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Reflecting on my own experience on both sides, I can tell a generational difference. As student, research-focused professors and some old timers made you feel unwelcome in office h…

The Internet seems like a small place, and lately, I always find you talking in a demeaning way about the South of Spain and/or its people. :-) I usually wouldn't engage further (a…

Quoting some ska tune in a SSH vulnerability report really caught me off ward, but I loved it.

> Basically plants evolved Lignin (wood) but there was nothing in the world that could break it down so it rapidly accumulated along with a hyperoxgenated atmosphere due to the ext…

IIRC 50MB was not the space needed in RAM but the size of the whole basic installation on disk

You may want to turn it on and check how it is doing, just in case. That model is infamously known for its bad capacitors and their tendency to bulge and die. As a side note, I fin…

I really like the form factor, if only there would be some off-the-shelf options for a mechanical keyboard version .. I know there are plenty DIY projects for this (and the cyberde…

I am a big fan of thin clients as servers. It is true you lose the "built-in console and UPS", but they usually come in very nice and compact form factor, many are fanless and cons…

I did not find the XLennart very graceful neither. I admit I am also biased about the original XBill one.

"The only winning move is not to play."

The main complain in my environment (composed by both doctors and dropouts) is not about "it being hard" but "it being disappointing", specially when you are interested in doing ac…

I opened the link mostly to see which thin client model the author chose, to discover it is a HP T520, a machine it happens I also own an unit. I cannot comment on TimeMachine, but…

It looks like a powerful combo. Back in the day I went the LaTeX path, nowadays I’ll be tempted to follow your approach. I have tried Obsidian a couple of times, but it never stuck…

Zotero was key to finish my long delayed thesis, reducing the toil of managing a lot of references on a topic that I disliked more and more by the minute. Unfortunately back in the…

Indeed. Moreover the smoothness, consistency and tolerance of the switches is a fundamental part of the hobby nowadays. But pretty cool stuff in the line “because we can”.

I utterly dislike Zabbix (enough to login here and complain). I guess that if it fits your needs is all good and fine, but as someone that has been in charge of defining and feedin…

I have a soft spot for Window Maker and I have been using it until recently , when I moved to Wayland-based environments. I also really like its dockapps (I even wasted some time w…

Trash Theory is a really cool and informative channel :-)

I watched the original interview (2020) and I found it interesting, most of the things sounded plausible. At some point during the second interview he starts to digress about curre…

I could not agree more with this (as a person down that rabbit hole) :-)

My opinion is solely based on my personal experience, so take it with a grain of salt. I was enrolled in a PhD program (engineering) around the time Sci-Hub started, we were lucky …

I did not know the tool (nor the request). Interesting! Thanks

In a similar fashion than other people here, my first contact with ARJ was via a copy of Doom compressed and split into several floppies. Some years ago I remembered out of the blu…

Thanks a lot for explaining this. Having such feature is definitely useful.

Are the notes and highlights stored in the PDF? Asking because I use Zotero in several machines and I need annotations and highlights to be synchronized without much hassle. Zotero…