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Anything other than Brave? I tried it for a couple of days and went back to Chrome. Brave is so bloated with random crap.

I use an upside-down smiley face to mean that something is not what it is. Especially if something is opposite of what is being said. Get it, upside down - opposite of normal smiley... And the fact that it is smiling smiley softens the tone as opposed to being aggressive. How on earth does somebody manage to see passive aggressiveness in it...

Docker has a big community, lots of guides, and ready-to-use containers. It became pretty much a de facto standard for self-hosting things. You also have a very high chance of getting a piece of software to work out of the box as intended with Doker. The only way this or some other way of running stuff will overtake Doker is if it will match the Docker in these aspects.

As much as I'd love to try this lightweight VM idea, I don't have the time or energy to convert 20+ projects I'm self-hosting into this and then keep everything updated. I'd rather invest this time into learning Docker more and making my existing setup more secure and robust.

I'm currently actively learning my 5th language and passively learning the 6th one. There's no universal way to learn a new language. What works for one doesn't work for another. Also, a big factor in how hard it will be to learn a new language are the languages you know already. If the new language is similar to the one you know already, i.e. is in the same language family, you will have a much easier time learning it. Languages are not just words, they are a way of thinking. You may find yourself having to learn to think in a new way literally.

When I start learning new language, I first focus on speech. So just audio until my ears can pick things like intonation, tones, words, and I start to grasp the sentence structure. After that, get my reading to a basic level and learn the alphabet (if necessary). Only after that do I start with some formal study to build a solid foundation. Usually, some kind of textbook series that covers reading, writing speaking, and listening. After that, I try to immerse myself in a language and learn as necessary.

>Thinnest Apple Product Ever

The engineering efforts invested into thinning down devices could be more wisely spent on making them better. Sounds like an arbitrary top-down marketing requirement limitation. Who cares if their iPad is 1mm thinner?

Dave Jones did some quick calculations and if the iPad was 1mm thicker, the battery capacity would be at least 50% more! And if it was 2mm ticker, the camera lenses would be flush with the back instead of sticking out.

edit: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/ is down now as well.

Here's a magnet link with all its contents magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7839e845f7965bed1035dc5d4635811d1ede73d2&dn=magnolia1234-bypass-paywalls-uploads-master

Apparently this page works! You can download latest version from here: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/

EDIT: magnet link with all btc-uploads content magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7839e845f7965bed1035dc5d4635811d1ede73d2&dn=magnolia1234-bypass-paywalls-uploads-master

I've been a long time user of this extension and I recommend it https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

Doesn't matter. Most people have been manually changing their DNS server to Google or Cloudflare DNS. More tech-savvy ones run their own DNS: unbound, pi-hole, etc.

Because when you run 10 services most of whom require at least one supporting service and for each service you need to specify at least 5 different options (volumes, resource limits, health check, depends on, mac address, IP address, etc); with just `docker run` you will have a mess. It's much simpler to have a docker-compose file per service with all of its dependent services.

The docker compose to plain docker run is the same as C/C++ to Assembly.

It's both funny and sad. Sad because Germany technologically is years behind even other European countries like Sweden and Estonia.

No problems with my Pixel 7a with latest GrapheneOS update is perfectly fine

> It feels like a bit of doomed a project simply bc browsers don't open EPubs.

Not that long time ago, browsers could not open PDFs as well. Now all browsers come with PDF reader written in ASM/JS. I see nothing that prevents browsers doing the same for EPUBs. There exist browser extensions that do exactly this already. Its a matter of EPUB format gaining popularity.

Not all Thais are happy about this law. There have been protests against it. The law is effectively being used to suppress freedom of speech nowadays. And the governmnet managed to twist it in a way to use it protect themselves from criticism to stay in power.

[1] https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/lese-majeste-continues-in-tha... [2] https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/a-victim-of-thailands-lese-ma...

We wanted to switch to Aurora in our company about a year ago. We tried serverless first but decided against it. We ended up using Aurora provisioned. Main reason was cost. Aurora Serverless was 20%-40% more expensive than Aurora provisioned.

One area where Aurora is superior to non-Aurora in AWS is replication lag. When running non-Aurora MySQL servers, we had replica lag sometimes reach an hour making read replicas useless. With Aurora provisioned, replica lag is always under 30ms.

If your app is database heavy and you end-up using database pretty much 24/7, don't fall for serverless hype and go with Aurora Provisioned.

I would also be interested to connect my DSL cable directly to a device with OpenWRT on it that doesn't cost $500+. I currently have a separate device as my modem, DrayTek Vigor 166. In case someone is wondering who's still using VDSL in 2024, that would be most of Germany.

I don't understand why the author is so dismissive of cast iron cookware. I have a cast iron pan that I inherited that is at least 80 years old. It requires little to no care and works great with my induction stovetop. Let it heat for at least 5 minutes and you have a nice evenly heated surface. I also recently bought a small cast iron rectangle pan for cooking a Japanese omelet - works perfectly. The complaint about cast iron being heavy is valid, but my hands got used to it quickly.

Regarding woks, it's definitely possible to get some nice high temperatures even in the apartment where your only option is electricity. I have a carbon steel wok with a round bottom and I got myself an additional concave induction cooktop from a store that sells equipment to restaurants. I paid about $170 for it, normally it goes for about $300. It is rated 3.5KW and 220C. Frying food for about 10-20 seconds on the highest setting gives it a nice taste like you'd get in a restaurant.

