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New comment by evook in "Two hundred reasons to not use Azure"

evook — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:09:37 +0000

The reason for this I heard by Microsoft was to stop having to explain to non technical people that Azure AD doesn't have feature parity with a real Active Directory.

New comment by evook in "Mutt on Windows Without WSL"

evook — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:59:08 +0000

There is an experimental flag[0] in the .wslconfig which let's you set autoMemoryReclaim to gradual or dropcache. On my laptop I had good success with dropcache and on my countryside desktop with gradual.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#exp...

New comment by evook in "My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar"

evook — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:58:00 +0000

As someone using both equally often, I am kind of certain Android passes through the raw sensor readings while iOS has some form of debounce delay and guesstimation implemented. Both are equally often off in their readings. But that's just based on usage experience, not a hard fact.

New comment by evook in "GitHub Actions Are a Problem"

evook — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:55:51 +0000

I don't recall the exact context anymore but during the Microsoft Build this year it was said by an employee at Github that the service came with the acquisition which is the reason it was and stays C#.

New comment by evook in "Google will retire Gmail’s Basic HTML view in January 2024"

evook — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 10:59:16 +0000

I am happy with mxroute.

New comment by evook in "Set up your own VPN at home with Raspberry Pi – Wolfang's Blog"

evook — Wed, 04 May 2022 11:41:55 +0000

Zerotier maxes out based on the model since it's single core. On a ac3 around 20Mbps is the cap. With wireguard I max out at 300Mbps. I can't test openvpn since mikrotik doesn't support tls auth. IPsec was always my given linespeed.

Beware that you need fasttrack exclusion rules (via connection mark e.g.) for each vpn interface except zerotier.

New comment by evook in "A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist"

evook — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:26:48 +0000

Those keybinds are mainly custom macros and scripts.

Some project specific some more general. The project specific keybinds range from do test deployment and run tests to grab the latest test results format a text variant as well as pdf, archive and send them out to everyone who needs them. The general ones range from tell my AC/heating that I'm heading home from office to open my local weather forcast on Screen #2.

IMO there's no good reason to omit possibilities for aesthetics. Though as often as I thought about it I am not going to use a stream deck since I know I couldn't live without one after a few weeks and don't want to be bothered to carry it with me while traveling.

New comment by evook in "A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist"

evook — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 11:56:39 +0000

Well the problem arises if you use more than a few shortcuts.

If you start having keybinds like ALT + CMD + (F1..F6) you _really_ dont want to have to press an additional FN Keys. I found 4 key shortcuts not viable in the long run if you have to press them multiple times a minute.

With that said:

> So for me personally it's a number of advantages without a single drawback

The objective drawback is the expandability of your shortcuts because you are artificially limited in your options of key combinations. For me that would be a no go. Though I am close to 500 shortcuts in my 3 main applications alone, excluding i3 or KDE globals. I only use a mouse to browse the web.

New comment by evook in "Dark Web Price Index 2020"

evook — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:53:57 +0000

It's not a scam. Those scenes live by reputation alone. If you need something as a once in a lifetime service you are well advised to use a trusted third party within the scene. Those are either trade mods or well known veterans.

If you become familiar and known in the scene the risk of being scammed is very low and if it happens it's more like a "one last money grab and I am done thing" where the person offering the service will disappear. But since this works once per online persona this really doesn't happen that often.

New comment by evook in "Ask HN: Best Office Chair?"

evook — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 07:45:52 +0000

The Haider Bioswing series is missing in this list.

New comment by evook in "Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development"

evook — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:06:34 +0000

Obviously you can get work done with it, I also can imagine that getting accustomed to a type and think about it approach while taking a breath might be worth the ability to preserve states. For me preserving states across devices/locations has been solved 10 years ago, though nowadays in extreme situations I just don't do any work if it's not my device. I won't enter any credentials on a device that's not mine or hasn't been in my physical control since being setup. I'd rather fly home. Nothing we do is that important.

For me a low latency is the single most important thing when using a computer. Having 1000hz input device rate on the mice, proper NVMe SSD and 144hz/240hz Display rate makes all the difference of a decent computer experience.

New comment by evook in "Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development"

evook — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:59:55 +0000

Tried that with a fully specced out machine. It doesn't matter if VNC, X11 XDMCP, Teamviewer, Anydesk or some of the more obscure things I tried out. The latency kills all the fun.

New comment by evook in "Why I use old hardware"

evook — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:58:50 +0000

Nothing about your post adds up.

2015 MB i7 to i9 MB doesn't increase anything times 4.

How long have you been working on that task and waited an hour? The wasted labour cost might have bought you a dedicated compiling rack 2 weeks in.

How long could you have rented cloud ressources to bring that task down to close to instant for the cost of a i9 MB?

I am just curious tbh. I have various tasks like yours hobbywise. But the least thing I'd encourage my laptop to do is compile/render/analyse a problem that takes more than 60 seconds. Beware if you fully utilise a laptop like you describe shouldn't it become useless for everything else while doing that?

So much questions...

New comment by evook in "The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth"

evook — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:40:02 +0000

Cogito ergo est.

New comment by evook in "European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case"

evook — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:19:04 +0000

> how is this any different

It's not. Be Patient.

New comment by evook in "Netflix Fires PR Chief After Use of N-Word in Meeting"

evook — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:09:33 +0000

I think only in the US. That's not even 5%.

New comment by evook in "Netflix Fires PR Chief After Use of N-Word in Meeting"

evook — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:04:56 +0000

> I don’t really understand how the mere utterance of a word, without the intention to offend or even to use it as anything other than a descriptor for the word itself, can be this offensive.

You call that concept facism.

New comment by evook in "Show HN: Encrypt your home-lab server disks using AWS Key Management Service"

evook — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 22:49:07 +0000

Except if you need and use a lot of storage.

New comment by evook in "How I made 10% of my side project’s incomes with a bot written in 4 hours"

evook — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:38:17 +0000

If I recall correctly every computer program was a bot when I started coding in 2005. YMMV.

New comment by evook in "Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?"

evook — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:34:45 +0000

I like the telegram API :)