Yeah ... No.
I'm generally not a fan of party politics (though I realize you often have to bite the bullet on voting). But the pirate party here (Germany) is a really problematic bunch some of them thinking freedom means free markets some of them thinking free speech means they should be able to say hateful Nazi shit ... Really not a party I want to vote for, even in a pinch.
Smartphones have been "good enough" for a while now. Enough power and battery to do all the things needed for enough time before running out of battery.
IMHO there are 2 reasons we still regularly upgrade.
I've had a few phones over the years some of them I "legitimately" just broke (one had a cracked mb after a bike accident) I broke my second to last phone trying to replace the battery (thought I would be able to, broke the screen). The fact that everything is glued down and made to not be replaceable irked me so much that my current phone is a Fairphone. Replacing the battery takes 1 minute and requires no tools. Replacing the screen takes like 5 min and 8 screws. I plan on using this phone for at least 5 years more if possible. But I understand not everybody can shell out 600 dollars for an "OK" phone.
What? How broken are we all that you first thought is "Nice then I can work two jobs" The only way this really works if they pay living wages for 3 day work weeks. And I know they aren't even paying those now for 5-6 days but this is a point we have to insist on and make them do it. Workers have managed to enforce a 8 hour work day a long time ago. We need to remember our strength and fight for better conditions.
A pound of ground beef or tofu is a third that price.
I understand what you're trying to say here. But I just wanted to add, making a vegetarian/vegan burger is not as simple as grinding up a pound of tofu and sticking it together to fry in a pan. I'm not saying you have to buy some of the "no meat" brand burgers to make a nice vegan patty but simply substituting some meat with natural unprepared tofu and expecting a great tasting result is IMHO where a lot of people get their aversion to tofu (and often derived to all meat alternatives) from. (Source 15years of vegetarian eating and cooking) The fact that ready made vegan patties exist and taste great these days is awesome for someone like me who sometimes just wants to make a stupid simple tasty burger.
Tl;dr: Tasty vegan patties aren't that simple.
I agree that people should be encouraged to cook more (I love doing it when I have time and it hits me). But simply declaring "nobody can cook anymore" and demanding people that might not have the time to prepare a home cooked meal in between their first and second job is not helping.
Of course the convenience of fast food and ready made meals is one of these classic situations where an "invention" that makes our life simpler and more convenient is a good reason why we don't need all that time we save to ourselves anymore. i.e. you don't need a lunch break when you can just microwave something up and eat it while continuing your work.
Sorry got kind of a long winded bit here. Hope it makes sense
As a repairability and sustainability advocate ... This is good news.
As a Fairphone 4 owner ... This is bad news for my resolve 😅 when I got my Fairphone I decided that I want to use it for at least the 5 years they guarantee updates and replacement parts ... So I guess I'm stuck now ... Which isn't a bad place to be I love my Fairphone 4 it's great ... I just still have the "new shiny thing" mentality stuck somewhere
And the nice people that use it
Seriously. I'm just wating for a 3,5" form factor SSD where most of the chassis is cooling and inside it's just a 2230m.2
Not to be nitpicky but 45kW? That seems like a hell of a charger and I'd like to see the ISB-C cable that can handle that ;)
I've been on 16GB of ram on all of my machines for so long ... It's really the sweet spot for everything I do (gaming etc. ) I don't do media production or anything like that. All that said I'm currently in the market for a new machine and will probably get 32GB "just to be safe" but since my next laptop will probably be a framework I don't have to make the decision till I actually need the ram and even then I can still decide to get one stick first the other later and the prices scales pretty linearly.
8GB might still be enough for some web browsing and stuff but apple should not put this little RAM in anything they call professional.
And before anyone says "you only need that much ram in Windows" well ... I don't and won't be running Windows ;)
Yeah they're using the hell out of dark patterns and then switch them up mid process i.e. clicking the big green "Ok" Button will first be the one that gets you to pay more later you need to hit "Ok" to proceed without additional fees.
I recently went through the process with a friend. Both of us reasonably tech savvy and under 35 and we almost went mad. So it's not just old folks.
I work in hosting. We mostly use Proxmox for our Hypervisors which is already a step up from "bare" KVM in regards to convenience/ease of use (especially for High availability scenarios and the like) We also run VMWare and while I don't love the "locked down you gotta do it the VMWare way" nature it's often so much easier and the HA is mich more convenient. Also it has proper functionality for custom resourcing/access/billing.
