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  • Yeah, but then you have to use Evolution.

    Maybe, after a few months (or a year, as I may or may not have experienced) of "communication" you'll be allowed to use Thunderbird. Only for it to be suddenly blocked again later because some dude didn't understand why can't everyone just use Outlook.

    And don't even dream of having a script to, say, sort and preprocess your mail.

  • Stick shift drivers - would you get an electric vehicle?
  • Recently had an electric Fiat 500 as a replacement while my car (Mazda 3) was in service and I absolutely loved how it drives. Nice consistent acceleration, immediate reaction to the throttle. Much better than the automatic transmission cars I drove before. 3 problems though:

    • range (duh): I often need to drive for 280km in one go, vast majority of EVs can't do that reliably (with AC and going 130km/h). If you can survive a day on one charge it is awesome though: plug it overnight and you're ready to go in the morning
    • the price of the car (it felt waaay too simple and plastic-y inside compared to 30K euro price I googled)
    • big brother software on the headunit, although there is no escape from it with any new car these days
  • Streaming local Webcam in a Linux machine, and acessing it when on vacations - which protocol to choose?
  • I'd go for HLS due to its simplicity: just files over http(s). VPN or not - depends on your network. If your machine is accessible from the internet, just putting the files into a webserver subdirectory with a long random path and using https will be secure enough for the usecase. Can be done with an ffmpeg oneliner.

    The downside of HLS is the lag (practically -- 10s or more, maybe 5 if you squeeze it hard). It is in no way realtime. Webrtc does it better (and other things too), but it is also a bigger pain to set up and forward.

    Also, just in case, test that the webcam works fine if left active 24/7. I had (a cheapo) one that required a powercycle after a week or so...

  • Rebalancing the price to represent the value...
  • Freecad is... rough. But, it has python API, and that's what I ended up using for almost all my stuff (there also was a period of using cadquery, but installing it is a horrible pain, so I gve up).

    Also using onshape every now and then, but many things are just too annoying to do with a gui.

  • how do you choose between two lauchers? steam amd gog through heroic?
  • For me it's GOG first. Using lgogdownloader and wine directly (in a custom apparmor profile). No DRM, no forced updates, no annoying client that takes forever to start. Games are also dramatically much easier to isolate and sandbox this way.

    If the game is not there, then yes, Steam (as a separate unix user).

  • Use desktop to self-host?
  • Whatever works for you. Just do it. It is convenient as f when you are just starting. You can always improve incrementally later on when (if) you encounter a problem.

    Too much noise/power costs to run a small thing - get a pi and run it there. Too much impct on your desktop performance - okay, buy a dedicated monster. Want to deep dive into isolating things (and VMs are too much of a hassle) - get multiple devices.

    No need to spend money (maybe sponsoring more e-waste) and time until it's justified for your usecases.

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  • Better dependency control. I strongly prefer software that only depends on the stuff I can get from the package manager. This lowers the chance of supply chain attacks. Doesn't prevent them, but I expect repo maintiners to do a better job looking at packages, than a developer who just puts another pip/gem/npm install in a dockerfile.

    Also if something is only available in a container, it sort of screams "this code is such a mess, we don't even know a simple way to run it" to me.

  • Dishwasher Recommendations
  • +1, mine is great too

    Finding them depends on where you live, I guess.I got to see a few models in local mediamarkt. Extrapolating from tgose few to choose among the ones available online was tough though.

  • Ideal nozzle diameter
  • Almost always 0.4 (sometimes 0.4 stainless). It is the biggest one that still gives me acceptable tolerances, and printing time is easier to deal with than imprecise parts.

    Changing the nozzle and recalibrating feels like too much of a hassle for me, so I didn't experiment much though.

  • Data visualization, like Grafana, but configurable without gui.
  • This might be actually it (or at least one of the "competitor" projects they mention in the docs), thanks! Just need to figure out how to do a nice grid layout of the graphs.

    I know R a liiiitle bit, so that may help too =)

  • Data visualization, like Grafana, but configurable without gui.
  • create graph on the UI

    that's something I want to avoid

    hard for me to imagine a situation where graphs need to be edited so often

    the whole system is under development (trying new views, changing how the data is represented, etc), so I don't need to imagine it, I have it right in front of me ;)

  • Data visualization, like Grafana, but configurable without gui.
  • Something like that, where I just write a function that spits out a numpy array or something like that and it gets plotted, would be great, but there is one thing Grafana can do and vega-altair, plotly and even matplotlib (*): a UI that allows to select a time interval to view.

    So I can freely pan/zoom in/out in time, and only the required part of the data will be loaded (with something like select ... where time between X and Y under the hood). So if I look at a single day, it will only load that day, and only if I dare to zoom out too much it will spend some time loading everything from the last year.

    (*) yes, you can do interactive things with matplotlib, but you don't really want to, unless you must...

  • Data visualization, like Grafana, but configurable without gui.

    I currently use Grafana to view how all sorts of stuff changes over time. It gets the job done, but is far from ideal:

    • edititng the data queries is intended to only be done in the web ui (so I end up just copypasting stuff to/from pycharm to at least have a nice text editor)
    • can't store config in a git repo (yes, I can dump & restore the config as a huge json, but AFAIK the json structure is considered an internal api, so it can change at any time making versioning useless)
    • all plot parameters other than the data query have to be configured via gui

    I did try grafanalib some time ago and it didn't feel right. It was quite behind in plot types (Grafana screamed at me "don't use this plot type, use the new one instead"), and is using unofficial api (the json config again).

    Any suggestions? It doesn't even have to be a ready-to-use tool, a library/framework for making dashboards will also do.

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