don't have to involve yourself with the social-media side of YT at all, though. It is optional. I curate my subscription list and don't browse any discover-type feeds or anything and only see content from channels to which I am subscribed. I block comments sections using a browser extension. I don't watch "shorts". As far as the social media aspect of the site goes, if one ignores the comments and algorithmic content (which isn't always horrible anyway but is certainly optional) you can easily curate a good experience for yourself.

It is amusing that the replies/suggestions to your post recommend multiple different AWS solutions instead of Beanstalk. Definitely confirms the problem of AWS having a confusing amount of overlapping products

I agree with the Internet Archive on philosophical/ideological grounds and support their actions overall...

_However_, they have to operate under the same BS everyone else does, so it seems naïve for them to take reckless actions that could put them in this position

I use Gnucash essentially as a manual-entry glorified digital checkbook/register. I used to do it on paper for the longest time- it's how I was taught and my bank took a long time to modernize. I don't know that I still need to continue this habit digitally, but there's still something useful/comforting about keeping my own transaction list to constantly check against my bank's... Gnucash is adequate for doing this for me.

Yes, how dare one site inspire another to make something similar. Not sure how that automatically makes it untrustworthy... would rather have more players in the minimal blog space than only one or two

Oh wow, I didn't realize it worked seamlessly with file systems like this. Definitely considering this now.

Yes! I think two things with code examples have a significant impact, at least for me personally- 1) the examples are complete and work and 2) line-by-line explanation.

A lot of resources show a snippet of code, followed by an impenetrable paragraph that tries to explain multiple concepts from the snippet all at once. Maybe that works for others, but for me it makes it impossible to parse and overwhelms me, so nothing sticks.

My favorite part is the heavily commented code examples. Those are much more useful for increasing my understanding than most other resources. To me, that level of information density just works better for my brain than articles or sites that try to explain things.

Something about being _in the code_ while stepping through lines one by one with explanations is just so much easier to follow. I wish more learning resources took this approach.

I think the bro-science nootropic internet subculture has pushed this misinformation into a growing meme

I don't even know what I would use it for, but this is tempting

I'll give you my anecdotal experience with a TV that has Amazon's FireTV built-in. It is disconnected from any network. It allowed me to set a setting that says "remember last input" so it always looks at a particular HDMI input for signal when it's turned on (because I always have it set to viewing input, not the smart interface itself). Set like this, it essentially acts as a non-smart TV.

The only downsides are that, being a smartTV, even in this pseudo-non-smart mode, if the TV loses power (rather than just being in an "off/standby" state) then it takes a bit longer for the TV to start up the next time. I wish I could avoid a TV having a "boot sequence", but my experience is close enough to a non-smart TV that it works for me

Which he told them beforehand not to do, and afterwards chastised them for doing so, being clearly frustrated that his fans would so something like that and make things worse for everyone.

If he wielded the power himself (encouraged that behavior) that's one thing, but fanbases of scale will eventually always have a subset of people that behave poorly like this despite even being directly told not to by the person they're supposedly a fan of...

They already have the evidence- at least on some of these. Three of the phtalates they've already banned previously in children's toys are part of the nine that they're continuing to allow for use in food packaging

Agreed, it should have been noted upfront that it was hypothetical

PorkBun is definitely my go-to choice. I've used Namecheap and Hover previously, but PorkBun has been the best experience overall.

A very no-BS experience.

The fact that the only way this issue is even remotely getting looked at is because of an HN post that an FB staffer happens to see is ridiculous and businesses shouldn't _even be allowed to operate_ at the scale FB does without having a process of recourse in place for everyday users

From a few searches it seems like in terms of ARM performance it is something like "3x the performance of an RPi4" or, in Geekbench 5, looks like it hits roughly approximate (just a touch lower than) something like an i7-4770S (but again, a bit of apples to oranges comparison, and a single benchmark that might not reflect real-world actual or perceived performance, but might at least give some kind of reference point).