CUPS facing the public internet sounds a bit crazy. Why would you print when not physicly near the printer?

Diagnosis: ADHD. Display ads for stimulants.

The best rule: It's fantasy if there is a sword.

How ironic. "Running out of other people's money" is a term that Trumpers use to describe communism.

That graph is trash. The baseline needs to be at zero.

Imagine buying a piece of hardware and actually owning it.

It's maddening that my telco will negotiate a roaming rate on my behalf, and it's 100x worse than what a random dude in a supermarket can sell me.

Sony should invent a way for people to buy a movie, own it, and be able to store it on a shelf or something. Maybe we can even lend them to friends or start a library.

I wonder how long before I can send someone a .7z file without "hurr durr I can't open this".

Like, OpenDocument support exists in Office 2003 and I still encounter those who can't open a .odt file.

Road taxes should increase after certain dimensions and weights. Bonnet/hood height should be one.

Also, safety ratings should give equal weighting to the a vehicle's impact absorbtion and impact contribution. It's insane that something is considered safe solely because the occupant is protected.

I would imagine most homeowners couldn't afford a loan for their current house at its current value. I just ran a borrowing capacity calculator for a local large bank, and it's well below what my house is worth.

I bought at 21 and had it paid off at 38. I earn triple what I did back then.

That's like, a million people's wages. Absurd.

So, alphabet can rip off the creators but we can't? What a crappy double standard.

30s software engineer / linux user here.

We are exactly who you want as the "primer" user group. We will collectively make sure the whole thing works before the load really rams up.

Public-facing: Password generator, stored in a password manager.

Internal LAN: Everything gets the same re-used, low-effort password.

Nobody is going to hack my CUPS server.

TL;DR: Baka gaijin.

TightVNC. Use TightVNC.

Well, an unlockable bootloader that allows flashing any operating system would be nice. You can install Linux on a Macbook, so why not an iPhone?

Hardware should not ever be locked to an operating system.

4.4 million sounds a bit excessive. Facebook marketplace intercepted my search for "unwanted gift" once and insisted I seek help. These things have a lot of false positives.

My company has build scripts that practically pull half an OS from an update mirror every time someone commits a code change.

It's maddening how inefficient CI/CD setups are.

My 6a on GrapheneOS stopped working months ago and I've spent hours trying to figure out what I had changed in an attempt to fix it.

Google broke it at their end? For no reason but spite? What cunts.

So, worse than a Galaxy S5. Got it.

I tried to do the same thing at Franz Josef glacier earlier this year. I didn't even get the glacier in shot.

OK, here's how it happened.

I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn't find it anywhere.

I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn't load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.

Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.

6 months later and it's still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven't even realised.

I self-host everything and subscribe to nothing.

If my router/server/Nas is powered on anyway, it might as well do the lot.

They got the "Win" key into the ANSI 105 key layout and the ISO/IEC 9995 layout.

I actually hate it because I end up with a Microsoft logo on hardware that is supposed to be generic.

A spell checker is pretty useless. It's not a word processor. I just want to very quickly open a text file and perhaps make a small edit. I would usually use it for config files.

Syntax highlighting for xml, JSON, yaml and CSV would be a much more useful feature. gEdit on gnome really nails the lightweight but useable text editor.

Also, would it kill them to use a rolling buffer instead of loading and rendering an entire 500MB file before rendering the first 30 lines on screen?

People say "just use [editor]", but it's no good when you're configuring someone else's prod environment 7 proxies deep, and all you can use is notepad.

Windows doesn't even have a software repo.

As a worst-case scenario, AFTL could just make you download it from the website and it would be exactly as bad as Windows UX.

This is because AI is usually used to reduce the human cost to the company, and rarely to reduce the human labour for the customer.

That, or mass surveillance.

The early pioneers of Lemmy are mostly software developers. Software memes will remain overrepresented until more diverse waves of people join.

Google did not put it in Android. They put it in Google Services Framework. Ironically, GSF is the first part you rip out to protect your privacy.

Larger garages are more environmentally friendly. My garage is huge compared to my house. It has 2 cars, a laundry, and all of the stuff I don't use every day.

This is an area that is not heated or cooled. By having all the storage in the garage, I can get by with less living space.

Garages are cheaper per square metre than rooms, so you save money there too.

You get all the stuff into the same size house, but with less building materials, less heating and cooling costs, and less clutter in your house.

Don't search for reviews. Search for forum posts where users are having issues. "[Product] + [not working/failed/broken]" gets you an idea of what the product is like to live with, and now quickly issues get resolved.

Well, it said right there in the article that until today, Brave was that only browser that would truncate tracker tags when copying a URL to clipboard.

Moar browsers == moar innovation.

Even if you can't cleanly remove it, you can probably delete a few system files and break it. It's not like the whole thing will be baked into kernel32.dll.

Absolutely.

Changing the oil in your car only requires a spanner, pan, and household stuff like cloth rags. You can do it in your driveway faster than you can drive it round-trip to the dealership. I've saved heaps over the years.

House painting is a good skill. I knocked over $20k off my house build price by picking up a paintbrush. It was about 2 weeks of work and maybe $1k in supplies.

Learn computer maintenance. Like, how to format it and start over. How to diagnose and fix small issues. So many people buy new computers just because their old one is clogged with cruft. I fixed computers that others threw out, and avoided upgrade costs for decades.

Most importantly - learn to cook. Home cooking is so much cheaper.

I find it strange that people call it user-friendly, despite it doing a lot of things hostile to the user.

As a GrapheneOS user, It would be nice if they made it available to their android platforms first.

My second device is a bank card. Easy.