Took me a second to figure out that was the Nvidia drivers version number. I was wondering if gnome made another major version shift from 45 to 545 for a second :)
I've been using signal since forever. Recently when there was a big exodus from Whatsapp because of their changed data policies was the first time I felt an impact with response time in the app etc. I immediately set up a regular donation. A few months later they came out with there cryptocurrency scheme I decided I won't be funding any cryptocurrency so I cancelled my donations. I trust signal on the technical side implicitly. But they have lost my trust in the business side :/
The whole European grid is connected (which is a miraculous feat). And yes, there is a European market for energy where countries can sell surplus and buy in high demand situations.
You can .... WHAT!?
Wow I did not know that. Incredibly helpful
Why is it unlisted? Is this a pattern preview? I love seeing new TechnologyConnections but I'm not gonna watch später on preview I don't deserve
I love ThinkPads especially the "good old" ones. Especially for their accessibility of parts and easy repair/upgradability.
My personal laptop has been a Thinkpad since 2013 (Thinkpad Edge E135 > Thinkpad X220 > Thinkpad x260) and at work we are also given ThinkPads (currently running a T14 gen 3).
Most ThinkPads I encountered are also sturdy built and not Gleis together or some crap like that. However I recently had an issue with my x260's power button no longer working and to get it to work I had to replace the top bezels. Well maybe to put it more bluntly I had to get a replacemt bezel and put my Thinkpad into it since to replace the bezel I had to take out almost everything and then put it back in the reverse order. The mere fact that I managed to do it and there are officiall step by step instructions on how to (hmm) are a big upside of ThinkPads. But like others have said it used to be even better.
Well long story short: I've recently preordered a framework 13 amd while I honestly would have preferred a "Thinkpad black" Chassis framework just seems to have the right idea to me.
Antennapod definitely is the GOAT. Been using it for years, it only got better. I hate the whole "podcast app" thing and like to just simply subscribe to RSS feeds and automatically download my podcasts and Antennapod does that for me. It's so out of the way.
Germany is actually well known for having very low grocery price
English language article that mentions this though the main subject of the article are the " true price of groceries including climate costs: https://www.dw.com/en/the-true-cost-of-germanys-cheap-food/a-38976477)
This is largely done by price dumping the suppliers and low balling the workforce (as much as German labor laws allow) <- I'm aware I have no source for this I will try to dig one up tomorrow when I can
I remember back in the day running Ubuntu and playing around with python. First I was doing some stuff in python 2 but then I realized python 3 exists and if I learn python I should learn the one that's relevant for longer (hopefully) so, since I'd installed python 3 I figured python 2 will not be needed anymore so why not remove it. And let's be extra clean and do a apt-get remove --purge python2.
I realized my mistake when I saw a bunch of unity-desktop packages being removed I cancelled the removal but a reboot later the machine was truly fucked ... Well I decided I might as well reinstall.
Haven't had this kind of broken in a while. I don't think I ever bored any of my arch installs in a way I couldn't recover from a Liveboot (yes I could have recovered the Ubuntu install but that was in the beginning of my journey and even today reinstalling would probably be quicker)
Well ... I first got into contact with OpenSource due to Gratis: OpenOffice, Firefox etc. Combining my knowledge of OpenSource with my tendency to break stuff (Reinstalling Boston for the nth time) led me to Linux which I first tinkered with and soon fully adapted.
I had a short hopping phase where I went from Ubuntu (my starter) via Debian (accidentally tried stable) to Arch.
Stuck with arch on my personal machines now run Ubuntu for my work machine and Debian for Servers.
My favourite distro is the right tool for the job (see above) but I'm pretty happy with Arch
I remember the first time I saw ads on YouTube, I had just set up a new computer and wanted to test everything. So I opened Firefox and loaded a YouTube video. I got a preroll and wondered "wait ad's, on YouTube?" Then I realized I had been using AdBlock for so long I never witnessed the transition from ad free YouTube to YouTube with ads.
These days I use unlock origin, Sponsorblock and revanced. For now it still works but maybe I'll leave YouTube soon :/
Damn I was wondering exactly that a few days ago. Once again lovely job from eff to clarify here.
Nothing. Also everything.
You can probably do most of not all of the things I do on Linux on a regular basis on windows just as well. But at this point I feel like I have a reverse "Windows is the default" effect going on since for me Linux has been and is the default for over 10 years.
When I start work in the morning I turn on my Linux laptop to ssh into some Linux servers (and RDP to the occasional windows servers/desktops).
After work I play games on my Linux handheld or do some work on my Linux desktop. Maybe move some files on my Linux Nas.
