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Nail in the coffin for ChromeOS (or aluminiumOS) if they 8GB RAM variants are sold > $500.

Maybe. When a decent Chromebook is £697 (https://www.johnlewis.com/lenovo-chromebook-14m9610-laptop-m...) it doesn't make economic sense to get one.

> have to show them your phone number,

Not always working. You can see often in google community support people lost their phone. Get a new sim card and phone. Google sends the 2FA request to old phone - without that they cannot restore data.

Double whammy for people that use eSIM that gets sent to their old email address.


Ask your colleague if his family is still there... May be not.

or ask another colleague whose family is still there. Would be different answer.


I can vouch for people still there. I’m a Brit who married an Iranian who still has a large family in Iran. With the exception of one religious aunt who is married to a military man, all the Iranian family and friends we know have been hoping for intervention. We've had emotional messages from my wife’s cousin (a new mum) describing looking out of her apartment every night for the past month praying for planes overhead. Take that anecdata for what it’s worth.


Thank you for chiming in with your almost-first-hand experience.

It’s crazy that some people nowadays vouch for dictatorships.

Venezuela first, Iran now… absolutely crazy.


Valid point but then again:

1. Not everybody lives in the direct nearing of the bombing/conflict hotspot

2. They weren’t doing that great before anyway (because, you know, the islamic totalitarian theocratic dictatorship)

3. They haven’t been doing great at all lately (because, you know, protests and turmoil and the violent repression from the aforementioned islamic totalitarian theocratic dictatorship)


Was this the answer from your other colleague?


I tried a lot to get this in reality - using fedora silverblue. But that thing sucks. It is slow. Really dogslow. Devs are blaming rpm-ostree or btrfs - no idea. I wish there was something like ChromeOS but open.

Hint: Maybe firefox should pivot (re-do Firefox OS) to that.


What's really slow? Using the system, or installing updates? I use Kalpa, an atomic OpenSUSE desktop version, and it just installs updates every night and notifies me to restart, so I generally neither know nor care about how quickly that runs. (Although, I've also run updates manually and it seems fine.)


Not download. I have a good connection.

- Installation is slow. REally slow. They blame it on btrfs. But the same for XFS. It took at least 30 min. Why?

- rpm-ostree - same.

https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/discussions/4087


It's pretty much rpm-ostree. Nobody bothered to make those workflows performant, so if you need to apply updates separately, it's going to suck. The OSTree download can be fast if you have a fast connection to the Fedora server, but it's not mirrored and there's no mirror network support (so no geographically close downloads). To be fair, bootc has this problem too because container tooling in general can't support mirror networks currently.


when you talk about slow, what exactly is slow in your case? download speed or performance?


If you have a $100 phone then UI is lighter as compared to running firefox etc.


A few years is different case. Invidious is also getting blocked easily. Are you running it now? If yes, then report.


I am running it, and I used to use NewPipe before. I honestly don't notice much difference in stability. In both cases I would experience issues every couple of months for a day or 2. As YouTube made some change and I need to upgrade the app or server to resolve it. I wouldn't say one is better than another. Both have different advantages and drawbacks that come mostly from the nature of one being an app and the other being a server+web


Ironically iPhone helps them earn more. Most apple device owners have no choice or awareness.


I happily watch adless YouTube on an iPhone. There are definitely choices available. I agree on the awareness though.


> 2FA is a mitigation against people getting pwned by reusing passwords or using

Stolen/lost password hashes or some AI based programmer that dumped passwords in plaintext somewhere in a database.

If 2FA is proper even trivial passwords are fine.


With that argument we are discussing this on...errr US - the organization that perhaps grew those companies.

The word is not ironic it is pragmatic.


> Why do so many developers and sysadmins think they're not competent for hosting services. It is a lot easier than you think, and its also fun to solve technical issues you may have.

It is a different skillset. SRE is also an under-valued/paid (unless one is in FAANGO).


It’s all downside. If nothing goes wrong, then the company feels like they’re wasting money on a salary. If things go wrong they’re all your fault.


Correct


SRE has also lost nearly all meaning at this point, and more or less is equivalent to "I run observability" (but that's a SaaS solution too).


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