Octabrain

Similar experience here. It triggered the thought in my mind of "this feeling exists". It's weird to explain. It's like MDMA created a reference in my mind and, instead of making me to fall into the process of "I need the drug to be happy", it made me to search for things in life that bring me that feeling of happiness and comfort I got as a reference from the experience. I remember vividly the walk to home after the party, with a beautiful girl holding my arm, the hot shower afterwards...it was the first time in my whole existence that I honestly thought "life is beautiful".

It simply blows my mind the lack of common sense on the processing of something so well known and common as bottled water. I don't know how someone can be this stupid (or evil).

I use this one for tests on microservices endpoints. Very good at least for my use case. I recommend it.

I have to admit, as a Spaniard that moved 7 years ago to the UK, that the government related sites are an absolute pleasure to work with. Taxes, information of any kind etc everything clear and straightforward. I take my hat off.

PS: Does anyone know the stack they use?

Through the years, I've seen references here and there on the internet about Haiku OS but never payed too much attention assuming that was kind of a toy, however, after reading the release notes of the beta 4 I have to admit that I'm impressed.

I've never used xrdp but I've used Remmina (snap and also flatpak) without an issue. In fact and as a confession, it's what I use when working from home to connect to my work laptop and be able to work from my Linux desktop.

It's astonishing the strategy that Google follows with their products. This trend of releasing stuff and cancelling it later is reaching the point of being meme. Don't get me wrong, I totally understand that markets are hard to predict and compete in and offering a competent product at those sizes requires a lot of economic and human effort but for god sake, I seriously think they should plan better and think twice because this is seriously damaging their image.

I did the same for years: KeepassXC + Database being synced through Google Drive + keyfile stored only locally on each device (Linux personal laptop, Windows work laptop + Android personal phone) + Safe strong password that was only in my head. The main reason I decided to switch to Bitwarden it's because the Google drive client I used on Linux (GVFS in Gnome) gave me a few good headaches. Basically, everytime I made a modification to the database, it changed the name of the file, therefore, when opening the database later from another device, I had to be listing files by modification date to try to guess the most recent one and open it. Also, sometimes from Linux, I got errors from KeepassXC saying that the database was not writable, so I had to save it in a different location that wasn't the Google drive FS and then move it manually to it. Perhaps not a big deal for some people but after years of this I just got tired of shenanigans on something I consider too critical.

The reasons for me for switching specifically to Bitwarden were:

- Price.

- Open source.

- Multiplatform client.

- Simple and straightforward to import stuff from KeepassXC.

- MFA.

- Possibility of self hosting. (Although I'm using the saas version for now)

It's great to have tools that make easier to learn how to play music, which btw, I feel music should have evolved naturally itself towards something with better high level abstraction (kinda like programming languages). However, my fear with this kind of approaches in music is that you might end up being a simple "typewriter". I mean, you play by pure mechanical memory instead of due to develop a logical understanding of what you are doing. This was the main reason I ditched yousician for guitar. I saw myself just doing a more complex "guitar hero" kind of thing and I don't want that, I want music theory and understanding instead of moving blindly my hands following coloured dots on the screen.

I remember reading somewhere that Godot is what Tesla uses for the app of their cars. Don't quote me on that one, though.

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30627087

PS: I cannot confirm the veracity of the link I post.

> What did I miss?

From the top of my head...

* A bunch of opinionated devs pushing for microservices because they heard that's what cool kids do now. No technical reason behind at all, just pure bias flamed by a couple of blog posts/YouTube talks they watched one evening.

* A bunch of devops with intentions of implementing "industry best practices and modern tooling ©" that will end up creating a house of cards in Terraform that nobody, themselves included, will dare to touch in six months down the road.

Am I sounding too cynical?

I find the simplicity of the stack brilliant. It makes me to think now, to which extent, the industry nowadays simply suffers from a mix of lack of knowledge, CV driving design and big players in the game trying to sell you overkilling solutions and approaches for their own economical benefit. Have we perhaps, fell into a big enchant and, at the end of the day, 99% of companies out there could just use a classic LAMPish kinda stack managed by 3 or 4 dudes?

I must say: I don't agree with the tone of your comment, but I fully agree with your overall argument.

I've mentioned here in other occasions, but worth doing it again: GAMBAS (https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html) is a cool, modern and powerful alternative to the old good VB RAPID stuff. I haven't personally used it in ages but I recommend to give it a shot.

I used to use a similar approach, in my case: KeepassXC + Google Drive. My problem though is that I got tired of the issues KeepassXC had when saving the database into the mounted Google Drive filesystem provided by Gnome (GVFS, from the top of my head). Basically, sometimes it failed, other times the database would be saved with a different name which was annoying, because then, when using Keepass on my phone or my other computer, I had to be searching for the most recent database file. After months of internal debate and research, I ended up migrating everything into Bitwarden. Despite the paranoid in me has days of "what the hell did you do!", everything has been great so far and it has simplified my workflow nicely.

Rock climbing. I always did sport when I was younger (gymnastics, martial arts etc). Then moved to a different country and lost the habit (despite I've kept myself in good shape because of doing calisthenics at home). A year and a half ago, a friend of mine insisted me on give it a try to climbing with him in an indoor gym and oh, boy, I got absolutely hooked to it. A good side effect is that it made me to pursue enjoyment in life. It made me realise that work is not the main thing in life.

I had Hashicorp in my mind as a cool and respectful company. These recent events have made to reconsider and throw them into the same bag as Oracle. I find this pretty sad.

I would like to take the chance to ask about something that I never understood from Bitlocker and this kind of encryption, in general, where the decryption key is provided automatically by the system. Let's say, if my laptop (I mean, the whole device) is stolen, which security does Bitlocker provide? From an attacker POV, the system will boot and it will ask for my user account password. So, to my understanding, it will protect my data if my hard disk is extracted from the laptop and attempted to run it from a different system.

Worth mentioning that this probably silly misconception is what makes me to always set a password for Bitlocker that I have to type manually which is what I've always done on LUKS.

Am I totally wrong?

Flatpak is good overall but it has one things I dislike:

- Not being oriented to also CLI apps.

Apart from that, I like it for its convenience and I think it will be the future (or a similar approach). The reason for my thinking that is that, putting myself in the shoes of a distro maintainer, I can see the appeal and benefit of "isolating" the system packages and libraries from the packages installed by the user. I find it similar to the great relief that Docker brought back in the day when reduced the system administration overhead as it reduces the amount of moving parts on the functioning of an app.

> ...because I don't have to dodge Ubuntu's ads left and right...

Is it Ubuntu that polluted with ads? Honest question as I haven't used it that much lately.

> Everything is carcinogenic. It's the dose that is a poison not the substance. That's what scientific evidence over long years of research shows.

Definitely not my area of expertise, but I think this statement of yours is plain wrong. There are indeed certain substances (mutagenics) that are known to be carcinogenic where are others that are not. I think it doesn't depend on the quantity but on the substance itself.

Fedora is definitely a great distro that I've used a lot in the past. However, there are two main caveats from my POV:

1. The release of a version every six months. (I would prefer at least a yearly release for being sure that things are gonna be matured enough)

2. The fact that Red Hat is behind. (At this point, having seen the CentOS debacle, I don't trust them long term that much)

> battery drain when sleeping, trackpoint freezing after a while, fan kicking in for no reasons.

With the exception of the trackpoint freezing I've had exactly those issues. I even had to send the laptop to the repair service because the battery thing was unbearable.

I was tempted to get a System76 but went for a ThinkPad mostly due to fear of the unknown. Lesson learned, I guess.

I had a look to the Framework one, however, I've read (here, on HN, mostly) things about the battery life, the screen size and the feeling of flimsyness due to its DYI nature that were a turn off for me.

Mmmm is there any source or a deep analysis from you for such a statement?

After the painful experience I've had with the last ThinkPad I purchased (and before that, a Dell XPS, if Linux reaches a point where widely used distros are able to run on Mac M* flawlessly...personally I'm not gonna think it twice.

For me is not even a question of security but a question of sanity. It feels like torture. You are watching something with your brain in that context and suddendly, a commercial about something I am not remotely interested is thrown to my face.

I am simply not that kind of consumer. That's not the way I learn about products I'll buy later. In fact, I've never ever bought something I saw in a youtube commercial. IMHO, the current model of advertisement is broken.

Why "hate"? I personally find fascinating that kind of implicit cultural rules.

I would say that GAMBAS is the most similar thing I've seen so far (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambas)

Agree. Right after reading your comment, I went and run shreddit (https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit) over my now unexisting account. I think is time for me to get good habits again and wake up from the enchant of "social media".