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I dont know... this works out until someone approaches you and says: well we see you are using LOTS of tokens so you must be incredibly productive. Please show your results.

Hm. Hetzners billing stuff is highly automated - but they usually give you about a month to pay your bill if the credit card payment failed for some reason.

Nobody speaks about the way larger spacing between "AND THE" in comparison to the other spaces...

Strong disagree. Angular is cursed to the bone. It got a bit better recently but its still just making almost everything totally overcomplicated and bloated.

Unless someone posts a photo of the stolen car with the numberplate still on, how would you identify YOUR car that way? Its not like cars are unique pieces. Same for bikes or anyth…

Sure, in theory Hetzner could pull the plug or access the data on my VPS. But that’s true of any infrastructure... just like someone could break into my house and steal my self-hos…

I am irritated that "self hosted" seems to mean "in your own house" and everyone just agrees. To me, self hosted also means I rent a machine with Hetzner and run the server softwar…

i've been using llm-based tools like copilot and claude pro (though not cc with opus), and while they can be helpful – e.g. for doc lookups, repetitive stuff, or quick reminders – …

Sorry but the approach is too naive and the tech isnt there yet. You can't make up a couple of conversation topics and expect the LLMs to do the rest by just switching languages. P…

I wonder about the mentioned application in mobile devices. with mobile and tablet devices one usually has a very durable glass layer between the screen and the outside world - not…

Or just... put in a usb thumb drive, move the 50gb on it and call it a day?

Hm, you cannot simulate sunlight at all with an RGB LED ring. You can create something that looks cool for our human eyes but the average plant wouldnt make it long beneath them be…

Not that I am planning to travel to the US at any point but the first thing that came to my mind was: why not just sending the phone by parcel, fly without it and pick it up later …

Colocation, I don't know... Without questioning peoples preferences but I think at that point I'd rather look for a decent fiber network connection for my home and let that raspber…

Well, it depends whats your cup of tea in terms of learning. There area a LOT of courses on Udemy on that topic (if you prefer learning from videos). I would recommend looking arou…

I recently wrote an article challenging the common urge to dive straight into coding when inspiration strikes. As developers, we often feel compelled to start coding immediately, b…

A nice tool when you need to things with images. Reverse search, editing, hosting, more: https://imgops.com/

They say sonos does a good job on privacy. Did I miss something? Did they finally drop their approach of GPS-locating each speaker, phoning home what you listen to every couple of …

Working 10 to 12 hours straight with only one or two half an hour breaks is no goal one should thrive for. Neither working 80 hours a week. Heck, it would even be against the law i…