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New comment by sandreas in "PHP's Oddities"

sandreas — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:55:15 +0000

For Toy Apps you can even use PHP's integrated WebServer like

  php -S 0.0.0.0:8000 public/index.php

It's not for production use, but only needing one Tool can be helpful under specific circumstances.

New comment by sandreas in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

sandreas — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:51:22 +0000

I had a similar experience some years ago. On-off with Linux/macOS, but it was clear that I only had to take the pain long enough to overcome the urge to switch back to my good old macOS.

And what can I say: It worked. There are still aspects I'm missing (Preview app, Mail) and other Aspects I really hate (Printing on my Canon MB5150 just does not work) but I stayed. I found workarounds and solutions, fought my way through the distro-jungle and I'm glad I made it.

All in all I think it is more a know-how Problem, than a Problem with the system itself.

However, if you don't have this time, it's understandable but how much time goes into experimenting every year and then switching back?

New comment by sandreas in "I hate soldering"

sandreas — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:45:47 +0000

Try an INIU ;-)

New comment by sandreas in "I hate soldering"

sandreas — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:43:09 +0000

I soldered a backlight fuse of a Lenovo T480s with a 35$ iron and a 10x magnifier, see [1] (german)

I'm not trying to proof you wrong but sometimes good enough will do. However, good tools are worth the money most of the time.

1: https://www.computerbase.de/forum/threads/t480s-backlight-si...

New comment by sandreas in "I hate soldering"

sandreas — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:36:50 +0000

That was true for the older ZD-* models. The one I mentioned is in a different Ballpark (except you also meant specifically the ZD-8965).

The hakko is way better quality but beneath the price (i have no idea where you got one <300 bucks) there is another disadvantage: there is no Station and the hakko is heavy, so if you need to desolder for more than 30 mins I found it getting uncomfortable pretty quick.

Besides that the hakko is a good device. Too expensive for me though

New comment by sandreas in "I hate soldering"

sandreas — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:34:28 +0000

That might be true in some cases, but you can also use a bit of brass wool to wipe of excess solder. The iron will suck the rest of the connection pretty well.

However, this is also something where it might pay of to buy a good one (ENGINEER SS-03) instead of a cheap knock-off in the long term.

New comment by sandreas in "I hate soldering"

sandreas — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:35:26 +0000

I tried different ones and this is clearly the winner.

Small, silent and reliable for cheap money.

I did some minor mods and use these de-makeup cotton pads because they are cheaper but so far a great experience.

Another important note: don't go cheaper here. These manual desoldering pumps (<30 bucks) are pretty bad and the other zd-... Arent worth the money.

New comment by sandreas in "I hate soldering"

sandreas — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:24:33 +0000

I'd love agree with you... Unfortunately I bought some <50 bucks solder fume extractors and I'm pretty confident to say they don't work reliably.

They also contain a 120mm fans, a carbon filter and NO way to lead the fumes out oft the window.

However, you may be right that professional tools are the better choice in this case

New comment by sandreas in "I hate soldering"

sandreas — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:39:07 +0000

Starting with soldering, I find these 200$+ recommendations (regardless of which tool) hard to justify.

# Soldering iron

I'd recommend the Pinecil V2 with IronOS. https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS

# Solder fume extraction

I've built a simple fume extraction with an old plastic case, a 120mm fan and a sheet of carbon filter attached to a 120mm dryer / air conditioning hose. Around 15$ and good enough for soldering from time to time.

# "Microscope"

I simply use a strong (10x) magnifier glass with a LED ring (around 15$ on Amazon). I can't tell you how often I also used this thing for other purposes.

# Desoldering Pump

Because I needed it (beginners won't) I bought a ZD-8965 for 100 bucks and I'm very happy with this thing.

I have whole list of cheap beginner to intermediate equipment, that'll do until you solder (semi) professionally.

New comment by sandreas in "Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?"

sandreas — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:58:06 +0000

There are a few lesser known projects, I used.

