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One can extract hydrogen from fossil fuels. So if a hydrogen break through is coming, they already have a cheap source for the material. Not really green though...

You are free to enable WebGl in the settings and install a Plugin that allows for blocking/allowing WebGl.

The default should be privacy if you install a browser that focuses on privacy.

1 in a million is the probability that all three servers die in one months, without swapping out the broken ones. So at some point in the month all the data is gone.

If you replace the failed(or failing) node right away, the failure percentage goes down greatly. You would likely need the probability of a node going done in 30 minutes time space. Assuming the migration can be done in 30 min.

(i hope this calculation is correct)

If 1% probability per month then 1%/(43800/30) = (1/1460)% probability per 30 min.

For three instances: (1/1460)% * (1/1460)% * (1/1460)% = (1/3112136000)% probability per 30 min that all go down.

Calculated for one month (1/3112136000)% * (43800/30) = (1/2131600)%

So one in 213 160 000 that all three servers go down in a 30 minute time span somewhere in one month. After the 30 minutes another replica will already be available, making the data safe.

I'm happy to be corrected. The probability course was some years back :)

Truly a case where VPNs do make sense.

Companies develop closed source technology that benefits them (as it is expect). This is done X times (where X is companies that offer services). A government agency does preferably develop open source or atleast nationally available knowledge/solutions.

This will raise prices

Cutting funding for research and development can be considered stealing from kids. Not the current generation but the next one.

I'm from Europe and the current US politics discourages me from buying US products. I guess this will push a new Europe first movement on this side of the globe. Not the scenario I wished for because I quite liked the more open system.

There are some hacking tools for Fritzboxes out there but Avm themselves are pretty good at supporting their hardware for a long time. The 7490 was released in April 2013 and just received another security update (January 2025).

Quite a long support time.

To me they seem to be the best standard solution that can also be setup by a "beginner" user.

It's getting better. The situation is not ideal but very slow connections with <100 MBit/s are rare now.

I just checked. There is no right to a land-line but a general right to being connected. So somebody has to provide you a connection. If nobody does you can message the "Bundesnetzagentur" and they will oblige a provider.

https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Vportal/TK/InternetTelef...

Is that even legal? I always thought a land-line connection is mandatory.

I recommend to check the law here :)

It's better now in Germany. My parents life in the country side and got fiber about one year ago. 600/300 MBit/s for 60€. Not cheap but very stable and always delivers.

I use Vodafone Cable 250/50 MBit/s for around 25€ (discount for new customers). Not very stable but good enough. 1000/50 MBit/s is available but costs 50€.

If you live together with someone you can always switch the contract taker and thus always get the "new" customer benefits to save some money.

Your Macbooks no longer receive (security) updates. They already have missed three MacOS releases: https://eshop.macsales.com/guides/Mac_OS_X_Compatibility

Please don't do anything security critical with them.

Other OS providers do support the devices longer. At least for core OS updates.

...so far, yes. But somebody has to pay all of that new network traffic and cpu cycles ;).

Reminds me of an old Java Android project I encountered.

EVERY class implemented an interface. 98% of interfaces had one implementation.

Every programmer was applying a different programming pattern. A lot of abstractions seemed incomplete and did not work.

Proguard (mostly used for code obfuscation for Android apps) definitions were collected in the top module even though the project had multiple modules. Half of the definitions were no longer needed and the code was badly obfuscated. Problems were solved by continuesly adding classes and checking what sticks.

The UI was controlled by a stateful machine. State transitions were scatter everywhere in the code with lots of conditions in unforeseen places.

Legacy code was everywhere because no one wanted to risk a very long debugging session of an unforseen change.

No API definitions. Just Maps that get send via REST to URLs.

By biggest mistake was to not directly rewrite this project when I entered the team. We did after one year.

Simple for a developer sure. Just have a look at what entrylevel developers do (no hate, everybody starts somewhere).

This group of people is willing and ready to learn but you still often hear "just checkout the project again" when a problem is encountered.

