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pt_PT_guyon Rocky Linux 9.0

I've been happy with Oracle Linux for free at home usage. With a well-established, stable, consistent timed releases. Is there any reason why should I switch to Rocky (or Alma?)

pt_PT_guyon Oneplus GPL violation for Android 12 Kernel

> but this is why phones maybe shouldn't ship with a working OS anyways and make the user supply it instead.

this enforcement is actually a very good idea!

pt_PT_guyon Oneplus GPL violation for Android 12 Kernel

why is so damn hard for manufacturers to release sources?

pt_PT_guyon Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta

agreed. I would start to be paranoid making searches at will if I knew they are paid one by one

pt_PT_guyon Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta

way to expensive. more expensive than spotify for me.

1/3 of the cost of my internet access.

I am willing to pay.. but no this much.

pt_PT_guyon Ffmpeg Buddy

all of these I know by head.

the difficult part is to combine vaapi, codecs, re-encode audio without re-encode video (and vice versa), codec lists, etc

pt_PT_guyon Show HN: Hatch 1.0.0 – Modern, extensible Python project management

how does it compare to pipenv?

pt_PT_guyon DaVinci Resolve 18

and linux support! :D

pt_PT_guyon Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

Who's surprised?

- More and more locked down bootloaders

- Less and less support and updates guarantee

- A mess on the interfaces provided: each brand as its own that no one can expect to be consistent

- Devices loose support after 2 years and enter in maintenance mode after that

- Expensive as iphone

So why would I want an iPhone? for locked down expensive experience then I should got an iPhone. Apple is pushing for updates and device support, so yes.

pt_PT_guyon Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

even in US I only see 1vcore, 6gb ram option.

pt_PT_guyon German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

next: use matrix.org

pt_PT_guyon iOS 15

Humm. gotcha. thank you

pt_PT_guyon iOS 15

Is it me or most of the features could be a simple app update?

pt_PT_guyon Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end

and no one accountable :-)

pt_PT_guyon AMule 2.3.3

emule is also having releases on github under https://github.com/irwir/eMule

pt_PT_guyon Element raises $30M to boost Matrix

Nice! Now please:

1) Kill the electron crap. Just look how awesome, fast, funcional, beautiful and feature-rich telegram is

2) Kill synapse. Is close to impossible to run a home server with all that python shit going on. Dendrite is the way I guess, but it is super resource-consuming to have a small home server (and slow)

3) Make it accessible and interesting for the casual john doe: FluffyChat is one possible route

pt_PT_guyon Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption

For the lazy like me, there's this: https://vorta.borgbase.com/

pt_PT_guyon Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash

you're right. I was expecting that 10th+ intel gen had a lot more hardware extensions, but looks like there's none

pt_PT_guyon Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash

People have voted... with their money.

Microsoft can't longer afford being yield back by deprecated processor technology. And the bad publicity of doing so.

By not bumping the requirements a lot of security and speed improvements can't be done.

This is even more visible with the Apple M1 release. Because of it Windows looks like insecure, insufficient and unoptimized.

People have chosen that they don't care about openness neither about supporting legacy hardware and Microsoft is listening.

pt_PT_guyon Firefox 84.0

any suggestion for a good opensource browser? Firefox is my main browser (and the only one recommended by privacytools.io), but having a chromium-based one is good to have too.

- Brave: it has been pushing opt-in-by-default ads and crypto widgets

- Vivaldi: 5% closed source

- Edge: not open source (yet?)

- Chromium: lacks too many features

pt_PT_guyon Firefox 84.0

I truly love Firefox for what it (should) mean: an opensource browser that fights for open and diverse web. Specially now that everything is Chromium based.

However I'm very disappointed with the corporate way it is managed. Lot's of money for the CEO and cutting development funds.

Things I would absolutely buy from Mozilla: private internet services

- Something like Zoho: Calendar/Mail/Notes replacement for Google services!

- VPN server if available in my country

I want to ditch google/apple/microsoft for something "encrypted/private" first. And self-hosting is just a hassle. Provide me easy, "self-hosted"-like services please.

pt_PT_guyon CloudLinux Promises a CentOS Replacement

Why is everyone missing the obvious replacement: Oracle Linux

It is superior to CentOS in a lot of ways:

- A lot less delay releasing (rebuilding) RHEL updates compared with CentOS (specially important for security updates)

- Free to use and distribute like CentOS

- You have access to optional support

- You can install UEK that has BTRFS and a unlocks a whole new kernel generation to RHEL base

It was better than CentOS for years. You can switch from CentOS with a script that updates your repos and that's it.

And second: CentOS Stream is not that bad ideia. Why way to long for fixes/updates? It is and will continue to be slow, just not super-slow.