Problem of free tier is just to entice devs in the hope that one of them likes the infrastructure and works at a whale

If you use the free tier too much they close it because you used it too much and exceeded their fair use policy

If instead you don’t use it enough, they close it for inactivity

And it automatically does HA. Reuse the key on another server and if one goes down it automatically switches to the next one

(Of course the application needs to support this, if you do this with a normal database it will break immediately)

Of course their closed source alternative is called AIStor and it is crazy expensive because everyone now needs to pivot to AI

S3 is designed for being used by applications via API, for example you can easily save and retrieve files from it even with a JavaScript application. It is much more difficult to do the same with sshfs

If instead you use it mounted on a computer, S3 is worse because each time you need to list its contents that’s an API request, if you have hundreds of thousands of files then it’s thousands of API reuqests

Ah right

I bet there’s still a lot of stuff coded in that era that is still used in windows 11, like the drive format dialog or some icon resources

If you don’t join a domain, win11 pro will automatically install all the sponsored stuff exactly like win11 home at first login. There’s no difference in the two editions except only the pro can join a domain. Exactly same level of bloat, even if it’s more expensive

I wonder how many would just do it for the extra discount and then use massgrave

Edit:

I went to watch their prices for the diy series

• Win 11 home is +145€
• Win 11 pro is +259€
• Ubuntu is free

(Preinstalled, is +220 € for win 11 pro or free Ubuntu, can’t get win home edition if preinstalled)

Thanks for this post, i would have updated mine next semester…

It’s very unlikely that those printers can support the new “universal print” standard (mopria, 2013)

At most can put them as generic printer text only which is worse

On the plus side, for example, there are thousands of printers and scanners where the manufacturer never released a 64bit windows driver even if some of them were sold during the vista 64 bit era or even windows 7.

In that case Linux it’s the only way to make them work on a modern computer (unless supported by paid third party drivers like vuescan or printfab)

And that some programs are extremely opinionated.

Ignoring requests with thousands of posts, or even pull requests where the changes are already implemented

“No. I won’t add tabs, it’s better UX to have separate windows”

“No, I won’t allow the user to save the password, even if it’s local or not important”

“All the temporary shit will be saved on the hardcoded directory ~/.fuckyou and not /tmp”

This stuff unfortunately depends by the desktop environment and because there are hundreds of them, it’s inconsistent.

On gnome it remembers it correctly, although there are a handful of times where the gamepad doesn’t connect automatically and I have to manually do that

Wow this is the exact perfect example of why someone should install from AUR as less as possible, manually checking the pkgbuild and not just “yay yolo”

In this case the archive seems to be clean and be what wd would send if contacted, (even Windows versions are in the zip)

Btw WTF WD. Why making a tool and its documentation only available on request?? It is nothing special, more or less do the same stuff that the GUI can do (show details, send erase command, send ATA password command).

It doesn’t seem to be able to disable the activity LED

Why not RDP with remmina, it’s way easier, faster and efficient

The funding (valve paying crossover devs) has the focus on games, almost nobody is purchasing crossover for apps

For games it’s already better, I get a few extra fps on my low-end laptop with integrated graphics and the best part is that I don’t need to worry about games leaving traces/trash in the system as they are placed in individual prefixes

Maybe that once every 2 years when you upgrade to major version it does it automatically? You save 15 mins every 2 years?

Yes. Luckily I did a snapshot then copied on a separate drive using btrfs send.

I shut down everything, there’s no activity… that’s why I feel weird to see all this rebuild activity, yet so many hours passed…

A scrub usually takes less than an hour…

I notice that you used the free interface without registration. While a bit of a hassle to register, I saw that behind the registration wall they use longer contexts/bigger models. Without registration it’s more prone to abuse so they might condense/truncate responses from chats: by design, the bots have zero memory, so the whole chat history needs to be appended at every question => long chats lead to expensive API calls => free users get history truncated or condensed.

Also, the normal system prompt is something like “be a sycophant and always please the user no matter prompt” and it will lead you do stupid stuff if you ask, so you need to go to the settings and change it to something like:

From now on, stop being agreeable and act like a high-level consultant: blunt and honest. Don’t validate me, don’t soften the truth, and don’t flatter me. Challenge my thinking, question my assumptions, and point out the blind spots I’m ignoring. Be direct, rational, and unfiltered. If my reasoning is weak, dismantle it and show me why; if I’m deluding myself or lying to myself, say it; if I’m avoiding something uncomfortable or wasting time, call it out and explain the opportunity cost. Analyze my situation with objectivity and strategic depth, showing me where I’m making excuses, playing small, or underestimating risk and effort.

For example this question that i had: (all paragraphed, writing from memory, i routinely wipe all the chat histories)

can I bypass gpg verification on fedora when using dnf?

gpt-5-mini from chatgpt free:

it’s absolutely possible! just use the --nogpgcheck flag

gpt-5.2 from api with the previous system prompt:

i won’t tell you how to do that, it’s an incredibly stupid idea, a bad habit and doesn’t actually solve the problem

finally, don’t blindly trust the results as they might still be incorrect, use that as a hint on how to proceed