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    Comment #49200692

    Works for me in Firefox. It's h264/mp4.

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    Comment #49087797

    https://archive.is/HBaXZ (Cloudflare says I'm blocked from accessing the webpage, even though I'm using a residential IP)

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    Comment #48988648

    Plex app is better, but still inadequate compared to Infuse.

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    Comment #48974358

    I’m quite sure that server set cookies are the norm for authentication, at least where they are set from the server side.

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    Comment #48959452

    Wouldn't it be cheaper to only produce 500 items, instead of producing 1k, and throwing half of it away?

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    Comment #48956769

    Practically all consumer Zigbee devices only support 2.4GHz. You would need to go for ZWave for the sub-GHz range. Also, it's not like 860-930 MHz (depending on the country) is wit…

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    Comment #48827787

    I've been thinking about building my own NAS as well. Mind sharing how much did you pay for those hard drives, and what motherboard did you choose?

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    Comment #48827674

    Docker Desktop's memory saver shuts down VM when containers are not running. Additionally, Docker/Podman/Orbstack start a single VM, where memory is shared between containers. On t…

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    Comment #48746553

    FYI Apple Passwords supports exporting of items including Passkeys, which can be then imported in e.g. Bitwarden.

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    Comment #48572206

    The issue here is not that they didn't test on alternative distributions of Android, the issue is that they went out of their way to prevent anything but the officially blessed dis…

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    Comment #48544302

    Can you tell more about their subpar latency? I've been using Hetzner for many years, both personally and for business use, and I've not seen any noticeable issues regarding the la…

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    Comment #48482952

    Technically, here the paying customer experience was the problem, not the free trial one, because they were automatically upgraded. Generally, you don't want to award people/compan…

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    Comment #48482857

    Do you plan to refund all previous free trial customers, who didn't contact the support, and actually paid unexpected overage fees? Invoices are legally binding documents in many c…

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    Comment #48482600

    Why would you want to use a provider, that resorts to shady practices, especially since there are a lot of alternatives out there?

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    Comment #48482528

    Self-hosted runners make a ton of API calls during job execution, so they might not be completely wrong here.

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    Comment #48481543

    Luckily for them, every OS has (at least one) native way of building applications, and with the power of AI they could easily make 3 different desktop UIs, while reusing the same c…

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    Comment #48471511

    > They pioneered things like iCloud Private Relay and privacy protecting cloud backups for devices. They didn't pioneered it, they just brought it to the masses. Tor was here befor…

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    Comment #48465963

    Unless something has changed recently, Slack uses AWS Chime SDK for audio/video, so at least the core technology is great.

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    Comment #48343146

    Is GitHub really profitable, considering how much Actions credits are given away to open source projects as well as free users? Same goes for Copilot.

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    It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPVAnwuSjfk

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    Comment #48283696

    It doesn't have a great cross platform support (no Linux client, and there are many complaints for the Windows client). Personally, I dislike that you cannot restore an older versi…