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I have no connection to it, only mentioning it because they seem to be quite rare.

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/05/06/episode-5-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Land_Cruiser_(J70)

https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html

From your list I've only tried VirtualBox and the experience wasn't so good, bad performance and many outright crashes.

Fusion was quite pleasant to use for my main work system. Make sure you give it enough RAM _and_ that you keep enough for the host, especially if you intend to also use it at the same time (I used to do 8GB and 8GB).

I know there are wrapper libraries around it, but none of them seem to have the community support needed to make sense of non-trivial workflows.

The tablet never unlocks, so you don’t have to worry about UI quirks.

You can sell someone a physical device that makes a lot of noise and then sit outside their home and write down each time they use it. Nobody would be able to stop you.

There is nothing you can do about devices/apps that really want to use their own servers (DNS over HTTPS, pinned certificate), short of keeping them offline.

Here we are talking about a tracking _script_ embedded in the page and sending to Facebook everything the user does (“standard or custom events triggered by UI interactions”).

Using only a pixel to track how users move around the app wouldn’t have landed Backblaze in as much hot water. Instead, it looks like the Facebook _tracking script_ (automatically) exfiltrated sensitive data like file names, and that crosses a limit.

As a bonus, a full system backup is a simple folder copy to a USB stick, and with that stick I can instantly continue working on any machine, Mac, Linux or Windows.

The major lesson: audit your expenses every month (or hire someone to do it for you). The AWS UX cost them $800. Faulty business administration cost them $6200 on top of that. It could have just as easily been $MAX_CREDIT_LIMIT.

Last time I worked on a Node app, I had to define the data model once for the ORM (Objection), again when writing migrations by hand (Knex), again when defining the input validation schema (Joi), maybe again when defining data objects, and I didn't even have an admin.

For me, the language is secondary -- there were times when I would have liked to have a Django.js, so I could share code (validation and calculation modules) between backend and frontend.

I also run Proxmox, with a few LXC containers and full KVM virtual machines, including a reverse proxy that routes traffic to them —- it’s great!

Easy price calendar for (mostly) German trains.

They buy the domain themselves, and let you pay with Dogecoins -- possibly a good deal for the next Pirate Bay, but not what I would use for general domain registration. There is a good chance one day they will go down and take your (their!) domain with them.

From their website:

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We're not actually a domain name registration service, we're a customer to these.

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When you buy a domain in our system, we're actually purchasing it for ourselves. We will be the actual owners of the domain.

It has syncing, a web client and optional one-to-one encrypted chats.

It also uses Microsoft accounts, which many already have because of Windows integration.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

If I remember correctly, Excel sheets can be directly used as ODBC data sources. This means that they can be accessed directly by database apps.

https://react-redux.js.org/next/api/hooks#useselector

It is true that all of the selector functions need to run on each change, but those are supposed to be really small pure functions and their performance should be negligible, compared with everything else that normally happens in an app.

Edit: It is absolutely possible to affect performance with Redux, especially on a large app — for example if hundreds of selectors need to run for every keystroke in a textbox.

I wouldn’t be surprised if manufacturers start selling TVs that need to be activated online before first use, but I don’t know of any that do that already.

In the end, I ended up using Obsidian (https://obsidian.md). While typing (even in an outside editor), I can just go [[random reference]] -- and that will turn into a link, even if that page doesn't exist yet. When I eventually get to creating the page, it will already have back links from all the places it is used (something else I think Joplin doesn't have).

Why would you want it to stop now, when the tech is both amazing _and_ rough around the edges? Better hope development continues and the end-user experience stabilizes to something much better.

You can ignore the gateways offered by each manufacturer and instead go with something (more) open like zigbee2mqtt or deConz.

Zigbee: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io https://www.phoscon.de/en/conbee2/software

BLE: RPi or ESP32 running https://esphome.io

433MHz: https://sonoff.tech/product/accessories/433-rf-bridge running https://esphome.io or https://tasmota.github.io

Of course, this way you lose the (more or less) polished apps that come with each system and need to set up something like Home Assistant or openHAB for control and automation.