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> Keep track of which apps had been opened every month, only pay the subscriptions for the ones I’ve opened, and allow me to set monthly limits.

That turns app icons into land-mines though.

Idk what the happy medium is, but there's gotta be something between "buy this kids game once" and "pay $13 a month until he gets sick of it," and I don't think we've quite found one that's equitable for all parties yet.

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3 dni temudiscuss

36 bays and only 24T of storage?

Can't you get that in a single disk that costs less than a kilodollar?

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3 dni temudiscuss

I have a pool heater and an air conditioner, and I'm running both at the same time. They're fifty feet apart, but this thought crosses my mind constantly.

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12 dni temudiscuss

What do you mean?

I ask because I find Apple's wired EarPods to be less... selective than AirPods are—by that I mean they'll pick up more background noise whereas AirPods seem to only transmit my voice—but EarPods' clarity exceeds AirPods if you grab the mic and hold it next to your mouth, which you obviously can't do with AirPods.

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15 dni temudiscuss

I was looking at roughly the same, m5 max, 128G with 4T. It was ~$6000 out the door.

The same config on their site is now $8000 before taxes and AppleCare.

A couple weeks' notice would've been nice.

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17 dni temudiscuss

I get that, but I don't care.

I want the PDF (or CSV) emailed to me as an attachment because that's the workflow that doesn't suck.

Everything else sucks in one way or another, and much of it is security theater.

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17 dni temudiscuss

That'd be nice, but I'd even settle for the plain pdf attached to the email.

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28 dni temudiscuss

> Why can’t I set up Windows or MacOS like that? I know the answer I just find the answer annoying.

I wish I still cared about this. I had intended to build an iPXE boot menu via a small web service that would act as a windows install XML template editor/selector, but I never got around to doing it after learning enough web dev to pull it off.

I built a few similar things that worked inside of WinPE, but the slowness of waiting for it to boot was always what drove me to do as much config as possible in the PXE boot menu—you can get into that in seconds versus minutes for the PE.

I used to install Windows a lot, and found a lot of tech around it to be a little too opinionated. SMS/WDS were just too legacy-leaning and Microsoft Enterprise-flavored. FOG was a little too heavy-handed (though very good). Glazier excited me but I never actually used it to determine if it has the flexibility I wanted...

But I digress. OS installs should be a lot easier and faster to accept your configuration preferences and get to work when the goal is "erase this machine and reinstall" than they are even today.

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28 dni temudiscuss

That was the point as I read it. Payload signature verification is a good and sometimes desirable alternative to transport encryption when the payload itself isn't secret.

Highly-cacheable resources like game and OS updates are often intentionally delivered over http as signed payloads to facilitate middlebox caching.

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2 miesiące temudiscuss

I saw a helpful ad once.

The organic search results didn't offer what I needed at all, but the ad took me straight to an e-commerce site that sold what I wanted. I had it in my hands at a reasonable price about 5 days.

It was for a Nintendo Wii component video cable, back in 2007.

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2 miesiące temudiscuss

> Finally, AWS isn't a silver bullet. For anyone in us-east-1, you know [0].

I probably should have commented on the original article here, but I pulled all of my company's production infra out of that AZ back in 2019 because AWS dragged its feet for too long deploying 5th gen hardware there.

I assumed the racks were full or something. I still don't know if they ever did get newer hardware in that AZ—I just avoid it like the plague.

I had a light chuckle this week when I discovered the work I did out of sheer frustration saved us from a partial outage seven years later.

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2 miesiące temudiscuss

> Another alternative is Mellanox with RDMA. You need CX4+ for optimal performance over TCP/IP, while the cheap CX3 is excellent with IPoIB.

Do these benefit the iSCSI target end of the equation too, or just the initiator? And do they work like an HBA, where you configure the card in a firmware setup menu, or does it just transparently accelerate the software initiator on Windows/Linux?

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3 miesiące temudiscuss

That is absolutely fascinating. I'm gonna have to pay attention the next time I open an iPhone box. I'd bet they're sitting on their faces in the box.

I really wonder how the wireless data transfer works.

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3 miesiące temudiscuss

They did?

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3 miesiące temudiscuss

I thought it really excelled at displaying the timeline—it was quite novel to see a timeline for a video I was watching that didn't occlude any part of the screen—but quite annoyingly it would go black due to inactivity.

And of course the virtual function keys were awful.

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3 miesiące temudiscuss

I've wondered for a while if it would be possible to do that with a USB FXS adapter[1], and something like a Pi, but you'd basically need a soft modem of some kind to make it work and the only module for Asterisk isn't up to the challenge (last I checked five years ago).

However, to be frank, it'd make more sense to do PPP over null modem with a straight serial connection.

[1]: https://www.amfeltec.com/usb-fxs-adapter/

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3 miesiące temudiscuss

I don't remember my ipv4 addresses either, but I recognize them as mine when I see them.

I've never recognized an IPv6 address or prefix used in my networks.

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3 miesiące temudiscuss

I'm sure the UX would suck, but you could use hcl2json[0] and then transform that to YAML.

[0]: https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json

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3 miesiące temudiscuss

There needs to be a happy medium. I don't like reduce motion because it amputates many of the spatial arrangement metaphors inherent in the iOS UI.

My biggest problem with authoring shortcuts is that the editor goes out of its way to obliterate context while you're working. Full-screen editors to change a setting lay on top everything else you're working on. Placeholders for variables, which themselves have no actual names. It's a mess.

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3 miesiące temudiscuss

Man... I typed that reply on my phone and dropped the ball formatting it lol.

> My understanding is v6 has two different autoconf schemes, DHCPv6 and a more "native" solution. Do these both always result in interfaces having multiple (routable) addresses?

The answer to that is "yes," but only insofar as DHCP is _not_ the norm for IPv6 networks. If you're planning to use DHCP to assign network addresses in an IPv6 range, you would run it in addition to using automatic configuration, and DHCPv6 would be responsible only for the "permanent" IPv6 address. Automatically-configured addresses (via RA with SLAAC or whatever) would still create the temporary address that you'd use for outbound internet connectivity, and the DHCP address hangs around for your use in DNS and for hosting "permanent" services like a webserver or whatever.

You've hit on one of the subtler problems of IPv6 being that it requires more things being let through the edge firewall[0], but given a stateful IPv6 firewall on the client side, the onus is on the hosting service's admin to ensure that works correctly (AFAIK).

[0]: http://shouldiblockicmp.com/

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