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1. Thank you.

2. I said "iOS devices are just not suitable for browsing the internet as we know it I'm afraid."

I know it is hyperbolic. This is called rhetorical style and I used it to communicate my irritation with the status quo of the internet itself (no joy browsing without ad-blocker etc.) and browsing the internet with iOS specifically (no desktop-like browser experience, no uBlock, no web developer toolbar).

It seems clear that this is my opinion so if you thing otherwise please argue against it or stay quiet (and do not down-vote without explanation like a coward who cannot argue like a grown up).

3. "... people snap..."

So this is reason enough to act like this? In my opinion this does not contribute to a good communication culture.

Yes, same here.

iOS devices are just not suitable for browsing the internet as we know it I'm afraid.

I will get another device for internet browsing on the go just because this is so annoying. Not even on iPad where you kind of have the real desktop browser experience you can use add-ons.

Please do not feel offended by my words but I would never ever use a service like this.

The question in most cases in my opinion is not "will there be a data breach?" but when it will occur. Leaving this kind of data on some servers of some company just opens the door for patients to be extorted etc. in the future.

I like the idea of apps and computers helping us with problems like that but in our world services and devices are just not trustworthy enough for my taste.

Maybe a desktop app on a device that has no internet connection would be a reasonable alternative.

I wish you good luck with your business though and keep my fingers crossed that somehow your data remains secure.

Just use a temp / fake address then ;-p

Thank you but not thanks!

This is another step into the AMZN hell where many and their data will be held hostage decades from now if they only rely on their services.

They kill FOSS business models and try to lure you into their vendor locked world to milk you.

I prefer using e.g. Flask to build an API in <5min.

Because there is no such countries until someone can prove otherwise (which will not happen because they don't exist).

Big capital put this idea inside the heads of many people living in the West and until today they really believe there is countries who are socialist/communist. Neither the GDR nor the UDSSR or China are examples for countries like that and people who know about politics, economy and society know this as a fact.

It is easy for you to criticize all alternatives at once because you have never seen any and chose to believe what the ruling party (=capitalism) makes you believe.

1:0 for Capitalism vs. Humanity.

Exactly this is why the motivation to do at least some things should not be bound to earning profit.

There is common goods that we need to share, global issues that need to be addressed together and we need to find ways to achieve this if we want to develop further as a civilization.

Money must not be the sole reason why we do things or we will fail with this "strategy" and we need to come up with good ideas for an alternative and try it.

I know this will probably not make me very popular especially with people living in the US as their minds are constantly being flooded with the idea that everything straying from capitalism is socialism and therefor evil. I will post it nevertheless, down-votes don't hurt and I will write my opinion until it is censored completely.

+1 and also I like the readme including live demo very much.

> These kinds of posts always focus on the complexity of running k8s...

Yes but that is also the worst already that you could criticize about k8s.

Complexity is dangerous because if things are growing beyond a certain threshold X you will have side effects that nobody can predict, a very steep learning curve and therefor many people screwing up something in their (first) setups as well as maintainability nightmares.

Probably some day someone will prove me wrong but right now one of my biggest goals to improve security, reliability and people being able to contribute is reducing complexity.

After all this is what many of us do when they refactor systems.

I am sticking with the UNIX philosophy at this point and in the foreseeable future I will not have a big dev-team at my disposal as companies like Alphabet have to maintain and safe-guard all of this complexity.

Installing AoE worked but I am afraid I could not start it :-/

It demands graphics with directdraw and will not start.

How did you get Halflife running?

So here is my journey with UTM:

1. Install UTM

- harder than I thought now because of Apple enforcing very strict app signing rules etc. (why can't they just let us run our own code without paying or hacking? Ò.ó)

- jailbreak with checkra1n -> install AppCake -> trust certificates with help of "Apple Configurator" (device management was not in the iOS general settings until I accessed profile settings with the configurator) -> sign UTM with AppCake (Filza -> Open IPA with AppCake)

2. Setup VM with Windows XP

- copied ISO (WinXP SP3) to iPad with VLC "Sharing via WiFi" (awesome tool!)

- created a VM with a 5GB hdd and a CD/DVD with path set to the ISO

- could boot from the ISO and start installation but it crashed after the reboot. I tried again and again by opening UTM again, opening the VM settings (not doing so would instantly crash UTM when I tried to start the VM again)

- finally I realized assigning 1GB of RAM to the VM (iPad Air 2 has only 2GB total) was too much and I changed it to 512MB (default setting) which let me finish the installation of Win XP! :-D

No I will try to install Age of Empires 1 and when I get hands on adapter + keyboard + mouse I will try those with UTM as well.

> people like their locked ecosystems and are not willing to invest in interop

I don't think this is true or fair.

Competition in capitalism is the reason companies create ecosystems like this in the first place (and also different adapters ;P).

If we (the society) would reward interoperability and punish lock-downs e.g. because they are bad for customers and harm the environment the market would have no choice but react to this.

But because it is not like that we will suffer adapter-hell and missing interop until we dedicate enough effort, tears and blood to hack together systems that kind-of-work for some time (I've been there and done that, learned a lot and lost a lot of time and nerves in the process).

I only invest in ecosystems because it saves time and I can do what I intended to do instead of hacking and slaying my way to it. I hate the lock-down and if we would have more open alternatives I would jump on it in a minute but so far the open source world just can't offer some of the services/protocols/features that I just want to use.

When possible I still hack and I admire many very skilled people in this area so please don't get me wrong. E.g. I just jailbroke my iPad to get UTM (QEMU for iOS) running to break out of the "shiny apple ecosystem" but it is again more hacking and playing than doing some serious work or "just using stuff as it was intended to be used".

It is not the fault of the consumer alone while I am sure a rational consumer would put more knowledge and effort into politics and consumption to get companies more aligned with what is good for the planet and the people.

As long as most people only buy and never complain or do something about it this will probably not change.

Thank you very much for sharing this with us. I am about to test it. I have already installed it successfully and it opens without crashing (iPad Air 2, iOS 13.3, unc0ver jailbreak) - so far so good ;-)

I will report back when I tried to install Win XP/7 (I desperately want to play Age of Empires 1 while on vacation since I saw this awesome app :D).

Classic whataboutism - congratulations. This was not supposed to insult you so sorry if you work there O.o