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princevegeta89 commented on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions   resources.github.com/acti... · Posted by u/kevin-david
joshstrange · 3 days ago
Ahh, so since GitHub is completely incompetent when it comes to managing a CI they are going to make it worse for everyone to get their cut.

I hate GH Action runners with a passion. They are slow, overpriced, and clearly held together with duct tape and chewing gum. WarpBuild, on the other hand, was a breeze to setup and provided faster runners and lower prices.

This is a really shitty move.

Hey GitHub, your Microsoft is showing...

princevegeta89 · 3 days ago
I have never been a fan of GitHub and their entire system, always felt Bitbucket or GitLab were superior in terms of the tooling and included features across all plans.

However, my experience with GitHub Actions was really poor. Some build that would run perfectly on my local machine and any other servers we have hosted would always time out on GitHub runners. I went back and forth from small runners to large runners and the result was always the same. Then I found that there are third-party companies just offering replacement runners for GitHub Actions at less than half the price for an amazing reliability and cost. It was a night and day difference.

Now... this move by GitHub is almost unbelievable. Charging folks to use their own machines

princevegeta89 commented on Molly: An Improved Signal App   molly.im/... · Posted by u/dtj1123
e40 · 20 days ago
I’ve used Signal across many devices for years with zero problems.
princevegeta89 · 20 days ago
Signal seems to work alright for me, although I felt the desktop app gets a bit annoying because of too many frequent updates happening to the app, which I believe is based on Electron.

But besides this, there is really a strong need for a web client, just like Telegram or WhatsApp. If only the protocol can be extended in such a way that it allows for integrating into a web app, that would be incredibly great.

princevegeta89 commented on GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack   about.gitlab.com/blog/git... · Posted by u/OuterVale
dawnerd · 21 days ago
Everyone is blaming npm but GitHub should be put on blast too for allowing the repos to be created and not quickly flagged.

GitHub has a massive malware problem as it is and it doesn’t get enough attention.

princevegeta89 · 21 days ago
I love! how Github, as a corporate company now owned by Microsoft, is directly tied to GoLang as the main repository of the vast majority of packages/dependencies.

Imagine the number of things that can go wrong when they try to regulate or introduce restrictions for build workflows for the purpose of making some extra money... lol

The original Java platform is a good example to think about.

princevegeta89 commented on Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2   ruby-lang.org/en/news/202... · Posted by u/pansa2
to-too-two · a month ago
With talk here of Ruby stagnating, has anyone checked out Crystal? I have not but have been curious about it.
princevegeta89 · a month ago
I checked out crystal. It's a nice little language, but it has a very, very long way to go. IDE support is still quite shaky and the developer community is not large enough yet. There are some few good packages and frameworks that work very well though. I think it's still not supported on Windows as of today.
princevegeta89 commented on Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)   chadaustin.me/2024/02/win... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
pinkgolem · a month ago
>vast majority of people care more about RAM, SSD and CPU

The vast majority of people do not know what any of this is, and they do not care at all, they want a fast machine for there usecase.. and for most people that is the equivalent to editing a word doc and listening to Spotify.

After watching a review if the LG gram, yeah, I am not convinced that comes anywhere close in regards of speakers or keyboard.. and the durability seems.. questionable

It also seem to be around the same price point of a MacBook air with more or less the same specs on super duper black Friday sale

princevegeta89 · a month ago
>> fast machine for there usecase

Isn't that what RAM, CPU and SSD are all about? The average user doesn't care much, but at the end of the day if your machine cannot keep up several open apps due to low RAM or cannot store a lot of data because you only have 256GB, that's a problem right?

princevegeta89 commented on Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)   chadaustin.me/2024/02/win... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
pinkgolem · a month ago
Is ram and SSD and CPU all you care about?

I mean yeah, you will get a PC a bit cheaper..

But then you just ignored everything else, build quality, webcam, speakers, sound, SSD speed, keyboard, battery runtime, screen quality..

With business line for comparable build quality/durability you are not getting half price anymore, and I have not yet seen any laptop speaker/webcam not on a MacBook with comparable quality.

I do not have access to bulk discounts, but you are more then invited to post some samples.

princevegeta89 · a month ago
The vast majority of people care more about RAM, SSD and CPU only. Apple charges $200+ for an increment in each of these departments.

Moreover, the speakers, keyboard, battery, webcam are almost caught up in quality with Macbooks when you look at products like LG Gram.

Reg. Screen Quality, some windows machines have better screens actually, and those are the OLED ones.

princevegeta89 commented on Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)   chadaustin.me/2024/02/win... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
thewebguyd · a month ago
Now spec it with 32GB of RAM, and try to get a bulk discount for ordering 1,000 of them. Try to get the price of said 32GB M4 Airs down to ~$700/laptop or less.

Not going to happen with Apple.

No company that's big enough is paying sticker price for windows laptops.

princevegeta89 · a month ago
``` Now spec it with 32GB of RAM, and try to get a bulk discount for ordering 1,000 of them. Try to get the price of said 32GB M4 Airs down to ~$700/laptop or less. Not going to happen with Apple. ```

Exactly. Thanks for explaining this. Also one more point to note is Windows machines go on discount sales very frequently. It's usually way too easy to find one with 32GB and 1TB, with the latest Ryzen or Intel mobile processors. Bonus when you find one like Lenovo Legion which allows you to buy and shove-in extra RAM/storage as you need them.

princevegeta89 commented on Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)   chadaustin.me/2024/02/win... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
princevegeta89 · a month ago
Windows is not really just a gaming OS, at least after WSL was launched. Development experience using Windows Terminal + WSL has been pretty great when I did it 3 years ago - I can only imagine it being better today.

Also note that the cost of Windows machines is half the price of their Mac counterparts, even with the specs doubled.

For many folks Windows is an all-round multipurpose platform (gaming included) and they wouldn't want to invest in other machines just for doing development work, so they stick to it as their main OS. Yes we know of the horrible bloat, tracking and privacy invasion that the OS does to us, but many people tend to just ignore it and move on.

princevegeta89 commented on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive   github.com/linagora/twake... · Posted by u/javatuts
juchilov · 2 months ago
Seafile is the only good enough thing i've found so far for self-hosted file sync. But it is still a pain to upgrade the server version. nextCloud and friends is a complete disaster in my oppinion.
princevegeta89 · 2 months ago
I recently got into self-hosting Seafile and successfully set it up on my dedicated server. Had to think backup and security strategies quite a bit and ultimately I set up a bulletproof backup mechanism. Tested it pretty rigorously.

Seafile took me by surprise in terms of how quick it was at picking up new files and changes - syncing works incredibly well too. I moved all my files from my Google Drive into my Seafile instance and I'm now using it on all my devices as my main cloud storage solution.

princevegeta89 commented on What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on   ourworldindata.org/does-t... · Posted by u/alphabetatango
HarHarVeryFunny · 2 months ago
Well, yeah.

TV stations are out to make money, not to inform society. All their programming, news included, is designed to attract eyeballs, hence money, and sadly sensationalist and titillating stories is what most people want to see.

princevegeta89 · 2 months ago
Man...... when did these press companies get so out of touch with reality that they wouldn't even pay respect to the fact that people are actually dying here. So sad.

u/princevegeta89

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