kalleboo

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[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whoever inside of Netflix pushed for this, you're fighting the good fight!

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think Apple has the best sandbox UX. By default sandboxed apps have access to zero of your files. It can't even see they exist. It's only granted access to any file/directory the user manually selects through a system UI - opening through file type associations, the open/save dialogs, or drag & drop. This means that access is given seamlessly, there aren't any prompts, and the user doesn't even realize there's a sandbox. If the program wants to manage a project, just have the user select the folder and all the sub-contents are also granted.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What happened to Second Life anyway? All the gooners are on VRChat now and they seem to be doing fine

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I mean I'm a big fan of VR but it's clearly been a money pit for meta, their massive investment in it is never going to pay back, they were betting on selling "metaverse" real estate rather than making money on the hardware

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Windows 8 was where Microsoft went all-in on optimizing Windows to run on low-power tablets to compete with the iPad. It's mostly remembered for the terrible tablet-first full-screen "start menu", but also continued the work to trim away all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7 (where the motivation was to make it work on netbooks so they could finally stop shipping XP)

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not a solution. There is no other carrier that has the coverage I need.

The problem with eSIM as a concept is that it puts too much responsibility on the carrier, and there are way too many shitty carriers out there, and with the cost of building a network and the limited amount of spectrum, mobile carriers are not a functioning free market.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

The screen died on my wife's iPhone, fine I have other spare iPhones aplenty she can switch to. But at some point she had accepted a prompt on the iPhone to switch to eSIM so we couldn't just move a physical SIM over, you had to go through the "transfer eSIM" menus, which we couldn't do because the screen was dead. The only option the carrier gave us was going to a physical store.

I'm never switching my main carrier to eSIM, what a PITA for absolutely no upside.

(they're great for throwaway travel SIMs though)

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

My parents came to visit my over xmas and installed Airalo to get a local SIM. Activation failed, the support AI bot re-issued the eSIM, activation failed again, it got escalated to human support, they asked for a refund, and 12 hours later randomly the phone popped up an "eSIM activated!" message. That would have sucked if you actually relied on needing the SIM on landing.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

On my (OpenWrt) router, configured using the OpenWrt interface

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah they'll log out in protest, but they'll all be back in a week or so. Happens every time.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Their FAQ actually has an audio clip, haha https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

The only way to stay sane

 
 

My internet connection is getting upgraded to 10 Gbit next week. I’m going to start out with the rental router from the ISP, but my goal is to replace it with a home-built router since I host a bunch of stuff and want to separate my out home Wi-Fi, etc onto VLANs. I’m currently using the good old Ubiquiti USG4. I don’t need anything fancy like high-speed VPN tunnels (just enough to run SSH though), just routing IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling (MAP-E with a static IP) as the new connection is IPv6 native.

After doing a bit of research the Lenovo ThinkCenter M720q has caught my eye. There are tons of them available locally and people online seem to have good luck using them for router duties.

The one thing I have not figured out is what CPU option I should go for? There’s the Celeron G4900T (2 core), Core i3 8100T (4 core), and Core i5 (6 core). The former two are pretty close in price but the latter costs twice as much as anything else.

Doing research I get really conflicting results, with half of people saying that just routing IP even 10 Gbit is a piece of cake for any decently modern CPU and others saying they experienced bottlenecks.

I’ve also seen comments mentioning that the BSD-based routing platforms like pfSense are worse for performance than Linux-based ones like OpenWRT due to the lack of multi-threading in the former, I don’t know if this is true.

Does anyone here have any experience routing 10 Gbit on commodity hardware and can share their experiences?

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