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As a spaniard I am really worried, you know that Europe is going wrong because Spain is doing comparatively better than most EU countries...

I have one of those Android e-books and it's nice to find good software.

Anyways I just wanted to read using the least possible resources so I'm just using a simple file manager and mupdf (in which KOreader is based). mupdf may be simple, but it's amazing.

Did I hear Soulseek? Look for slskd in github. I had a tear on my face when I could find people sharing japanese math rock :)

I'm old, "Unused RAM is wasted RAM" goes against my philosophy. Back in my days, a professor said in class: you want your OS as light as possible, so the more free resources you have, the faster Quake will run (by the time, Quake was software rendered). Saving resources for a rainy day today is better than saying "umbrellas are too expensive" tomorrow.

pihole is based on glibc, uses GNU utils and being based in Debian probably it's not compiled to optimize space. OpenWRT is based on musl, uses busybox, it is space contrained and size matters.

Motorbike analogy, it's like comparing a RS125 with a Tmax/Burgman maxiscooter...

Hey, I think this is important, Flint 3 relies on a Qualcomm chipset, so, at least some weeks ago, no vanilla OpenWRT was available for it (Qualcomm kernel).

On the other hand, if you can live with Wifi 6 and only 2x2.5Gbps ports (and 4x1Gbps), Flint 2 is powered with a Mediatek chipset, that runs a 100% vanilla OpenWRT.

Both are 1GB RAM, 8GB emmc little beasts that can even run some docker containers. IMHO Flint2 is in the top 5 for SOHO OpenWRT supported routers

Well, it grew up really well but that was "geologically easy". Madrid lies over a granitic floor, tunneling there is easier and faster than it would be in Barcelona, Amsterdam or London.

So, after having lived in Barcelona and Madrid... Both metros are excellent, but besides covering a smaller area, I still prefer Barcelona metro than Madrid one. IMHO, Barcelona metro looks more like the one in the german cities and Madrid metro looks like London one.

Said that, this year Madrid metro users have been quite angry at some line closures at the same time than tunnels were fixed at the same time in the city. It is mostly a managing problem as well, as some of the trains (quite old in some cases) are still being rented instead of bought.

Line 7B grew up as well but in San Fernando de Henares some buildings got structural cracks and some houses (over 50) had to be bulldozed.

Metro works from 06:00 to 01:00, but there is nothing before of after that time. In Barcelona, for instance, Monday to Thursday works 5:00 to 00:00, on Friday 5:00 to 02:00, and from 05:00 on Saturday to 00:00 on Sunday non-stop. That has been for some years now and means lots of drunk people not taking the car.

In Barcelona, metro schedules are tighter as well. In Barcelona, in rush hours you may have a train every 2,5 minutes, in some cases less than 2 minutes. In Madrid it's more like 4 minutes. Trains are newer in Barcelona, too (and wider because most lines use iberic gauge), but that was because until the 90s Barcelona trains had some asbestos on them.

Anyways, a metro is not only about the trains, it's also about the stations. Most of Madrid ones have conditioned air and have better lighting than not only the Barcelona ones, but the European ones as well. But, again IMHO, signage in Madrid metro is HORRIBLE. Most of the signs are on the walls, when you are walking on a crowded corridor is easy to take the wrong direction. I need a magnifier to read the metro plan on the wagons. Also, it takes some time to understand that it "drives on its left" in a country where everything else "drives on its right". Not a big thing, but if you come from somewhere in Europe it may take you some time until you get used to all of it.

By the way, just wanted to be sure about this: Tiki Torch parades have been documented since the XI century on the Pyrenees, I just wanted to be sure how old was the tradition. That's the first place that came to my mind and the place where I myself have gone down a hill with some other hundreds of people carrying a torch... When we finished, in the town in the valley, there was a reggae concert and most of the guys down the hill went there, no problems at all.

Actually my country had a fascist dictatorship until the end of the 70s. I'm old enough to have been hit by nazis in the early 90s. I have seen fascists in a parade and policemen doing nothing.

IMHO, software philosophy does not have anything to do with some developer philosophy. IMHO again, that is like comparing journaling filesystems and B+ trees as apology of gender-based violence because ReiserFS was one of the first mainstream filesystems that implemented it.

Holy sh... I didn't expect that Godwin's law would apply that quickly. IMHO, I'm also part of the problem and I think I am a horrible person, but at least I don't consider myself superior to anyone in any way no matter their race, gender, software philosophy or their political views as far as they don't fall in the tolerance paradox.

About doing one thing and doing it well, the best (anti) example is systemd. I think that having a DNS resolver and mounting your partitions should be two totally separated things. Fortunately nobody uses syste... Oh, wait!

About the code should be understandable and the efficiency, I'm thinking of the old times java. I've seen people in systems department having to profile java stuff because they were OOMing their tomcats. Eventually we had to ask for the code, debug it and send it patched with just some '=null' because the GC wasn't doing its job in the best way. In the early 2000 the philosophy already was "Good hardware is cheaper than expert developers" :(

I have bad taste. So I will say suckless.org

- software should do one thing and do it well - code should be understandable, easy to build, easy to port - dependencies should not be a problem - the chosen language must not be a burden - resources are scarce: if you say "unused memory is wasted memory" you are part of the problem

(I know, I'm a horrible person)

tinc is probably the best alternative for cheap OpenVZ VPS with a tun/tap device, if you don't want a userspace wireguard one...

(said the lazy guy that checks if he only needs TCP and, in that case, uses sshuttle via SSH)