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I know what you mean. However, I can’t tell whether recommendations are ads or just very bad recommendations.

But there are plenty alternatives, so you just should switch services.

I went for Tidal, which also supports better bandwidth (HiFi and Master) and Apple Podcasts. I’m actually very happy with both services. You will find tools online to migrate your Spotify playlists to Tidal and when it comes to higher bandwidth: trust me, you will hear the difference and when you did, you will not want to switch back to lousy 320kbps MP3s.

I am so sorry for this off-topic comment, but I really need to thank you for showing me - an European - why Trey Parker and Matt Stone created Terrance and Phillip xD

I fully agree. And Wayland supports HiDPI with fractured scaling very well. Also tablet devices work better on Wayland. If you’re running Linux on a Surface, you should definitely switch to Wayland. It’s really time to ditch XServer and I wonder why Ubuntu and derivates still use it by default.

This might be out of scope, but I dream of a general purpose programming language to develop web based applications.

I think overall web dev is kind of broken caused by the fact, that we still let web technologies evolve instead of reinventing them. To write a web based application you need several languages, which are furthermore separated in front- and backend.

NodeJs kind of tries to fill the gap, but it’s still just a technology which refers web languages.

I think of a different kind of technology that might not be based on html/css/js + backend-language.

Try etracker: https://www.etracker.com/

It is cookie-less, so no opt in is required in EU.

And off course you could have a look at goaccess. It’s parsing your access-logs and generates some nice metrics-dashboard. https://goaccess.io/

This question really bothers me as well. I remember the time when designers came in and taught developers not to use pop ups, because pop up annoy and scare users.

I prefer browsing the web using uBlock Origin just to get rid of all the bloat. However there are several sites that are not compatible. And I’m pretty much directly closing the browser tab.

I wonder, whether it’s just me staying away from sites that annoy me to hell, because all the sites still use such pop ups. Following I wonder, whether site maintainers use all the analytics crap tools anyway. I mean, all the pop ups must have some sort of impact? Honest question: are there any site maintainers analyzing there logs and might answer my questions?

+1 on WordPress

WP is a full blown CMS. It’s very versatile and you can achieve a lot with just the core. Additionally the Gutenberg Editor is the definitive editor for building content-pages.

A few month ago I tried to find a CMS as feature-complete as WP. However, I wasn’t able to find any good alternatives. I also asked on another forum and summed up my favorite WP features:

- Extendable admin area

- Custom post types

- Single- and archive-pages/-routes

- Taxonomy aka categories and tags

- Dynamic meta data (especially with ACF)

- Solid page editor for content

- Action-/Filter-capabilities

- Shortcodes

- Open Source

- Very compatible upgrade philosophy

- Media Library including automatic image scaling

- User Login

- API Support with custom routes

However, you need to know, that WP is higher settled than frameworks like Laravel. Especially data-management gets tedious on bigger instances. Just have a look at the DB schema and you will see, what I mean. On our company we solved this issue by integrating Illuminate/Database btw.

Good question and very relative nowadays. You should have a look at ILIAS. It’s been developed by German universities. However, it’s very versatile and pluggable.

As a company we are offering several integrations.

ILIAS is very strong when it comes to collaboration, but it doesn’t offer video conferences out of the box. Actually, I also don’t see ILIAS in that position. For such requirements you should definitely have a look at other solutions like MS Teams, Zoom etc. just because of scalability. Here in Germany mentioned solutions aren’t allowed because of privacy concerns. However, there are open source solutions followed by a system offered by the state for schools and other educational instances.

Yes. You can use iTunes to create (optionally encrypted) offline backups. Following you can disable automatically created cloud-backups.

Is it really necessary to have a proprietary backup solution on Android OS?

Don’t get me wrong, this shall not be a buy-iPhone-be-happy-posting. But it really shocks me (well it’s also kind of amusing) to hear, that you are really talking about rooting your devices, to have a backup solution.

So, back to topic: I’m really curious, doesn’t Android really ship with a working backup/restore-solution out of the box?

Thanks for the advice. Do you have some sources?

Ring is absolutely a shame, when it comes to privacy. Following, it comes with a monthly fee if you need video recordings.

We had critical situation at home, so we also decided to set up a recording camera. Brand name is “Eufy”. Yes, you need to register an account to watch the streams, however recordings are stored on a sd card. They also offer door bells, which require a gateway, which then stores all the recordings. Eufy adversites it’s products for being secure and private, however… I just think everything comes with a price and Eufy offers a fair trade between privacy and comfortabity/usability.

So for me: Ring is a no-go and I’m not willing to set up and maintain a homebrew-solution.

Pen and paper.

There’s nothing better than just a piece of paper. It’s responsive, suits every pocket, supports text, drawings, graphs and doesn’t get destroyed when it touches coffee. Also there is a psychologically effect: Turning away from the computer and checking a task using a pen gives you the feeling of having something finally completed/done.

