I've been using pfSense on 4 private sites for years by now. Luckily I've not upgraded from CE.
I think what pisses people off is the rugpull of them pushing people to get a free upgraded license and then removing it soon after.
As for "but its free". I think its reasonable to expect the free offering to be promotional. I know I have bough Netgate HW and license for work because I was familiar with their free offering at home. But stuff like the recent move might make me reconsider.
This one is pretty good, but I usually steer clear of his videos. Topics are pretty on point for my interests, be he just seem... Too full of himself?
I don't want to be mean in any way, but if someone agrees maybe they can put a finger on what it is
What is your background? I know that many Americans perceive a British accent as snobbish/arrogant (this is often used in Hollywood movies as well). So maybe it's just that?
Nah I always have the same impression, even though I’ve been watching for years (long before the chain thing), and I can see the janky setups trying to figure things out.
I think it’s mostly the voice / accent, to me it… sounds sneery?
I didn't get the impression he's too full of himself, but he was confident for sure. That's not being full of oneself though, that's making a video interesting, confidence, and not filling the space with caveats or self-deprecation.
Yeah, I think I can see the link to Mark Rober. Although not at all to the same degree.
Maybe it's the way of "acting dumb" in order to progress the discovery process, but a face that they know full well (obviously) that he knows what's going on? Essentially talking down to the audience?
Not sure. My first attempt at phrasing it did not get my feeling across well.
I like Steve Mould and dislike Mark Rober. hmmm. I feel a pretty good judge of character, Steve Mould is quite often humble and self effacing but he does mug and talk in a very intimate way - some people might dislike that from someone they don't really know.
I don't know him but I feel he is a bit tongue-in-cheek with humour. As far as I remember, he did comedy and was also good with education with kids. I don't imagine meeting him and him coming across as full of himself though. I feel I could approach him in a pub and he would have good banter.
This one is pretty representative of what his videos are like. Could be that you got a skewed first impression? Once you watch a few of them, you can see he's pretty genuine.
I've been a big advocate for LXD. Running multiple servers at work where I set up containers that I gave collegues access to and such.
I find that the "VM's but not" approach quite nice.
I've since moved away completely, just before the recent moves by Canonicle.
Most of if not all of my reasons to move away from LXD relate to Snap or other sides of Canonicle leadership.
> Running multiple servers at work where I set up containers that I gave collegues access to and such. I find that the "VM's but not" approach quite nice.
Out of curiosity, why? Wouldn't it be easier to give them a URL and tell them to execute "docker run ..." to get the same environment?
My use case is to let others use the HW I manage, not to have a known linux environment.
Either if someone wants to run something as an internal service (logging, ect) which should not depend on their desktop being online, or they need beefy HW.
I have an old industrial thermal camera that takes pretty good pictures. But I don't have the xp software for it, and without a "known good capture" it's hard to reverse engineer and make it work on Linux.
On a tangentant note, I've considered if it would be possible to gut the driver related parts (usb / Bluetooth subsystem ect) of linux and package it up to run as a userspace application in windows.
Then we could all use ps3 dualshock controllers wireless again on windows. It seems all the links to third party programs to make it work are virus infected.
I'd assume they were bridged, so you could either daisy-chain the cameras, or use it in-between the uplink and an AP. So you could it whereever you already have an AP without pulling new cables.
No, I don’t think so. Daisy chaining in networking is the worst possible design. For instance, the AP you’ve mentioned would go offline if the camera breaks. Not to mention stp diameter issues that are also possible in such designs. Normally each traffic consumer should be connected to an access switch using a separate port.
Worth noting is, the subtitles said "The ferry uses, each day, about 150-200 kWh" whereas the speaker said "the ferry uses today between 150 and 200kW". I'm guessing Tom Scott had him clarify later, but the units, and what could be assumed to be a timeframe or not, is not the same.
Are they, technically, any different than APT repositories?
Don't get me wrong. I hate Snap much more than the next guy, but the idea of keeping a repository so you can go look for, and discover, stuff that is supposedly also vetted by someone is nice.
The issue is, when an app store is a monopoly and not standardized.
APT repositories is, in my eyes, an example of "the good" type of app store.
Technically not really, instead of packaging the software into a .deb it’s shipping a container and metadata to get it working.
I think the rub here is that the maintainers of the signal snap can't reuse the work they’ve already put in to this and offer it elsewhere in another snap repository as there’s no other snap repository possible
I always say that one of the problems in the Canonical's strategy with Snap is not to provide the backend allowing everyone to set their own "store". Then, Canonical would focus in the added value of their one, with things such as a payment processor, malware scanning, ci/cd integration, stats, etc making it appealing.
Flatpak allows this, but, in the other hand, despite I exclusively use Flatpak these days, I dislike the fact that is not focused in CLI apps but desktop ones instead.
There is a proprietary piece of software that is released on Snap Store only. They used to release a .deb file. When they did that, it was as easy as extracting the files from the .deb file and run the executable. With Snap, however, it is much more of a hassle to do the same thing. It is possible (at least for the one I have in mind), but yeah, no.
I zoomed in on a red spot in the US and was surprised to see the city name "Uvalde" pop up. Not quite in the center of the spot, but any thoughts on if it might be related to the reason that a European like me knows that name?
From what I've read in the newspapers, Uvalde is the home of a big Customs and Border Peotection headquarters, which is a federal sorta-military operation. That's why so many CBP officers responded to the school shooting.
Speculation on my part, but it coincides with the fact that most jamming in the U.S. is near military facilities.
I've been told by driving instructors that the rule of thumb for putting up octagon STOP signs here in Denmark is only when a serious accident has occurred.
I can't find a source for it, but they are definitely rarer than most other places, and I feel like they are taken more serious because of it.
Here in the US, I swear the rule of thumb for installing stop signs is only the limitation of how many can be bought under the current budget. So many intersections would be less frustrating by having yield signs, instead.
4-way stops get installed in volume because neighborhoods gentrify and the new residents complain about the traffic being too fast (the old residents had bigger problems to care about) and converting 2-way stops to 4-way stops is a cheap/easy way to slow down traffic, kinda. Then the next week they complain about having to listen to every vehicle accelerate from the stop.
Maybe the driving instructor wanted to impress upon you the importance of respecting the STOP sign with this story? Maybe it's true in some cases, but somehow I can't imagine that at an intersection with very bad visibility the traffic planners just say "let's start with only a Give Way sign and see how many accidents happen, if it's too bad we can always replace it with a STOP sign"?
It's true however that some countries are more prone to what I call "traffic restrictions overshoot" then others - e.g. in Italy there are many stretches of highway limited to 50 km/h, apparently in hopes that drivers will at least reduce their speed to 70-80 km/h, and many STOP signs hoping that drivers will at least slow down at the intersection.
But I'd think a Give Way sign should suffice in practice even if the intersection has poor visibility. Only if the intersection proves to cheat drivers in to thinking the visibility is not so bad (and hence drivers won't slow down enough) is a Stop sign needed?
As for "but its free". I think its reasonable to expect the free offering to be promotional. I know I have bough Netgate HW and license for work because I was familiar with their free offering at home. But stuff like the recent move might make me reconsider.