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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The "problem" is noone cares and certainly doesn't want to pay for the costs, especially the end users. That EOL equipment still works , there are next to no practical problems for the vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majo
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>developed by a non-profit organisation. Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation >The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Considering security "researchers" absolutely love to make cataclysmic mountains out of vulnerabilities that require local, physical access as the first step? Yes, it's the same kind of useless.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Shit like this is why Mozilla deserves to die. They have overstayed their welcome and just drag the rest of us all down.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The first step in being discrete is being discrete. That is to say, if you want to crack NATO communiques your first step is to not call them up and ask for the goods. Whether this is ethically good or not is tangential and an exercise left
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>The act like typical authoritarians. That's hilarious (not), given that so much discourse is about just how much democracy should be shaved off to get the desirable Democratic(tm) results (Supermajority for Brexit! Ban AFD! et al.)
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Only on Windows Home, though. Windows Professional has none of that bullshit and I've done many installs. Anyone who is this passionate about computers should be buying a Professional license anyway, namely to get proper access to Grou
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Give it 10 or so years and The Thing(tm) will cycle around to the next thing. Previously it was gaming (namely consoles), before that was TV, before that was comic books, and so on. Every generation has its "Spends Too Much Time on The
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I would just like to note that "on the phone" here seemingly doesn't include the actual act of being on the phone (read: making/taking phone calls).
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The comment I replied to mentioned "portable batteries" will be required to be "removable/replaceable", which sounds like an oxymoron because the entire point of a portable battery is that it's removable/r
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
1) Because it's name is two words. 2) Because the content is brutally simple to understand. 3) Because dad jokes resonate. TL;DR) Because meme.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Given no further context, when I hear "portable battery" I think of a battery that is portable in itself. An iPhone is portable, but the battery embedded in it isn't. Contrast the battery pack that something like an ICOM walk
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I think I see where I got tripped up. Essentially, they're saying all batteries in portable electronics will be portable by 2027 and defined as so-and-so; not that batteries today are portable and will be made compliant as defined so-a
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>volts and watts aren't the same thing. You can be fully capable of supplying 5v@2.4A and not capable of supplying 12v@1A which are the same number of watts. For the layman, the equation is Volts x Amperes = Watts. Where if we use t
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm going to assume something got lost in this game of telephone because this otherwise sounds like an oxymoron: Of course a "portable" battery would be removable and replacable.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
This is going on a tangent, but I would like to point out to you that Atheism is itself a religion: It's a belief in no god(s), a belief in refuting god(s). I'm Japanese, we (Japan) consider ourselves Non-Religious when we choos
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Netflix execs have been telling their screenwriters to have characters “announce what they’re doing” so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along without having to miss plot strands. That's the critical
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>these numbers are arbitrary Seeing as Intel 7 is formerly Intel 10nm, there is at least a reasonable argument in that Intel's number is one size(?) smaller than it should be.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Intel’s 18A process is more advanced. Can be , not "is". I will believe them when I see it.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>No, history is not always political. Political history is political, but there are other kinds of histories. No, history of any kind is always political. Why? Simple: History is written by the victors.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It's the stuff that immediately follows which is the actual blasphemy: >We’re sort of on the verge of the Houthis being able to mount the kinds of attacks that the U.S. can’t stop every time, and then we will start to see substantia
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>If you want to say that the USN is struggling to keep up with rapid changes in warfare I think you'd be correct. That's certainly part of it, though I will also say the same for the US military overall. >They've succes
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Quoting a former Navy sailor in that article: >“This is the most sustained combat that the U.S. Navy has seen since World War II — easily, no question,” said Bryan Clark, a former Navy submariner and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institu
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Muphry's Law EDIT: TIL this is a law of its own. Happy New Year!
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Generally speaking, anything and everything paid for with taxpayer dollars should be made public. Public Monies Public Goods should be the absolute basis.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>We are all descended from a long line of people who lived extremely social lives. Just because something was a necessity for a greater cause in ye olde days does not mean that it is also a good thing in itself. Now that it's no
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
If you peer down into the abyss, the abyss will look back up at you.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
For those who need actual moments from history to understand this, here's some reading material: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanes... In particular: >We learned about savagery from th
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Blocking malvertisements is a matter of safety , I personally find the privacy aspect secondary to that.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>So much more complicated. Are you one of those guys[1] who doesn't understand files and folders? Seriously, the only thing you're exhibiting is your abject ignorance of Windows and possibly computers in general which are not s

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