TCB13

TCB13, 28 days ago

Hard drive stocks are currently a mess. I don’t get it, even Amazon has low stocks on everything be it small or large drives.

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Local supplier increased prices to ridiculous values and still doesn’t have the numbers. Anyone knows what’s going on?

TCB13, 28 days ago

With Amazon if you have prime shipping or next day delivery (whatever they call it) enabled

I don’t have those…

TCB13, 28 days ago

Yes, they’re friends if the open-source projects are designed / made in a way that makes the “hyper-cloud” profit more. What BS of an article.

Those “hyper-cloud” providers (and SaaS providers in general) keep increasing profits by reconfiguring the entire development industry in a way that favors the sell of their services and takes away all the required knowledge developers used to have when it came to developing and deploying solutions. Companies such as Microsoft and GitHub are all about re-creating and reconfiguring the way people make software so everyone will be hostage of their platforms. We now have a generation of developers that doesn’t understand the basic of their tech stack, about networking, about DNS, about how to deploy a simple thing into a server that doesn’t use some orchestration with service x or isn’t a 3rd party cloud xyz deploy-from-github service.

Consulting companies who make software for others also benefit from this “reconfiguration” as they are able to hire more junior or less competent developers and transfer the complexities to those cloud services. The “experts” who work in consulting companies are part of this as they usually don’t even know how to do things without the property solutions. Let me give you an example, once I had to work with E&Y, one of those big consulting companies, and I realized some awkward things while having conversations with both low level employees and partners / middle management, they weren’t aware that there are alternatives most of the time. A manager of a digital transformation and cloud solutions team that started his career E&Y, wasn’t aware that there was open-source alternatives to Google Workplace and Microsoft 365 for e-mail. I probed a TON around that and the guy, a software engineer with an university degree, didn’t even know that was Postfix was and the history of email.

All those new technologies keep pushing this “develop and deploy” quickly and commoditizing development - it’s a negative feedback loop that never ends. Yes I say commoditizing development because if you look at it those techs only make it easier for the entry level developer and companies instead of hiring developers for their knowledge and ability to develop they’re just hiring “cheap monkeys” that are able to configure those technologies and cloud platforms to deliver something. At the end of the they the business of those cloud companies is transforming developer knowledge into products/services that companies can buy with a click.

TCB13, 28 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

I’ve a very bad experience with GNOME boxes, both VMware and VirtualBox seem to outperform the thing and work better (drag and drop and resolution scaling, actual GPU acceleration).

TCB13, 28 days ago

+1 here, intel on laptop.

TCB13, 29 days ago

Truly pointless article, even the new EU rules are bullshit, Apple is still on control requiring apps to be checked by them and they charge a bullshit fee either way. Until we can run any application, not code signed in iOS nothing changed.

TCB13, 29 days ago

“GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit”

So… If I throw half a million at them I’ll get native desktop icons back?

TCB13, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago)

You know, they were too busy wasting money on reinventing the wheel and coming up with “a vision” to be able to sort their budget.

TCB13, 29 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

😂 😂 😂 …

TCB13, 29 days ago

Desktop icons were removed because they’re (at least in the devs’ opinions), a poor solution.

They were removed because they were never able to make them working properly. It was always an hack and had multiple issues. ANY other OS and DE has desktop icons…

TCB13, 28 days ago

and there are plenty of extensions to add them back if you (for some ungodly reason) want them

All the extensions are plagued by the same issue they had before. Drag and drop from apps never working properly, the icon grid behaves incorrectly sometimes and other cosmetic glitches.

TCB13, 28 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

It was always an unfinished project because no one gave a flying

No, I didn’t misunderstood, I know it was yet another GNOME unfinished project. Both the native thing and the extensions always had/have the same problems - drag and drop from apps never working properly, the icon grid behaves incorrectly sometimes and other cosmetic glitches.

for anything that was of zero value.

Now this is the thing, desktop icons are basic DE functionality and even Apple - the guys that actually know how to design anything - agree they should be there… at least with an option to turn them ON/OFF. The removal of desktop icons was simply the “GNOME vision” being used as an excuse not the fix something that was hard to fix.

TCB13, 28 days ago

You clearly never used those extensions.

TCB13, 28 days ago

– commented a couple of laughing faces in all good spirits // post removed “rule 2”.

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lol

TCB13, 28 days ago

The funny thing is that you can’t prove me wrong there, apparently not even provide valid arguments, just add a pile of ramblings and insults.

TCB13, 28 days ago

And right now millions of people do and I don’t see widespread issues.

It’s not a widespread issue, it’s something with the desktop icon extensions and the original implementation. In both cases the drag and drop from/to apps never worked fine.

TCB13, 1 month ago

Wordpress + Woocomerce. There are a few themes that use less or no JavaScript, but you shouldn’t bother with that, JS is useful and can reduce the amount of page loads (traffic) and make the experience better.

TCB13, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

If you follow the ISPMail guide at workaround.org you’ll be safe.

I heard there are scaries online which someone could potentially send emails from your server without consent

That’s called an open relay and websites like mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx can test for it.

Either way your biggest issue won’t be that, if you’re running on a residential internet connection the IP is already flagged as such and will have a very low reputation with other e-mail providers causing Microsoft, Google and any other large provider will simply refuse your email. You’ll also need reverse DNS for your IP pointing at the domain you’re using that your ISP is most likely not going to provide.

TCB13, 1 month ago

Yes, reverse DNS. Typo there.

TCB13, 1 month ago

While I share your views about being amateur hours we’ve been seeing an increase in usage and releases on it. At this rate flatpak/flathub will become the defacto way of getting desktop software for Linux and it does solve a lot of annoyances and makes things more secure however it lacks features.

TCB13, 1 month ago

… that can be said from apt repositories. But… they’re made in a way you can mirror the entire thing offline.

TCB13, 1 month ago

It apparently happens with other email sources as well

I deal with a lot of mailboxes and a ton of people using Thunderbird with ridiculous amounts of emails like 50-100GB accounts and even on the few times I saw Thunderbird failing it wasn’t loosing anything.

I don’t trust Owl very much, the good news is that we will soon get an official and decent support for Exchange. :)

TCB13, 29 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

Except for the metadata at the bottom, looks a LOT like markdown to me…

TCB13, 29 days ago

Okay, that’s fair, what editors are you using?

I don’t complain much about Joplin because it has apps for every platform and doesn’t encode your notes in some SQLite DB + proprietary format or some other hard to access situation. Not that it looks good, but at least you’re locked into some subscription/format/limitation like in Standard Notes. I wish Joplin looked as good as Standard Notes, especially on iOS.

TCB13, 1 month ago

You’re welcome.