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by Delk 3y ago
All the data is digital (in case of BBS, mostly text, although file transfers are also possible). The analogue phone line is only used for transmitting digital data over the analogue medium. The dial-up modem converts the digital data to an
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by Delk 3y ago
Not that it makes installing crapware any better, let alone outright spyware, but that doesn't affect ThinkPads. Lenovo probably has too much to lose in terms of reputation in the business world to do that with ThinkPads.
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by Delk 3y ago
"No noise" is certainly not clear-cut. It may seem that way from any subjective perspective of what counts as noise, and it can seem so obviously right, but it's certainly not objective or universal. Which, I believe, is part
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by Delk 3y ago
A couple of years ago my elderly parents got feature phones with KaiOS. It was slow (at least on those devices), cumbersome, and some basic things such as SMS felt quite unintuitive and complex to operate. Think old feature phone OSes where
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by Delk 3y ago
I have a Philips amp/receiver whose age I don't know but I think it's from the 70's or possibly 80's. I still use it for music and sometimes films or series when I don't want to use headphones. The connected sp
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by Delk 3y ago
> I get how a power-user like myself might struggle to switch (if anything goes wrong with the Linux box, it will be dear husband who has to deal with it!), but what's wrong with Linux for a super-casual user who basically just need
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by Delk 3y ago
Core 2 was launched in 2006, so the computer probably was either a few years newer or had an older-generation CPU. Impressive lifespan nevertheless.
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by Delk 3y ago
The last one -- a young man's 1 in 1000 lifetime chance of getting breast cancer -- is actually quite curious: it's not that much lower than his chance of getting testicular cancer, which apparently has an approximately 1 in 250
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by Delk 3y ago
The P14s is actually fairly close to the T14. I think the P series used to be intended as beefier compared to the T series, but at least in case of 14-inch models, there doesn't seem to be much of a difference nowadays. The P14s is thi
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by Delk 3y ago
That may be true, if done on occasion rather than regularly. But just because it's "only" rice doesn't make it insignificant, even though rice is such a staple that it may seem so. That's what I commented on. Food i
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by Delk 3y ago
Rice has a significant climate footprint due to the methane produced by the agriculture. It also requires a lot of fresh water to grow. (How much of an issue the latter is depends on the local conditions, of course.)
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by Delk 3y ago
Other areas that have changed significantly are e.g. trade, diplomacy and espionage. Diplomacy in the newer games has a lot more freedom and variety in terms of the deals you can make, what you can trade for what with the AI, etc., but you
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by Delk 3y ago
To me, the earlier games come with less complexity but with more micromanagement. I played SMAC again some time ago, and it's fun early to mid game, but towards the late game the sheer number of cities and units is just overwhelming. I
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by Delk 3y ago
I didn't read the paper (paywall) but just climbing five flights of stairs might count as high intensity compared to just walking on even land. It's of course not high intensity for a fit person or compared to doing burpees as fas
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by Delk 3y ago
That's not even remotely the same thing. Interactivity changes things. A lower frame rate can also make input feel less snappy, which is obviously something you don't run into in film. The frame rate in a film is constant, so ther
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by Delk 3y ago
> If this was five years ago, WiFi was ghetto on Linux too. That's true of many wifi vendors such as Qualcomm, but Intel wifi (used by the post/author) worked just fine on Linux five years or even almost a decade ago in my expe
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by Delk 3y ago
No, no macOS. I just wouldn't expect that the software would make such a difference. I also wasn't sparing with that machine, went gigabytes into the swap regularly, the SSD was often at 85-90% capacity, and yet I was nowhere near
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by Delk 3y ago
> It’s especially on me as my last private intel MBP before my “maxed out” M1 MBP wore out its on-board SSD after only 4 years and that one was large (1TB) with ample memory for the time (16GB). I wonder how that's possible, and whe
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by Delk 3y ago
I don't know how macOS manages memory or reports its use, but how does the data having been swapped out change anything? If N pages of data of those processes have been swapped out, that means those processes have allocated and used th
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by Delk 3y ago
If you update using the GUI software updater (Gnome Software), it pre-downloads the packages but (at least usually) the actual update action is "restart and update". That reboots the system and does the actual updating at that poi
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by Delk 3y ago
I've found the pager search function useful in some cases when navigating man pages. At least in less, '/' does forward search, and '?' does backward search. Navigating longer man pages does seem to be somewhat
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by Delk 3y ago
Do you feel the same way about reading technical documentation or specifications vs. digested explanations and instructions in general? Most man pages are probably closer to the former in spirit.
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by Delk 3y ago
I don't think they're available online, in the general case. Court documents are public by default in the sense that they must be provided on request (exceptions can be made) but I think only supreme court judgements are directly
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by Delk 3y ago
I seem to remember that high blood pressure could worsen tinnitus, so that might have something to do with it.
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by Delk 3y ago
Not really related, but... In my country's equivalent to the UK sixth form or later US high school years (ages ~16 to ~18), I once forgot an English as a foreign language essay assignment until late in the evening before the deadline.
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by Delk 3y ago
> I feel cheated by my school years, because I was led to believe that regurgitation of facts is very important. Which school is that? I guess that's probably true of primary or middle / lower secondary school, but I don't
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by Delk 3y ago
That's a good writeup with a lot of general knowledge on program optimization. It might get a bit dense at times with the details of x86 assembly, but I suppose it might be worth it if performance is important enough that understanding
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by Delk 3y ago
"Engineer" is a similarly protected title where I live as well. In my experience, software engineers and software developers without the engineer title seem to do exactly the same kind of work.
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by Delk 3y ago
I don't think it's bogus. I've seen people who strongly crave for (a feeling of) certainty prefer simplified categorizations and false absolutes to complexity that doesn't offer absolute certainty and discrete clarity. S
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by Delk 3y ago
Fair enough. I think loan words from a single source language are really the only ones that could potentially be found to be the same in all languages, though. There are several large language families outside of the Indo-European one that

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