Most people just use an app and are fine with that functionality. My partner and I use a Google Keep list that is shared between our accounts. Live editing included and it does everything just fine.

There are more elaborate app solutions out there that do more and solve most of the problems.

Got to say, Fritz!Box really makes the setup and maintenance easy. You will hit a wall if you want subnets and stuff but before that everything really works and they support their boxes for 6 to 10 years with updates. Not cheap thought.

Agree. Better stay neutral and not bind software to religion or politics.

Please read the article more careful. The author compares v11 and v10 of the Tesla software. v10 directly displays the defroster button. v11 does hide it behind the temperature control (which is criticised).

Most likely you have the Exynos CPU? I upgraded from a S21 Ultra (Exynos) to a S23 Ultra (Snapdragon).

Battery life is so much better. I use the 80% battery protection option and nearly always make it through the day. Only if I constantly watch videos the battery is flat in the evening.

With power saving and 100% battery I can reach 2 1/2 to 3 days. Loving it.

Popping some cheaper drop in replacement chips in an already existing product sounds quite cost effrctive to me :)

If you use apps that require security (like payment apps) you might run into problems here. My company might need to exclude phones like this one soon because more and more CVEs are coming up. Alternative ROMs are often not the solution here because Play Integrity and Key Attestation no longer work.

For general messaging and browsing this hardware likely work quite well.

Btw I had the Motorola Defy and flashed it every month with a new ROM back in the days :D

I have a lot of windows open, sometimes from the same app (IntelliJ x 5, Android Studio x 4, Firefox x 5 for example).

# AltTab brings back the ability to switch to specific windows. MacOS is still annoying here because it brings -all- instances of the program in foreground (overlapping a Firefox instance in wanted to look something up for example). Feels like MacOS is designed mainly for one screen. I have about 4x that size on my ultrawide. Still this Plugin helps a lot.

# Commander one is a better file manager for me

# Shottr makes taking screenshots easy and actually works with ultra widescreens

# UnnaturalScrollWheels makes the scroll function of my mouse nice again. Personal preference oc but MacOS has no option to invert the scroll behavior.

In general I encountered quite some bugs in MacOS. I was disappointed tbh because I came back after many years of Windows and Linux. Macs and MacOS are build in the same house and should "fit together".

A selection: - System settings search broken. Does not navigate to item - Finder sometimes does not find programs (which are found 2 min later without a problem) - Crash of MacOS after sleep. The automatic recovery is good however. - Selecting to only share a window (in Teams for example) shares sometimes more than that window. This can reveal sensitive information

I switched from a PC to a Mac at work. Macbook Pro M2 Pro, 32GB RAM. The performance and battery life are absolutely lovely. Compile tasks run great.

MacOS on the other hand not really. It is better/acceptable after I installed some Plugins. But I still wish Linux was fully supported (and my company would allow it). Even Windows would be an upgrade currently for me.

15 hours seems not that much considering an iPod nano can do 30 hours (according to Apple)

Nothing wrong with wanting to make some money. Especially with something like additional themes.

Please just don't hide existing/important features :).

I was on some great LAN parties. Nice memories.

Four years ago I attended a LAN party where I was the youngest one (26 back then). All others already had kids but swore to keep the old spirit alive. Never have I seen such a well organised party with actually working games :D. They used the "eti-launcher"

Company policy and old habits

If you can pay for a live performance and have to time to go there, yes. A lot of people can't and a 5-10$ Spotify/Apple Music/... account is all they can afford (if at all).

AI music will disrupt this market.

Spotify for example will try to produce their own AI music (like they already do with regular music). The Christmas playlist will then mainly contain their music. That saves a lot of money for the.

Minify + Shittier seems like a fun idea to make analysing the code even more painful :D

There are many other things that will get us first. War, societal unrest, toxins, CO2, climate change, ...

Maybe there is a big meteor that resets everything, already hat that once :D. The sun burning out is so far off, my grand, grand, grand, grand, grand, ..., grand kids are still fine in that aspect.