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Comment Re:I quit using google messaging apps (Score 1) 34

I moved my wife and I to Wire and couldn't be happier.

It's almost as if they sat down and saw how people use chat. Adding images is easier than any google messaging service. Send attachments, group chat. Multiple accounts. Video chat works great. End to end encryption. Only requires an e-mail (temp-mail.org works).

https://wire.com/en/download/

Comment Extension Slaughter. (Score 2) 68

There are a lot of old extensions that will never be re-written.

Looking through the extensions, that's a good thing. They're beta/alpha quality.

The ones with high demand will be ported. Hopefully during the Python2->3 migration they get documentation, typing and other things that have also developed in the last ~5 years.

I haven't read up on the "API" but hopefully it's a lot better than just e-mailing zips around and trying to find the 'latest' version on some obscure forum or any of the 'unofficial forks' that people just add stuff to.

Case in point: http://www.cnc-club.ru/forum/v...

Amazingly useful when it works but the codebase leaves a lot to be desired.

Comment Ideal time to build 'future city'. (Score 3, Interesting) 37

People realize remote work works and everything is on firesale right now.

Go find some plot of land in the middle of nowhere Canada, US. Run fiber to it. Design it around walkability and sustainability. Hell, 12 acres in most places would probably cost less than permits in Toronto.

Comment Re: Nice integrated ZFS support, Raspberry Pi (Score 1) 62

come from a time when mounting a hard drive to another machine to fix or investigate something was common place.

It's a pain in the ass. It follows the Unix philosophy a bit too much there's 2-3 tools you need to use because the encryption wraps logical volume management.

And all the instructions are spread across 3-4 blogs. (And none of them are the same). It's all stuff cobbled together from "RTFM" without any straight forward way to do it. That said, it can be done and isn't that difficult. I'll probably write a script for the next time.

I just figured out how to do ZFS encryption and it couldn't have been simpler. Now my /home is encrypted, nothing else is.

I have moved pools from OpenSolaris to Linux to FreeBSD back to Linux and it "just works". Between snapshots and literally everything else it brings to the table I don't see migrating soon.

Comment Re:Nice integrated ZFS support, Raspberry Pi (Score 2) 62

It's amazing, minus the fact that right now it's either encrypted root OR ZFS.

Every apt event triggers a snapshot. I can see data recovery becoming MUCH easier.

Especially since trying to get data off of my old encrypted drive was a PITA and not straight forward.

Comment Re:Affordable / upgradable desktop Mac (Score 1) 173

I think that with Jobs gone the landscape of 2020 is quite different.

Apple used to be 'alone' in catering to that market. Now Samsung, Google and others have realized they can make something $1k+ and people will buy it.

Thee 2020 iPhone SE has a faster processor than the highest end Android phone.

There is still a market for a 'lowend but not Allwinner cheap'.

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