One time I was caught out in heavy rain, and when I later tried to plug in my iPhone I got a message saying the lightning port was disabled until it could dry out. There was even an emergency override option, which I opted not to use. Seems like a nice feature to me.
A few days ago my iPhone would show the same message despite not being exposed to water. A reboot has fixed it, but that makes me wonder what is the false positive rate on that.
I had that on a Samsung phone. Eventually it got so bad I had to switch phone because it would constantly believe there was water in the USB port even though it was bone dry.
It may have been some sort of short internally, but to me it just meant a defective phone.
This is the first I am even hearing about it. Interesting that Netflix has never recommended it to me as someone who watches a lot of fantasy, sci-fi, animation, etc. Although TBH if it weren't highly recommended I would be pretty hesitant to watch a show with muppets, despite my other interests. Even with this glowing recommendation I'm still a bit skeptical.
How do GIMP's selection tools stack up against Photoshop these days? I'm not an expert in either, but a long time ago I remember struggling to select a person in a photo in GIMP. And then my friend demo'd the new-at-the-time subject selection tool that made it trivial.
Just to clarify - the subject selection tool my friend showed me was in Photoshop. And seeing as how masking/selection is such an important part of image editing, I think more efficient selection alone would be worth the subscription cost for anyone who frequently edits photos.
I think a lot of it depends on what domain you are in. If you're competing to build the world's best AI model, then you better have a lot of 10x engineers working for you. But if you're building some boring, niche SaaS app, then you better know how to get the most out of normal engineers.
I'm thinking about exposing some services outside of my LAN, and wondering whether it would be better to go with Tailscale or Cloudflare Tunnel. [1]. At a high-level both solutions seems pretty similar, with a client service running on the machine you want to share.
My sense is that tailscale makes sense for a more locked-down service that is not accessible to the general public (although they do have a way to open up access to the world [4], it felt like more of a temporary thing than a permanent solution when I was looking into it).
And Cloudflare is more for exposing a service to the world, with support for a custom domain name, DDoS protection and other IP blocking feaures, etc. Cloudflare does have a "Zero Trust Network Access" product that I think might offer similar functionality to Tailscale, but honestly pretty hard to tell what it does from their website or how hard it would be to set up.
They both have free tiers that are pretty generous for "homelab" use cases. [2][3]
Does that sound pretty much correct? Are Tailscale and Cloudflare competitors with a lot of overlapping functionality? Or are they mostly distinct products serving different use cases/markets?
Cloudflare Access is a reverse proxy: you encrypt to Cloudflare, Cloudflare decrypts and scans the traffic, Cloudflare re encrypts to the origin server.
So, traffic is not end to end encrypted (Cloudflare man in the middles the traffic). That’s the reason we didn’t use it. Otherwise it’s a good service.
Good luck with CF's Tunnel. It may have been the complexity of my network at work, but I wasted a day trying to get that to work. Endless web setup 'wizards' and clicking around different components and their settings in the CF portal. It felt like trying to build out a moderately complicated cloud infra environment.
Tailscale is dead simple, even to create 'routers' that act more like a VPN appliance inside your network. It really does feel like something Apple would've come out with in their hayday: missing advanced features for power users, but is somehow able to deliver what feels like magic with minimal setup.
I'm very happy with Cloudflare Tunnel on the free tier. Setting it up didn't feel that complex, you just install a client app, link it to your account/domain and then go through their equivalent of setting up nginx, i.e. assign hostnames to ports, and you can even do that through the web interface.
Yes, Cloudflare has tons of functionality you probably won't need and their dashboards can be several layers deep, but just setting up the tunnel with HTTPS and some basic security takes one evening at most.
I was using Google Voice for a while, which is nice because it is free and never had any issues receiving SMS. A US phone number is required to activate, so I used a US relative's phone number to activate and then just disabled all the forwarding features so calls and SMS would never be forwarded to that number.
Unfortunately, I went so long without actually using it that they took my number away (my fault because they did send me a warning but I just forgot about it). Now I'm in the same boat as you as I had switched to a Skype Number after that.
But Google Voice is a decent free option to consider if there's someone in the US who could help you with initial activation. Until Google finally decides to kill it, at least. I'm frankly surprised that Microsoft killed Skype before Google killed Voice.
