daneel_w

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Intermittent reader; account created as I felt I had to speak up on something.

Fine. You may reach me on daneel_wahid <at> protonmail.com.

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Comment · 12 days ago
Acceptable in my opinion.
Comment · 12 days ago
There's been hardware-accelerated OpenGL in OpenBSD for ages.
Comment · 12 days ago
Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop right there, Evel Knievel.
Comment · 12 days ago
> ... and inteldrm/radeondrm for a few years longer ...

Since many years longer, including the nv(4) driver for old Nvidia GPUs up to the earliest GTX models.

Comment · 12 days ago
OpenBSD has had hardware-accelerated 2D and OpenGL since, well, forever-ish. Just not for modern Nvidia GPUs.
Comment · 13 days ago
I was a Joker customer for more than 20 years, since the early 2000s, but recently switched because of a series of compounding bad experiences in just the past 3 years on top of their unusually high prices.

Edit: I feel that it's pertinent to point out one of these experiences that were particularly bad. About two years ago I tried to register an IDN (internationalized domain name) with them. The registration succeeded according to their interface. Money was deducted. The domain did not appear in my inventory. My support ticket took several days to receive attention and was just closed with the almost arrogant response, "you probably did some mistake", with no further information or support. My second support ticket, too, took several days to get a response, and it was then revealed that the problem was that they weren't capable of registering IDNs under that specific TLD, for unknown reasons. That support ticket was also closed without allowing me to respond, so I had to open a third ticket just to get my money back.

Comment · 13 days ago
Porkbun. Do not go with Cloudflare, even if their at-cost pricing seems attractive - at some point you may wish to run your own name server, and Cloudflare does not allow this for domains you keep with them, because the traffic data is of obvious interest to them. Last I checked (admittedly not recently) they were also incapable of holding premium domain names, which may or may not matter to you.
Comment · 24 days ago
What's reasonable will of course differ from one person to the next. Even if I had a full TB of data to back up regularly (I'm glad I don't) it's for me perfectly alright to let this simmer in the background while I do something else, because I don't need to actively oversee the transfer and I don't need it to be done in a hurry.

In another post of yours in this thread you mention that you have gone "all in on M-Disc" for your archiving, which come with much lower transfer rates (they typically max out at ~16 MB/sec last time I checked) and the requirement of actively managing disc swapping along the way. I'm sure you can appreciate the far more efficient option of a slow 2.5" SMR drive.

Comment · 25 days ago
Yes, and it doesn't in the slightest impair their ability to keep my data.
Comment · 26 days ago
I use a 2.5" drive. I find them ideal. But then again my backup footprint isn't double-digit terabytes.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm sure nobody will, but I disagree that it's an apples and oranges thing. But for you I'm willing to instead offer an example of a CNC machine making parts for... anything. The question and comparison is at its core still just as valid and relevant. Is the result way less important than "feeling good" about the solution?
Comment · 1 month ago
Would you also argue that the technical quality, efficiency, capacity, performance etc. of a piece of machinery, too, is way less important than the social and political values of its manufacturer? Say, a piece of medical equipment used in a hospital to keep a patient alive.
Comment · 1 month ago
It might not get to remain a virgin old-growth forest. If the Swedish logging companies can get away with it, he probably can, too.
Comment · 1 month ago
European countries shouldn't have to answer for what the USA has been up to the past half century. Your reflexive whataboutism doesn't change anything about the reality of why the West must do everything it can to reject Huawei, Xiaomi, ZTE etc.
Comment · 1 month ago
No, it's because Huawei assists the CCP in conducting systemic espionage on the West.

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