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I think the idea was to have a discussion.

Have you considered Orion? It has the sleekness of Safari (and based on WebKit) but gives you plug-ins from Chrome and Mozilla. I love it because it doesn’t have the non-native clunkiness of other browsers.

What in the Microsoft Windows is going on here?

We need laws that make this illegal. I get it that they don’t want to support it for whatever reason, but electronic waste is already a big problem and you can’t convince me everyone is recycling their used electronics.

I mean, it can be fun to tinker regardless. I have a shitty Dell Inspiron from 2012 that I run Linux in CLI-only mode just for fun.

In fact it used to run my entire smart home, run long-running background tasks (like syncing huge files from an NFS share to Storj); hell at one point it was bringing in passive income as I rented out hard disk space.

I got downvoted for this? 😂

I looked over the links, and the ones listed for Google aren’t respected anymore (and haven’t been for a long time).

If you search for something specific using operators, Google will just ignore them and give you related (but irrelevant) results which is absolutely infuriating.

Instead of showing a low number of results it seems they’d rather try to be smarter than you just to show more results.

It’s for you to ask questions

For me in a big city it’s the annoyance of always being a part of the crowd. My free time is the same as everyone else’s now so traffic is always terrible on my days off (weekends), stores are always packed before/after work. Even walking my dogs becomes annoying because every other dog in the neighborhood is outside too.

Thankfully I work from home so I try to get out and walk the dog during lunch; if I have any errand to run I can just take my lunch later when everyone else has gone back to the office.

The other hard part for me is the afternoons; they drag on endlesssly. As a night person waking up in the morning was just killer, but I’ve finally adapted after… 10 years.

I really can’t stand the Tesla sound, it’s the worst. I can’t quite put my finger on it but it’s both uncanny and grating. I’ll be in my apartment and suddenly there’s this high-pitched screaming of sorts; it doesn’t sound like the car is doing well.

I stopped using it 20 years ago and have never had a need for it since. It sucked then and it still sucks now; I’ve even installed it a couple times in a VM for fun but always ended up deleting it after a few hours. I really don’t understand why someone would choose to tolerate such low quality software even for the most basic of tasks.

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I’ve actually had Tailscale disabled on it for some time now because my ISP’s (a cable operator) TV app knows via some tvOS API that a VPN is running and effectively shuts down.

My solution is to remove the Tailscale app completely, then when traveling put it behind a travel router (this works fantastically).

I’ll have to look into resolving my issue again soon; I just haven’t had time to follow up on this.

This isn’t even my style of humor but that’s fucking funny

“shaking my head my head”

What was the controversy there? I’m not familiar with him.

I think people like to say it isn’t simply because they don’t agree with Apple.

It’s UNIX but the way it’s set up both is and isn’t aligned with UNIX conventions, and it’s definitely off base with Linux despite the ease with which Linux utilities can be ported.

I’ve configured 2FA with my bank using verification codes (can’t think of the proper name, it’s that Authy-/Google-style 2FA c. 2010) but then never utilizes it — it pretends that’s not set up and requests the SMS code. 🫠

This is what I specifically hate about building Docker images based on Debian. Half your Dockerfile ends up mucking about with third-party repositories, verifying keys, etc.

I should be more clear: specifically I was rebuilding a Docker image based on Debian and needed Node.js for one build step, then Ruby for another as well as the final image.

In the Dockerfile there were a ton of weird commands for simply installing Node.js and Ruby whereas on Alpine Linux I could simply install the needed versions from apk. I understand it’s preferable to build these from scratch but in the case of Node.js I was looking to simply compile a bunch of assets then throw away the layer.

I could’ve spent a bunch of time figuring it out for Debian but I wanted a smaller image in the end anyway too.