Epiphany21

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by Epiphany21 5y ago
This is why good customer support and warranties are as important as the product itself. It doesn't matter how big the company is either. It's why people pay more for certain brands, especially in the enterprise and professional c
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My main gripe with articles like this is the use of the term "conspiracy theory" in supposedly serious research articles and papers as a derogatory blanket label for everything that's false or unpopular, or merely disagreeabl
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I'm sure both are as good as medium rare chicken.
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The thing about a lot of GTK apps that kills me is the client-side decorations. I think the window manager should be viewed as its own app with consistent controls. CSD make the title bar of each window different so I have to waste time fig
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>I left feeling disenchanted In scientific study you want and need failure. Knowing what doesn't work is as important as knowing what does. This way we can make lists of dangerous or useless things to be avoided. As long as things a
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>I know You don't.
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>I think they operate under the assumption that bad actors are exceptions to the rule, which is pretty naïve in 2022 Why is this a naive assumption and why would things be any different in the current year? Are living organisms not inher
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
If people want to cheat the game companies should respond to market demands by officially supporting modding on personal instances. Minecraft is an example of this sort of system done right. It was so successful Microsoft had to own it.
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>I don't quite get how a publisher could recoup $200 mio in spending on 3D assets with your "free for everyone" model. It's not "free for everyone". It's "free to use the software you bought and pa
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Cursing at me and telling me to give into defeat are really good ways to get me to ignore anything good you might have to say.
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Recently (within the last two years) I had to help someone suffering with alcoholism/DTS and I was horrified by the abysmal outpatient support the medical system here provides. If he didn't have health insurance and a ride I would
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>The reason why games on Switch can "just work" is that the OS provides the DRM. >Otherwise, we would see rootkits, spyware, or always-online requirements like the DRM hell that we see with Windows games. None of this would
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You are most welcome. I just so happen to be a hobbyist who has had my hands on almost every generation of Mac from the later 68k models to the Intel platforms up to around 2012. And I have booted NetBSD or some kind of Linux on almost all
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Companies can only get away with this crap because consumers are so still so darn ignorant. I think most people won't accept a car that prevents you from changing your own oil or replacing your own wiper fluid, so it always boggles my
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>don't boot your Macs into third-party operating systems (high potential for thermal damage or even misconfiguring mainboard components such that it might cause data loss even when rebooted back into macOS I see this fantastical cla
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Not really "swag" but I would say iPod socks. I still have one that I keep an altoids tin inside of for transporting small fragile components.
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Plank could provide a dock and iDesk can do desktop icons. It would probably take less than an hour to get the Aqua theme really close to the real deal.
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Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics(hotdoglinux.com)
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In a perfect world we would have a slightly tweaked Windows 2000 desktop shell on a modern NT kernel, maybe with a refresh of the Watercolor theme from that one XP beta. Instead, Microsoft does this.
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>does everything need to be hyperbolic virtue signaling Yes. And our tax dollars fund it.
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Organized crime torturing people makes for an interesting TV show plot but in reality it's the exception. Kidnapping and torture carry far harsher penalties than most other (vastly more profitable) crimes. If mobsters want information
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
This sounds like a user error. Every Linux installer I've seen will ask which device you want the bootloader files on. Most will even warn of an unbootable install if you don't specify a valid EFI partition if you're installi
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>On the other hand there will be a very large portion of society who will become obsolete with absolutely nothing useful for society to do. Almost everyone has something to contribute. The problem is that society structured in a way wher
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"You wouldn't download a car"
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I don't know what the jailbreaking scene looks like now but it was amazing almost a decade ago. It's probably worth a try.
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>Is there any hope that the upgrade treadmill will stop any time soon? The bottleneck for most slow/old PCs is not actually the CPU. Dried thermal paste, mismatched low speed RAM sticks, operating systems installed to mechanical dis
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Wishful thinking. Giving Electron apps more RAM is like giving a toddler with crayons more walls to scribble on.
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Abusing tightly regulated communications infrastructure to incite foreigners to overthrow their heads of state sounds like a quick way to get in a lot of trouble. I would not recommend it.
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The design would make more sense if it was scaled down for use as an urn. Cremation is less of a financial burden on families who might still want a grave site to visit. Plus the smaller design makes the remains portable in case they ever h
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I like plain text for the simplicity. It's easier to find my thoughts and focus on writing when the editor is as simple as a rock, otherwise I'll spend hours fiddling with the settings. Typically I use GNU Nano for its lack of fea

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