ftbd

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[–] ftbd@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago

I feel your point regarding the WiFi devices and that they shouldn't be recommended to casual users. But if you just set up an isolated VLAN with its own SSID and use e.g. homeassistant running locally to orchestrate them, then what's the harm? If your goal is privacy, you need some kind of local "hub" anyway, and to me it makes way more sense to be able to place that machine anywhere, regardless of e.g. bluetooth reception to your smart home devices (since that is taken care of via the additional SSID on your WAPs).

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So he wants to get rid of the nukes, right? Right??

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

You mean firefox or the mullvad app? Took me a hot minute to figure out why things aren't working as expected when setting up adguardhome, turned out the mullvad app was hijacking /etc/resolv.conf to inject mullvad nameservers

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Windows is just not quite there yet for desktop use. Give them a few years to clean up their sharp edges and clunky UX and add some long overdue features, then maybe it'll be a real alternative.

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

With the 10G NIC upgrade, I would see some use in this if it ran Linux

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe this is due to my flake setup, but the way I currently update (nix flake update, then nixos-rebuild) I can only update everything at once. At times, this can feel clunky compared to e.g. arch which lets me update individual packages. Do you have any suggestions on how to do partial updates?

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Damn, he really has his shit together

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have also encountered games that needed tweaking (like changing settings in an .ini file that weren't visible in the game's menu) to run in an acceptable way on windows. Does this mean that Windows is 'not quite there yet', or is the game to blame?

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but which drivers do you have in mind? You can install Linux on almost any machine, and if there are driver issues the culprits are usually nvidia, realtek, etc. for which Microsoft is hardly responsible.

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

The big Windows 10 problem is that it is Windows.

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But 8% and 13% are both below 10

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In high school, I used to be frustrated by this as well. But now, I've come to appreciate being able to get a reminder for a definition or a famous result just by googling and clicking on the resulting wikipedia page. Way better than having to find and dig through a badly-scanned pdf of a paper from the 70s which presented the definition that everyone in the field now uses.

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