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_x5tx | 5 years ago | on: Self-charging, thousand-year battery by startup NDB

This sounds too good to be true. Suppose they deliver this with the scale to be used any place, we could see a truly wireless world, even the tv could come with a battery that would last a lifetime, no power outlets would be needed anymore. What are your thoughts?

_x5tx | 5 years ago | on: CentOS 8.2.2004 Released

If you want stability on bare metal servers without having to pay the RedHat license then CentOS is the way to go. I've using to work with lots of bare metal servers and we used to run debian on everything until we started to have issues with kernel panics on machines we used with xen. We changed a few machines to CentOS and never looked back, in a spam of a few months we migrated all servers to CentOS and had much less stability issues. Not to say that debian isn't very stable as well, but RedHat puts money and effort into making their distro run on various enterprise level hardware.

_x5tx | 5 years ago | on: Fedora 32 is officially here

Fedora is now a hybrid, some packages that are security sensitive are rolling, like kernel, web browsers, etc. And the ones that don’t need updates all the time are updated at releases. So it is the best of both worlds, things that matter are always updated while keeping overall system stability

_x5tx | 6 years ago | on: Secure by Design

This text remembers me of some techniques used on qmail, which has a great security record.

_x5tx | 6 years ago | on: A Look Back at Manufacturing Linux Hardware

If I could give one feedback to system76, or even better, to all laptop manufacturers: please start making 15 inch laptops without numpad. I was considering buying a system76 in the past and this was what prevented me to buy one.

_x5tx | 6 years ago | on: Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

Honest question here: what are the advantages over fancy zones? I'm a linux i3 user and want to give a try on windows with fancy zones, I can give workspacer a try as well.

_x5tx | 6 years ago | on: OpenBSD Is Now My Workstation

These thinkpads are pretty good, and very easy to upgrade. I already changed my wifi card to support ac and I’m planning to flash coreboot bios. Last item in my checklist is to upgrade the display to full hd.

_x5tx | 6 years ago | on: OpenBSD Is Now My Workstation

I tried openbsd in my thinkpad x220. IDK if the processor only make a huge difference (mine being core i3 2.1ghz), but what I saw was a slow system experience, opening firefox for the first time (after boot) took a decade. I would experience slugishness everytime I closed a tab. And I was using cwm which is supposed to be even more lightweight than xfce4. I'm upgrading my motherboard to have the same processor as the author, maybe I will give another shot.

_x5tx | 6 years ago | on: Firefox Monitor

It looks like they don't have the Onliner Spambot database, as my email is not flagged but when I look at the haveibeenpwned website it flags for this spam list.

_x5tx | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: PugSQL, a Python Port of HugSQL

I started the same project with the same name a few months ago, I’m happy to see someone went farther than I did. Congrats on this project, I’m testing later. HugSQL achieves the right balance between orm and boilerplate code.

_x5tx | 6 years ago | on: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

I recently upgraded my computer at work, and instead of going for a beefier laptop I opted to build an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 machine, and I could never been happier, running Fedora on it is many many times faster than any laptop out there. The build only costed $900 and the specs are far superior than what I would get for a laptop on that price range. Since most of the time I spend at my desk programming I feel it was a good move, and when I have to go to meetings I have my Surface Pro 6 which serves me very well on that purpose.

_x5tx | 6 years ago | on: New, portable, open source password manager for Windows

I’ve been using Bitwarden for a little more than a month and it is by far the best password manager I used. And being open source is a very nice bonus. I’m going for tue paid option to support the company behind it.

_x5tx | 7 years ago | on: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

From someone that has been using linux as his main OS since 2003, I tried to switch to mac once (used for one year) and had to work with a mac for approx. 4 years.

As good as brew is, it is just not as good as having your distro package manager, I ran into so many issues using brew, every mac os upgrade was a pain to keep brew packages working. Then it came docker, what a bliss is to use docker on Linux, but on mac it is just cumbersome, specially because everything is inside that qcow image that only grows until you run out-of-disk. I know it was alleviated by some measures the docker team took to "fix" it, but still it is not as good as docker running on linux.

Nowadays I just buy a thinkpad, put Fedora on it and everything works as expected. Because all of the projects I work with use docker, performance wise it is so much faster than running it on mac os.

_x5tx | 7 years ago | on: Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook

After years of using android I just moved from my galaxy s8 to an iphone xs max, and I was surprised to see that apple allows to uninstall most of their apps. What I usually did on my former samsung was to disable the apps I didn't needed, it is not the same as uninstalling it but it does the job.

_x5tx | 7 years ago | on: Python's New Package Landscape

I did have the same problem, and apart from taking too long for dependency resolution it felt like breaking up at each update, sometimes from pipenv update, sometimes from pip update making pipenv breaking. I migrated to poetry and never been happier.
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