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geppetto

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    Comment #41924489

    I'm running a small website on a Cubiebord 1 SBC off my home internet connection. For such a scenario - home server on a desk, non demanding website such as a wiki - an SBC is a wi…

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    Comment #39025937

    I've tried many of them and I keep turning to kdenlive, both on linux (my main driver) and windows. I've been using it for years, although occasionally. From my perspective it's th…

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    Comment #37694753

    Looks exactly like Kicad...

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    Comment #36401183

    Easy, I just choose the instance with the bigger community in my own native language then added people from other instances.

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    Comment #30427883

    One more vote for Shaarli. I just need tagged bookmarks and it does the job while being fast, reliable and simple. I'm also using the Firefox extension and Android app. Super easy.…

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    Comment #28366838

    me too. Since 2001. Still I run Windows occasionally when I need some specific proprietary apps that are not available on other platforms (mostly electronic design suites).

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    Comment #27214726

    Well "libera" means free in Italian so it makes sense to me. There are also other projects with sound the same such as libre (spanish I guess) office. I like it. But I'm biased bei…

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    Comment #24156847

    Workflow changed with darktable 3 and to get the most out of it I recommend reading this article: https://pixls.us/articles/darktable-3-rgb-or-lab-which-modul... Many modules - tha…

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    Comment #23243946

    I've never had an issue in 7 years while upgrading (unpack a tgz file and minor cleaning) so my experience is different. Backup is not an issue because all pages are just text file…

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    Comment #23237311

    Dokuwiki is fast and bloat free and works great on mobile browsers since 2012. I've been running it on the same single board computer since 2013 (good luck running Wordpress or Nex…

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    Comment #23028283

    Good news for all the school people that has been using it for learning purposes only (eg my students). That said there are good alternatives already like jitsi or - time limit apa…

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    Comment #22074764

    I've just gave it a try but nightly is still on the older version here. Anyway Firefox Preview is my default browser with Firefox Beta as a backup on Android. Preview is much faste…

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    Comment #22055073

    I've just received my Somu by Solokeys. It's an open-source security key for 2FA. I've tested it on Windows and Linux adding it as a security key for 2-Step verification and it wor…

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    Comment #21947464

    Still using mine, and it's the lower specs Celeron I bought used for 100€. Lightweight, small and with a great battery life. Bad screen. I used to carry it around everywhere cause …

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    Comment #21311367

    Dokuwiki is great. Self-hosted, low requirements (no DB, just php), easy to maintanin, plain text files so data always accessible. It's a wiki so easy to edit and publish; readers …

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    Comment #21233855

    Firefox preview is not mature and lacks extensions but it's noticeably faster than Firefox Beta, which I use as default browser on Android 9.

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    Comment #20192376

    I've used and recommended it until the Go/PostGres rewrite happened with miniflux 2. I've switched to Selfoss since then because it had more costraints when self-hosting (php and n…

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    Ask HN: Is WhatsApp Web Down?

    WhatsApp Web got disconnected on all my browsers and QR authentication fails. Is there some unreported technical problem going on?

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    Comment #19197622

    I'm glad I can. It's a known, trusted distribution I've been using since 2001 on my main PC. It runs my personal web server since 2013 on a Cuibeboard and it works well. I've got a…

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    Comment #16873908

    On my 5 years old cubieboard server I experienced NAND corruption more often then not when power outage occurs. Never had this kind of problems since I switched to SD cards. In my …

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    Comment #14341235

    I'm using a Cubieboard as a web server and I'm very happy. It's a 50$ Raspberry clone from 2013 with better specs (for the time). Consider that: - it runs mainline kernel and a reg…