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by CivBase 3y ago
The point is they can't. Win11 won't install on older PCs due to arbitrary TPM and CPU generation requirements. Sure, there are ways people can technically bypass those restrictions but the normal PC user won't be able to do
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by CivBase 3y ago
There's plenty to watch. Just not much I consider worth my time. I can count on my fingers the number of movies and TV shows from the last couple years I was interested in. So why should I pay an arm and a leg for it? I could own physi
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by CivBase 3y ago
Anker, Cable Matters, Spigen, Satechi, Belkin, CalDigit, StarTech.com, OWC, Wavlink, UGreen, or literally any brand anyone has ever heard of would be nice.
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by CivBase 3y ago
The scans and analysis were cool, but comparing one quality cable from Apple to one budget offering from Amazon and two e-waste options from completely unknown brands isn't enough to answer the leading question "Does Apple’s Thund
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by CivBase 3y ago
Feels like it would be a big risk developing this for iOS when it seems likely Apple would not be keen on allowing something like this on their store, regardless of how payments work.
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by CivBase 3y ago
I hate both. But to be fair I started hating JS 15 years ago when IE6 support was still important, and I haven't touched PHP in 10 years so it may have improved significantly. I'll still use either if I run into a proper use case
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by CivBase 3y ago
Can we stop treating "written in Rust" as a feature? It's one of the first things in the README. Whenever I see that I don't think "more stable", I think "someone's pet project".
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by CivBase 3y ago
What makes you say this? There are plenty of examples to the contrary. Airlines, cars, gas stations, shoes, beer, bikes, browsers, power tools, pizzas, etc. Sure, there are plenty of duopolies out there, but there are also plenty of monopol
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by CivBase 3y ago
It doesn't really matter how it came to be or who was involved. The point is there are two options now and there is no sign of that changing any time soon. And this affects almost everyone, not just developers. Smartphones are ubiquito
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by CivBase 3y ago
When Android is the only real alternative "just don't buy iPhones" isn't a very compelling argument. Android has tons of problems and likewise, the only alternative users really have is the iPhone. Consumers need more th
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by CivBase 3y ago
Making some pretty harsh assumptions about a massive and diverse group of people here.
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by CivBase 3y ago
I've never been to France but as a midwesterner, I can confidently say I have easy access to a wide variety of farm fresh fruit, vegetables, and meat. I still often choose to eat fattier, saltier foods with lots of preservatives, but
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by CivBase 3y ago
American conservatism advocates for small government on economic issues, but not societal issues.
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by CivBase 3y ago
> Without hacks and tricks and magic and stuff I'd say Proton absolutely qualifies as "hacks ans tricks and magic and stuff". It's just polished and packaged so increadibly well it doesn't feel hackey. I'm c
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by CivBase 3y ago
Corporations often do serve the public good. They just don't become very successful doing that. The most successful corporations are always the ones that cater to public desire, which is only sometimes aligned with public good.
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by CivBase 3y ago
I'm not a fan of how acquisitions are often used, but how would you go about making them illegal? Would an entrepreneur be required to maintain ownership of a business and its assets forever?
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by CivBase 3y ago
No that's a specific action done by individuals.
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by CivBase 3y ago
What does it even mean for a "group" to "attack" another "group"? What constitutes an attack? How does someone have to be related to the attacker or victim to be considered part of the group? Are all Muslims gu
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by CivBase 3y ago
To that I say the burden of proof is on them to prove significant danger to the public. Automobiles are probably the most dangerous product ever produced by mankind. We have a whole century behind us during which people were allowed to repa
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by CivBase 3y ago
You litterally don't own movies or books. You might own a physical (or sometimes digital) copy, but the work itself is not yours and you cannot legally redistribute new copies of it. The concept makes some sense for many forms of media
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by CivBase 3y ago
Agreed. They could have easily shipped it with something like MicroPython.
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by CivBase 3y ago
> Did you notice that nowadays a lot of websites have a lot of uninteresting drivel giving a "background" to whatever the thing was you were searching for before you get to read (hopefully) the thing you were searching for? I k
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by CivBase 3y ago
I started with Git and now work with Subversion. SVN is definitely simpler but I find myself regularly getting frustrated with its relative lack of features and the wait times inherant to centralized version control systems. If I could go
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by CivBase 3y ago
To emphasize they are hypotheticals which I am offering with an unsure, questioning tone.
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by CivBase 3y ago
Because it's more convenient to buy a new fridge than to seek out an old one in good condition on the used market? And because they don't manufacture old fridges so the remaining good ones fetch a much higher price? And because th
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by CivBase 3y ago
The article is about whether ChromeOS counts as a "Linux desktop OS".
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by CivBase 3y ago
I live in the midwest, so I'm definitely familiar with rust. But the rust doesn't usually harm much more than aesthetics for the first few decades. If your 2005 CR-V makes it just 11 more years, it'll join that 30+ club. As l
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by CivBase 3y ago
I'm less concerned with the production emissions of EVs and more concerned with how awful repairability is for EVs on the market right now. EVs are relatively simple compared to their ICE counterparts, so it should be easier to repai
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by CivBase 3y ago
That's not a "no true scotsman" argument. It would be if I claimed something like "they're not real Republicans" but I'm not. Those are indeed Republican organizations and I did not claim otherwise. So w
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by CivBase 3y ago
> There was a recent ruling that when it comes to contraceptives that agencies cannot protect minor confidentiality from their parents. That issue is about whether parents should have access to private information about their children, n

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