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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

So yes, there are millions of developers out there - they are just busy writing code.

Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

2/2, While Denmark somehow has forgotten about Delphi, other parts of the world are highly active, something which is also evident seeing how many are attending webinars, congresses and summits. Last year Delphi Summit was a huge success. Same goes for International Pascal Congress.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Embarcadero is a private company and thus their financials are not public. You cannot deduce how many customers, let alone users of the CE version from that alone. Delphi developer communities are spread across many platforms, e.g. Brazil is huge and uses Telegram. Then there are ext forums. 1/2

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I'm talking of actual and real Modern Delphi, not Free Pascal. Millions of developers around the world are using Delphi for all kinds of things 🙂

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Delphi is still going strong - and relevant!

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Hoo boy - Delphi is more alive and kicking that ever and it is certainly a modern and competitive development environment and coupled with the Modern Object Pascal language you get really bang for the buck. Also why I invest so many resources in a new compiler - the language has so much to offer.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Enterprise LTSC receives the security updates at the same time as other versions of Windows, that is, every patch Tuesday. Longer security update cycle simply means MS supports the version with updates longer than they do with Home/Pro. Life cycle overview: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecy...

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Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 - Microsoft Lifecycle

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 follows the Fixed Lifecycle Policy.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Enterprise LTSC (And Enterprise IoT) are special versions of Windows MS made for use cases where you need a stable environment without feature fluff and other bloat, but with a longer security update cycle. Due to this, it isn't advertised to the public but you can buy used licenses, at least in EU.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

As an aspiring immigrant in the country, I feel the climate has changed significantly... and not for the better.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

AmigaDOS and Workbench was way ahead of its time, including the hardware. I still have many fond memories of playing with the Amiga 500 my late gramps gifted me as a kid.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Haven't looked at that either.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

SmartOS looks interesting though I haven't tried it yet so I can't comment whether it's good or not. It is on my todo list though.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I've tried it in the past, but it haven't really received any updates. If I need a Linux distro, I'll go either Devuan, Alpine or Chimera.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

That's one of the things, yes 🙂

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Storage, and I am a heavy user of virtual machines for my line of work 🙂

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

NomadBSD and GhostBSD are both excellent distros for an out of box experience. For me though I have additional requirements which warrants an install, especially since I'm reliant on bhyve among things.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

With the recent shenanigans Mozilla has pulled with FF, I've been phasing FF usage out in favor of LibreWolf. Though I still need a Chromium enabled browser for some things, I've stuck with Vivaldi over the years which has proven to be fairly solid.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It is indeed. Been spending significant time sifting through the Core and Scale code bases last year, there's a lot of work to be done wrt weeding out the iX specifics, moving it along to supported FBSD releases etc. but I'm confident the team behind can pull it off and make it pkg install based.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

@sweordbora.hausen.com I'm sure you already know this, but I'm happy to see there's some movement with zVault. Really excited to phase out iX soon. www.zvault.io#roadmap

zvault.io

zVault

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

DaVinci Resolve in its free tier is more than enough for editing. Coming from Premiere, it does take a bit to get used to as it has a different workflow, but once you get the hang of it, it is actually easier than Premiere. I suggest looking up quick DaVinci tutorials on YT, that's how I did it.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Or, install FreeBSD. Alternatively if you can't leave MS behind, get a used license for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 and prolong the update cycle into 2027.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

My wife @chicanddestroy.bsky.social expresses the same 😁 Though my endless barrage of dad jokes drives her nuts 😂

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Have you considered looking at Framework too?

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It is indeed terrifying. As an immigrant, and knowing WWII history from what we were taught in school in Denmark, it boggles my mind we're heading towards this in the US.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I would strongly advice against wifi extenders and mesh systems. If you have the ability to run some ethernet cable to strategic locations, put up a couple good GrandStream access points and you have superior coverage and solid throughput.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Brian, there's a comedian hidden in you, that was an excellent take - albeit true 😁

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

So awesome! - Congratulations! 🎉

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Well said Jerry! It kinda reminds me of this clip from The Matrix as well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGMc...

youtube.com

"WHAT GOOD A PHONE CALL IF YOU'RE UNABLE TO SPEAK?"

YouTube video by Irshad Ahmad

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

If you have the ability to self-host, there's Immich (immich.app) where you can be in full control of your data.

immich.app

Home | Immich

Self-hosted photo and video management solution

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

It's not a hack Google allows you to unlock the bootloader and thus install custom roms. The hardware is solid, it's what Google have done of customizations in the official rom which aren't good.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

For ProSumer/SMB: GrandStream GWN APs and switches. They're much more flexible in the way you manage the devices. Ubnts quality, especially on the software side of things has gone down significantly; Faulty firmwares, poorly designed controller with constant half baked features etc etc.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

GrapheneOS is targeted the Pixel devices to get maximum compatibility and take full advantage of the hardware security features. For your device, LineageOS offers a better level of control and it seems like it is officially supported: wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#mot...

wiki.lineageos.org

Devices | LineageOS Wiki

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Ubnt unifi used to be good. Today, one should avoid it like the plague.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Y'know, if you ditch the unifi getway in favor of a pfSense based firewall-router, you can install HAProxy in pfSense and avoid having an additional link in the chain (Synology) break.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

If you're really lazy, you could use iVentoy and boot over the network

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Which, was acquired from Connectix, the same company who also made an excellent PlayStation emulator back in the day - albeit short-lived, as Sony didn't like it. For me, I started with VMware Workstation as I found it much more feature rich than Virtual PC.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Interesting. There's a lot of things going on in the diagrams, but it appears to me it could be simplified even more and still achieve a full-stack experience.

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It's daunting but helps a lot when you have a good documentation platform and tooling.

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htmx.org / CEO of Java Pants @htmx.org · 16/02/2025

nooooooo hypermedia doesn't scale, that's different noooooooooo!!!!

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

What carrier are you planning switching to?

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

A Google Pixel and install GrapheneOS and you have a privacy focused mobile device. Yes, it is made by google, manufactured in Asia but you get to claw back and at least decide what OS you run on the device.

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

remember, signal is the only decent dm platform. all the others exist for sharing a signal handle, the way internet explorer is there to install chrome

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Glenn Dufke @b1t5murf.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

"The deal was that we're not gonna fact check"... Man, that guy is not the brightest of the bunch - he's gonna get a rude awakening.

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