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New comment by avhception in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

avhception — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:12:25 +0000

I've only ever read about VMS in an historic context, like Wikipedia articles and blog posts. DEC and VMS are not well known. That's a shame, considering how much influence they had, especially on WinNT.

New comment by avhception in "How to turn anything into a router"

avhception — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:09:42 +0000

Ha, that's very close to my story as well. I had a 166Mhz Pentium and it was all PCI cards and 100mbit by then. That was essentially the start of my career.

New comment by avhception in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

avhception — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:17:01 +0000

From a CPU / GPU standpoint? Yes. From a "I need to constantly replace SD cards or netboot the weird firmware" standpoint? I'd rather not.

New comment by avhception in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

avhception — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:05:20 +0000

At work, we needed a PC for a Linux-based Webkiosk the other day. The computer proposed by the colleague who actually orders stuff comes with a Windows license. I said we don't need that. A fruitless, lame effort was made to locate a substitute w/o a Windows license. I renewed my protest, but the feeling that the problem is me was already floating in the air. I gave up. We purchased a Windows license to run Linux. For the umpteenth time. It's like a Microsoft tax on PCs.

New comment by avhception in "Have a fucking website"

avhception — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:25:17 +0000

Many of them offer that option, so there is a grey zone. But you're right - should have been more clear about that.

New comment by avhception in "Have a fucking website"

avhception — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:10:19 +0000

Maybe that is the case for some places, but this is rather rural Germany. Not sure when I've last seen a tourist here.

New comment by avhception in "Have a fucking website"

avhception — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:59:27 +0000

We usually order by phone, then drive by and pick up the food. Can't do that w/o a menu. The solution is usually to take a printed menu with you when you're there. But that's a chicken-and-egg problem!

New comment by avhception in "Have a fucking website"

avhception — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:23:28 +0000

For many local places here, the only way to get the menu online is if a customer posted a photo of the menu on Google maps or something.

And 1/3 of the time, that photo is too blurry and off-angle and whatnot to even read properly.

New comment by avhception in "Have a fucking website"

avhception — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:18:57 +0000

Website? Ha, with local restaurants here you're in luck if the photos of the menu posted by customers on google maps or FB or where ever aren't too fuzzy to read.

New comment by avhception in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

avhception — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:13:33 +0000

Yet, living in Germany, the problems I hear about our healthcare system from friends or in the media are an absolute far cry from the insanity that I hear about the US system. Maybe some of it is sensationalism, but I very much doubt that would account for the whole story.

New comment by avhception in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

avhception — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:31:46 +0000

I haven't even thought of this, I'm kinda surprised! This should be how it's done!

New comment by avhception in "Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon"

avhception — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:03:56 +0000

A bad moment to have a make-or-break moment for your CPU business - a lot of customers will probably hold off purchases right now because of the RAM prices, no matter how good your CPU might be.

New comment by avhception in "MacBook Air with M5"

avhception — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:34:49 +0000

I have 2 thinkpads, and one of them is better in every aspect - except that the inferior one has it's 2 USB-C ports on opposite sides of the laptop, while the other one has both ports on the same side. Being able to plug in the charger from either side is really great, will definitely look for that in a future laptop.

New comment by avhception in "MacBook Air with M5"

avhception — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:32:37 +0000

I think there is a tendency to simply give in and buy bigger hardware if something doesn't work. With friends and family, I sometimes feel like having to talk them off the roof with regards to pulling the trigger on really expensive (relative to the tasks they're doing) hardware, simply because performance is often abysmal due to the fact that they trashed their OS with malware and bloatware and whatnot and can't understand all of that.

It's the same at work, to some degree. Our in-house ERP software performs like kicking a sack of rocks down a hill. I don't know how often I had to show devs that the hardware is actually idle and they're mostly derailing themselves with DB table locks, GC issues and whatnot. If I weren't pushing back, we probably would have bought the biggest VMs just to let them sit idle.

New comment by avhception in "Felix "fx" Lindner has died"

avhception — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:39:41 +0000

Oh, just yesterday it failed to load at all!

New comment by avhception in "Felix "fx" Lindner has died"

avhception — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:49:45 +0000

Aside from feeling sad that he had a stroke, I've been wondering how the infrastructure for his blog keeled over so fast.

New comment by avhception in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

avhception — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:25:36 +0000

Xbox XP 360 365

New comment by avhception in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

avhception — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:21:49 +0000

Oh wow yes, completely forgot about that one. To me, it's a complete blur made from single words and letters, one series x s one box 360? Maybe they should create a 365, with MS office pre-installed. Or something.

Compare that to Playstation: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

New comment by avhception in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

avhception — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:14:17 +0000

> [...] I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore [...]

Watching from the sidelines (not a Microsoft user), I've completely lost track. Between this, the Azure 365 cloud whatever stuff, I have no idea what many of the products even exactly are any more.

New comment by avhception in "An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review"

avhception — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:37:56 +0000

I think it's highly circumstantial. For example, my personal servers run a lot of FreeBSD and even though I could stay on major releases for a rather long time, I usually upgrade almost as soon as new releases are available.

For servers at work, I tried running Fedora. The idea was that it would be easier to have small, frequent updates rather than large, infrequent updates. Didn't work. App developers never had enough time to port their stuff to new releases of underpinning software, so we frequently had servers with unsupported OS version. Gave up and switched to RockyLinux. We're in the process of upgrading the Rocky8-based stuff to Rocky9. Rocky9 was released 2022.