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Post by KerrickStaley »

wishinghand wrote: post #202

The Macbook Pro chassis before the OLED touchstrip. I'm a web developer and learned on MBPs. The touchpad was the right size, the keys had the right amount of travel, the form factor and weight were perfect. Right now I'm considering moving to developing on a Galaga Pro and using Windows/WSL. I've got most things setup on my desktop how I like using HyperTerm (I had too much trouble with Cmder), VS Code, and ZSH. I c…

I really like my Dell Precision 5520. They keyboard is a little inferior to Mac or ThinkPad, but in most other aspects there is good attention to detail, and it has good Linux drivers.

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Post by fowl2 »

vmlinuz wrote: post #312
arthuryip wrote: post #64

Crashplan for home. Still haven't found another unlimited plan with linux client.

Came here to say this... had various family members using it, clients, etc. Backblaze's "we don't support Linux desktops because they'll abuse it" policy is pretty annoying, in context.

I miss the multiple destinations and "backup to another computer on the same lan" feature. Had mutual between the grandparent's computers, an attached USB hdd and then both to the cloud. Easy. :/

Switched them over to Duplicati + b2 and it's much cheaper for the amount of storage they're using. Still safe in a catastrophe but regular "oh I deleted that file" restoring won't be so fast.

edit: oh and the continuous backup thing and monitoring emails if it stops working was nice

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Post by gooseus »

krackers wrote: post #18

Palm/HP WebOS

Scrolled through a lot of other comments to find this one.

Palm Pre was the first true smart phone I ever owned and I still maintain it was the best - way ahead of its time with the card interface and all you needed to code apps was HTML/CSS/JS.

I am super jealous of the other timeline where someone else (or no one) bought Palm and they continued developing WebOS and releasing it on new hardware for the last 10 years.

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Post by vhf »

est wrote: post #329
robbyking wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did it do that Google Photos doesn't? I never tried it, but I know there are some die-hards who really miss it.

It would be nice to have some kind of Google-Photos-alike without the Google part. E.g. I can host on my own NAS.

Check these out:

* https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

* https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos

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Post by Kliment »

aninteger wrote: post #286

A diverse CPU collection. For a while we had some good alternatives to Intel x86. Alpha, Sparc, Motorola 68k, PowerPC, MIPS. Now we just have 32 and 64 variants of x86 and ARM. I guess powerpc is technically not dead yet (which is good!) although the new 64 bit powerpc is little endian I think... As for companies, Sun Microsystems. I'd like to think that Sun, if they were still around, would be handling Java better t…

MIPS is alive and well - almost all consumer routers run it.

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Post by smilesnd »

Kazaa, not so much wish it was around but I wish the experience was around. I would be up late downloading all sorts of random stuff some really strange videos people made, or some music someone created or modify. Didn't have the legal hurdles people have with youtube or soundcloud so you would find some really random or strange things people created. "If_You_Like_Korn_limp_marilyn.mp3" was all the info you got and you would never know who the band was or anything.
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