Posts by Anonymous Cabbage 9 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Aug 2018
That'd be the WireGuard whose MacOS version is a closed-source blob which can only be downloaded from the App Store, yes? It's possible to build *something* from the available source, but important functionality seems to be missing. Being able to download something via an app store can be convenient for many users, but if it's the only way to get it, that sets off massive alarm bells, especially for security software.
I'll stick to OpenVPN until WireGuard do proper releases.
You appear to have bought a laptop to use as a desktop, which is often a fairly silly idea as laptops have terrible keyboards, plodding CPUs, not enough RAM, tiny disks, are more expensive, etc, compared to the kind of thing that gets shoved under the desk and eats laptops for breakfast. Laptops have their place, but permanently tethered to a desk isn't one of them.
Although perhaps you just have a huge lap which can accommodate two monitors…
"Escape" key icon because desktops still have them, unlike certain fashion-accessory laptops.
The major Dutch cities are generally quite civilised and educated, and the rural areas are so sparsely-populated that it's hard to find people, never mind idiots. But its small towns tend to be similar to small-town Britain: full of bored underemployed people who are stuck there because they are too thick and/or lazy to move anywhere else, and believe it's somebody else's fault, usually foreigners. They prefer the target of their ire to be dark-skinned for easy identification, but "foreigners" can sometimes include people from the other small town a couple of miles away.
I am not even remotely interested in Android because it's a spyware/malware magnet, but I'd buy a PDA running real Linux in a heartbeat.
However, Planet Computers' misleading advertising of Linux support on the Gemini does not bode well this time round. Although it does technically boot Linux, the choice of a MediaTek SOC which only provides closed-source Android blobs and no useful developer documentation means much of the hardware either doesn't work outside of Android or performs so poorly it amounts to pretty much the same thing.
Heaven forfend that the manufacturers of a machine that costs the thick end of a grand might use a decent SOC that is more amenable to being properly supported in Linux instead of penny-pinching and using the cheapest one they could find.
FreeNAS's memory requirement comes from neither FreeBSD nor ZFS, but their "interesting" choice of stack layered on top. It's memory-hungry and slow on the server side thanks to being managed through a Django web app, and memory-hungry and slow on the browser side due to the use of one of those dreadful kitchen-sink JavaScript frameworks.
Saying that, I run FreeNAS 11 on one of those nasty Celeron G1610 Microservers with 4GB of RAM, and it works fine provided I don't need to go near the web interface. Even dedupe works fine on such a small system, provided the recordsize is cranked up to 1M or even 16M so the DDT doesn't get out of hand.
If you think that said "gentle approach" is "incredibly hard work", then you should probably lay off the pies and spend more time on the bike. I see steeper hills here in Holland, which is famously as flat as a billiard table. Now if you said City Road with a gammon-faced bus driver crawling up your arse, I'd be more in agreement.
To be particularly pedantic about the speed limit, it's actually 15.5mph, only applies to that particular legal category of e-bike ("pedelec") and doesn't apply if you are pedalling under your own steam which will always be the case on an unmodified (i.e. still road-legal) pedelec because the power cuts out at 25km/h. This is also not a universal law across the UK, but is the case for Islington.
Other types of e-bike can go faster, but have a much stricter licensing regime and are not generally all that attractive compared to a motorbike.
I had someone present me with one to repair when its electronics stopped working after a trip through the dishwasher. The response to my asking why on earth they thought it was a good idea to do that was that it worked fine the previous three times they did it.
They don't make keyboards like that any more.
Your first paragraph implies, but doesn't actually clearly state, that there's a stipulation in English law that a company should maximise profits. That is not the case. If you disagree, please cite the appropriate Act(s).
Although there is a lot of law around companies, the business end of a particular company's goals and obligations are set out in its Articles and Memorandum of Association, which form part of the contract with shareholders. It's common to take precanned documents and just change the company name on them. I've just read through the ones I got when I formed a company a while back, and (to almost distil these legal documents into absurdity) basically says "the directors can do anything they see fit with the company" and "if the shareholders don't like it, they can change the directors".
In other words, the directors have to do whatever is necessary to avoid a shareholder revolt. That normally means that they have to run it competently and return more money to shareholders than they put in. But it doesn't mean *maximise* profits, since there are quite a lot of lucrative but highly unethical things that a company could do, but would result in the board being replaced if they actually tried it.
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