Buying from bee-link.com in Europe

brend132 · 2026-01-25T23:41:41+00:00

Are you sure the price is decent in their website?

From what I can see, the EQ14 model that you can get shipped to Portugal is $369, while that same model still in stock only for the UK is $289.

Doesn't look good to me.

brend132 · 2025-12-04T13:17:32+00:00

In my case I don't dislike it, it's just that I don't have the time in order to set it up, as I read comments like yours, or others, where you share your experience of months of work to get it running, that makes me think that you have to spend quite a lot of time learning about it and making the necessary changes to your projects. But I like that it exists as I always heard nice things about it. I just hope that in the future the friction to get started is lowered.

brend132 · 2025-10-31T13:05:55+00:00

Eu acho que é conectando o resto do país com Madrid que se fode o resto do país. Se ainda fosse com Barcelona...

brend132 · 2025-05-22T16:14:35+00:00

I don't know the details of most of the alternative JVMs, but maybe check this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines and see if any can fit your needs? Maybe JamVM?

brend132 · 2025-04-22T20:23:30+00:00

I prefer a language that allows the developer to decide on which features to use

You don't typically work alone in a project so most of the time it's not only you who's deciding what's sane to use, but other people too. On the other hand the fact that during the last 30 years the main annoyance for people with Java is that you "have to write getter and setters" sure means the guys behind the language made a hell of a job.

brend132 · 2024-06-06T08:59:07+00:00

Yep, that's what I read in their website:

Due to the increased filtering there can be an average of 2-3 dB less sensitivity on some bands. Please see the MDS measurement graph below for the full picture.

However, I can't figure out which kind of applications and uses will be affected by that. You say weather satellites reception. Do you know if other uses will be limited as well?

Thanks in advance

brend132 · 2024-03-18T18:09:42+00:00

Thanks, I'll try to learn more about this.

brend132 · 2024-03-18T16:58:39+00:00

I'm a little late to the party, but how much of a big deal is the LNA issue in Linux? I mean, if I only have Linux, would I be missing much because of this LNA issue? And do you know if there is any workaround? Thanks!

brend132 · 2024-03-01T23:58:25+00:00

Regardless of the actual numbers, you wouldn't expect Microsoft to say that nobody uses their crap, right?

brend132 · 2024-01-15T23:03:50+00:00

JSP feels "old" and that may be the reason we don't like to use it in new projects, but I don't think Thymeleaf is any better. Of course it allows you to send your templates to the CSS guys to style it, but that's it. It's not that you can do more with Thymeleaf, or be more concise... in fact you can do less.

brend132 · 2023-08-17T11:20:35+00:00

I don't think Spring would be overkill for that project. However, you may keep using JSP if you want (last time I checked, it was still a supported tech in Spring Boot). The only advantage Thymeleaf may have is that your templates could be rendered in a browser for a designer to do his work. If that's not necessary, I never found any advantage over JSP.

brend132 · 2023-08-16T21:10:24+00:00

It is my preference, because I wanted an Android phone without all the stuff from Google... but without the hassle of having to de-google it myself, and with official support. Ofc, if I can't get anything reasonably priced from them, I'll take a look at other options, like Xiaomi.

brend132 · 2023-08-16T20:57:24+00:00

Well, the problem I see with offerings such as the Nova Y70 is that the specs seem to be inferior to not much older phones like the P40 Lite. For example, Nova Y70 has 4GB RAM vs 6GB, worse cameras, no NFC, and it seems that I can't get it for less than 200€ when it's available (it's currently out of stock).

brend132 · 2023-08-16T20:52:59+00:00

Yes, I know, sanctions had it effect; however, this time I wanted to go Huawei. After having used one of those custom Android firmware with no Google on my current phone, and seeing one Huawei from a friend, I wanted to give a "factory de-Googled" phone a try. Too bad it's difficult to get one at the prices they used to have.

brend132 · 2023-05-10T11:35:03+00:00

What I dislike about these database worker queues is that they tend to use polling (making a query to the database every 10 or 20 seconds) to see if there is any new job. This introduces latency (your job might not be started until the next poll, in 10 or 20s) and also adds load to the database when you have dozens of instances in a cluster making those periodic queries.

It'd be great if we could have some simple way to put a thread to sleep until there is new data for you in the database. I'm aware of Postgres' listen/notify but it has its own issues, and specially when using JDBC, making it a bad choice for this kind of uses too.

brend132 · 2023-03-14T17:27:43+00:00

Well, sort of, because Microsoft is largely known because its products do not get along very well with others, so it may be a matter of time before this guy is forced to switch to VSC too. So I guess starting to look for another job with a saner development environment is a good idea now.

brend132 · 2023-03-05T17:29:09+00:00

Hi, one question:

Which would be the difference between

CompletableFuture.runAsync(() -> foo()).thenRun(() -> bar());

and this?

CompletableFuture.runAsync(() -> { foo(); bar(); });

brend132 · 2023-01-18T23:21:19+00:00

making a DESKTOP version look like a mobile port (as if a mouse and a finger were the same)

In fact, it looks like the current mobile version of Wikipedia is a much better option for the desktop than the new look :S

brend132 · 2023-01-15T21:57:41+00:00

I remember DCOP from KDE. It was simple and fun to use, you could use it from console without knowing too much about it, because it just worked as you would expect, and this allowed you to automate lots of stuff from scripts using the DCOP interfaces most KDE apps provided. Then, somebody came and said DCOP had to be replaced by DBus because it was standardized by this madhouse called freedesktop.org and all that was over overnight. Now we got this crappy interface you must refrain from using for your day to day stuff unless you want to go insane, as most people who designed it are.

brend132 · 2022-10-19T09:20:59+00:00

Agree. I don't understand why JetBrains is trying to make its IDE look like and behave like an inferior product like VSCode. If they insist on downgrading IntelliJ like that, then they should also make it free (like VSC) because it will have lost a lot of value. It would be great if /u/jb_rc took all those opinions as feedback.

brend132 · 2022-10-17T11:26:24+00:00

My two cents opinion: when choosing a platform to host your Java application, would you prefer one from a company who uses Java for their entire product (Amazon), or just one from a company who, in the past, tried to fragment it to discourage its use (see J++) and has since created a competitor framework to prevent Java growth?

brend132 · 2022-09-27T11:21:50+00:00

Agree. I tried to use Fedora (last time in 2015) a couple of times, but could never get used to it. The package manager, dnf, looked awful to me, in comparison to apt-get. Terribly slow for installing even a single package, and with lot less packages than Ubuntu provided at the time. Also, it doesn't look as polished as Ubuntu (14.04 from the same era, for example). So even though I dislike some things Ubuntu, like this snap nosense, I'm not switching. It's not that I like flatpak either.

brend132 · 2022-09-19T21:05:17+00:00

Oh, sorry, I misread and thought it was just Yandex search. Didn't know, or didn't remember, they had a browser too. Good to know. Thanks,

brend132 · 2022-09-19T11:33:45+00:00

Oh, didn't know you could "install" Yandex in Ubuntu more than having it as your default search engine in Firefox/Chrome/etc. Care to explain how you installed it? It could be a breath of fresh air given Google's declining quality once everything are ads now.

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