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Name me a case where it was crucial to advancing serious and healthy scientific discourse by comparing one of the researchers a molester. Why would that ever be necessary?


It’s a good use case and the one that got me started. I also have a raspberry pi acting as an exit node in my home which is useful when I’m at the coffee shop or in a hotel.

Not just terminals — I have done videoconferencing via that exit node, and I’ve even worked in a “hybrid” mode where some services are on a tailnet, others are on a company VPN, as we haven’t migrated the company over fully.

I don’t have high expectations for actual screen sharing a la VNC or whatever, but it does work, and my lowered expectations for how well I can work that way not specific to Tailscale.


I used to have the similar service on a 2016 Volvo station wagon.

But the radio module in that car is 3G, and because carriers have been discontinuing 3G Volvo cannot provide their service to my car.

There was roughly 12 months when it was impossible to upgrade the radio in my older model car. Now the radio upgrade is customer-paid and optional.

My point being, if they require the subscription I’d be careful to confirm the service is guaranteed regardless of the carriers and obsolete radios etc.


We're serving git over https using apache2, where apache handles authentication via LDAP. We also serve subversion repos with a similar setup. We use separate web services for search, code review, CI, and issue tracking.

Running this way does involve more moving parts, but every part is relatively self-contained and we can replace one thing without disrupting everything.

[Edit] one other benefit I should add, all the other services like code review and CI are compatible with git and svn, so the development teams have consistent tools regardless which vcs they're running for a particular project.


“Being able to look someone in the eye instead of their navel” is a crude caricature of introversion. It’s exactly the sort of misconception that causes people to assume introversion is a negative trait.


For me it’s rarely software obsolescence that prompts the upgrade. My 2014 MacBook and iPhone 6 were retired due to the battery…


A battery, arguably along with storage, needs a very very good reason to not be upgradeable.

Old Nokia phones that are 20+ years old can still be used. PCs and consoles from the 90s are still perfectly usable with their original software. Smartphones have been 'good enough' for nearly a decade - why is there not a legitimate 'buy it for life' version?


> needs a very very good reason

reason: https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/editorial-features/...

very good? Nah.

At least the pendulum is swinging away from flashy and more towards useful with the MBP for the moment.


I use the Backblaze client on laptops and desktops, and B2 for NAS backups. No complaints.


Surprised to see nobody calling out ffmpeg as one of the most hostile UIs anywhere


It's like a mean rubik's cube, but so so useful!


You can also join the Meet in a browser, then under the option memu (...) is “Use a phone for audio”. In that user flow the meeting calls your phone and when you join your devices are linked such that the command-d hot key in the browser will mute/unmute your phone mic.


I've only used Meet once, actually last week, and it took me significantly longer to get on the call because I couldn't start dialing until after clicking "use a phone for audio" whereas with Zoom I call before even joining the call on my computer

Maybe it was user error, but it felt much slower to get everything up and running


Tycho also works for me when I’m in that sort of mood.


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