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  1. Comment on The enterprise experience in ~tech

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    My only job so far has been in a SME (the company itself is a big enterprise, but the engineering team is independent and fairly small), and yet it still somehow managed to have many of the...

    My only job so far has been in a SME (the company itself is a big enterprise, but the engineering team is independent and fairly small), and yet it still somehow managed to have many of the problems described here, even if on a smaller scare. I guess this just shows how important (and rare) good leadership is.

    Also, I have a feeling ThePrimeagen is gonna love this one

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Disabilities: Changing bed sheets over multiple days in ~life

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    Whenever I start feeling a bit gross from sleeping on old sheets, which is generally about once a week or a bit less.

    Whenever I start feeling a bit gross from sleeping on old sheets, which is generally about once a week or a bit less.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on People who contribute to libre projects - how do you find time for this? in ~hobbies

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    You shouldn't downplay this, financial contribution is also very important as libre projects are often very underfunded

    One thing I decided to do is to contribute financially to some of them

    You shouldn't downplay this, financial contribution is also very important as libre projects are often very underfunded

    11 votes

  4. Comment on The web could be so much more beautiful in ~tech

  5. Comment on The web could be so much more beautiful in ~tech

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    Yep, same. Left aligned text is the only proper way to go.

    Yep, same. Left aligned text is the only proper way to go.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on What is your personal online "tech stack"? How do you like it? in ~tech

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    How do you handle replying to emails or sending email from a specific address when using a catch all?

    How do you handle replying to emails or sending email from a specific address when using a catch all?

  7. Comment on What is your personal online "tech stack"? How do you like it? in ~tech

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    You can try using an aliasing service like SimpleLogin, which also integrates with Bitwarden. For $30/year it allows you to create unlimited email addresses under their domain, which are...

    Fastmail says that using your own domain for that is less anonymous, which is true, but using their domain would lock me into their ecosystem. Which is something I explicitly am trying to avoid in my choice for services.

    You can try using an aliasing service like SimpleLogin, which also integrates with Bitwarden. For $30/year it allows you to create unlimited email addresses under their domain, which are completely anonymous. I have a separate email address for each service I use + throwaway addresses for one-time things. It does lock you into using SimpleLogin, but the mailbox it actually forwards all the mail to can be changed any time. You can also add your own domain and create aliases with it, I use it for services like Bitwarden which I want to be able to reliably access even in case something happens to SimpleLogin or my email provider (also Fastmail).

  8. Comment on New Android phones, stock or flash? in ~tech

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    According to GrapheneOS team, they are currently collaborating with a major OEM to introduce support for a new phone.

    According to GrapheneOS team, they are currently collaborating with a major OEM to introduce support for a new phone.

    6 votes

  9. Comment on New Android phones, stock or flash? in ~tech

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    That's no longer an issue, they already wrote the device tree for Android 16 themselves and can just use that going forward.

    That's no longer an issue, they already wrote the device tree for Android 16 themselves and can just use that going forward.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on New Android phones, stock or flash? in ~tech

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    Aside from GrapheneOS (which only supports Pixels), I wouldn't really recommend any custom ROMs. They have less features/polish, and often have security issues. If you're just worried about the...

    Aside from GrapheneOS (which only supports Pixels), I wouldn't really recommend any custom ROMs. They have less features/polish, and often have security issues. If you're just worried about the bloatware, that can be easily uninstalled without having to flash your phone, there are various debloater apps which just require you to connect your phone to your computer once.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on Modern masculinity and The Critical Drinker in ~life.men

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    I wouldn't really say it skews strongly to the left. There's a number of left leaning channels on there, but there are also people like PolyMatter or LeagleEagle who are more liberal/center-right....

    I wouldn't really say it skews strongly to the left. There's a number of left leaning channels on there, but there are also people like PolyMatter or LeagleEagle who are more liberal/center-right. "Left leaning channels" is also a broad category though, it doesn't mean that all they make are video essays about how they hate capitalism, so you could probably enjoy a bunch of content even from them.

    6 votes

  12. Comment on Modern masculinity and The Critical Drinker in ~life.men

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    I guess you either always use SponsorBlock or don't already watch any channels that post on there, because all YouTubers who are on Nebula promote it in almost every single video (which makes...

    Huh, thanks. First time I think I heard of Nebula

    I guess you either always use SponsorBlock or don't already watch any channels that post on there, because all YouTubers who are on Nebula promote it in almost every single video (which makes sense, I mean, they're getting paid for bringing new customers and those customers then bring them more money by watching their videos on Nebula, that's a perfect deal)

    5 votes

  13. Comment on European VPN recommendations in ~tech

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    IVPN and Mullvad are both great and well trusted

    IVPN and Mullvad are both great and well trusted

    2 votes

  14. Comment on In Tokyo for a couple of days, inviting recommendations in ~travel

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    There's a flagship Sanrio store in Ginza if you're into that

    There's a flagship Sanrio store in Ginza if you're into that

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Recommendation Request: New Mouse in ~comp

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    IMO Logitech MX Master 3/3S is the only mouse worth buying if it's within your budget

    IMO Logitech MX Master 3/3S is the only mouse worth buying if it's within your budget

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Recommendation Request: New Mouse in ~comp

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    Because Logitech MX Master is the endgame mouse and it's wireless

    Respectfully, does it matter why they want a wired mouse?

    Because Logitech MX Master is the endgame mouse and it's wireless

    5 votes

  17. Comment on What are your AI-generated guilty pleasures? in ~tech

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    Maybe you already know this, but all local LLMs and many APIs allow you to adjust the "temperature" of the generation. The lower the temperature, the more deterministic the results will be, so if...

    Maybe you already know this, but all local LLMs and many APIs allow you to adjust the "temperature" of the generation. The lower the temperature, the more deterministic the results will be, so if you set it closer to 1 there'll be a higher chance of it generating something weird.

    4 votes

  18. Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success in ~comp

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    It doesn't "need" to do that. It's pretty modular and you can easily only use the parts of it you want. Even most "pre-made" distros only use specific parts of systemd, and I'm not even talking...

    why it need to take over my booting, my ntp, my networking, my resolver

    It doesn't "need" to do that. It's pretty modular and you can easily only use the parts of it you want. Even most "pre-made" distros only use specific parts of systemd, and I'm not even talking about things like Arch or Gentoo where you can just pick your own stuff

    There's no need of any of that rubbish in an init system replacement

    Yeah, it's not an "init system replacement", it's a replacement for a bunch of unrelated components you have to hack together to get a working system

    13 votes

  19. Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success in ~comp

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    Systemd supports SysV style rc scripts. You can put them into /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and Systemd will automatically generate services to run them when your system boots up.

    Systemd supports SysV style rc scripts. You can put them into /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and Systemd will automatically generate services to run them when your system boots up.

    9 votes

  20. Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success in ~comp

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    So do many other people who contribute to the Linux kernel or ecosystem. Working for Microsoft doesn't automatically make you an evil developer trying to destroy open source, especially if you've...

    So do many other people who contribute to the Linux kernel or ecosystem. Working for Microsoft doesn't automatically make you an evil developer trying to destroy open source, especially if you've developed said open source projects for many years prior to that. Besides, if systemd's secret goal is to "destroy Linux" or whatever, it's not doing that well, as it seems to have only eased the development and maintainance of Linux distros and systems.

    17 votes