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Run win11 with debloat patches, behind a firewall that blocks everything, then use a socks proxy for Steam and everything else that you want to connect to the internet.

Edit: okay, the firewall might become annoying to maintain if multiplayer gaming is your thing

Same, I savour every moment of him in Blade 1

Hah, that's a great idea!

I've never heard of Wordpress.org banning any legitimate WordPress site from accessing their plugins and themes repository. It would have made zero business sense for WP Engine to prepare for being banned like this.

Where did you read about EFF involvement?

Care to elaborate on how you can see that? Eager to learn

Could you give examples of trouble you've had after updating Immich? Haven't had any myself.

Only if you avoid common plugins that need some server-side interaction, for instance Gravity Forms.

(Probably _unless_ you use some custom rewrite rules, but then you're walking on less-trodden paths)

It might not be WordPress, but then WordPress is often an inefficient, error-prone piece of dung anyway. WP Engine is the only painless WordPress hosting solution I've seen. It's fast and has a great backend panel for debugging. Hard to do all that yourself for that price, unless you're hosting WP in bulk.

What software did you use to set all this up? Kindof interested in giving this a shot myself.

What is the bottleneck in your experience? I have around 100 transactions a month spread across various banks and providers. My experience is this:

I spent about a week defining a procedure to export all statements into CSV, converting the CSV into a Gnucash-friendly format where needed with some GPT3-authored PHP scripts. Once a month I do an import into Gnucash and the process takes at most 2 hours.

> And then you’re calling his distress a “sob story”. Yikes!

Make no mistake: kids, and people in general, are manipulative creatures.

> No, he observes that software devs as a group, and as a culture tend to produce worse results than (...)

Yeah, to that I say "meh". Maybe. In my view, on a different day he would have hacked in a workaround, explained quickly that it is because of the illogical locale system, cited a few sources and moved on with his life. Sure, man-made stuff is a mess. Nothing's ever perfect. But stuff's particularly not perfect when you're in an absolutely foul mood.

It's unconstructive to entertain the thought that software in general is awful. A waste of energy. Reading his rant, I just think "improve it and move on"!

> One shouldn't confuse criticism of shoddily-made products for criticism of the citizens of the country of origin of said products.

Yeah, fair enough. There's different ways to interpret it. Maybe a proud modern Chinese person would be mildly offended by it. No biggie, the point was: in the last paragraph, he's firing a machine gun. A full release of rage.

> Not everyone chooses to write in sterile $DAYJOB-approved language

Of course. It feels great to talk bad when you're in a shit mood. I don't know about you though, but the next day I usually wish I'd just kept my cool. :-)

Hah, you're right. Thanks!

Microsoft SSO/auth flows have that feel in general. Really feels like something hacked together. Some examples from the top off my mind:

- In MS Authenticator, having to click on each subject rather than just showing the code immediately. If Google's Authenticator can show the code, why can't MS's?

- Azure DevOps randomly redirecting to the login form and back while already logged in.

- Azure DevOps randomly opening an authentication popup (presumably some SSO stuff) and closing it again

- Clunky-looking Office365 account management flows

I actually thought that last paragraph really undermined his case, because rather than substantiating like he did before, here he goes all out and just insults whoever he can think of; people who take it in the ass, greybeards, the Chinese, listeners of bland music...

I get him though. It's one of those writings from a foul mood. There was probably more going on in his life than some trouble dealing with locales.

Scriptable, presumably incremental.

Yes. Mostly done by people who don't have the money to spend in the first place.

As is often done in Indonesia, most would probably opt to leave that unmentioned.

Welcome to Hacker News, where studied types do their nitpicking.

The new website containing all articles: https://esp32-open-mac.be/

I've only just started learning about this field myself, but your approach looks good.

That article has some follow-ups which should be linked below it or can be googled. IIRC the author uses some clever shortcuts to speed up the work.

You might enjoy this series of articles about writing a Wi-Fi driver using reverse engineering techniques: https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/23-24/open-source-esp32-wifi-mac/

Ever wrote a build log for that? Would love to read it.

The article needs some examples. I wouldn't call doing a curl call in PHP particularly comfortable. Not something I'd want in a shell. :-)

I'm not seeing that at all on gridstatus.io. Although solar capacity is growing, ERCOT mostly and increasingly seems to use natural gas.

Care to share a playlist?

Do you mean Robert Novak?

Appreciate you taking the time to show me around. There's some interesting (very politically incorrect) views on there. :-)

True, I also feel that HN overmoderates genuine critical debate, and the high barrier for allowing downvoting has always confounded me. There are some very smart people around here though. I understand the need for rules to avoid the kind of silly trolling you get on 4chan.