Trillium - https://triliumnotes.org/

Joplin - https://joplinapp.org

I personally use Flatnotes - https://github.com/Dullage/flatnotes with a connected git repository, but this does not meet your requirements.

New comment by sandreas in "Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?"

sandreas — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:37:21 +0000

1. immich / ente.io

2. Jellyfin

3. Volumio / Navidrome / Audiobookshelf

4. SubstreamerApp / DSub / Audiobookshelf App / PaulWoitaschek-Voice

5. Proxmox + ZFS + Alpine Docker VM + Dockhand + Pangolin

6. I'd really wouldn't on the machine. If you have to, maybe the HP Z2 Mini G1a (ECC!), but I'd prefer to use an extra Mac Mini / Studio for this. The Minisforum N5 Pro is also an option.

Have fun...

New comment by sandreas in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

sandreas — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:41:29 +0000

Cool project. What a pity it's not mikefoss.com, would match the soundex of Mike Ross from suits even better ;-)

New comment by sandreas in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

sandreas — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:57:11 +0000

Well... I'm never using BTRFS again, see [1] for why - disclaimer: This is a personal opinion, not a recommendation. Since I switched to ZFS, everything is awesome ;) Besides creating zarch[2], I recently noticed that there is weird stuff happening in some of the used components, so I switched to CachyOS, which contains a ZFS Kernel and a good enough installer to get started with encrypted ZFS root. And I think they are also working on ZFSBootMenu integration, but I don't find the link right now :-)

1: https://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=39143#p3...

2: https://github.com/sandreas/zarch

New comment by sandreas in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

sandreas — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:22:29 +0000

While I love Asahi as such and am really blown away by the effort, my setup requires an encrypted ZFS root file system, which is unreasonably hard to achieve with a Mac.

The fact, that there has to be a macOS partition for maintenance ruling out ZFSBootMenu somehow is very unfortunate - but I've accepted it.

Maybe the new Framework 13 Pro will be at least in the region of an alternative... :-/

New comment by sandreas in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

sandreas — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:05:51 +0000

Here is a more explanatory video what's new and how it looks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnOpIQJnYWU

New comment by sandreas in "PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption"

sandreas — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:08:34 +0000

While I like the article, I much prefer ZFS by now.

With CachyOS having ZFS in the installer, you can just natively encrypt your setup with an officially maintained project, USB drives are usable too.

After this you can use zrepl to autosnapshot and sync your ZFS either remotely via SSH or on USB with a few simple shell commands vor even use manual zfs snapshot / zfs send.

If something breaks syncing back also works flawlessly.

I personally also use ZFSBootMenu which lets you clone an old snapshot if e.g. the kernel breaks and having a separate dataset for /home lets you keep your documents if required.

I'm not going back to luks/btrfs/ext4 anytime soon...

New comment by sandreas in "I just want simple S3"

sandreas — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:16:24 +0000

Wouldn't RustFS be something?

https://rustfs.com/en/

New comment by sandreas in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

sandreas — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:19:53 +0000

I wonder if it would be possible to sand down a MacBook surface to the grade where it was all shiny mirror like the Apple logo, e.g. with car polish :-) The "untouchable" MacBook mirror :-)

New comment by sandreas in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

sandreas — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:49:17 +0000

Thank you for the listing. However I'd really appreciate two more columns:

  Release Year/CPU gen
  Display Options

To see what tech of a laptop I'm buying in regards of performance and if it has a > 1920x1200 Option.

What I'm missing in the list is the

  LG Gram lineup and the 
  Dell 5530

(which is a steal when buying used here in Germany)

New comment by sandreas in "You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can)"

sandreas — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:06:52 +0000

I much prefer Coroutines in Kotlin... Lightweight, pauseable, resumable, cancelable and easy to use without having to provide a CancellationToken AND a CancellationTokenProvider.

I really hope that coroutines land in Rust after being experimental to improve the async stuff.

The C# Tasks are not bad but I think the API could be easier and more precise/clear.