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axelthegerman
·قبل 17 يومًا·discuss
Unfortunately for the foreseeable future you'd need a cheap Android or iOS device for those apps and whatever you want as daily driver.

I don't think you NEED to open your online banking on your phone every day. Just use cash and cards.

2FA should be easily available on any OS
axelthegerman
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Also should have been easy to design an OAuth like flow where the government that seems to care so damn much about age verification to attest someone's age in a privacy respecting way - only yes/no if the person is of the desired age.

But then again if it was to protect children, better support for voluntary age control would be so much more useful as most minors use devices managed/owned by their parents.

But then similar to cookie banners it is just about enabling surveillance
axelthegerman
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Try writing your own code like it's 2025
axelthegerman
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Great explanation, very reasonable.

Except that before they did and then they didn't without any proper notification (release notes don't count for significant changes like this).

They should have just added a pop up or at least email or both, given a heads-up and then again when the change actually kicked in
axelthegerman
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Works so great on new devices like smartphones. Except not.

And so easy to set up on a home computer. Except it's not always on and doesn't come with backups.

I'm not saying S3 is where it's at but might need a bit more than just Samba. Or maybe you don't but people who need Dropbox do.
axelthegerman
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
And most folks getting stuff done with Rails ain't be filling out surveys to boost their stack - or maybe that's just me.

So everyone just stop worrying what everyone else thinks or seems to think and just use the right tools for you and get on with it
axelthegerman
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
I hope they'll execute this one well.

Have been waiting for a wallet product from Stripe for a while, but maybe less juicy margins than on top of credit card fees?
axelthegerman
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
And how great it will be to troubleshoot any issues because everyone is basically running a distinct piece of software
axelthegerman
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
Gotta say this is pretty cool. Love some of the nostalgia on the homepage.

Personally not a nextjs fan but finding a modern alternative to WP will pay off for many businesses
axelthegerman
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
> Tell it what git commands to explicitly run and in what order

Why don't run the commands yourself then?
axelthegerman
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
This! Sure you might need a Google account for your android but you don't HAVE to use all their services.

First just don't use Gmail, docs, search, chrome and co. But even better get a Pixel with Graphene and Google's invasive tactics are even more limited.

However it is sad that a company like Apple that used to produce superior hardware with superior UX is falling apart on all fronts - hardware (especially pricing), UX (hello glass design), software (macos just getting worse every release without adding ANYTHING of value)

And now introducing more and more ads while keep selling you "pro" laptops with 512GB SSD :-/
axelthegerman
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
E2EE is definitely nice, however if you communicate with many people using other email providers your emails still end up there unencrypted
axelthegerman
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
It never really worked. Most businesses just paid for customers that were going to or already found them anyways.

Not saying ads don't work at all, they definitely increase awareness.
axelthegerman
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
I don't see why upgrading a motherboard to one with a newer generation CPU is not valuable. Or why going 16 to 32 GB RAM a few years after buying it first isn't.

Yes full upgradability of each component would be pretty nice but now we have a desktop and factors like compactness and "premium feel" would be even worse
axelthegerman
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
Or more like "be careful with the power you give your LLMs"
axelthegerman
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
> we had to spend time fixing the broken test even if the changes had nothing to do with the initial change. In response to this problem, it was decided to break out the code for each destination into their own repos.

One could also change the way tests are run or selected. Or allow manual overrides to still deploy. Separating repos doesn't sound like the only logical solution
axelthegerman
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
Right let's add more layers that always solves everything.

No language or abstraction is perfect but if someone prefers pure functional coding, Rails and Django are just not it, don't try to make them. Others like em just as they are
axelthegerman
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
Oh that's one of the best news in the smartphone world in a long time.

It's impossible to escape the Apple/Google duopoly but at least GrapheneOS makes the most out of Android regarding privacy.

I still wish we could get some kind of low resource, stable and mature Android clone instead of Google needlessly increasing complexity but this will over time break app compatibility (Google will make sure of it)

Edit: I do think Pixel devices used to be one of the best but still I'd like to choose my hardware and software separately interoperating via standards
axelthegerman
·قبل 8 أشهر·discuss
CDN is not the same as DDoS protection.

Cloudflare does both but some providers do one or the other. You can use any CDN no matter if you use Cloudflare or not (shout-out to Bunny CDN btw, very happy with them - they do one thing and do it well)
axelthegerman
·قبل 8 أشهر·discuss
This!! Everyone seems to "really need" that unlimited scalability of AWS & Co - but they'll happily scale your compute and the bill for you.

Sure maybe you'll get lucky and they waive it.

But sometimes going down is a feature if you're not a multi m/billion dollar business