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throwaway270925··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
Too bad we dont have large data minidiscs by now (or rather: anymore)...
throwaway270925··on Rear center fuel tank adds roughly 20k liters and extends range by 1k NM
Ah yes, the B.A. Baracus method! I'd use that!
throwaway270925··on I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air
Try the S25 Edge, it has both! Also DEX and a better camera setup too!
throwaway270925··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
Interesting. What did you have to do to "charge" the body battery tough? And how does the garmin keep track of that?
throwaway270925··on ECC and DDR5
> ECC is essentially mandatory for ZFS

Please stop repeating this old myth, it is - and always has been - BS and needs to die.

See for example: https://kldload.com/zfs-wiki/myths

throwaway270925··on The death and rebirth of my home server
> cheapest fix is an m10 optane > Costs about 20 bucks

I agree that its a good, long-lasting fix, but when was the last time you checked the pricing on those?

If you can even find any, they certainly wont be cheap nowadays!

throwaway270925··on Syncthing for Dotfiles: Sync vs. Manage
Just some AI generated BS, not worth anyones time...
throwaway270925··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
Open the menu and click the paint bucket. It seems to cycle through color themes :)
throwaway270925··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
Well thats also partly because they use a 500hz display in tfa.

An update to Dan Luus articles with modern tech like these high refresh displays, fast gamer keyboards/mice etc would be great thought!

throwaway270925··on House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country
Great! Just think about how much daylight they can soon enjoy after work! Say goodbye to vitamin D deficieny and SAD in Winter!
throwaway270925··on Volkswagen planning to cut up to 100.000 jobs globally
Americans dont have the money either, they just need that car anyway because there are no other options in most of the US.
throwaway270925··on Volkswagen planning to cut up to 100.000 jobs globally
> What happened is the EU (and Germany in particular) left only two development cycles to the biggest industry in Germany (and hence the biggest industry in Europe) to entirely change.

Thats of course complete BS, the change to EVs (and more economical ICEs and Hybrids in between) could be seen decades away! And VW knew it, they just chose to ignore it and continue down the easy (lazy) path.

There is nobody to blame other than VW management, the Piechs and Porsches in particular.

throwaway270925··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Does anyone know, is there something like base64 but with error correction?
throwaway270925··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
> - Dedup keeps blocks with the same data as a reference. This costs a lot of memory

To get around this you can add an SSD mirror as "Special" vdev, the dedup table will then be saved there, freeing up your memory.

throwaway270925··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
By using /dev/disk/by-id when adding them to the pool - and looking at the physical label on the disk itself. All disks I ever worked with had that ID printed somewhere on there.
throwaway270925··on Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards
What are you talking about? When have you last been to Europe!? Of course you can pay with debit cards all over Europe, every card terminal accepts them!

Online the same, you just use your card details like a credit card, the payment system is the same for years now anyway - thats the whole point of initiatives like this digital euro and Wero!

throwaway270925··on Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards
> crazily centralized digital currency

Boy, will you be pissed when you learn about non-digital currency!

throwaway270925··on Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct
> 192TB VM

Why? Honest question, what leads to that Kind of size and why cant it use NAS shares or SAN disks for most of that data? Kudos on the migration!

throwaway270925··on Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
> The dominos pizza website (at least in Ireland) basically never works with Firefox.

Sounds more like a feature than a bug /s

throwaway270925··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
> Because when you open it to Proton, you have to open it to Meta.

No? You dont!? Why would you "have to"?

throwaway270925··on The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
Doesnt have individual plans, you can only selfhost it unless you subscribe for at least 10 users or more - makes it basically useless as a personal bitwarden alternative unfortunately.
throwaway270925··on Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone
> share photos via Bluetooth across manufacturers and OSes

You can still do that! It never went away.

throwaway270925··on .at TLD is top on CF Radar
My guess would be a reporting error, all the .at queries from last weeks ESC only now getting reported/counted in the final tally for monday?
throwaway270925··on The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
No they aren't. They have a minimum of 10 users on their cloud plans and no offers at all for individuals, except self hosting - and you can just use vaultwarden at that point anyway...
throwaway270925··on Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site
Looks promising. But no hosted offers for individuals as far as i can see.
throwaway270925··on Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
Probably related to "we are getting away with it in the current climate" just like with the PS5.
throwaway270925··on Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
Any pointers on what exactly you miss compared to Linux alternatives like Kate, Sublime, VSCode, etc? (Assuming you already tried them)
throwaway270925··on Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag
Sure, but maybe your red herring is just another red herring: the phishing attack is just as good an excuse as any to switch from an US based messenger to an EU based one.
throwaway270925··on Networking changes coming in macOS 27
> Should 2026 computers have a ISA interface as well?

Fun fact: Yes! Basically all still do, because TPM chips are connected to the CPU via ISA.

See for example: https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/isa-over-tpm-to-your-pc/

throwaway270925··on Framework's new Linux laptop is selling faster than its Windows one
Are these edu prices? Or is frameworks EU pricing just nuts?

Here a comparable configuration to the neo is close to 800€!

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