we are kindred spirits. i fart in google's general direction, yet i've been migrating to my owncloud at glacial speeds. I still sync contacts and calendars with evil:(. mainly because i'm afraid if i suddenly die, nobody will be able to maintain my servers. i don't want to leave my whole family stuck with a suddenly broken backend.
i've been trying to switch from Picasa, which i dislike but use, to digiKam for about 8 years. every time i try it, i return back to picasa for one reason only. speed of work. Picasa does not have many features, but what i can do with photos in Picasa in an hour takes me days to do in digiKam. i'm not even sure digiKam does non-destructive editing yet. in picasa, all my changes are kept in a file separate from a photo and i can export the photo with the changes. in digiKam, i could only edit the photo directly (last time i tried).
buy a backup Nokia/Samsung/whatevz feature phone. it will last you a week on a single charge with many hours of calls.
I keep a spare Nokia 215 in my bag with an extra battery. The phone cost me 10 euro and the spare battery 9.50. On paper: 700 hours standby, 20 hours talk time.
sure i look like a tool when i use it, but at least i have a phone i can rely on when i travel. there's now Nokia 230, which doesn't look like a toy and still has 650 hours standby time and 23 hours talk time. I'll probably upgrade to that one.
doesn't everybody (who's lost data once) leave an encrypted backup disk at parents'/friend's house? i used to, now i just got my dad fast internet and cross-sync our zfs pools every night.
it doesn't matter. it's TLC and lasts only 250 overwrites. they claim it'll last 3 years (30TB of writes for the 120GB) but the average jane user, who fills up 90% of the drive (with selfies) in the first 6 months and then cornholes the remaining 10% for the next few years, will most likely suffer data loss. i'd steer clear.
this is almost as bad as the recent Sandisk z400s which only lasts 281 overwrites. shitty disposable crap.
even in the late 90s, early 2000s, the cell tower triangulation allowed for 3-5 metre accuracy in cities. i don't remember if it was gsm 900 or whether it needed a 2G network (1800MHz) but that was what police in europe often used to bust criminals.
hence the popularity of nokia 6110, 6150, 6210 a 7110 among criminals where the "net monitor" part of menu could be activated. here you'd select association with a single BTS (by selecting a "bts test") and that was the end of triangulation. all the police would have was that you're somewhere inside a 10km diameter.
people are just stupid. i always tell people likely to use company laptops for private stuff to set up a separate user account for this. that way, you'll never expose your wife's tits on a projector in front of a whole room like my boss managed to do. fortunately, it wasn't porn, just breastfeeding.
it was a joke. java (jvm) will eventually fill all available memory if you allow it to (with that -Xmx switch). if you just want to see your ram filled up, simply use java software like cassandra, elasticsearch or hello_world and wave your memory bye bye.
i also have 64 gigs of ram and it often isn't enough when i play with virtual machines.
well, amd is almost dead and intel's innovation has slowed down to a crawl. apart from new instructions, there is almost no reason to upgrade a processor bought in the last 4-5 years. you simply don't gain much.
for me, the magic trigger words are "hardware accelerated hevc/vp9 encoding". if a cpu that allows for real time 4k hevc/vp9 encoding comes out, i'll switch immediately. otherwise, i'll stay with my current cpu for a good few more years.
some of these calls made me genuinely cringe. i expected to feel "serves you right" but ended up feeling sorry for the callers. they're just people who can't get a job anywhere else.
is there a reliable alternative for Chrome? on my chromebook, i use "tab cookies" https://chrome.google.com/webs... but i often find google's cookies lying around even after closing all tabs related to google. Self-destructing cookies is always 100% reliable.
on windows, a lot of installers seem to have "install Google Chrome and make it my default browser" button checked for some reason. it's no wonder chrome is spreading like a disease.
to me, there are only 3 reasons to keep firefox on my computers: vertical tree-like tabs, privacy extensions (better than anything on Chrome) and firefox sync (with my own server). if any 2 of these disappear, i'll switch.
i had free unlimited worldwide 3G internet on my Kindle but thanks to idiots who misused it (for tethering), i am now capped at 50MB/month. same will happen here. if i ever meet you Mr YDKK, i'll kick you in the nutsack for not keeping your piehole shut.
just follow slashdot deals if you want to see the next service that will follow suit. at the moment it's: https://deals.slashdot.org/sal... a lifetime subscription to 2TB cloud backup service for $49.
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we are kindred spirits. i fart in google's general direction, yet i've been migrating to my owncloud at glacial speeds. I still sync contacts and calendars with evil :(. mainly because i'm afraid if i suddenly die, nobody will be able to maintain my servers. i don't want to leave my whole family stuck with a suddenly broken backend.
i've been trying to switch from Picasa, which i dislike but use, to digiKam for about 8 years. every time i try it, i return back to picasa for one reason only. speed of work. Picasa does not have many features, but what i can do with photos in Picasa in an hour takes me days to do in digiKam. i'm not even sure digiKam does non-destructive editing yet. in picasa, all my changes are kept in a file separate from a photo and i can export the photo with the changes. in digiKam, i could only edit the photo directly (last time i tried).
buy a backup Nokia/Samsung/whatevz feature phone. it will last you a week on a single charge with many hours of calls.
