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I don't look at the logs of my personal site very often as it is a static site, but just went to check, and yeah, it's almost all ai crawlers. Note sure what is going on here, but …

Yeah burned discs wore out much earlier but it depended a lot on the brand. Fry’s great quality brand (or whatever it was called) did not last long. But my memorex and verbatim sti…

Agree with the siblings. I have hundreds of CDs in binders. They have lived in the unconditioned storage, very hot and humid attics, and on the floorboards of cars and for the most…

I like vinyl (any physical media, i still listen to new bands that only release on cassette) because it is cumbersome and purposeful. You have to flip through a collection and make…

A friend in his 40s had a 90s birthday party so I burned some mix CDs as party favors. Those CDrs were 20 years old and have been sitting in a hot, humid attic for the last 10+ yea…

This is surprising to me and the exact opposite of what I want for a few reasons: 1. I don't like surprise breakages. I am not prepared to fix a service my family uses midday on a …

As someone who has canceled all my subscriptions and just uses Jellyfin for 100% of my content, what are some good options besides a Roku? I would love to have hardware like Roku, …

You can always use something like this [1], which will make sure any file removed on the command line via rm (or other utilities, like git rm) ends up in the trash instead [1] http…

I’ll agree with some parts of this as I have some big issues with parts of systemd. But writing service files with systemd is so much better and having a unified interface into log…

I think it is amazing that Linux has reached such an audience that the knowledge of what windowing or desktop system being used is unknown. But at the same time it makes me a littl…

I worked at a company that had a powerful legacy software that was meant to be configured once and run full screen. At some point it needed a custom interface and the ability to re…

When switching to Wayland I lost a lot of custom interactions. I’ve learned to live without them but I still miss them. For example I was a big user of devilspie for placing window…

I know nothing about this, but they do seem to have a gamepad: https://frame.work/products/8bitdo-ultimate-2c-wireless-cont...

That’s like saying movies should have to rate every scene so a 7 year old can watch the “safe” parts of an R movie? If a site is really mixing so much content (like Reddit) then th…

Every app submitted to the App or Play store already has to do this. If parental controls are on, then users cannot download those apps. The only hard part for the web is that a si…

We approach tickets that match with our development strategy. A ticket is tied to and represents a branch of code. When that code is merged the ticket is done. It cannot be reopene…

I find the problem is that engineering wants one work flow, product wants another, another department wants theirs, and so on. As a CTO I have declared that Jira is owned by engine…

I’ve found being able to share passwords with my spouse very valuable which we couldn’t easily do with keepass. Also the syncing strategy on iOS is a disaster and corrupted my wife…

I mean does it? I have set it up before but I just set it up for my new small office team. I already had an internal server and WireGuard vpn in our office and it took 2 minutes to…

It’s a bad strategy. I am capable so I host an instance of vaultwarden for myself and spouse (only available via our vpn) But when friends and family ask for my recommendation I se…

For me, what has really changed is the feeling of having community on the Internet. In the 90s, I had: Instant Messenger with people I knew IRC channels for interests Forums for sp…

I have Raynaud's which causes loss of circulation in my fingertips even when the weather isn't that cold (so even in a car with the heat on). Then this happens, touch screens do no…

I find youtube's interface so incredibly frustrating and hostile. Even when I know what I want to watch, I find it very hard to actually get to it. On their Roku app, search for Th…

The problem isn't having cameras. Its that these cameras should be closed circuit with data residing locally, not being sent to a 3rd party that has full access to the video stream…

We are opening up a wellness clinic and we were planning to use a managed service company for internet, network, and security. I was appalled by the managed services suggestions. P…