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  • I mean I ran my 2011 mbp into the ground, until the point that the SMC’s fan channels stopped working and it always rebooted at exactly 00:00 for no apparent reason, and never had issues with apps not being able to run on a 3 year old version of the OS. After that 3 year period most apps still worked, although some would indeed start targeting newer api’s.

    I know it was volunteering work, and I don’t want to defend apple any further than strictly here, but saying they “murdered” the OS every 7 years is just straight up not true, that was all I wanted to say.



  • To add on to your comment, and I’ve said this before, but specifically for military equipment, the terminology is military spec/milspec. The stuff labeled “military grade” is 100% bs.

    Military spec can mean a ton of different things depending on the equipment. For example, for electronics it often means being in a blast, water and dust proof enclosure, and capable of withstanding rather impressive amounts of outside interference and temperatures.

    This argument about lowest bidders everyone keeps coming back to is true, but the end product will still be of considerably higher quality than what you’re going to get as a normal consumer.

    Because this equipment is often under tight import/export restrictions, getting your hands on it isn’t easy. Older gear can be bought at surplus stores, and maybe some things are easier to get in the US, but in general the good stuff won’t be for sale until it no longer hold value to the military that bought it.

    /rant





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    While true, this is after the army had already made its way into the area by opening fire on the protestors. The protesters, after being confined to the square, didn’t see much point in resisting further, as their leadership fell apart and there had been plenty of casualties already. Right above the section you quoted:

    At about 10:30 p.m., still being pummeled by rocks thrown by protesters, the 38th Army troops opened fire with live ammunition.[176] The crowds were stunned that the army was using live ammunition and fell back towards Muxidi Bridge.[176][179] The troops used expanding bullets,[11] prohibited by international law[180] for use in warfare between countries but not for other uses.[181]

    The advance of the army was again halted by another blockade at Muxidi, about 5 km west of the square.[182] After protesters repelled an attempt by an anti-riot brigade to storm the bridge,[175] regular troops advanced on the crowd and turned their weapons on them. Soldiers alternated between shooting into the air and firing directly at protesters.[183][173][182] As the army advanced, fatalities were recorded along Chang’an Avenue. By far, the largest number occurred in the two-mile stretch of road running from Muxidi to Xidan, where “65 PLA trucks and 47 APCs … were totally destroyed, and 485 other military vehicles were damaged.”[37] Although troops advanced into Beijing from all directions, the majority of deaths during the night of 3 June occurred around the Muxidi area.[184][185][186][173][187][188]

    Throughout the street fighting, demonstrators attacked troops with poles, rocks, and molotov cocktails; Jeff Widener reported witnessing rioters setting fire to military vehicles and beating the soldiers inside them to death.[189] On one avenue in western Beijing, anti-government protestors torched a military convoy of more than 100 trucks and armored vehicles.[190] They also hijacked an armored personnel carrier, taking it on a joy ride. These scenes were captured on camera and broadcast by Chinese state television.[191]

    In the evening, a firefight broke out between soldiers and demonstrators at Shuangjing.[192]

    Obviously this was far from a peaceful protest, with protesters attacking and killing soldiers after said soldiers were ordered to make their way to the square, and some of the protest leaders explicitly calling for bloodshed.

    I don’t know how I would’ve handled it personally, as I lack the cultural background needed to properly understand the cause of the protest, but it feels disingenuous to call the dispersal “peaceful”. The fact that the government hides the official death toll also doesn’t help their reputation.




  • Performance isn’t the only advantage to a full postgres deployment. I have a central database for all of my self hosted apps which makes it really easy to back it all up.

    I’ve had a lot of problems in the past from software crashes that left sqlite files in a corrupt state, backups where the sqlite file wasn’t properly closed leaving it in a weird unlockable state, transactions not completing when swap is used, etc. Besides that sqlite really doesn’t play nice with NFS, which is the basis for quite a few cloud storage providers.

    “Best option” really depends on what self hosting looks like in your specific setup.