vividspecter

vividspecter, 9 months ago

They are quite cheap in Australia, especially combined with subsidies.

vividspecter, 9 months ago

For me it’s mainly about having one source of truth (without using a cloud based account service) so it’s all stored in one place and I don’t have to worry about backups on my client devices (especially mobile, which is often a pain).

vividspecter, 9 months ago

My problem with nextcloud is more the performance of the web interface rather than it’s reliability (and that’s even with mariadb + redis setup and a decently fast minipc). It’s fine if you avoid the web interface, but that’s part of the draw of the thing.

vividspecter, 9 months ago

Fair, although I feel like performance should be better OOTB, particularly when I’m just using it as a single user. It is an old and complex application that does a lot, so it is understandable.

vividspecter, 9 months ago

I usually check PCGW first, because the issues with most games are usually cross-platform.

vividspecter, 9 months ago

You can use tailscale for that too, but not raw wireguard.

vividspecter, 9 months ago

It allows you to get over the 5 device limit, as well as keep your traffic on your devices. And, imo, it is pretty stable.

I believe tailscale raised the device limit relatively recently but I agree with you in that I prefer to self-host this type of thing.

vividspecter, 9 months ago

You can also run openwrt on x86 boxes and not just a random selection of embedded devices. That might feel silly, but you get the benefit of Linux’s more advanced bufferbloat mitigation and a nice clean and relatively easy to understand UI.

vividspecter, 9 months ago

Or I’ve heard you could run it in a Docker container on a bigger machine

You can definitely run it in a VM (which is how I handle it) but container support wouldn’t surprise me.

The “silly” part was more that if you have x86 you can use opnsense/pfsense but I’m with you in that SQM is a big draw as well as less risk of compatibility issues as my APs are also flashed with openwrt. And the BSDs were well behind on wireguard support when I first switched to x86, although they have since caught up now I believe.

vividspecter, 9 months ago

In this case the article title was from The Conversation, but the ABC does this with their in-house articles too.

On the conversation website they are using the new title too. And yeah, they all seem to do the a/b title thing, and it’s pretty obnoxious.

vividspecter, 9 months ago

A 3% target would be truly living up to their name and storied history as the party of labour. Knowing modern Labor though, I’d not be surprised if it’s a 4–5% target.

Either way, that 3-5% needs to be supported (financially and otherwise) and not treated like dirt. Especially since it’s admitting that 100% employment isn’t possible (correctly) so you can’t punish the remaining % for something that is set out in policy.

vividspecter, 10 months ago

2-2 was a fitting end to a great series, although both sides will regret the squandered opportunities they’ve had to take control.

I wish this was a double header like 2013/2013-2014 since we could see if England’s approach with the current side would work in Australian conditions, but not to be.

vividspecter, 9 months ago

However, I’m with Ponting that the ball change was poor and should be investigated.

Agreed. I’m not going to make a big deal about it because that’s cricket and both sides were lucky at certain points in the series, but it’s definitely a process that could be improved.

vividspecter, 10 months ago

Even if the fixed cost was cheaper, it would be idiocy to continue installing it. Gas is going away, and it’s only going to get less competitive as electrification takes hold.

It’s similar to installing new copper during the Coalition’s NBN debacle, instead of just installing new fibre.

vividspecter, 10 months ago

First release to have the pgtk port, which means native Wayland.

vividspecter, 10 months ago

Yes, but not in a stable version. Although I’ll say that the daemon is still bugged for me with pgtk, but it could be a distribution issue.

vividspecter, 10 months ago

Doing the easiest things first just makes sense. And it’s not like the Victorian government has a great influence over the international shipping industry which will need a coordinated international effort to solve.

vividspecter, 10 months ago

I’m not sure you need to sell it to actual users. A lot of benefits of an advanced filesystem could be done by the OS itself, almost transparently. All of the features I mentioned could be managed by Windows, with only minimal changes to the UI. Even reflink copies could just be a control panel option then used by default in Explorer (equivalent of cp --reflink=auto in Linux). And from the OS side, deduplication would help a lot on Windows given all of the DLL bundling, and weird shit they have to do to maintain legacy compatibility, and that’s no small thing given how space inefficient modern Windows installs have become.

It would be some work to upgrade it (maybe a lot given how ancient and likely full of cruft that Windows is full of with legacy compatibility) but it would eventually make the system more reliable and more space efficient.

But yeah, there are challenges. I’m mainly speaking in terms of btrfs which would take some time to port to Windows (although there is a 3rd party driver they’d want to handle it themselves I suspect) but they’ll probably want to use their own ReFS and I’ve not really investigated it seriously so I can’t say how ready that is for prime time. But given that it’s being included as an option in some enterprise/server editions of Windows maybe it will be soon in consumer editions soon anyway (as much as I’d prefer something more open and widely supported, at least it’s a step forward on Windows).