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The iPhone 13 mini is a cute little device, I really like it, but its battery life is so abysmal — can not last even a half day.

yes I switched from Chrome to FF for this exact reason but my oh my is FF so slow and laggy!

Based on my experience, one of the most challenging aspects of CRM is having sales agents manually enter customer data and log activities such as calls and emails, especially when …

Wow, I wasn't aware of this. With such amount of money raised, I would expect a more polished app/frontend. Their core open-source product as a password manager is solid, but the U…

Reading the original article, I must mention the recent LG OLED TV, which required me to create an account to install an app from their app store.

yes, the price is cheap, but the number subscriptions and the total sum of them add up very quickly.

> In some cities, especially in the north they are nearly the majority of vehicles on the road. lol, do you really live in Vietnam? How many electric scooters do you see on the str…

Yes, it is for SEO purposes and to build your own branding presence, and to be less dependant of other major platforms, in this case Youtube. 1. He probably already wrote a script …

Fido auth may be ok but please, stop the "magic link" or SMS authentication. Even with very fast delivery, having to switch email or SMS still take time and interrupt the signin pr…

Sure, they will throttle or suspend your SIM if you send out an abnormal number of SMSs to prevent spam.

Coca-Cola, Nike ... are some magnitudes different in brand recognition. They can afford to do that. I find it quite frustating when I'm on some startups' websites and after 1-3 cli…

Hardware is cheaper at scale too

> Colocated systems tend to work very well at first when the original engineers who set it up are all still at the company and it hasn't run long enough to start encountering rare …

My iphone 2G from 2007 still works well into 2013-2014.

Guess I'm the opposite. I hate USB-A the connector with passion. I always have to try 2-3 times to be able to plug the USB-A connector in. Now I keep only 2 USB-A chargers in my ho…

Linode, Digital Ocean, OVH, Hetzner all have hourly billing.

Network and bandwidth are absolutely not free but certainly not that expensive as the three major public clouds are charging: $0.1 per GB equals to $100 per 1TB transfer. Linode, D…

I remember reading from the Epic vs Apple debacle that Apple decided to not open iMessage for Android phones since 2013: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-a…

Spotify's discovery sucks. I can never ever find a favorite song in Spotify's suggestions. The experience is very similar to Youtube's echo chamber.

Windscribe is cool with generous free tier offer and simple, clean UI/UX

Yes, at work we use OpenVPN and only expose VPN, HTTP, HTTPS ports to the public. But I find VPN a bit overkill on my personal machines.

yeah, my mistake, i meant to write copy the public key :D copying by hand is ok but ssh-copy-id is simpler. Can't edit the comment now hmmm...

The first thing i do on a new remote box is to move SSH to another non-standard port other than 22. I use the same port for every remote boxes I have. Then add that port into `.ssh…

You can host your project on DO and connect to SES to send emails. Why do you have to move the complte project over?

Could be. As far as i can tell they do not market themselves, word of mouth only work so far within their (German?) tech savvy audience. I was a student in Germany since 2003 and u…