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throwaway270925on $2599 Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra

Why talk bad about stuff you obviously have no idea about? Or are you just trolling? Go and read the articles, watch the review videos, THEN comment. This new connector is not a full length usb-c plug, but much shorter, so it breaks away just as easily as magsafe!

throwaway270925on The art of defusing a second world war bomb

Oh how i would love a modern incarnation of man lab! Such a good show!

throwaway270925on Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says

> Go for a walk at lunch time.

Quite the entitled, unreflected comment. Not everyone works in an office or somewhere where this is a possibility!

throwaway270925on Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says

Not really, as its a pretty shallow and trite article about abolishing ALL time zones around the world, not just within a country, totally different thing

throwaway270925on KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely

This is exactly the right amount of change I want in my DE.

Dont add 50 new features just for marketing, fixes and quality updates only.

throwaway270925on European industry is doing better than you may think

He's not talking about "cheaper goods", he's talking about "cheap shit" - thats different things...

throwaway270925on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

Too many people seem to have taken it as a todo list instead of a warning...

throwaway270925on Apple Mac mini review

+1100€ for the 2TB upgrade nowadays, thats not an "Apple tax" anymore thats just straight up robbery. Even a pcie gen5 nvme costs only about 300€, even with todays prices, so 600€ would be quite in line with Apple pricing, but 1100€!? Thats just being a dick.

throwaway270925on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service

No need for git, syncthing does exactly that (listening to file activity events in selected folders and syncing the change, with twoway sync if so desired) and its free!

throwaway270925on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service

I recently used rclone for this, worked great!

throwaway270925on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service

9€/m for 40GB? Yeah no, thats a terrible suggestion!

Just get yourself a Hetzner Storage Share for 4.29€/m with nextcloud managed for you and 1TB!

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

throwaway270925on Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

Depending on your current setup, dRaid can give you quite the performance boost nowadays, since its data slabs are spread out over all disks in the array its using all of the disks bandwith combined.

throwaway270925on Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

Also

5. a ZFS dRaid configuration. There could be very different characteristics there with it using slabs.

Speaking of slabs, MS ReFS of you feel adventurous!

throwaway270925on CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

Maybe they would'nt have pre-2022. But now they would. Would even fight and die with us!

Merkste selber, ne?

throwaway270925on German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

"Windows XP-kompatibel (Pflicht gemäß Berliner IT-Infrastrukturrichtlinie)"

throwaway270925on NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

Interesting, whats your backup process, of you mind sharing?

throwaway270925on It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta

> the Guardian has chosen to ...

No, the Guardian has chosen nothing, this is an OPINION piece by an external author, it has nothing to do with the Guardian staff. Learn the difference.

throwaway270925on It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta

Maybe you should care to read it yourself:

> "... the board should request the resignation of ..."

So, ask him to voluntarily resign, not "make him", just as GP wrote.

throwaway270925on Windows 11's "special" developer edition looks like another marketing misfire

Same here. I would love to go Linux exclusive though, but need to keep a mac around for data/file management, since Linux STILL doesnt support creation/provenance/birth time on any FS. It really sucks that linux is still so far behind on that compared to the two mainstream OS options, hope the kernel devs will change that someday.

throwaway270925on Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge

> “No, water damage”

Bob should have used some of his Fuji 9, that fixes everything!

throwaway270925on US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average

Lets hope this motivates a lot of them to invest in stuff like ground source heat pumps (where applicable/affordable)

throwaway270925on What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?

Do they not have washing machines where you are?

throwaway270925on Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept

Yes, in some special livery in the colors of the austrian flag!

throwaway270925on Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept

Agreed!

Though I prefer this picture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20171007130915!Saab_Drake...

Reminds me of Apogees Raptor and similar fighter plane DOS games.

throwaway270925on New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

It might not be the fastest, but at least it supports setting/keeping file creation time - unlike the clusterf*ck we still have on basically all Linux filesystems unfortunately

throwaway270925on Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel

I agree with Scott, no need to use rsync - he should have used rclone instead! It can be easily installed in the package manager, and with 4 threads (or multiples of 4) it fully uses/saturates the 4 1GbE links.

Also a hint for anyone planning something similar: if you use Synologys SHR format (based on mdraid+btrfs) and your new destination supports or uses BTRFS too, you can just btrfs send your whole pool to the new NAS!

(Since its a single process it wont saturate any LAG though)

throwaway270925on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

> where is the native versions of ... vscode

Those at least already exist, without the need for any LLM: Sublime Text, BBEdit, Notepad++

throwaway270925on Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data

Out of general interest: whats your bus factor?

throwaway270925on Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop?

> the main transit point was Manila.

Also explored in detail in Neal Stephensons "Cryptonomicon"