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flas9sd commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau

andreashaerter · 9 days ago

I don't get the mostly black/white "Self-host" vs. "Mega-Corp" discussions as there is a middle ground: smaller managed service providers (even: per-service).

You don't have to self-host everything in your basement, and you don't have to hand your entire digital life to Google or Apple either. Mail, CalDAV/CardDAV, Immich, Nextcloud, OpenCloud, OpenTalk, web hosting, Kubernetes, simple VMs.. whatever ... fully managed, run by local or independent providers or by the company behind projects, without Big Tech lock-in. If chosen wisely, you can migrate, take over, or bring it in-house when you want. Just spend a few bucks and do some company research. Same as you would when choosing craftsmen, lawyers or something else.

For example, that's actually how we operate as a company for some of our customers and even a few single persons: we provide SaaS AND setup documentation. Customers can transparently take over at any time. We even help separate domains, credentials, and administration from us. Convenience without captivity. I am sure there are hundreds of shops like ours, providing comparable services for people in their wider neighborhood.

flas9sd · 9 days ago

maybe for the business target audience, but I doubt this can be a thing for the majority of users. They just want to get on with their day, not learn magic words to search for and relate to each other.

As for Apple fans, they specifically seek the vertical integration.

flas9sd commented on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx

kllrnohj · 3 months ago

Note the E5-2690V4 is a 10 year old CPU, they are talking about used servers. You can find those on ebay or whatever as well as stores specializing in that. Depending on where you live, you might even find them free as they are often considered literal ewaste by the companies decommissioning them.

It also means it performs like a 10 year old server CPU, so those 28 threads are not exactly worth a lot. The geekbench results, for whatever value those are worth, are very mediocre in the context of anything remotely modern: https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-xeon-e5-2690-...

Like a modern 12-thread 9600x runs absolute circles around it https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-5-9600x

flas9sd · 3 months ago

I tend to use quite old hardware that is powered-off when not in use for its intended purpose and I coined "capability is its own quality".

For dedicated build boxes that crunch through lots of sources (whole distributions, AOSP) but do run seldomly, getting your hands on lots of Cores and RAM very cheaply can still trump buying newer CPUs with better perf/watt but higher cost.

flas9sd commented on AnduinOS anduinos.com/... · Posted by u/TheFreim

keyringlight · 4 months ago

This approach is something I wonder about versus the freedom to fragment with a thousand full distros, each with their own maintenance staff (and burden of supporting what they release if they want to be taken seriously) and experimenting with something. I think there's value in experimenting and exploring new directions, but it would be overall beneficial if there were efforts to consolidate or make it an easy to enable option if those branches prove valuable and compatible with the parent distro

flas9sd · 4 months ago

addressing that concern, the dev blog roadmap[1] lays out the plan to commonize in the 1.4 version cycle with completion in v1.5 to

> .. establish our own apt software repository, managing all changes directly via dpkg. [..] This also allows other Linux distributions like Debian to install AnduinOS's customizations easily

[1]: https://news.anduinos.com/post/2025/5/21/anduinos-future-dev...

flas9sd commented on AnduinOS anduinos.com/... · Posted by u/TheFreim

flas9sd · 4 months ago

it's pretty straightforward to change: a makefile, some preset variables in a .sh, then it iterates through https://github.com/Anduin2017/AnduinOS/tree/5bbd94d9c4fa455e... - the tree also points at the gnome-extensions it uses to create and mod the global menu.

can't be too hard to rebase onto Debian (the superior .deb distribution). I put it on 2 endof10 laptops as whatever I do every few years, kde just doesn't stick

flas9sd commented on Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook commandline.stribny.name/... · Posted by u/petr25102018

petr25102018 · 7 months ago

Example pages here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PkUcLv83Ib6nKYF88n3OBqeeVff...

flas9sd · 7 months ago

if you add a cover page with http link, an example download read at a later time will find its way back more easily. Looks good!

flas9sd commented on Have I Been Pwned 2.0 troyhunt.com/have-i-been-... · Posted by u/LorenDB

Saris · 7 months ago

I really wish I could put in my domain name, I have so many aliases that it's basically impossible to search each one individually.

flas9sd · 7 months ago

it's right there after the "The Domain Search Feature" heading. Verify ownership, then you get results

flas9sd commented on Gmail to SQLite github.com/marcboeker/gma... · Posted by u/tehlike

flas9sd · 7 months ago

having sqlite exporters for platforms is great help for archiving, but also general questions: I used https://github.com/ltdangle/mail2db to see how much mail volume I still receive monthly on a mail account that I want to move away from. A top10 of senders directed my un- and resubscribe actions.

flas9sd commented on Gmail to SQLite github.com/marcboeker/gma... · Posted by u/tehlike

pdyc · 7 months ago

this is great if only there was a tool for whatsapp to sqlite it would make my data so much more useful

flas9sd · 7 months ago

in both iOS and Android it's all stored in sqlite already. Table schemas circulate forensics blogs and QA sites and how to obtain the unencrypted db

flas9sd commented on Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024) aumont.fr/posts/FreeBSD-H... · Posted by u/psxuaw

flas9sd · 9 months ago

come for the reminder to try FreeBSD some time again, read light systemd bashing (can't be harmed at that point), stay for managing Jails backup through.. NocoDB :) Stunning travel photography btw!

flas9sd commented on Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room github.com/winblues/blue9... · Posted by u/elvis70

fc417fc802 · 9 months ago

> I get significantly more work done when I unplug my computer from the Internet.

I tried this, but documentation is often a huge problem. Increasing amounts of it are primarily online and not particularly straightforward to mirror locally.

flas9sd · 9 months ago

you could try Zealdocs - it was a reason to go reading more of the projects own documentation pages. There are converters for whatever-doc/ssg-framework a project uses to Docset, the packaged format it relies on. Though ignoring that, how approachable the docs are to different levels of experience is another thing.

I learned heaps from treating a REPL as an (offline) escape room, in terms of how to get inline help, variable introspection and debugging tricks. Not every language offers a convenient one though.