Which reputation? I used to work for a dell heavy hoster with thousands of dell servers almost 20 years ago - and apart from them being cheap I have nothing good to say about them. Worst is the remote management - several generations of DRACs all broken in new and interesting ways, and support is useless. You just get better discounts at that scale, which for a business owner drowns out the complaints of the tech people.

Notebooks also have similar bugs over generations - and nowadays they also feel even cheaper than they used to be.

Displays were somewhat acceptable - given you're fine to work around the DPMS bugs they have in pretty much every display for the last two decades - but their display selection page is unusable and lacks most interesting details. So it is better to just get something you can check out in a shop.

This one approves.

Bonus:

Ability for AM radios to interrupt other playback for announcements has been around at least since the 90s. Back then it was commonly used to pause cassette playback when traffic announcements were made.

This just requires for the device to monitor radio when on, and to be on - and with how integrated it is in modern days cars functionality I'd say the chance for them to be on is higher than it was in the 90s. So having that functionality is a pretty good way to reach a lot of car drivers.

Bosch has a bunch that are quite useful for sanding in corners: https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/sanding-polishing-43817-ocs-ac/

On a phone the additional power draw of larger modules can be an issue - plus phones are designed to freeze background apps to conserve memory, so you can get away with less.

I currently have 6GB in my phone, which mostly is fine. In a few situations I'd have preferred having 8, though. 4 or less hasn't made sense for a few years now.

I was wondering a few years ago how far you could get with implementing some simple markup syntax with just regex. Turns out, surprisingly far, but once stuff starts going wrong you're in a less than ideal situation.

https://github.com/bwachter/awfulcms/blob/master/lib/AwfulCMS/SynBasic.pm

Are you trying to press the keys as lightly as possible or something?

Pretty much the opposite, I'm usually either typing on a buckling spring keyboard, or on one with Kailh Box Navy switches - which requires quite a bit of force, and both have quite a bit of travel.

Unless you have one of the dumbed down Fido or whatever only versions yubikey is just a smartcard with key storage, and multiple different applications for interfacing with the keys - and as everybody (at least everybody sane) uses the same crypto algorithms those can be shared for whatever needs that.

For SSH you'll have at least two options - if you have a GPG key on that thing just use the auth-key on there (create one if you don't have that yet) for SSH, if not maybe adding a PIV key is the better option, that should be available via PKCS#11 then. There might be additional options as well, though.

Emacs grep lets you run grep, and formats the results in a buffer from where you can then easily visit the files at the match location.

Depends on the network mask.

How big distances / population are we talking here?

I was growing up in a small village, so in elementary school we went by bus to a nearby village with 7000 inhabitants and a swimming pool.

Now we're living in a town with a population of 46000 with its own swimming pool.

Lemmy also seems to federate your matrix_user_id, that is clear personal data.

Just like specifying an email address when signing up adding a matrix identifier is your personal choice. Lemmy is perfectly usable without either.

It does not matter how the data gets to the federated server, this is still user data within the scope of the GDPR. It does not matter that that server does not have an agreement with the user, the instance that would ignore a GPDR related deletion request would be in direct violation of the GDPR.

Not a lawyer, but I'd say the instance outside of EU, not targetting EU users would not be in violation - though EU instances transmitting data there might.

Instances should actually delete data when that is requested, or instance hosts can get fined.

With that part I agree - but it should be made clear when deleting something that this is a local deletion, which may or may not propagate to other instances, and will almost certainly not remove the data from the internet.