One example would be a cooktop and electric oven. I have one that connects to 3-phases. On the cooktop, the left and the right sides are each connected to their own phase. You can run both sides at 2,600 watts max at the same time. In the oven, there are 3 heaters: top, bottom, and one inside the fan; each connected to one of the phases. Together they can reach about 10,000 watts. The oven has a heat-up program that uses all 3 heaters to reach the temperature you've set.

Overall, it can heat things up more quickly than a typical gas or electric stove while being more efficient. And you can quickly change the temperature like with a gas stove.

GrapheneOS had this since December, 2021. Nonetheless, its good that these features are becoming mainstream.

Yep, I can relate. I also started to avoid reading the news. In the past, I would read the news first thing in the morning. Now I do it only in the afternoon. I also unsubscribed from a newspaper and one Youtube new channel which had too many negative news. Overall I feel better, less depressed and anxious. And my productivity had improved.

I've been following one Swedish guy who moved to Japan and purchased old house in Tokyo and is made a series on renovating it as well as abandoned houses in Japan in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIpnyz6FXxU&list=PL_4tRHMzlA...

I don't see any benefit in this product having two identical sensors side by side. Based on the datasheet, the reading between sensors is quite consistent, meaning that there's no improvement in accuracy. What would be better is to have two different sensors, one of which actually counts PM 10.0.

A little-known fact about these air quality sensors is that they don't actually measure three different particle sizes, they typically measure the smallest one and then return some statistically determined value for the larger ones.

[1] https://www.digikey.jp/htmldatasheets/production/2903006/0/0...

I just bought Google Pixel a couple of days ago. The reason is that my 6+ y.o. Samsung Galaxy phone hasn't been receiving updates for a long time and my banking app had finally stopped working. The main deciding factor for purchasing Pixel was GrapheneOS. The privacy and security it offers while allowing you to use pretty much use any Android app hassle free is a big selling point.

My old phone was actually still working okay but it became unusable as day to day phone due to lack of updates from Samsung. Also, the idea of locking myself into the Samsung ecosystem never appealed to me. I never really used Samsung-specific apps beyond Camera and Gallery.

We're at the point already when a mid-range phone has more than good enough hardware specs. Paying $1,000 for a phone or purchasing a new phone every year or two makes no sense to me.

I used to read the news first thing in the morning when I woke up. Lately, I started to have zero motivation to do anything. And overall I felt a bit depressed the whole day. So I made a commitment a couple of days ago to stop reading any news before mid-day. Can't yet say how much it is helping, but overall I feel better and I'm more productive.

And Germany also achieved having one of the highest electricity prices in the EU

Check out Unielec U7621-06. I use it, its quite cool device. You can order it directly from Unielec.

I switched to using OpenWRT about half a year ago. It is awesome. My router is basically a low-power Linux computer dedicated to networking. I can do whatever I want on it. One pain point for me with OpenWRT is that it doesn't support any decent routers or modem with ADSL. Yes, it does support some of those devices, but without ADSL functionality. And if you're wondering who needs ADSL nowadays, that would be almost everyone who lives in Germany. So the next solution is to run a modem.

Unfortunately, the German router/modem market is monopolized by the FRITZ!Box devices made by AVM GmbH. IMO, it doesn't do a good job of being an ADSL modem as it provides very little technical information on what's wrong with the connection. But it does come with a ton of features that have nothing to do with being a modem or a router such as support for proprietary IoT devices by AVM. Basically, this whole thing is crap. I got FRITZ!Box at first but then sold it. It's quite hard to not use it because all major German ISPs "support" it and encourage you to get it; all those magazines that review devices and rate them promote it; every single electronics store has a big section dedicated to them.

I've settled on using Draytek Vigor 167 as a modem and Unielec U7621-06 as my router. I ordered this router directly from Unielec. I love how modular it is. The Wifi are a separate PCIe modules, and there's a SATA connection on the router for a disk. And Unielec is one of the few companies that support an actual unmodified OpenWRT. And the best part is that it cost about 100$. The downside is that they so far don't support the latest Wifi standards and most of their devices have only 1Gbit ports, which is okay for me.

Guilt tipping - that's exactly how I would describe my experience in Germany. I talked with someone who works as a waitress in a bar, and from her words, the customer is expected to tip 10% for good service. Her definition of good service was more of an average service when nothing went bad. And tipping should be limited only to the staff job, so the fact that more than half of the establishments in Germany accept only cash is not a valid reason to tip less apparently. And the most important reason according to her for customers having to tip was the fact that the waiters earn a minimum wage. I find this whole thing ridiculous. The industry and the establishment owner managed to convince them that it is my duty as a customer to give them tips and feel responsible for them making a minimum wage.

I recommend spending more time time to plan and explore your idea or project before doing anything. As if you were considering it as a potential business. Even if it's just a personal project, think about the time and money you'll need to invest, and the benefits and value it will provide. Think on why you should prioritize this over other tasks or existing projects. Most importantly, sleep on it. Get away from it and do something else. Spend at least a couple of days on and off planning it. Outline and prioritize features and tasks. Decide on the most important ones and define the MVP. If, after this planning process, you still feel motivated to pursue the project, go ahead! By now you should have a good reason and motivation to do it. Focus on finishing a simple MVP quickly and then iteratively improve it. This will give you the satisfaction of having a functioning product.

I see this being very useful for containerized use cases. Usually, you have a Docker file that installs and sets everything once at container creation time. After that, you don't want anything to change in the OS. Great for security.