I keep a spare Nokia 215 in my bag with an extra battery. The phone cost me 10 euro and the spare battery 9.50. On paper: 700 hours standby, 20 hours talk time.
sure i look like a tool when i use it, but at least i have a phone i can rely on when i travel. there's now Nokia 230, which doesn't look like a toy and still has 650 hours standby time and 23 hours talk time. I'll probably upgrade to that one.
doesn't everybody (who's lost data once) leave an encrypted backup disk at parents'/friend's house? i used to, now i just got my dad fast internet and cross-sync our zfs pools every night.
s/almost as bad as/worse than
it doesn't matter. it's TLC and lasts only 250 overwrites. they claim it'll last 3 years (30TB of writes for the 120GB) but the average jane user, who fills up 90% of the drive (with selfies) in the first 6 months and then cornholes the remaining 10% for the next few years, will most likely suffer data loss. i'd steer clear.
this is almost as bad as the recent Sandisk z400s which only lasts 281 overwrites. shitty disposable crap.
even in the late 90s, early 2000s, the cell tower triangulation allowed for 3-5 metre accuracy in cities. i don't remember if it was gsm 900 or whether it needed a 2G network (1800MHz) but that was what police in europe often used to bust criminals.
hence the popularity of nokia 6110, 6150, 6210 a 7110 among criminals where the "net monitor" part of menu could be activated. here you'd select association with a single BTS (by selecting a "bts test") and that was the end of triangulation. all the police would have was that you're somewhere inside a 10km diameter.
i saw a dude waddling out of McDonalds the other day. could've proven gravitational waves right there and then.
the remnants of good old times in my /etc/apt/sources.list:
# deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free
people are just stupid. i always tell people likely to use company laptops for private stuff to set up a separate user account for this. that way, you'll never expose your wife's tits on a projector in front of a whole room like my boss managed to do. fortunately, it wasn't porn, just breastfeeding.
it was a joke. java (jvm) will eventually fill all available memory if you allow it to (with that -Xmx switch). if you just want to see your ram filled up, simply use java software like cassandra, elasticsearch or hello_world and wave your memory bye bye.
i also have 64 gigs of ram and it often isn't enough when i play with virtual machines.
did they use a thermometer from alibaba.com?
java -Xmx132000m ....
is power in your country free? fx-83xx needs roughly twice as much of it as comparably priced (and 15-20% less powerful) i5-46xx.
well, amd is almost dead and intel's innovation has slowed down to a crawl. apart from new instructions, there is almost no reason to upgrade a processor bought in the last 4-5 years. you simply don't gain much.
for me, the magic trigger words are "hardware accelerated hevc/vp9 encoding". if a cpu that allows for real time 4k hevc/vp9 encoding comes out, i'll switch immediately. otherwise, i'll stay with my current cpu for a good few more years.
oh thanks. don't need those. i'll just continue sucking up to people with 5 digit slashdot ID and belittle those with one higher than mine, sonny.
what are these "friends" they keep talking about?
some of these calls made me genuinely cringe. i expected to feel "serves you right" but ended up feeling sorry for the callers. they're just people who can't get a job anywhere else.
is there a reliable alternative for Chrome? on my chromebook, i use "tab cookies" https://chrome.google.com/webs... but i often find google's cookies lying around even after closing all tabs related to google. Self-destructing cookies is always 100% reliable.
on windows, a lot of installers seem to have "install Google Chrome and make it my default browser" button checked for some reason. it's no wonder chrome is spreading like a disease.
to me, there are only 3 reasons to keep firefox on my computers: vertical tree-like tabs, privacy extensions (better than anything on Chrome) and firefox sync (with my own server). if any 2 of these disappear, i'll switch.
developing and licensing is using the patent. as you said, trolls simply wait for others to encroach. that's a completely wrong approach.
instead of defend, it should be 'use'. unused patent just stifles innovation. you wanna keep it, use it.
i had free unlimited worldwide 3G internet on my Kindle but thanks to idiots who misused it (for tethering), i am now capped at 50MB/month. same will happen here. if i ever meet you Mr YDKK, i'll kick you in the nutsack for not keeping your piehole shut.
just follow slashdot deals if you want to see the next service that will follow suit. at the moment it's: https://deals.slashdot.org/sal... a lifetime subscription to 2TB cloud backup service for $49.
or you could just ask your friendly neighbourhood homeless person to buy you a prepaid sim card in his name for a big mac meal.