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New comment by wltr in "FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop"

wltr — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:32:17 +0000

Today I learned the FreeBSD Foundation executive does not daily drive FreeBSD on laptop. (Without even opening the article.) This alone looks exceptionally weird for me.

New comment by wltr in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

wltr — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:40:20 +0000

Thanks for covering that!

New comment by wltr in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

wltr — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:17:51 +0000

Did you mean M1 MacBook Air/Pro or is it now possible to install it on an iPad?

New comment by wltr in "Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026?"

wltr — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:26:58 +0000

Is that slop? Reads as ‘hey, I have the perspective’ but then reveals they know next to nothing about the systems, just spilling the well-known myths. (About Linux, obviously.) Wasted time on reading this.

New comment by wltr in "The End of Eleventy"

wltr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:39:14 +0000

The solution of this problem could be many, depending on the situation. I have my blog and other static sites synced to all my devices, and the server rebuilds them nightly. In most cases it makes no difference whether I’d deploy it right away, or it would be deployed within a day. Testing the website can be done completely offline, all you need is to sync your changes before the night. Triggering the rebuild on the server (which is deploy) can be done via a Shortcut from an iPhone. No way you can make it as easy with a Wordpress website.

New comment by wltr in "The End of Eleventy"

wltr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:43:08 +0000

I would appreciate getting into more details. As it sounds like a made-up problem to me. Perhaps you don’t understand how simple it is to have a static website as compared to a dynamic one. Especially to some simple project.

New comment by wltr in "The End of Eleventy"

wltr — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:13:10 +0000

I can live preview my website from my local server / computer / laptop, while writing content from basically anything. Even a cheap and underpowered writing deck with 400 MHz CPU. The options are limitless.

New comment by wltr in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

wltr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:48:35 +0000

That surely depends on a country. Data centre is still better in theory. But in practice, I have very little imagination to use a gigabit connection all to myself.

New comment by wltr in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

wltr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:44:16 +0000

Are you guys even serious on this? Ok, I’d reboot my personal server daily then.

New comment by wltr in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

wltr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:19:57 +0000

What’s the point if I can just connect it to my router and not pay any money to anyone, expect some electricity price, which would be like ten times cheaper. My old laptop is capable of a gigabit connection and so my home internet. That’s plenty for anything I can imagine.

Redundancy, I hear you saying! What if you’d have no electricity for an hour? OK then. I’d have another laptop at some else place then, and have two powerful servers for like still one fifth of the price. Can you beat that?

New comment by wltr in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

wltr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:48:25 +0000

Thailand? From whom?

New comment by wltr in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

wltr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:45:11 +0000

It’s really unclear whether you have any Linux experience. Because it feels like someone who knows Windows very well, and spent some time with Linux here and there.

New comment by wltr in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

wltr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:38:58 +0000

I wish them what I wished them when Windows Vista was released, and I said to my friend something like ‘huh, we have all that in Linux’ What I meant is GUI, as I was just a beginner. Today, I don’t know, I really wanted to write LOL, like with the biggest possible font size, and some GIF that supports it, but we’re not like that here, right? So, again, I just wish them that I wished them that many years ago. And for the Linux desktop year to finally come. As it feels like we’re there already. I don’t see any point in willingly using Windows for an average Joe.

New comment by wltr in "Having Kids (2019)"

wltr — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:25:29 +0000

It’s like nobody knows who the author is, and that he’s rich. It’s different from when you’re not rich. (Not even saying poor.)

New comment by wltr in "iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life"

wltr — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:34:15 +0000

Of course, it would support only a couple of the most recent devices. Wouldn’t it? :)

New comment by wltr in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

wltr — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:44:42 +0000

Any coding task produces some trash, while I can prototype with ChatGPT quite a lot, sometimes delivering the entire app almost entirely vibe-coded. Gemini, it takes a few prompts for it to get me mad and just close the tab. I use only the free web versions, never agentic ‘mess with my files’ thing. Claude, is even better than that, but I keep it for serious tasks only, so good it is.

New comment by wltr in "'This is sell America' – US dollar tumbles as globe flees US assets"

wltr — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:45:41 +0000

First time here, huh?

(Intended to the parent comment.)

New comment by wltr in "GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '"

wltr — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:43:06 +0000

The man I worked with couldn’t deploy a VPN. He didn’t know how, literally! And he couldn’t just plainly say ‘hey, really, I don’t know how to do that.’ They have a static IP in the office, so you don’t even need any tunnel for it to work. It’s like one day job for me, but I’m not helping as it’s not _my_ job at the moment. Not that they need that VPN in there, it would just be convenient. The man does daily backups manually, with some fancy Windows GUI tool, which he probably pirated. It’s like, come on, an rsync command and a bash script. Really, I can go on and on and on, but those of us who worked with these people just know these stories, and the die-hard Windows weirdos probably won’t even understand what an rsync is.

New comment by wltr in "GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '"

wltr — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:54:26 +0000

Never had any nostalgia for Windows, and I’ve met plenty of full of themselves developers being ‘nah, Windows is good, you just incompetent’ with their vibes. I could write books about their technical decisions, but I’d just mention none of them knew even slightest bits of Linux. It’s just absurd to me, like man, you do that for work, and the things you were over engineering could be done within one day, if you care to learn something new, instead of applying things you learned 40 years ago. I see no point in even attempting to explain anything to those people. Yeah, nothing wrong with Windows. XP was good, 7 was good, 11 is also no problem. I feel the same, I just mostly never used them myself, with occasional horror of things I’ve seen with others. Like those in abuser relationships who keep telling it’s how things should be and nothing wrong.

New comment by wltr in "X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It"

wltr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:17:10 +0000

As if it’s a non-profit organisation, not even remotely connected to him, Thiel et al.