Sigh, where's my hologram hard drive?

I'd love to see lower-density glass storage made with home laser engravers. Something like 50GB per 5in^2.

> If you ever wondered what this name means: vmlinuz: vm for virtual memory, linux, and z indicating compression

Thank you. I have always wondered that.

In the early days when the kernel was small (I used to build kernels and copy them to floppy disks, and boot Linux from there) the kernel was called 'vmlinux', and when compression was added after the kernel started to get bigger it became 'vmlinuz'. It was still possible to boot from 'vmlinux', and it may be possible today as well, for all I know.

And 'vmlinux' was inspired by the 'vmunix' (Virtual Memory Unix) the UNIX kernel.

Switched to the free OnlyOffice a year ago and never looked back: https://www.onlyoffice.com/desktop

https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE

Wow, I hadn’t heard about this before. I like that it’s FOSS with AGPL 3. The OnlyOffice screenshots of the spreadsheet application look beautiful (compared to the ugly LibreOffice Calc ones). It says that it works with ODS files (which LibreOffice Calc uses).

Any gotchas to be aware of with OnlyOffice?

It can't handle OpenDocument files (odt, odp, ods) well. Only a one-way import is supported. https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/docs/userguides/document_e...

There are parts that are not released under a Free Software license but that's unclear from their marketing-communication. #openWashing

https://www.softmaker.com/en/products/softmaker-office is a thing as well, and I prefer it to Only Office. The maker is German.

It's a bit slower performance wise

Calligra (KDE Office Suite) is also pretty interesting but currently Linux-only https://calligra.org/

"Somewhat biased" is a gross understatement here, holy crap.

> The device initially came with a default password, and SSH access was enabled using this preset password

That alone ends my trust in the brand.

...you need a password to log in onto it to change it. That's hardly unique.

You could say "but they could make random one that is displayed on display!", but they also sell headless version with no display at all so that's not an option

they also fixed the issue, SSH is off by default now.

BUT BE WARNED: it runs a web-server by default with no password set from the factory, you have to configure it first run to secure it....

yeah, this article is mostly a no banger, they made some dumb oversights/mistakes with the firmware but fixed them quickly and even documented the issues and concerns. The firmware if open source after all.

GrapheneOS goes even further by allowing you to opt in to pre-embargo security releases, bypassing the vulnerable window between vendor disclosure and OEM patches. Awesome!

US Verizon SIM support?

I think Verizon is an eSIM option on the modem; dunno about the Router version, but I’d want to assume it’s the same?

Either way, having modems that are fully unlocked for Stateside usage for once is a nice touch. Their LTE line was essentially AT&T-locked, or unlocked but only supporting AT&T in the US, so this is a nice improvement.

Mostly agree but their original k-dramas for the US market are pretty good.

Is it still a K-drama if it's for the US market?

Looks promising but the last update appears to be a few years ago. OPS is a modern alternative: https://docs.ops.city/ops/

h.264 has near-universal device support and almost no playback issues at the expensive of slightly larger file sizes. h.265 and av1 give you 10-bit 4K but playback on even modest laptops can become choppy or produce render artifacts. I tried all three, desperately wanting av1 to win but Jellyfin on a small streaming server just couldn't keep up.

If single binary is a selling point, why not use sqlite instead of postgres?

Postgres has a lot of features such as trigram-based search which is pretty essential if I don't want to use a dedicated search indexer. It's also much better at handling concurrent writes than SQLite.