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Re:Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @07:24AM (#48919175)
Self-host your data. I like Immich for personal photos: https://immich.app. And VisualDrive Server in corporate environment as a self-hosted replacement for cloud-based OneDrive: https://www.axiorema.com/visualdrive-server/.
Oh, an actual "modern engineering marvel". What a novelty, what a discovery!
Re:Doing the thing is doing the thing on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @01:42PM (#46799765)
Your point is quite good. I like it!
Re:Doing the thing is doing the thing on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @01:31PM (#46799595)
Oh, now HN is discussing a meaningless copy-pasted self promotion blog post. I guess this says something about the current state of the HN community.
Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" on Monday January 05, 2026 @12:02PM (#46501393)
So how do I call Word now? Microsoft Copilot app Word?
Re:How to raise children with grit (2019) on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @09:55AM (#42256567)
You wanna let them inhale mercurial?
Re:GitHub Is Down on Thursday August 15, 2024 @02:30PM (#41259013)
This “ironic” and “humorous” style of errors and UI captions is the actual new corporate speak. I’d prefer dumb error messages rather than some shit someone over the ocean thinks is smart and humorous. And it’s not funny at all when it’s a global outage impacting my business and my $$$.
Re:Ask HN: Why has everything become so annoying? on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @10:04AM (#39524922)
Yes yes. Pushing and pulling all the day. Modern day sisiphus.
Re:Sudo for Windows on Friday February 09, 2024 @02:18PM (#39319131)
The new command is named “sudo” because customer feedback and because MUSCLE MEMORY:

I hear you! We thought about some of the options you’re calling out here. A lot of customers voiced having the muscle memory of doing similar flows on various operating systems was more important to them and that’s where we landed. I totally understand your perspective and I do really appreciate the feedback. I’m always trying to learn from people like you so I can help to build things that will make your life better.

From https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-...

Re:Why I Like Obsidian on Thursday January 18, 2024 @09:19AM (#39041927)
My first thought was that this article is about Obsidian Entertainment (videogame development company).
Re:Using Git Offline on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @12:19PM (#38928791)
Or in serverless mode without any server at all. Just open the repository via file://.
Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? on Sunday December 10, 2023 @01:25PM (#38593615)
No, this isn’t true. You can deploy your SVN server with ‘svnserve’ in just a few minutes.

https://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.serverconfig.svnserv...

Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? on Sunday December 10, 2023 @01:22PM (#38593587)
> A github server is much easier to set up than a subversion server.

Oh here we go again. You are wrong my friend. Firing up a basic SVN server is a matter of minutes. You just need to run several simple commands.

Re:UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:58PM (#37340270)
Besides running Windows 11 VM, I use UTM to run Windows 98 on ARM-based MacBook. Great for playing old games on modern Mac devices.
This has happened only in BG3 with GFN for me. All other titles run perfectly or OK-ish.

It appears that there is some problem with BG3 on GFN. The game’s launcher constantly complains about “corrupt data files” and cloud saves take some time to sync from and to Steam.

I think it’s fun to use names or captions of UI elements as a display name / username. Look at mine.
> recommended for beginners

This is fabulous. They even draw a "learning path" from beginner to expert (sorry, who?). It looks almost natural for inexperienced users.

This whole "home antivirus" business reminds me of SoftRAM. It's just a few steps away from being a scam.

Re:Gitless a simple VCS built on top of Git on Saturday June 17, 2023 @07:50PM (#36375940)
So? You've just described exactly the what's achievable with Subversion. The only missing part is adding remote repositories.

> You don't have to set up a database for Git, either, and it works entirely locally.

What database? Subversion doesn't need any special database to work. Just the repository and its working copy. Both can be local and can be created with two commands.

Re:Gitless a simple VCS built on top of Git on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:43PM (#36375491)
Subversion's CLI is actually sane and much easier compared to the abomination provided by Git. Additionally, Subversion can be used entirely locally, without the need to deploy and configure any server application.

It seems that you are comparing apples to oranges. Building your own SVN server from the ground up can indeed require some effort. Doing the same for Git demands more or less the same level of effort on your part. So, I believe you are comparing building an SVN server from the ground up to something like installing Gitea or GitLab, or using Git locally.

Again, you don’t have to install an SVN server. Just run `svnadmin create REPONAME` and use the `svn` client to import your data into the repository.

Re:GitHub is down on Monday May 08, 2023 @08:39AM (#35860897)
How’s your experience with Subversion? What kind of content do store in SVN, BTW?
I don't understand how Rider is superior to VSCode. I tried Rider a while ago and switched back to VSCode because it gave me the impression that I was acting as a beta tester. There were, or still are, silly bugs that forced me to reinstall it completely several times. You just can't have such bugs in your software product if its codebase is covered with tests and if there is a dedicated team of software testers. Additionally, it costs $149 for the first year. However, I should note that I'm not a power user, so perhaps Rider's built-in Resharper is actually a must-have feature for someone.
Re:The Windows 11 Trash Party on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @06:48PM (#35621524)
Yes, AFAIK there is Bottles and Lutris, but I’m struggling with staring games through them. Perhaps it’s just me though.
Re:The Windows 11 Trash Party on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @03:08AM (#35610879)
> I use Windows to play games, but it truly feels like a trash party most of the time.

Use Linux + Proton. It’s fascinating how Linux became a decent replacement for Windows for video games. (Thanks, Valve!)

Re:Google Bard enters open beta on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @12:47PM (#35248853)
> Gmail works perfectly

Is this a joke? Gmail now is an awful email client. E.g., now you just can’t compose a rich text email when you need to copy paste lists from other emails. In certain cases, you can’t correctly format an email if you copy paste without formatting or plain text. And there is a lot of such annoying stuff, that makes my life painful.

Perhaps, searching my mailbox with gmail is OK, but the part of composing emails is in bad state.

They are writing:

> There are still a bunch of smaller reasons, but we could write a book on this, and probably no one would want to read it.

I’d read a book about Zippyshare, its history and about all those smaller reasons why they are closing.

Re:Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked on Thursday January 26, 2023 @04:13AM (#34529443)
1. Subversion lets you configure granular permissions.

2. Subversion lets you check out portions of your repository.

3. Subversion working copy does not have all regions history. Just a snapshot of the checked out revision.

So at least Subversion would have allowed them to limit the amount of leaked data + no revision history leaked.

Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:59PM (#34458928)
> I'm surprised to some degree that it's still running 13 years later when nobody is really facing that issue anymore.

It's still running because Subversion has better CLI.

PS The joke is not that funny when it lasts for 13 years. Ha-ha, how funny (not).

Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:26PM (#34234553)
GitHub is based on a decentralised version-control system, so this is not a problem. Right? ;)

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