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by II2II 2y ago
Thankfully most of the corporate interests that have already seeped into Linux have been a net positive. If corporations remember the lessons of the 1990's, it will remain that way. (In the 1990's businesses either had to develop
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by II2II 2y ago
On the other hand, 35 years of cruft also represents 35 years of accumulated knowledge about what people want from a file manager. So one should not dismiss Directory Opus based upon a few screenshots. Fresh blood is certainly a good thing
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by II2II 2y ago
I think any answer to that question needs to be considered carefully, at least in a legal context, since it could end up having unintended consequences. LLMs ingests works but does not regurgitate them, so the product can be considered tran
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by II2II 2y ago
You can set defaults for all books. Simply long press on the option you want to be a global default. That said, it can still be fiddly since different books respond in different ways. Most of that seems to be due to differences in how publi
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by II2II 2y ago
In that case, even as an ideal, free speech does not exist. Someone can proclaim that I should be killed because of a certain opinion that I voice. Now there are only four outcomes to that scenario: (a) I take the threat seriously and stop
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by II2II 2y ago
Yes, you can still do that. The only differences with modern Kobo devices are the loss of an external uSD slot and, on the latest modeks, the liss of the internal uSD slot. I also have a hard time describing the process as jail breaking. Up
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by II2II 2y ago
If it takes an AI to display empathy, perhaps we should surrender to the AI overlords.
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by II2II 2y ago
I suspect that few people want to be involved. It is difficult and dangerous work. It requires a personality that both cares for others, while being resilient enough to face the challenges of those in their care. By in large, it is also a t
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by II2II 2y ago
There are a few alternative e-reading applications. KOReader and Plato are both under active development. KOReader is great at reading PDF documents on e-ink screens, has nicer options for accessing Wikipedia articles, has useful options fo
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by II2II 2y ago
> Computers are a really hostile environment for audio My first thought was the author should be happy that they don't live back in the bad old days of computing. Audible noise was the norm, even when you were playing audio. At leas
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by II2II 2y ago
> As far as recommendations, my local bookstores are often staffed by people that don’t have much in common with my interests. Much easier to find relevant book recommendations online. Then you haven't found the right bookstore. Man
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by II2II 2y ago
Please forgive my cynicism, but this strikes me as coming straight out of the, "we're building a tech company for social change," handbook. The handbook which tries to lure people in with a promise, where their intent is to b
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by II2II 2y ago
Directly? Nothing. Indirectly, it is raising awareness of what the current administration is either doing or enabling. It is also raising awareness of the Stonewall riots.
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by II2II 2y ago
Modernization can mean replacing 50 year old technology with "20 year old" technology. I stuck in the quotes because something that is perceived to be that old is probably under active development, and modern while remaining borin
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by II2II 2y ago
> I remember as a kid in the 90s you could do a little metal detector, and sometimes not even that, and get on a plane. I took flights in the 2010's that didn't feel all that different from boarding a bus. You went to the desk
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by II2II 2y ago
Ignoring the three letter bit, Intel ought to be a pretty good machine by your measures: Int egrated el ectronics. ARM reformed itself, and is Advanced RISC Machine. I would argue that DEC and ARM are much more punchy than IBM and AMD.
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by II2II 2y ago
I would be surprised if you needed anything that old. I was doing some research on my 2012 vintage PC mainboard a couple of years ago, and seem to recall a reference to the chipset one generation prior supporting floppy drives. Of course, w
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by II2II 2y ago
If we were to run with that analogy, it would be akin to saying that someone goes out to buy a new couch only to discover that they have to buy a new house in order for it to fit inside. That couch may, or may not, seat an addition person.
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by II2II 2y ago
Is there much of a point in telling psychics that they must tell people they cannot really speak for the dead? Outside of a few outliers, e.g. those who admit that it is for entertainment or those who have psychological problems, those who
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by II2II 2y ago
Most of the early research into computers was funded for military applications. There is a reason why the silicon valley became a hub for technological development.
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by II2II 2y ago
Judging from the article, the intentions of the beavers aligned with the intentions of people. Yet that is not to say that the requirements are the same. Even if you ignore things like environmental assessments and safety (both during const
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by II2II 2y ago
A Lenovo that is so low-end and generic that they don't even bother assigning it a coherent model name/number and a Lenovo Yoga 7. To be blunt, I am on the other side of the fence: I am quite skeptical when people make blanket sta
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by II2II 2y ago
In my case: yes and yes. In my case: everything works out of the box with one laptop. The only thing that doesn't work out of the box with my other laptop is the fingerprint reader. Both laptops shipped with Windows. Neither laptop cam
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by II2II 2y ago
I am guessing their point is that pencils can be used to create deceptive content. Beyond that, I don't see any similarity. In a pencil, all of the "intelligence" is offloaded onto the user. With AI, the company providing the
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by II2II 2y ago
My apologies if my comment sounded insensitive towards people who have real physical ailments, but there are cases where psychology may play a role and I firmly believe the medical system should take responsibility for those cases rather th
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by II2II 2y ago
In my mind, that doesn't make the symptoms any less real to the person suffering from them and does absolutely nothing to remedy the situation. Even if it is in the person's head, any doctor offering that advice should be facing c
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by II2II 2y ago
> Lots of people masking up still get COVID. Lots of people are careful while crossing the street, yet some of those careful people still get hit by cars. That doesn't mean that you stop being careful while crossing the street. As f
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by II2II 2y ago
Early versions of Windows included smaller bitmaps that could be tiled and, if I recall correctly, software would only render visible portions of the screen. (Though I could be confusing it for classic Mac OS, since I didn't really try
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> The number of drivers needed at any given time is completely variable. It's obviously a larger number during peak travel periods. That's variable based upon time of day, not completely variable. It is not a new problem either
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I don't like the smell test because the smell test usually depends upon hindsight. Granted, I also don't like how most of these (supposed) quotes are interpreted: as a foolish lack of insight from industry leaders. Take actual IBM

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