skilltheamps

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What privacy concerns do you have? I'm all for privacy, but I don't really see where registrars are a delicate topic in that. The most that comes to mind is that some (most?) have a service where they do not give out your name and address for whois requests, but instead the details of the registrar (namecheap has that for example).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

True words. The sustained effort to keep something in decent shape over years is not to be underestimated. Now when life changes and one is not able or willing anymore to invest that amount of time, ill-timed issues can become quite the burden. At one point I decided to cut down on that by doing a better founded setup, that does backup with easy rollback automatically, and updates semi-automatically. I rely on my server(s), and all from having this idea to having it decently implemented took me a number of months. Just because time for such activities is limited, and getting a complex and intertwined system like this reliably and fault tolerant automated and monitored is simply something else than spinning up a one off service

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they believe all employees actually remember so many wildly different and long passwords, and change them regularly to wildly different ones? All this leads to is a single password that barely makes it over the minimum requirements, and a suffix for the stage (like 1 for boot, 2 for bitlocker etc), and then another suffix for the month they changed it. All of that then on sticky notes on the screen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I ordered some parts from them a couple weeks ago to build my own custom laptop, and they're finally on their way and I'm super excited! The article is missing this, but you can order hinges, keyboard (with or without case), trackball/-pad and all these things individually from them, and use them for your own purposes.

It is just mind boggeling how much MNT encourages hacking with their stuff. They even went and made a dedicated logo you can put on things that are made to work with the reform ecosystem / derivatives: https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform/-/blob/master/symbol-for-derived-works/mnt-based-reform.svg

You can also search for the founder Lukas F. Hartmann and find a couple interviews out there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ausprobieren würde ich dir auch vorschlagen! Grundsätzlich passt das schon relativ gut zuammen. Nachdem beim E-Bike bei ~25km/h schluss ist, liegt der Schnitt natürlich da drunter. Aber zumindest für mein Gefühl ist es immer noch schnell genug damit es nicht langweilig wird, und Bergauf kommt man dann mit dem Rennrad schonmal ins Hintertreffen wenn man nicht am Akku spart. Ich habe mit meiner Partnerin ne ähnliche Konstellation, nur dass das E-Bike ein (sportlicheres) Lastenrad mit unserem Kind drin ist. Die Länge der Touren fällt dadurch natürlich kürzer aus, weil kein kleines Kind stundenlang ohne Pause da drin sitzen will. Aber auch ohne Kind und auf einem normalen E-Bike wird das für deine angepeilten Längen und Höhenmeter mit einem Akku nicht reichen. Man kann sich aber einfach nen zweiten Akku Besorgen, in eine Fahrradtasche werfen und unterwegs tauschen. Am wichtigsten ist aber dass deine Freundin auch Lust auf so Lange Touren haben muss. Sonst macht man halt kleinere, und möglicherweise will sie irgendwann selber weiter fahren :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Since you run everything in docker, I guess you have experienced the benefits of containerization. So why not leverage that for your host too?

Fedora IoT is a container-based host that runs on your hardware, with a focus on edge device deployment.

https://fedoraproject.org/iot/ I have it running on two servers as well, and it works great. The only thing I changed is that I layered docker on it instead of using podman, because at the time I had trouble getting my reverse proxy working properly over ipv6

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to me. Absence of QA allows faulty parts to make it into a plane, it does not explain why there are faults in the first place. For doors and wheels popping off there have to be either lethal part design mistakes, parts made from play doh instead of aluminium/steel, or the people on the assembly line throwing fasteners in the bin instead of putting them on. It's not like a door pops of because its seal touched soap once and somebody poked an unverified piece of plastic at it. Especially in aviation, where you need to have redundancies.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

How does this part (which is what the headline refers to and presumably the most outrageous inspection finding)

At one point during the examination, the air-safety agency observed mechanics at Spirit using a hotel key card to check a door seal [...]. In another instance, the F.A.A. saw Spirit mechanics apply liquid Dawn soap to a door seal “as lubricant in the fit-up process,” according to the document. The door seal was then cleaned with a wet cheesecloth

have anything to do with the opening of the article

Just last week, a wheel came loose and smashed through a car, and earlier this year the door from a 737 Max aircraft broke off mid-flight

???

The article misses the whole point, which is that the audit did not uncover the sources of these incidents.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would you be surprised? This is just an ordinary "company pulls the plug on proprietary thing that they think isn't worth it". If you want to rely on a something, do not use something where some entity can pull the plug for everyone arbitrarily. There's no gain for Microsoft from people using this, neither for playing games nor for developers. It's not like they run an Android app store where they can get revenue or anything. At most this is a marketing blip for drawing people to Windows where they can molest them with ads, but this feature is not in any tech news anymore, so why put anymore work in it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get your second paragraph. There are many markdown editors, and you can use their inbuilt methods or pandoc to convert that to epub/pdf/whatever. What features are missing from those editors?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those are symptoms of sitting at that operation point permanently, and they are a of course a concern. What I'm after is that people think that energy gets put in to the battery, i.e. it gets charged, as long as a "charger" is connected to the device (hence terms like "overcharged"). But that is not true, because what is commonly referred to as "charger" is no charger. It is just a power supply and has literally zero say in if, how and when the battery gets charged. It only gets charged if the charge controller in the device decides to do that now, and if the protection circuit allows it. And that is designed to only happen if the battery is not full. When it is full, nothing more happens, no currents flow in+out of the battery anymore. There's no damage due to being charged all the time, because no device keeps on pumping energy into the cell if it is full.

There is however damage from sitting (!) at 100% charge with medium to high heat. That happens indipendently from a power supply being connected to the device or not. You can just as well damage your cells by charging them to 100% and storing them in a warm place while topping them of once in a while. This is why you want to have them at lower room temperature and at ~60%, no matter if a device/"charger" is connected or not.

(Of course keeping a battery at 60% all the time defeats the purpose of the battery. So just try to keep it cool, charged to >20% and <80% most of the time, and you're fine)

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"overcharging" doesn't exist. There are two circuits preventing the battery from being charged beyond 100%: the usual battery controller, and normally another protection circuit in the battery cell. Sitting at 100% and being warm all the time is enough for a significant hit on the cell's longetivity though. An easy measure that is possible on many laptops (like thinkpads) is to set a threshold where to stop charging at. Ideal for longetivity is around 60%. Also ensure good cooling.

Sorry for being pedantic, but as an electricial engineer it annoys me that there's more wrong information about li-po/-ion batteries, chargers and even usb wall warts and usb power delivery than there's correct information.

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