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vor 12 Tagendiscuss

Does this result in programs more frequently erroring/crashing because they can't allocate? I don't know how well many of the programs I frequently use on my desktop (Firefox, GNOME desktop, JVM + IntelliJ, Slack, etc.) handle allocation failures. I'm not sure they would do much better than crash, but I know the default OOM killer settings work well for me. About once a year a real runaway process (usually a throwaway program I'm working on) gets OOM-killed, and that's fine with me.

vor 21 Tagendiscuss

Same here. I enjoyed Q3A, but I spent so many hours playing TF/MegaTF.

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

How does grandma install all of that on macOS?

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

I flew to Belfast in the mid-2000s. I don't remember the security screening as being that unusual (for an American), but the terminal architecture was interesting.

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I have 2 Reolink PoE cameras, and they just hopped on the network with DHCP and I used a web browser to configure them. No app needed. I did install the app later, once the cameras were safely on their own VLAN, and I could connect to them by internal host name or IP address.

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I've never looked at what the Android app is doing on the network, but maybe I should. I usually just keep it open for a few minutes when I'm waiting for a delivery or I hear someone ring the doorbell, so I'm not too worried about it piping lots of video to Reolink HQ. I haven't noticed much of a battery drain having used it earlier in the day.

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I bought Reolink PoE cameras because they support standard RTSP and I could put them on their own VLAN where they can't get to the Internet. I can still use the Reolink app to view them when I'm on the LAN, or through Wireguard when I'm not. I use ffmpeg to save streams to a big disk. Works great.

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

Not bragging, but I bought the Blender Book!

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Same here. I used Debian back in the 90s, switched to Ubuntu for more regular releases, but the ads from apt were the final annoyance. Debian 12 has been excellent.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I hope they stay in it because I love my 1 Gbps Google Fiber service. Install was great, it's super reliable (compared to Spectrum cable Internet), and the price is nice. I don't even own a computer or switch with network ports that can do > 1 Gbps, but 20 to the home is impressive.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Google Fiber gets this right. They say my Internet package will cost $70 and every month the total I get charged is $70.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

On my old 2014 Mazda 3, you could SSH in over USB Ethernet as root, and just edit the timeout delay in the console JavaScript files. That was great.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I like having the ABV in big print so I can avoid the super high ones. It's a bonus for me!

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

My Reddit user experience is similar to yours. I paid for rif years ago because it's simple and fast, and I don't want to see ads. I'll gladly pay Reddit for an ad-free experience if I can use an app that's better than their own, but if they don't want to take my money, they'll lose me as a user.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I use "rif is fun golden platinum" because it's simple and fast and I don't have to look at ads. I'll gladly pay Reddit _and_ rif to keep using that combination without ads. I'm certain whatever I pay Reddit to use their API through another app will be worth more to them than any ad revenue they could get from me, because that will be $0.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I share my desktop (single windows and/or whole desktop) at least once every day. Usually with Google Meet in Firefox, but also with Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. I don't need remote access to my desktop or laptop (windowing system) though. SSH is just fine for me.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I'm not disagreeing with any of the technical points in the article. I'm just saying that my experience with Wayland is pretty good. Someone (GNOME? Ubuntu? thousands of generous developers?) is doing all the work to make it work pretty well for me.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

So much is written about Wayland not "being ready." I've used it exclusively on my desktop and laptops for... as long as it's been available in Ubuntu. It works fine. I don't have any issues with input methods. It puts pixels on my monitors. The screen doesn't tear when I move windows around like X did. It's fine for me.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Many years ago, I managed a server room with dedicated cooling on the 4th floor of a 4-story building with a flat roof. One night the temp alarms went off, and when I showed up water was dripping off my overhead Liebert unit and onto the racks.

And it wasn't even raining outside! So I grab some plastic to cover the racks and phone in emergency portable cooling as the room's AC started failing.

It turns out earlier that day, a technician performing seasonal maintenance on a boiler tank on the roof had drained the tank and refilled it. But instead of directing the water out into a proper drain, he sent it down a convenient pipe that was actually a vent from our ceiling into the boiler house. The boiler was dozens of meters from my server room, but the water followed the old steel and plaster ceiling remnants over to my computers.

And this boiler water was more exciting than rain: it came with all the dissolved minerals, metals, and preservatives computers crave! I didn't lose any computers in the racks, but it killed the Liebert's control board.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

2006 NC owner here with a reasonably new battery. I keep it parked in an attached garage, so no extreme cold or heat. Mine will always start after leaving it for 1 month. I probably left it for 2 months at some point in the last two years, and it started, but that feels like pushing it.

The next time a mechanic tells you cars can't sit for a few days without a battery drain problem, ask how people who park at the airport get home after a two-week trip.