Like I said I could probably do all of this on windows. It would be a major change and in would have to relearn some things in addition to figuring out how to do some stuff on windows that I just never do. But at this point why even bother. There are a lot of ideological reasons to move to Linux there might be some technical reasons on either side but I just don't have any pull to use windows unless I need to (some special program/firmware updater whatever) for which I do have an install hanging around, which I boot once in 6months or so
Yeah I don't quite see how this is supposed to work either. They say they send the traffic to the intercepting server and then forward it to the "real" VPN server to actually establish the connection. But unless they can actually crack any of the encryption, all they have is the encrypted traffic to and from the sever if I'm not mistaken ... So what they do with that I'm unsure.
This. So much.
The Martian was the first and to this date only book that I've read and, when I was finished, decided to re-read right away.
Love all Andy Weirs stuff. I've read the Martian four to five times now (lost count) I've also read Artemis twice and am currently re-reading Project Hail Mary.
Even when you know the ending the way there is still always fun another time.
Also I've re-read the Dirk Gently books since I just love Douglas Adams
Antennapod does offer that by hooking into the gpodder.net API.ive had varying success with gpodder.net but hosting that yourself (I host it as an app on my Nextcloud) is a breeze
At work I use Ubuntu which comes with Firefox by default so yeah I use the default.
At home with arch I have to download one anyway ... so I use Firefox.
There has been only a brief period since I first started using Firefox that I used another browser as my main (chrome/chromium back when Netflix only worked on it properly) When Firefox rolled out "quantum" I jumped back never regretted it. Still one of the only remaining browsers.
Yep. Use it at work every day (on Ubuntu). Gives you more features than the "oicial preview client" used to do (like custom video backgrounds and screen sharing on Wayland) but you can run it as a seperate app instead of just in your browser.
Oops guess I didn't read far enough ;)
Yeah might have gotten stuck on Debian as well if I didn't make the mistake to run stable when I first tried it. Choosing stable made sense to me since I wanted a stable os but when I was greeted by "ICE weasel" that was way behind the Firefox I got used to on Ubuntu and other software being terribly out of date I decided to move on.
Well then I got stuck on Arch.
But while it would be easy to say "never looked back" that's not true of course, these days I tun Debian on most of my machines (only that they are servers) and Ubuntu on some (like my work Laptop) my personal Desktop and laptop are Arch though and probably always will be.
Can't quite speak for the n100 but I got a n305 one of these "China PCs" it's passively cooled (which was important since it's running in my bedroom) and seems to have amazing performance for what I need (I put jellyfin on there). I'm quite happy after futzing around with ARM SBCs and external drives this just works so well.
I've seen the musical a bunch of times and when I finally managed to read it last year it was a revelation. While I still love the musical the book is so much more intriguing and interesting and just manages to much more perfectly capture the main theme.
Night need to re-read this one soon ;)
Sorry that was autocorrect. Meant to say "patreon preview" funny because später in german means "later" which is when I did watch the video "later" :)
Yeah. As someone running a NAS/Jellyfin server of a SBC/USB SSD I would love to pick up an x86 sffpc too properly put everything inside but idle power and quiet aren't easily beat.
Software support olinwouldnt really agree since x86 gives a lot more options than ARM
So. I've seen the some more news video as well as the Technology Connections one. I have not see the Unlearning Economics one (but it's going on my docket for tomorrow).
Basically the Some more News video is just a simple overview on the concept of Planned Obsolescence i.e. the idea that some things are designed/engineered in a way so they will break easier/faster than they normally would or made in such a way that a repair is not economically viable so that instead of keeping/repairing a product a customer has to buy a new regularly.
One if the most famous and oldest examples is the lightbulb cartel where lightbulb manufacturer actually had a contract that limited how long a lightbulb would live to 1000h (including penalties if the manufacturers produced longer living bulbs). Iirc Cody mentioned that one in his video as well (I will watch all 3 vida back to back tomorrow just to straighten things out here).
Now this "Phoebus" cartel as it was called is exactly what the Technology Connections video is about. However Alecs point is a different one. He is basically saying that while it was true the cartel limited the Lifetime it also meant they were producing "better" bulbs. Namely ones that would burn brighter while using the same amount of power as ones that would last longer. His second point is that lightbulbs are more or less a "spare part" i.e. they are cheap and easy to replace (usually) so if one breaks you don't have to throw away your nightlamp or whatever it is attached to you simply replace the bulb with a cheap replacement and you're good.
So basically the Technology Connections Videos Thesis is the Phoebus Cartell wasn't actually planned obsolescence but a move to a better lightbulb and a bit more runtime (2.5x in his example) isn't worth the worse light output.
Two additional commands I regularly use as a Sysadmin are
systemctl statuswithout any unit to list show the general system status (lists units that are running, units that are starting and failed units right at the top) And thensystemctl list-units --failedTo show me just the failed units and did deeper what the problem is.On a properly set up system I should quickly be able to ascertain if everything is "up and running" just by systemds status