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Yes, a flat daily fee during the week, and double that during the weekend or public holidays. Comes to ~600€ per week. If you actually get paged, you automatically get time off for the amount of hours you spent dealing with the incident.

Updating the BIOS via fwupd fixed it in my case, running Debian testing on a P14s Gen1 AMD.

As a Slovak I can confirm it's pretty easy to read both, although I hate the usage of cx, sx, ... instead of č, š, ... in Slovio.

I feel like Interslavic is closer in vocabulary to Slovak, but the form of the words is a bit foreign (reminds me of some other Slavic languages, although I can't quite figure out which one), while the opposite is the case with Slovio - the form of the words feels closer to Slovak, but the vocabulary itself feels more "Russian" to me.

As a Slovak, Interslavic feels easier to read and understand, though I can understand Slovio as well.

From my experience, Slovak speakers can understand other Slavic languages pretty well: Czech is basically our second native language (although for some reason it seems Czechs don't understand Slovak quite to the same degree), Polish, Slovenian and Croatian are understandable as well. Russian is a lot harder, even when written in Latin. I don't have experience with Ukrainian.

Hetzner Cloud is adjusting the price for new CX11 and CPX11 instances starting on 1st September.

CX11 goes from 2,49€ to 3,49€ excl. VAT, CPX11 from 3,49€ to 3,99€.

New Floating IPs will also cost more from 1st August - 3€ instead of 1€.

This does not affect existing instances and existing floating IPs.

Source: Received an email from Hetzner as a customer with the affected instances.

In Slovakia, if you live in an apartment building you can usually get up to 1Gbps/100Mbps FTTx or DOCSIS for around 30€, with some providers limiting upload to only 5% of download (so e.g. 1000/50). Some local providers might offer symmetric, but that's an exception. Most people are probably on cheaper plans in the 200-300Mbit download range for ~15€.

If you live in a detached house though, your only option is usually xDSL where you're lucky to get 15/1Mbit for ~20€ if you live "further from the post office".

Fixed wireless (LTE) usually offers better speeds if it's not oversubscribed in your area (40/40Mbit) but is not available everywhere, is more expensive and includes data caps.

Fiber to individual houses is mostly possible only in new developments, as you can't run new wiring on poles in Slovakia, only in the ground, so no ISP bothers to upgrade older houses.

Merry Christmas from Slovakia. Veselé Vianoce!

Being from Slovakia, I guess people in our current government don't really care. The company SK-NIC that was running the TLD has ties with people in the government. It was recently sold to CentralNic, based in England.

When using the extension, you can use Ctrl+[dot] to open the container selector and then use arrows/tab and enter to select the container to open a new tab in. It's not as good as a dedicated shortcut, but it lets you open new container tabs without leaving your keyboard.

They did.

The only thing missing for me in Firefox on Android is text reflow. I just can't use a mobile browser without this feature.

There are some addons which try to emulate text reflow on tap, but it's pain to use at best.

Avast also does HTTPS MITM. It's on by default, but can be disabled in Web shield preferences.

I've just tested it in a clean VM running Windows 7, and the MITM didn't work in current Firefox stable, but it did in IE. However, as far as I can tell, it only MITMs DV certificates, not EV. Also, when it MITMs a self-signed certificate, it generates an untrusted certificate, but it says it was generated by Avast, so the user could trust it more easily.

Also, in my experience, the free version of Avast considerably affects performance on slower machines (no SSD, earlier-gen CPU, etc.), but YMMV. It also tries to install Chrome as a default browser, a Google toolbar for IE, various "Secure browsing" extensions to other browsers and lot's of other annoying crap.

Obligatory link: https://qntm.org/abolish

I have the x220 with a used 9-cell battery (last full charge was 75%) and I'm easily able to get just under 6 hours of standard use (browsing, WiFi, watching movies, coding) and screen brightness at around 60%.

I have good experience with Asus as well. Until recently I was still using my early 2011 Asus U36JC. It was probably one of the first ultrabook-like laptops, even though it wasn't branded as one, since it had a second discrete GPU. Reasonably thin at 19 mm and 1.4 kg, with stellar battery life (10h+ under Debian) and great performance. Even though it had 1st generation Core i5, it was still snappier then most of my classmate's laptops with latest i5s. It even had a USB 3.0 port, which was something for a ~700€ 13" laptop at that time. Over the time I upgraded to 8GB RAM and swapped the disk for SSD. Only downside was a pretty crappy glossy screen, but I mostly had it hooked up to an external monitor so I didn't mind so much.

I finally decided to go for a new laptop last December because the battery life was degrading after the years. I was consideing just buying a replacement battery, but I wasn't able to find one under $200 including shipping and I got a really good deal on a top of the line refurbished X220 together with a docking station for 380€.

My sister, a teacher, is now using the Asus laptop and not considering the battery life it still runs smoothly.

Something like the old Opera:

- Extensive customizability of the interface

- Proper tab management (tiling, cascade, positioning) and tab stacking

- Mouse gestures

- Content blocker baked in

- RSS reader included

- Better cookie control

- Per-site privacy mode

- low CPU/memory usage - no "one tab per process" - I want 10s of tabs open without wasting few GBs of memory

- fast JS

- advanced search from address bar - custom search engines with search suggestions

- customizable Speed Dial baked in - no extensions needed.

- Dragonfly instead of DevTools

- detailed page loading info, not just "Loading example.com..."

I'm hoping to get at least some of these things out of either Vivaldi or Otter Browser when they're mature enough...

I can recommend Adminer as well, it's just a single PHP file. The GUI is minimalistic but intuitive and very fast. The best part is probably the support for 8 database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle, SimpleDB, Elasticsearch, MongoDB) and 30+ localizations, so you can use the same GUI for all your databases. Although probably not all drivers support all the features, as far as I know SQLite, Postgres and MySQL are essentially 100% covered (Don't know about others, since I don't use them).