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Comment Re:"user friendliness" (Score 1) 286

MacOS does allow | in filenames, as does FreeBSD. Windows does not.
Which leads to problems if I save a web page as pdf on the Nextcloud share folder on my Mac and later try to access it on the same Nextcloud share folder on my Windows pc.
Because most web browsers have the default filename as the section of the website, and that is generally a decently descriptive name for the file, and there are often | characters in that. On Windows they get changed to something else, usually _, but MacOS web browsers don't do that, because they don't need to.

Comment Re: Winning... (Score 1) 149

Vancouver has a port. It is actually closer to China than LA. If you sail up the east coast of Asia and keep going, you will continue down the west coast of America.

Of course Canada has a much smaller population than the US, and you may not want to unload an entire container ship there and ship the bulk of it over land to the US, but unloading a few containers there and then taking the ship south could work.

Comment Re:Winning... (Score 1) 149

Take the MX Keys S, cited in here as now costing $130, up from $110.
It costs £90 at John Lewis in the UK, or £100 at Amazon, both prices including 20% sales tax. On Logitech's own website, it is also £100.
£90 translates to about $120, or $100 excluding sales tax. The price at Amazon and Logitech, excluding sales tax, is about $110, same as the pre-tariff-hike price in the US.
So for now at least, it looks like they are not hiking prices in the UK.

Comment Re:So many useless comments (Score 1) 34

I migrated from Redis to Valkey (on FreeBSD) about 6 months ago.
As migrations go, it was extremely painless:
Install Valkey
Copy the contents of /usr/local/etc/redis.conf to /usr/local/etc/valkey.conf
Edit /etc/rc.conf to start the valkey service instead of the redis service
Shut down the redis service and start the valkey service (maybe about a minute of downtime here)
Uninstall redis

Comment Sometimes I want results from a specific country (Score 4, Insightful) 47

I used to use google.it when I wanted specifically Italian content, which is something I need to do quite a bit for work purposes (I'm in the UK).
That is no longer possible, and it has made it much more difficult for me to find Italian content, because it always assumes I want results in English.

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