"I have decided to sacrifice some of you for shareholder value, but that is something I am willing to do"

The monthly and yearly subscriptions are fine, and merited given the time and effort that went into this product, but offer a lifetime subscription.

Render tiles locally on iOS companion app side

That's not what they were talking about

Thank you for sharing this; however, given a significant piece of the author's journey was hiring a cartographer to create custom map designs for his use case, I suspect that this might not be directly suitable for him, any more than Apple Maps was.

This would presumably transfer the need to host map data back to the author, which would represent an ongoing cost, and therefore maybe justify a modest subscription?

This is just outsourcing the payment to donations...that may or may not arrive ("We aim to cover the running costs of our public instance through donations.").

It is probably because the ram on his laptop is so much faster.

Mind blown, if you need to handle "big" data on the move - the macbook neo is not the right choice. - Who would have guessed that outcome?

It occurs to me that there is near zero overlap between people who use a Macbook Neo and people who run DuckDB locally.

It would be a surprise if more than 0.1% of Macbook Neo users have even heard of DuckDB.

Which means that this article is probably just riding the hype.

Doesn’t matter. The point is that DuckDB can operate well on a wide range of infrastructure and is well suited for operating in resource constrained environments.

Why does it have to be "fully fledged" - not like most people use the advanced features in office.

It's a procurement fallacy to let a corporation dictate what features should be there and not.

Oh no! What will DIY-people use now to make the ugliest floors known to man?

Its fine to have fun with self-hosting.

The problem is when self-hosting amateur stuff leaks into professional life.

And then you have a expert beginner pushing their homelab/Self-hosting

If a single expert beginner can call the shots in your org, your org is the kind where that is absolutely fine.

It's more common than you think. Talking from 30 years of experience 20+ of them in very senior roles.

URL shorteners should not have existed in the first place.

Mostly agreed... I understand it's easier to print http://foo.bar/123 than http://markettingsite.com/?campain=xyz&... But there's absolutely nothing stopping every website from hosting their own.

It's mostly for print usage anyway.. and with all the TLDs out there now, you can definitely still get some short options. I literally have one strictly for (reverse)dns for my server(s). Another for my mail server, separate from the domains the server hosts.

Also, hosting your own means you don't have to worry about being associated with externalized spam links. Of course, if you are a spammer, then it works even better for users that will block you.,

Gnome was indeed garbage then

"I used to be garbage. I still am, but I used to be, to."

-Gnome

I always assumed that Mitch Hedberg was above average height.

> Gnome was indeed garbage then

And now it's a landfill.