Ah, it might be a regional thing. In the UK, the cheapest Vitamix is almost £400 where the Magimix was about £200 at the time. They might be pretty comparable but the prices don’t quite work out the same here.
Totally agree though, I was getting through a £50-75 blender each year for really silly breakages with no spares available.
A decent blender. Not anything industrial like a Vitamix, it’s a Magimix which was about half as much but still durable and has replaceable parts. It’s fine for what I need and is lasting much longer than the pile of crap I had before.
Vacuum pack bags for clothes is another one. I like to keep my wardrobe seasonal but I don’t have much space, so packing it down helps.
Also anything reusable: PTFE/silicone baking sheets, rechargeable batteries, reloadable floss handles. All of these have saved recurring purchases, money over time and reduced waste (which made me feel good.)
To be honest, I agree they should be able to be larger at times.
I had a lot of disagreements when I was on a new codebase, knew what I was doing and I was able to push a lot of code out each day.
The idea is to have them small, easily readable with a tight feedback loop. I argued that bootstrapping a project will have a lot of new code at once to lay the foundations and my communication with the team was enough feedback. If I split it up, each PR would have been an incomplete idea and would have garnered a bunch of unnecessary questions.
That said, I think it’s generally pretty easy to put out multiple PRs in a day, keeping them small and specific. As you say, half of the job is reading code and it’s nicer to give my coworkers a set of PRs broken down into bite sized pieces.
I’d be pulled up at my job for any PR exceeding a few hundred lines. I don’t even know what they’d do if I just dropped a 15000 line stinker.
Have you seen the Star64?
Nice try, boss.
Yeah, I think that comes from the developer having high standards for hardware security. The effort put in is a waste if the hardware fails. I would have thought Samsung would have been suitable too, though.
What about /e/OS or plain old degoogled Lineage? I like it as a phone OS, it’s just a shame the app ecosystem is so dependent on Google’s services.
Just wanted to add a bit about Proton since you mentioned it and I use it quite heavily.
Pros:
Cons:
Otherwise these two are largely like-for-like for e-mail. There’s no benefit to Proton being hosted in Switzerland and I didn’t move to be warrant-proof or anything silly. The idea is really just moving emails away from an advertising company and paying for a quality service.
I need to get into NixOS but I have a similar variation on servers: ansible for state of systems, Borg + Borgbase for data (kept in /srv) and code (including ansible) are in Git.
The separation between data and state is really great. You want to be able to go from a base install and only bring in everything which makes your setup different.
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
I don’t even mind the shortened arguments too much, though it doesn’t help. It’s more that every example seems to smush them together into a string of letters.
I would have found
tar -x -f pics.tar ./pics
to be clearer when I was learning. There’s plenty of commands which allow combining flags but every tar tutorial seems to do it from the beginning.
If we can travel faster than the trolley, we could adjust all switches with one person who continues to travel to the next junction before the trolley arrives!
I used Ubuntu years ago and left after trying 11.04 (has it been that long?) because the new Unity desktop environment was awful and buggy and the release generally didn’t work even after I switched desktop environments. Rightly or wrongly, I came to associate Canonical with buggy bloatware.
I like how reliable Debian is for my servers but the package versions are too old for a desktop. Even then, a few days ago, I had to install rust with curl | sh because Debian’s package was just too old to build what I needed it to.
I distro-hopped a lot trying to replace what I used to like about Ubuntu on the desktop. Fedora has survived many reinstalls now. Like you say, it’s on the cutting-edge but it also doesn’t cause major issues most of the time. They’re also pretty predictable and don’t try anything insane.
It set my expectations a little too high I’d say! I really appreciate how they turned it into a profitable product too and it shows they have commitment to service when most of their secret sauce can be used by anyone.
I think they now have a headless version called Heartcore but, as far as I know, it’s a proprietary SaaS solution. Shame, that might have been of interest to you otherwise. I also use static site generators personally, it’s less to worry about.
I’m usually happy with the trade-off for better reliability and speed if it’s not anything where I want absolute privacy or control.
The privacy is going to be somewhat okay because you’re paying them for it, it’s supposed to be your machine and analysing all of the different content and traffic people host is much more difficult versus when a company provides one app. Plus it would be a PR and legal disaster. They’re probably not going to be passing on how I use my server to advertisers… probably, I hope.
So yeah, the only way I can be certain is to purely run it in my home.
I contribute to Umbraco every so often because we use it at work and think they should get some help because it’s been really useful for us. The community is very friendly and the devs are appreciative of good quality pull requests.
Some projects are kind of underwhelming. You can watch your PR you spent multiple nights on go completely unnoticed, without even a “thanks, we’re getting around to checking this.” I don’t mind when it’s some guy with a hobby project but I’m talking about projects run by companies.
I might look at Lemmy soon. I’ve been looking to help with something I actually have some personal stake in. It’s hard to put effort in when you don’t use it.
This is also my take on the, maybe well-deserved, complaints about the “pick a server” step. I’ve never been handed a massive list of email providers and only one was suggested to me at a time.
One night, I had a fly in my room. It was unusually brave, it flew at me while I was swatting. I’m not scared of flies, but I was scared of this one and how it behaved.
I wanted to get rid of it, so I used the ol’ turn off the lights in my room and turn them on elsewhere trick. It flew out, I switched the lights and shut the door.
The thing came under the door. I’ve never known anything like it. So, I got up and repeated. This time, I put a towel down to stop it from seeing the light and going under the door.
It. Fucking. Came. Through. The. Towel.
I’ve never felt so hunted in my life. I was horrified. Needless to say, the bug spray came out.
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