Simple, really. Abs(x-y) is the difference between the two numbers, absolute, so positive value. So, adding abs(x-y) to the smaller of the two numbers turns it into the bigger number. Plus the bigger number, now you have 2 times the bigger number

Yup. The mentality is great. ‘you get a line - a 1 or 10gbit line costs us the same once it’s set up, so you pay the same price’

Thing is, yes. Yallo or wingo or all those providers are “cheaper”. But - for example in the case of yallo, you get double-natted - which means you could not really set up a home server accessible from the outside world even if you wanted to. Then, there’s also the support of wingo and yallo and so on which is… Terrible. I actually ordered yallo Internet at first because I got sold on it over the phone - the next day, before anything got shipped or anything, I wanted to annul my contract because, well, I found out about their shitty stuff. I was redirected like 8 Times across 8 levels of ‘support’ until I got it through.

I went for init7. Day it was supposed to go up, it didn’t. Phone support was competent, said everything looked ok from their end. If I was sure the problem wasn’t on my end (router, settings, fiber), they could send a technician along the next day - but if the problem would end up being on my side, I’d have to pay for it. As I was sure about what I was doing, the next morning I had a competent technician in my apartment who within 20 minutes total identified the issue and fixed it (broken fiber in the distribution center). That is good support.

I am willing to pay more to support init7, because they’re doing great work.

But yes, we have lots of low cost options. For example, I pay 23 bucks a month with yallo for unlimited 5g data, calls and SMS across the whole of Europe.

I mean, I can get symmetrical 25gbit/s for 777 bucks a year IN Switzerland. No limits, big ipv6 subnet, great provider. Init7.

I use vscode because I do a lot of embedded.

Used to be that you had to jump through some hoops to make it work - make your own makefiles and stuff. Now, all the major vendors of MCUs are starting to develop vscode plugins as their “IDE” instead of those horrible ultramodified eclipse installs.

For me it’s stfu

I wouldn’t call 1tb storate for 4$ and 1tb egress for 7$ “dirt cheap”. Hetzner storage boxes are cheaper.

See Heise for example, they have their own instance for their news posts. It’s great.

If you lost all your devices right now, what files would you miss? That’s what you should back up.

At that point, it’s not FOSS, just OSS. Free means that it also uses a license that is ‘Free’ - as RMS would put it ‘libre’. So -, you can - under stipulations, do whatever you want with the Source code.

Im fairly sure they manage because they have so many subscriptions from people that barely use it.

They basically pay out per song played - and server costs are also largely dependent on active users. So they balance out a very active person that might incur 15$ in cost with 5 inactive people that incur not even a dollar.

You can even get 25gbps symmetrical - for the same price. They just charge 333 chf to set up instead of 111 for 10gbps, because the optics are more expensive.

I love their policy. ‘providing you with 25gbps or 10gbps or 1gbps costs us the same. So we’ll provide the max that we can, as long as you pay for the optics’ - all for a single price. No stupid speed tiering. They also have open peering - my ping is phenomenally low to most things.

I get 10gbit/s symmetrical dedicated for 777 chf / year through init7. It’s an absolutely terrific option in Switzerland by an absolutely terrific provider.

Meh, the best programmers are probably somewhere in the middle.

This also depends on what kind of work you’re doing.

Writing some frontend with lots of Boilerplate? That’s lots of lines.

Writing efficient code that for example runs on embedded systems? That’s different. My entire master’s thesis code project on an embedded system consisted of around 600 lines of C code, and it did exactly what it should, efficiently.

A better metric to that effect would be the git activity graph. People that do important changes don’t commit 20 times a day - they push a commit usually once a day tops to once every 2 weeks

If you’re looking for a free self hosted server - I have been using the oracle cloud free tier for months - especially their Arm based server, and I’m more than happy.

However, if you end up going that route have some kind of backup strategy set up, and set it up in a way where you can reproduce the server easily, as they reserve the right to suddenly take it offline.

I’m using a hetzner storage box for backup - which I also use for my personal automated backup with borg.

Your phone can play music just like an mp3 player can.

Your phone doesn’t have an e-ink screen.

That’s the whole reason.

Meh, for ‘normies’, if you want to put it that way, maybe. But a lot of people that used twitter before used it exactly because it allowed you to use an ‘online only’ persona. A nickname, nothing else.