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tgeorgeon HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager

I suggested the Navicat team to put in Redis support in 2020 and they put in a ticket to their Dev team. And in 2023 they added support for Redis and emailing me back saying they did it and released it. I was kinda in disbelief and happy. But, I love their backup and restore option

tgeorgeon Sony's TV business is being taken over by Tcl

This reminds of Sharp and Hisense but I really hope Sony keeps making more high-end TVs. Also, I'm glad Panasonic is back the in US for TVs.

tgeorgeon Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA

I think the Unknown category could be custom standalone devices like Playstation, FireTV, webOS, and Switch which have browsers to make those stats but could be BSD based. And, I wouldn't exclude ChromeOS also, I thought it's built off of Gentoo Linux.

tgeorgeon U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter

Roman from RCR explained it here of how the president is able to: https://youtu.be/RLiRNzZSUaU?&t=1707

I thought the whole video is good watch too.

tgeorgeon Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs

https://archive.ph/QrBwf

tgeorgeon US could ban TP-Link routers over hacking fears: report

I wonder what happens to their Kasa brand of smart devices then. I have bunch of wall switches and smart power plugs with them.

tgeorgeon How Local Governments Got Hooked on Tyler Tech's Janky Software

https://archive.ph/jCQ3b

tgeorgeon Ask HN: Is there an easy to use PostgreSQL GUI/client for personal life?

I never used Notion before but looks pretty interesting. But, I use Navicat and DBeaver for viewing and editing my Postgres tables.

There's free version now for Navicat I noticed yesterday. https://dbeaver.io/download/ https://navicat.com/en/download/navicat-premium-lite

tgeorgeon CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

It has in my experience with Rocky/RHEL lol.

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083

https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/crowdstrike-freezing-rockyli...

tgeorgeon The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing

I'm curious, in London did they cut the fares for subways when they implemented the tolls?

The one thing that has been bothering me about NYC congestion toll is I figured there was be a cut in the fares for subways and rail to entice more riders. But I don't see that mentioned; just for capital projects it seems.

tgeorgeon Show HN: DN$ – an innovative, ad-supported DNS resolver

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tgeorgeon Cars suck, man

I have seen ads on my CX at one time but I think I might of disabled them at one point. https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED/comments/8yts0m/ad_blocking_so...

But I don’t think high end TVs like the LG OLEDs are not safe from ADs since it’s extra revenue

tgeorgeon What Happened to Google Search?

It’s pretty cool he referenced the HN community in the video

tgeorgeon Ask HN: Anyone still using PHP to build side projects or webapps

I use PHP with Laravel for my day job and it’s been fun. There’s a learning curve of how things are structured and done but I think it has been rewarding overall.

tgeorgeon Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm

I think a lot of car manufacturers have gone the path of no physical switches and it's becoming irritating. You shouldn't have to navigate screens to adjust your hvac while driving.

tgeorgeon PHP is worth learning and using

Agreed! I didn't know about this project for payment gateways from the article: https://github.com/thephpleague/omnipay

tgeorgeon DenoDB

I've played with SQLAlchemy and Django's ORM in the past with Python but as of late I have been taking a liken to Eloquent while working with PHP's Laravel. It's always weird trying an ORM when coming from native SQL but I think eloquent might of found a happy medium as it seems flexible to me.

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent

tgeorgeon Linux Has Largely Abandoned Still-Useful Near-Vintage Computers

I felt the same way.

I had a Dell C400 about 12yrs ago running on P3m. But, it was light and compact but dated back then and running Windows XP. So, I learned how to install back then Gentoo and it ran beautifully. I would of held onto it but the battery wouldn't last and couldn't find a good replacement.

I kinda having the same issue with my Samsung Chromebook XE303C12 today lol. But it's limited by soldered on hardware and I think the display driver is closed source.

tgeorgeon Would you prefer working from home after the pandemic?

Same thing happen here and I like the hybrid model. I really did miss being around my coworkers so this helped but not every function of the office needs to be in person.

Needs a 3rd option on that poll.

tgeorgeon Every day at the same time, my internet dies for 1 minute. How do I investigate?

I would check out DSLReports and ask them there. http://www.dslreports.com/forums/all

Chances are they experienced it there too. But I had an issue like that with Cablevision at 3-4am when they would push out firmware updates to the modem.

tgeorgeon OpenBSD Router Guide

What people have been using on reddit for pfsense builds.

I saw this today: https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/jrlpmy/what_hw_for...

Also I was eyeing this from a few months back: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/review-odyssey-x86j4...

Also this is a good eBay seller which I recommend with some thinclients : https://www.ebay.com/str/theartofserver

tgeorgeon Best Consumer Hard Drives: August 2020

Not necessarily you can have terabytes of just video footage or photos which isn't that performance intensive or just plain old backup. Depends on the use case and price. Plus I have had a Samsung SSD fail on me and had to RMA it. So I would tell anyone SSDs are not fail proof.

tgeorgeon Facebook sues Namecheap

I have the same sentiment, I'm glad it's not automated.

tgeorgeon Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development

Yep pretty much.... I didn't have any takeaways from it. Years ago I had a Gentoo desktop which was fun but hard to maintain. But, these days having VMware or Virtual box with Centos or Ubuntu is easier to deal and develop with.

tgeorgeon Toyotas and Chevys Are Holding Up Better Than Most Luxury Brands

I thought Fiat stood for Fix It Again Tony?

tgeorgeon Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

Fork them

tgeorgeon Ask HN: Non-SMTP single server internal mail system?

I look into IRC or jabber. There is plenty of clients out there for them.

tgeorgeon Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't Inform Customers About

I had to stop using Hurricane Electric for IPv6 tunneling because Netflix was blocking them.