I’ve got a dedicated box with them, 12 threads 64gb memory, 2x 512gb nvme and it costs €30 a month. Can’t really beat those prices anywhere..
Not sure about dedicated servers but Hetzner is a bit cheaper on VPS if I remember correctly.
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I suspect this won't be disastrous for Google, because where will people care about this go? Apple, who is even more restrictive? This is just another in a long series of incidents showing why we desperately need a real alternative to the mobile duopoly. I would ditch Android over this, but there's no realistic alternative available to me.
Damn the future sucks ass.
I think the only thing hat can save us is a jailbreak. Either for iOS or Android to let you sideload apps.
Alternatively, and that’s almost bullshit, the dumb phone trend continues and we might get devices like PDAs. Get a dumb phone and a small camera and then your PDA for everything that is essentially an app. Not sure what OS they’d run but I don’t see another way.
Time for a Steam Phone. Or FirefoxOS reloaded. The general purpose mobile computing market must be sizeable. I cannot believe everybody just puts up with these increasingly draconic restrictions.
I think a big problem is that the users have been trained to accept the status quo. I mean back in the Feature phone days we would share Java phone games at school via Bluetooth. I’d assume kids these days generally don’t anymore.
Also, due to the cost of physical media piracy was rampant even amongst boomers. People knew and had the option to buy a dvd player that could play video cd because that’s how movies were ripped.
Even during the early iPhones we were so stripped of even basic features that a jailbreak was 100% required if you wanted to even basic things like taking videos or changing the Home Screen background.
None of this is necessary anymore. The users gets the phone and it just works from their perspective at least.
So who is going to try to run a business off of nerds like us who want to have this sort of control over our devices (I’d call it freedom but the average user doesn’t feel unfree)?
>For me the main use is that I'm on o2 in the UK, but if in some dead spot with no signal I can flip the sim settings and connect via EE or whatever.
Why not just get an EE SIM if that's your main use?
Not from the UK but in Germany we have the same issue where there is T-Mobile (best coverage), Vodafone (good coverage) and o2 (worst coverage) and there are simply some remote areas where anything but T-Mobile doesn’t have coverage.
And the easy answer is that T-Mobile, or rather the parent Telekom, is a terrible company best known for right now for getting the government to agree that they can cancel your existing internet contract to make switching easier when they want to catch you as a fiber customer but actually all they’re doing is sending a marketing company around Germany (Raider Marketing) to lie to your grandma to sign contracts for the Telekom or just cancel your existing internet contract because they think with a bit of pressure they can get you to sign up with them.
Alternatively, they are also known for the worst peering on existence because they have the crazy idea that they can charge tenfold what other ISPs take for peering because they are the Telekom…
In summary, the Telekom is such a terrible company that I’d rather not give them any money and if I needed T-Mobile coverage I’d rather get a foreign eSIM and rely on roaming than giving them a single cent.
Countries generally have a immigration system that prevents people from moving there when you don't have enough money to support yourself.
Read again. This is for Chinese citizens.
>It's time to return to meritocracy, colour-blind hiring and treating all employees as equally valuable.
We can't return to a state we've never been in.
Meritocracy has never existed - wealth, status, privilege and connections have always mattered. Colorblind hiring has never existed - race has always been a factor, and all employees have never been equally valuable to all others.
So let's be honest about where we're going - back to the status quo under which there was nothing in place, even in theory, to counteract the systemic effects of racial bias in hiring.
In a meritocracy you need to have equal chances to show merit. I’m not American and I don’t give a damn about DEI. But talking about meritocracy in a country where schools get funding based on the property taxes of the school district is pathetic. Maybe DEI wasn’t the answer but at some point some people just need help to be on a fair and level playing field.
I’m actually somewhat surprised that people see this as good. Like I said, maybe DEI wasn’t a good solution but seeing this as anything but a step back is just weird.
asyx commented on Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’ torrentfreak.com/belgium-... · Posted by u/gslin
>HM is distinctly more conservative than most other places online at least in my experience.
HN is the place of champagne socialists. They're on the side of making money with their actions but liberal with their voice at least they pretend to.
>Excluding the fascists safe spaces.
Define fascist safe spaces. Define fascism.
>fascism is conservative in nature and not progressive
Is it progressive to burn down Teslas and throw rocks at police doing their jobs and voice call to violence against certain races, religions of people or based on their political beliefs?
>I don’t think you could ever get away with discussing far left libertarian ideas on HN.
You definitely missed them.
No but that’s also not fascist. It’s extremist and violent and a misguided urge to fight fascism by destroying its symbols (a Tesla which might as well be an attempt by some upper middle class dad to buy a car that’s better for the environment before Musk became such a PoS) or fighting the people that uphold the system (which is a bit much in the current climate. At least here in Germany I don’t see the police in this role yet).
Also, keep in mind that if left extremists become violent, cars burn and police in riot gear are attacked. If fascists become violent people are burning and the police is looking the other way. Even though I and any sane person should condemn violent behavior, I vehemently do not agree with the horse shoe theory that the more extreme you go the more left and right becomes the same.
Fascist safe spaces is certainly something like X these days and what’s that other thing called? Truth social? I also wouldn’t expect any sensible discussions on right wing news websites like breitbart if that’s still around.
asyx commented on Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’ torrentfreak.com/belgium-... · Posted by u/gslin
Funny how HN is so ideologically captured that they always assume authoritarian and fascist policies only come from the right and the left is alwasys the pure and righteous.
HM is distinctly more conservative than most other places online at least in my experience. Excluding the fascists safe spaces.
At the moment, the right is what is pushing for authoritarianism in most western countries. And fascism is conservative in nature and not progressive. All fascist policies are by definition right wing but not all authoritarian policies are fascist.
And if anything HN is really good at being weirdly against bread and butter social democratic policies. It’s an American website after all. I don’t think you could ever get away with discussing far left libertarian ideas on HN.
asyx commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
I think that’s a really bad idea. I owe my career to YouTube and I think especially these days it’s much more useful for learning than it was back then. The whole internet moved to bite sized content but on YouTube you can find hour long videos of people doing really cool and sometimes super niche stuff.
asyx commented on Tell HN: Add "NSFW" words in your Google query to avoid AI summary · Posted by u/behnamoh
Well, don't do this at work. You might end up with (unexpected but predictable) results!
It reminds me of the time I was trying to find this meme about the NSFW Dutch phrase "neuken in de keuken" (sex in the kitchen) [1], so I Googled those words as best I remembered them and clicked the images tab, and (shockingly) it was all kitchen porn. I guess I forgot that people would look for porn in their native languages.
1. https://img.ifunny.co/images/67b2b1e1f9a27f263f9ed34c32a1166...
That’s a meme? I thought that’s just the 3 words drunk Germans yell on vacation. Kinda like how Dutch people like to yell Schweinehund at my car.