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You should pay for your Android launcher
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#techThe launcher is the most-touched app on the device, and we expect it to be free, good, and not ad-supported. Pick two. I picked, three times, for a cumulative R$ 70.
Every Port I Loved is now called USB-C
Every cable and port from my childhood — VGA, PS/2, parallel, serial, RCA — quietly became USB-C one way or another, and I have feelings about it.
IPv6 Fixes Everything On Purpose
IPv6 does not have design flaws so much as it has people bringing DHCP-shaped, firewall-shaped, and subnet-shaped complaints to a protocol that already gave everyone a public address and moved on.
SQL Is Fine. The Problem Is That We Kept It.
SQL survived every replacement attempt not because it won, but because its challengers attacked the wrong layer.
Microsoft Was Right. They Were Just Fifteen Years Early.
Windows 8 was correct. Metro was correct. Microsoft saw convergence before anyone and got laughed off the stage for it. Fifteen years later Valve and Google are eating the lunch Microsoft left on the counter.
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The launcher is the most-touched app on the device, and we expect it to be free, good, and not ad-supported. Pick two. I picked, three times, for a cumulative R$ 70.
The machine under your desk out-specs the VM you're paying for. It transcodes anime while you game and it doesn't even notice.
An ATA, some Asterisk, a tunnel to my reverse proxy, and Linphone — all so I could answer the front desk from my desk at work. The condo had other plans.
Codeberg's new anti-'AI-code' Terms of Use confirmed I was right to distrust it, Tangled turned out to be public-only, and my private infrastructure-as-code repo is now the elephant asking to be addressed.
Every cable and port from my childhood — VGA, PS/2, parallel, serial, RCA — quietly became USB-C one way or another, and I have feelings about it.
A decade of tunnels and coordination servers — Hamachi, OpenVPN, Tailscale, Headscale, and reluctantly Tailscale again — and the SLA math that keeps making the decision for me.
One evening, too drugged on antihistamines to debug my own SSH, I handed the problem to Claude and went to lie down. It fixed it. I pay twenty dollars a month for that — which makes it paid tech support, and the genuinely unsettling part is how good it is.
IPv6 does not have design flaws so much as it has people bringing DHCP-shaped, firewall-shaped, and subnet-shaped complaints to a protocol that already gave everyone a public address and moved on.
I had a painless way off Microsoft Copilot — same autocomplete, same price, a different company. Then SpaceX bought said company.
Oracle quietly halved the Always Free Ampere A1 tier — 4 OCPU / 24GB down to 2 / 12. Free-tier VMs over the limit get stopped. PAYG VMs over the limit get billed. Resize before they resize you.