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Taxis in general are a working and proven business model. You could have been skeptical about the way they approached it but surprise surprise, you can make money providing taxi se…

> It's doable but has limited benefits when they're limited to 2-4 GB of RAM anyway. Back in the day there was no real benefit. Today it's different as most Linux distros don't rea…

I owned a Samsung NC10 which had a non-shitty keyboard as its outstanding feature. Was a nice little Linux machine I used a lot. Only bad thing, those Intel Atom N2xx CPUs are just…

Sadly even back in the day mostly some very early models shipped with Linux as Microsoft promptly made sure they don't.

Except for the price. Apart from portability and battery life a huge factor was them being (very) low cost.

> Netbooks didn’t need Microsoft’s help in dying. Nobody bought more than one of them, the experience was that bad. If I remember correctly Microsoft put a limit on the HW specs fo…

> Proxmox is merely Debian with some fancy curtains. It's part of the appeal that it is mostly just Debian under the hood. If I want to run containers I would also not see it as th…

Also your script often might not be that battle tested, more likely it will have bugs and miss a few important edge cases.

> there's a special place in hell for helm in particular for using text/template to generate yaml Indeed. Using text templating for structured documents is already quite bad, doing…

It's the industry standard for running and shipping containerized applications, at least for the ones which are more complex and/or dynamic than an application container and maybe …

On low power, mostly idle systems that's definitely a downside. K8s is always busy, probably largely because it's whole architecture is centered around reconciliation loops which c…

That's really a huge issue right now (to some extent even before the AI hype) that almost everywhere google is effectively the only entity explicitly allowed to scrape.

Maybe they have just too much money at hand, would not surprise me, people are still investing into gen AI like there is no tomorrow. Also, for the completely criminal operations, …

Same here, the usefulness of the slop machines is quite limited compared to the downsides.

Yep quite useless. It's well known that postgres defaults are tuned for low resource usage, not for max performance. There are calculators like https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/ to get…

Switched to that one some time ago, more features and adapts faster to changes in newer proxmox versions https://github.com/bpg/terraform-provider-proxmox

I think it will in general go more into the direction of using the technology a bit smarter. This will include smaller models but certainly also just less usage overall. Currently …

> This is just how the VC game works. Cross-town Uber rides don't stay $5 forever. Basically yes but there is a small difference I think. Things like Uber took an existing and prov…

Really need to try PyInfra, the concept sounds nice. You don't have to do crazy things with Ansible for that yaml DSL becoming the opposite of helpful. Things which would be quite …

I think in general not being able to replace the battery toolless is quite an acceptable compromise nowadays. The needed mechanism and the protective shell the replaceable battery …

Also availability of original spare parts is important. Aftermarket batteries often tend to be shitty.

Nonsense. It just mandates easier repairability and spare parts availability, not ad-hoc replacement. Also this does not apply if the battery is able to retain 80% of its original …

You can even use the chip on the card together with some cheap HW device to authorize the transactions made with the app. This actually exists [1] for quite some time but seems to …

> But the job had better take fewer people, or the automation is not justified. Not necessarily. Automation may also just result in higher quality output because it eliminates mist…

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