I've been using Gvoice pretty much since it started. I'm just as surprised as you that Google hasnt killed it. The writing has seemed to be on the wall a few times but it's still around, thankfully.
When they semi-killed hangouts a couple years ago I thought for sure Gvoice was gone.
I've used Google Voice as my primary number since 2010, and started using it before Google even owned it (i.e., when it was Grandcentral).
Development seems to have (relatively) picked up recently. There was a period of about five years when I don't think there were any publicly announced developments. Now we'll get maybe one a year or so.
Somewhere we are going to get the novel about the quiet hero team anonymously keeping Google voice going all these decades.
contorting to keep it off management's radar, explain away any foibles, redirecting minor funds to get maintenance and tech debt paid off just enough to work another year, someone's going to write that tech story some time.
It felt like it was slowly withering until they rolled it into their business communications suite a few years ago. Now it is pretty much a proper part of Workspace.
I've used Google Voice as my primary number since 2010.
It mostly works flawlessly. It's cool that you can use wifi calling when abroad and the POTS network domestically, all transparently from the POV of the person calling you.
I have noticed that some services (Square, Venmo, and Ticketmaster come to mind) don't like sending 2FA texts to VoIP numbers. I end up needing to use whatever SIM I have at the time or a relative's number for those, and I'm low key anxious I'll be locked out of my account someday.
GP here: I had the exact same experience with Google Voice (linked to my Skype Number several years ago). Sadly, I could never get it to work with another Skype Number again.
> Not since the Muzak corporation has there been an institution that soundtracks drugstores, supermarkets, and shopping malls more readily than R.E.M.
Wondering if other people agree with this? Because it doesn’t really match my experience at all. I wouldn’t say I’ve heard REM in stores often enough for them to be noteworthy in that regard, much less infamous.
I've definitely heard REM in grocery stores and stuff, but not considerably more than other rock bands. I think popular older rock music of almost any genre is kind of the go-to background music these days. People are nostalgic for the old tunes they grew up with, so 30-40 year olds shopping for milk kind of like it, or at least find it inoffensive. That's my sense for it anyway.
Heck, I remember once stopping in my tracks in a grocery aisle because I heard War Pigs by Black Sabbath playing over the sound system. No one else in the store seemed to be paying attention, though.
It's an incredibly jerk line to start the article with and completely untrue. I'm not saying that I've never heard an REM song in a store, but the idea that REM is somehow the soundtrack of capitalism seems entirely made up.
> For a long time, well after we had a stable release, people kept claiming Asahi Linux and Fedora Asahi Remix in particular were “alpha” and “unstable” and “not suitable for a daily driver”
This is still my position on Asahi Linux: that it is not something that I would use as a daily driver nor recommend to others for use as a daily driver.
> “When is Thunderbolt coming?” “Asahi is useless to me until I can use monitors over USB-C” “The battery life sucks compared to macOS” (nobody ever complained when compared to x86 laptops…) “I can’t even check my CPU temperature” (yes, I seriously got that one).
These would be dealbreakers for me, too. To be clear, I am not saying that it is anyone's job to fix these issues for me. And this isn't meant as an attack on the Asahi Linux team - I think it's incredible what they have been able to do.
But those comments, without any larger context to demonstrate harassment or anything like that, just don't seem too bad to me. The language could be softened a bit, sure, but the criticisms themselves resonate with me and would be valid reasons to not use Asahi Linux IMO.
I feel like Asahi is pretty nice as a lightweight daily driver for web browsing, web development, and stuff like that. Obviously, heavy duty tasks like gaming, CAD, photo/video editing, etc are not quite there yet. I bought an M2 Macbook Air and run Asahi Linux full time and it's surprisingly smooth and bug-free (even smoother than my Arch Linux desktop tbh).
i don't think anyone on the asahi team doesn't know that there are missing functionalities. if they're dealbreakers for anyone, fine.
what's out of line is incessant reporting (via issues, emails, whatever) of what you consider a dealbreaker. that's my impression of what he's complaining about. let the people work. no one likes to respond "not yet" a billion times.
Is it incessant? I would expect the average Asahi Linux user to know how to search GitHub issues and just upvote a request for a certain feature. If many people are creating noise that isn't great, however understanding which functionalities people want most is helpful for deciding priorities.