I tried to digitalize it so often using Todoist, Wunderlist, MS Tasks, recently release MS Lists aaaand so on. But nothing really suits all the needs. And relying on many tools for task management will burn you out.

It actually feels like a periodical DNS outage. On Friday some of my servers weren’t responding like they should. Half an hour later everything was fine again. However, some VMs running in Azure Cloud were still having problems. Today this huge FB/WA/Instagram.

I bet we will read more about this anytime soon in the news.

Actually, you could go for Erlang programming. Erlang has a distributed system that aims to run on multiple hosts in parallel.

http://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/distributed.html

Following, as you understand the concepts, you can dive into it‘s internals. Not by studying Erlangs compiler, but by trying to solve distributed computing by yourself. For this, at first you should learn about RPC. Then have a deeper look at sockets. Definitely, you should go with C to understand these techs. High level languages are abstracting RPC and sockets way to much.

Just by remembering things. If I can’t remember it, it’s none sense.

For a solid understanding and remembering, I’m applying the knowledge by setting up a personal side project.

I furthermore push all my side project to a private git repo and if I really need to look up things, I always know on what project I need to look at.

At startup grade, it‘s fine to stick and grow with IaaS provider like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or whatever you like.

However, you‘ll get to a point, where it‘s crucial to become profitable. And storing that much data does cost a lot of money using one of the mentioned providers.

So, when you think it‘s the right time to become “mature”, then get your own servers up and running using colocation.

What options do you have here (just a quick brainstorm): 1. Set up some servers, put in a lot of hard drives, format them using zfs and make it available using nfs on your network 2. Get some storage servers 3. Set up a Ceph cluster

I used to work as a CTO at a hosting company and evaluated all of these options and more. Every of these options comes with pros and cons.

Just one last advice: Evaluate your options and get some external help on this. Any of these options have pitfalls and you need experienced consultants to set up and run such an infrastructure.

All in all, it’s an invest, that will save you a lot of money and will give you freedom and flexibility to grow further.

P.S. we ended up setting up a Ceph cluster. We found a partner, who’s specialized on hosting custom infrastructures. That partner is responsible for all the maintenance, so we could focus on the product itself.

I‘m working on a gaming deals website that scrapes all the deals from console shops (PlayStation, Switch, Xbox) and then tries to get the games rating from metacriric. The clue is, all the deals are ordered by score.

It’s German-only, but maybe your interested: https://www.konsolen-deals.de/

I did not really forced myself leaving software engineering.

I took the chance to be CTO at a startup. However, one of the CEOs was quite a critical person who yelled at female workers, thus I decided to quit. Fortunately, I always kept a strong relationship to my former employer who wanted me to be their co-CEO.

Nowadays I do not really find time to write software. However, I still give directions and choose technology to use.

I’m still thinking, that currently I’m not where I want to be. So I find this discussion quite interesting.

On desktop/laptop my distro to go with is Fedora.

Why: It’s one of the most upstream distros you can get. Following you get latest Kernel, frequent updates with recent packages. It also comes with proprietary software, so you don’t need to mess around with Intel Microcode, NVIDIA drivers etc. It just works- out of the box.

Also interesting why I don’t use... Debian: Outdated packages. Not suitable as daily driver on a workstation. Different branches already messed up my system, so I lost trust.

Ubuntu: I lost trust in Canonical. They used to be Microsoft on open source. Instead of working upstream, they made their own software pieces for their very own goods- and might have ditched it already.

Arch: I used to love Arch. Really, this is my favorite. However, I’m too old or just too tired of starting a Linux “from scratch”. All the pre-condigured derivates are nice, but they waste the idea behind Arch. So, use vanilla Arch or leave it.

Suse: To be honest, I never tried it for too long. Just remember times where you had to buy a 90DM package containing 6 CDs and a manual.

On servers: Debian. Arguments already mentioned by others.

I‘d recommend buying a Surface Go. Using WSL you can tool up, like on any other machine. However, remember to grab the 8GB model.

I was pretty happy using an HP x360 UHD display on Fedora. It also drove two 4K external displays.

What makes the different is wayland. Fractural scaling is working fine. However, we also were using Airtame for over-the-air desktop mirroring, which supports x.org only. Thus, I needed to switch sometimes, which caused „WTF is not working again?!? Oh forgot to switch x.org session back to wayland.“.

No seriously, if you need HiDPI and could omit proprietary nvidia drivers, give wayland a serious try.

I‘m running Bind9 and ISC-DHCPD on my Pi.

Having set a bunch of DNS blacklist zones to completly eliminate necessary of ad blockers on all my devices.

Following, I have set up dhcpd, thus I‘m not bothering about setting static IPs.

I got myself a HP Spectre x360 last year, it‘s the i7-8550, 16GB RAM, 4K Touch model. After a bunch of BIOS updates Thunderbolt properly does it‘s job. Latest model should work fine as well due to minor upgrades.

Btw, Fedora drives the h/w.