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owenmakeson Magnifica Humanitas

Yes, but because electricity is mostly produced by gas turbines, and you could say oil & gas companies do rule the world. Utilities mostly take care of the distribution, and are naturally monopolic/oligopolic businesses which is why in most countries, they are regulated (or owned) by the state.

owenmakeson How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table

In Rails 8 you have SolidQueue by default, which doesn't rely on redis

owenmakeson The Untold Story of Charlie Munger's Final Years

https://archive.is/PHa1T

owenmakeson What to do with an old iPad

Yeah, had to move back to my apartment, haven't gotten around to doing the setup here

owenmakeson What to do with an old iPad

I actually delegated DNS to Cloudflare when nic.ar wouldn't take the localhost.run domain!

owenmakeson What to do with an old iPad

Well, you're assuming there are Apple stores in Argentina (there aren't any). So any trade in would require flying to the US (or nearest Apple store).

owenmakeson What to do with an old iPad

It's back up! iPad was still working correctly, but the connection to the VPS had dropped. I suspect network issue.

owenmakeson What to do with an old iPad

Woah, this way cooler than what I did

owenmakeson What to do with an old iPad

Tunnel fell down, I suspect connection issue while I was sleeping. iPad was still running the server locally and unplugged from power.

owenmakeson What to do with an old iPad

The tunnel disconnected somehow. No idea what happened, cause the iPad was still running the server correctly, maybe network issue.

owenmakeson What to do with an old iPad

No idea honestly, but the main reason the battery lasts so long is that it turns the WiFi off, which is why I had to install Insomnia. It was doing fine so far, with 60% battery, but decided to plug it in since it's getting many requests now

owenmakeson What to do with an old iPad

I keep mine unplugged and it gets surprising good battery life, and I think it kinda improved with the downgrade. On normal use I would get like 8-10 hrs screen on time. No spicy pillow yet, though I did have that issue with my old iPod.

owenmakeson What to do with an old iPad

I'm with you here. I think Apple should let you install whatever OS you want in the device after the support cycle ended. But that's not gonna happen any time soon. Until then, we jailbreak.

owenmakeson Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?

Got it downgraded, and it is a much better experience. It is actually useful, though I have yet to play around and see which apps I can load on this

owenmakeson Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?

Update: Downgraded one of the iPads to iOS 6.1.3 (writing from it now). Will try to host a home server on it since I can now SSH into it.

owenmakeson Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?

Ok this seems like a great idea. You need to watch/listen everything from the browser though right?

owenmakeson Deregulation in Argentina: Milei Takes "Deep Chainsaw" to Bureaucracy

Don't. The video misses out on a lot of key facts from previous governments.