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> NixOS is dying I won't believe that until Netcraft confirms it.

If framework did as you suggest, they would have no way to validate warranty status and recalls. Motherboard died after 3 months? Tough luck, they have no record of you being a cus…

All of the things you mentioned still exist, they are just not mainstream. And maybe that's for the best. Small friendly communities keep them alive, not companies that need to kee…

Weird, I've been running instances for many years and never had an issue spinning a new one up. Did you have a trial account or PAYG account? (There is a difference, trial account …

If by "just," you mean a couple of weeks ago, yes. I noticed the change to their documentation about two weeks ago. A couple days later, I checked my own account for something unre…

Not surprised, Kobos are the best value in e-readers right now. (Plus relatively open and hackable.)

Right? I have always just used whichever terminal came with the Linux desktop I was using at the time. If anything, the terminal is already the smallest and fastest gui app I have …

As someone who has maintained an open source project, I much prefer written bug reports and feature requests to drive-by PRs. (I almost don't even care if they are LLM-written.)

Hm. If "AI averages," then why doesn't it create an average amount to deal with, instead of more?

Fine, you've nerd-sniped me. I tinkered with Dish Network descrambling 20 years ago. Not because I wanted to just watch a bunch of free TV (I hardly watched any TV anyway, we mostl…

Nits: It's a Unix convention (not just Linux), and Unix traditionally ran on minicomputers (not mainframes). Mainframes had their own specialized OSes, although some could run Unix…

It would not surprise me if this was a law in Germany, for example.

20% seems high enough that if it was really _that_ effective, the companies making the panels would be tripping over themselves to buy this coating to apply it to the panels right …

Roof-mounted solar panels are a necessity in urban situations but they are a maintenance nightmare compared to a ground-mounted array. That has to be accepted as "the cost of doing…

> a wash Well done on this cleanly-executed pun.

Software licenses aren't enforced through litigation as much as they are enforced through the _threat_ of litigation and legal risk. In other words, pretty much every company pays …

I feel the need to push back on this perspective. Old doesn't imply arcane. It instead can (and does, in this case) mean that it won out over the course of decades against other le…

tio ( https://github.com/tio/tio ) is simpler, smaller, and has been around for 12 years. What's your edge?

The CGNAT space (100.64.0.0/10) is also free real estate for container virtual/overlay networks when you don't want to (or can't, thanks to IT) use the RFC-1918 subnets.

If the router is also the modem, it can have diagnostic stuff that could (I am careful to point out: theoretically) cause them a big support headache in one way or another. Also, I…

Even in the face of all the advice on reddit and HN that says never to host your own mail server, I have been doing so successfully for at least 15 years. It helps that I have had …

From the link: "Read before following this tutorial This tutorial was written shortly after Vulkan was initially released, back in 2016. A lot has changed since then and this tutor…

> site-specific container assignments This is (or was, before I switched to Vivaldi) the killer feature of Firefox containers for me. I could banish certain tracking-heavy sites to…

DeskMate in 1988 came with my family's first computer, a Tandy 2000 TX. One of the first mainstream consumer PCs with a 3.5" disk drive. (We had to later buy a 5.25" drive in order…