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Commercial but free for private usage, I really like AnyDesk. Remote desktop through firewalls and NATted networks. I use it to remote control a Mac and a Windows machine, from a Mac. Haven't tried it with Linux yet.

Yeah people will need to get aware of that. I'm European and drive a Renault Zoe. It plays some sort of "whoooooo" noise from under the bonnet/hood when you drive slower than 30 km (19 mi).

On one hand, I think it's dumb because why am I explicitly making noise? So I turned it off. But then I scared the living hell out of two shopping ladies when I unintentionally crept up behind them, and now I always leave it on.

I know next to nothing about crypto, but it sounds good :) Congratulations!

Some words simply don't feel right anymore. As an example, I used to live on the Dutch countryside. The owner of the farm would be called the "boer", and his assistant would be called "knecht" (ranch hand? It curiously is pronounced not unlike knight).

I completely forgot all of that until recently, the farms around our city were opened to the general public. My kid wanted to go, and while they were enjoying themselves looking at the animals, I struck up a chat with the owner of the farm and asked on a whim if the "knecht" was still called that. No, he answered, that position is now called "medewerker" (operator? colleague? contributor? I dunno.)

I think the time for words like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist is simply past. This is just an observance, I don't have an opinion either way.

From iPhone to Android. The software works. But shortly afterwards, WhatsApp threw up some kind of "timeout" screen twice, where I couldn't use the app for a hour. I don't need that uncertainty.

What makes you sure it's not on purpose? I don't disagree, I'm just curious about your statement.

Also, you can't migrate WhatsApp between iPhone and Android. There's a utility called BackupTrans, which follows an extremely convoluted process including a step where they install an old version of WhatsApp. It seemed to work but it trips some wire and WhatsApp put me in an hour-long timeout state, twice. Since I very much depend on WhatsApp, I dare not use it anymore.

> you can GET .../$docs on any URL

Wow, that is some next level stuff right there. Very nicely done. What do you get back? JSON, plain text, HTML, man page?

Just get pre-made veggie burgers as a transitioning phase. Slowly but surely you will adjust your cooking, and it'll be easier to make your own burgers, which then becomes a side dish.

This could very well be the cheapest for the consumer. Considering BMW has the highest maintenance costs of all brands in the USA, having a subscription fee for certain features may very well be cheaper. That's assuming BMW doesn't charge for a broken feature.

https://twocents.lifehacker.com/the-car-brands-with-the-high...

Great resources, thanks!

Can you point to a good intro on freeganism? Podcasts, YouTube channels, books, blogs?

I love these short stories. Fits much better into my life (with kids) nowadays. Recently I went to download and subscribe to Analog Science Fiction and Fact on my iPad, but boy what a setback that was. Can't set the font smaller/bigger, the landscape view makes the pages way too small and the app doesn't assume the light/dark theme of the iPad. Basically it's an image or PDF viewer, and not a great one.

Anyone tips in this regard?

> I'd absolutely guess that, in a pinch, you could charge your modern iPhone with a non-working cable if you did the same procedure

Or you charge it wirelessly (Qi charging).

I'm not surprised that Vuze (or its clone/successor BiglyBT) is not there. But it's one of the oldest desktop torrent clients, and is still being developed.

> Might as well use another protocol

But which one?

I've worked on a project where we had the choice and I suggested HTTP, but was outvoted for something custom. In the end, it meant quite a bit of work. And HTTP support is ubiquitous.

Oh gosh, I remember in college, playing with PCMCIA cards in laptops, and you'd have to kinda point them at each other. Can anyone confirm if that could be correct, or that I'm actually misremembering something?

> A regular mac can last 6 good years nowadays

I found out I really enjoy working with the latest hardware. I'm enjoying a decent income and now upgrade to the latest base model every 2-3 years.

If you get the 13 inch models, they have extremely good resale value and thus make it (relatively) affordable.

No, it can be used offline perfectly fine.

Edit: I think I get it now, you prefer to not have the online component at all.

Actually having used these kinds of 2D maps, I find they're not fun enough for me. If you're really into old-school original D&D dungeoneering-with-a-ten-foot-pole stuff, it's nice.

But I want more for my players. The best maps have very nice multi-level dungeons, with strange stuff like underground rivers or a dangerous precipice connecting parts of the dungeon.

A store in my city (in The Netherlands) replaces an 6S battery for EUR. 39 (US$ 44). They offer a 1 year guarantee. You can do some grocery shopping while they replace it.

For people who prefer the commandline: Homebrew can install not just open source software, but binaries as well, via Brew Cask. And often, you can choose to either uninstall an app with

  % brew uninstall <appname>

Or uninstall and remove all of its cruft as well via:

  % brew zap <appname>

Whenever I see Full HD, I think fist-sized pixels. However, it's an 11-inch screen and the article mentions: "The display on the EVOO is FHD 1080p, not the 1366x768 typical of many cheap laptops". So in this case, I think it's not all that bad.

I wonder if its purpose isn't simply to watch Youtube. It has a Full HD screen. It's 11-something inches, but still Full HD.

Interesting, a commercial BitTorrent client for Linux.

Medium wasn't lying when it said "1 minute read". Very cool blog post, and a very cool little trick.

Couple of links:

https://store.level1techs.com/products/kvm-switch-usbc-model

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-2-Port-Type-C-Delivery-USB-KC...

https://www.blackbox.com/en-us/store/product/detail/usb-c-4k...

(From: https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/)

Great tip, thanks!

ffmpeg is fantastic. I'm an iOS dev and when I put something on Github, I first record the iOS simulator with QuickTime. Then I convert the resulting .mov file with ffmpeg:

    ffmpeg -i example.mov -r 15 example.gif

Voilà, an animated gif. Quality is atrocious but it gets the message across, plus the filesize is not too big.

A lot of the more in-depth stuff around macOS isn't publicly documented by Apple, and Howard Oakley often tries to find out and blog about it on eclecticlight.co.

For instance, I've been experimenting with APFS fusion drives. This is basically the macOS equivalent of a RAID0 volume except there's some added intelligence on stuff that can be cached on the fastest drive.

So for fun, on my Mac Mini, I plugged in an external drive and tried to create a fusion drive across the internal and external drive. Nothing is documented about this process, do you have to google and piece together the procedure.

Of course it seems to work and then the volume corrupts itself. But why? This other guy who blogged about this, doesn't know.

Linux is much better about this. People do crazy shenanigans with their hardware all the time. You want to RAID-5 a bunch of USB sticks? Sure, no problem :)