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Did he pass the test?


Wouldn't using Google Takeout do that already? I thought that was the point, to take out your data?


Have you ever used takeout? You get 33 1GB chunks in a link sent via _EMAIL_ that then I have to click on and authenticate in my browser. 33 clicks.


You can pick the maximum size of zipballs. I think the max is 10GB? Or 50GB?

It’s annoying in that it can take up to a week for the first mail to reply. And you can’t automate it, so no automatic backups.


When I did this recently the max zip was 4GB- and that was only from doing zip64, regular old zip was 2GB limit. TGZ could do up to 50GB.

But these limits are weird because while file size limits do exist, they don't match Google's limits: 4GB is the limit for regular zip, zip64 has a limit of 16 exabytes. And TGZ's limit of 50GB shows that they they have the internal infrastructure to support building larger files too.

So, other than that most of their customers use Windows and they want to make takeout as annoying as possible, do they put that limit on it?


Yes, no automation and no incremental backups makes things so annoying.


You can have it automatically upload to dropbox or a few other hosting services which I don't remember. And then you can download it with one click.


I tried dozens of times to get it to upload to OneDrive and it always failed.


You can change to archive size to 50GB per file.


Gah, thank you. The drop down is one of those terrible ones with no scroll bar and only three entries so I have to do the ol 'scroll wheel and hope' to discover more options.


Only on TGZ files, not zip, which maxes out at 4GB. (This is not because of a file size limitation. The only way to get 4GB is through zip64, which has a file size limit measured in exabytes.)


Just... get the TGZ then?


For you and me, not a problem. My wife is a medical professional and would have no clue what to do with a TGZ file.

Also, the fact that they don't mention this difference- the UI is so poorly done that you can only tell that TGZ can go an order of magnitude larger after selecting it in one drop-down and then looking at the other drop down- is a sign of how Google wants to make this as difficult as possible.


The nice thing about Google Takeout is that sometimes, if you retry often enough, it works.

The frequent failures to generate my takeout are annoying though.


Probably not intended as such but "actual female woman" is also a bit disrespectful, since it implies that trans women aren't "actual female women", why not use cis? It gets your point across and doesn't imply anything else.


> why not use cis?

Because some people don't use that term to describe themselves either, even if that is what they biologically are. CIS is a pretty good term, because it's very technically correct. Sadly many have been on the receiving end of debates where it is used a a slur, and considers it hurtful.


Do people consider it hurtful, or was it coopted as a slur by people like Musk who just want to erase trans people?


Personally I mostly see it used in anger, so I wouldn't use it, unless doing a biology report.

It also has the weird problem that you mostly see it in a "do you identify as cis", which I at least don't... I am cis, but that's not question. This leads to some really weird situation where you have teams of larger middle age straight, and cis, men, but you have one or two that answer that they don't identify as such.

This is very much off topic, but I'd personally I'd prefer that we just stop labeling people. Just use their name, it's fine, you don't need to know or even understand the gender of the person who makes a repairable flatpack toaster. It's an cool project regardless of who made it.


I 90% agree with you, except that there is nothing technically correct about the word cis.


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There is currently a bill in the Texas house to ban transition for people of all ages.

Also, minors would receive hormone blockers - which are reversible and safe. ...and also still prescribed for cases such as precocious puberty.


> which are reversible and safe

Absolutely not true.


Almost all of the situations involving treatments on minors that are being backlashed against are themselves lies.


The truth is not disrespectful.


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In this world.


How did you get the source code and rebuilt it? I'd enjoy reading a blog post about the whole story!


The original developer simply sent me the zip file of the entire source code of the old app. Nothing special really.


I find it hard to trust them after they took down MJD's video after a bogus piracy claim without checking. I know it probably doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things but it does taint their reputation.


Who is MJD, and what video?


MichaelMJD is a retro computing Youtuber. A favorite of mine!

https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelMJD

Probably the video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vXKvku6y5A


Thanks. I don't do Youtube so this is news to me.

Reviewing based on a mate's copy is a little questionable but yes it does look like Arca Noae screwed up there.


What parts have you heard from them? I'm curious what they'd add or change to this article/this retelling


Can you expand on what design they chose and why it's bad? It could be an interesting read!


We make embedded devices, the higher end are running linux.

But, they developped the linux devices as it was a desktop computer, the biggest latency hogs we have are multiprocess architecture over dbus, and event based UI which fetches live data. The result is a slow and hanging UX, which gets slower after each update, and is irritating customers. The lower end devices we sell are bare metal, and they are liked by our customers due to their swiftness. They just have a different architecture that focuses on end result (monolith, and a cache of data to display).


Scroll up. I've seen an overview mentioned about. The gist is: the architecture was good for the company and its revenue aspirations. The benefits to the customer a distant second.

It wasn't so much what but why. The constraints of why led to risky anti-customer product decisions. Decisions the CEO had no choice but to own.


Why not upgrade to 11 LTSC? It does strip out most of the bloat


Hopefully they don't! I wanna see where this goes, we need more browser engines


I don't think you can be downvoted, there's no downvote button


A beautiful example of Cunningham's Law! :)


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