Archive for January, 2019

Nice rsync progress?

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

Rsync -v (–verbose) is too verbose, scrolls too much text on your slow Linux graphic terminal? Then maybe this tip is for you ;-)

–info=progress2

Still searching for the perfect laptop…

Monday, January 14th, 2019

Over a decade, 12 years (!!!) ago I wrote about who designs this crap (this millenniums laptops). And here we are the Apple MacBooks became even more unusable, with soldered in RAM, SSD, really crappy keyboards, that get stuck by mere dust. And while I would love a nice generic quality PC, there is always something wrong with each and every model. Thermal throttling, crappy keyboards, too. You name it. It is no wonder that PC sales are declining when users can not find a good and matching device: