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by Krssst 2y ago
I dread the day they remove the old panel. I use the "large cursor" accessibility feature (usable from the new control panel) so that my cursor is clearly visible at all times, but it is almost unusable for programming by default
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by Krssst 2y ago
> I'll take the UV rays over a bunch of smelly, synthetic goop all over my skin. There are portable sun umbrellas that allow you to protect your skin without sunscreen. But I doubt they'll cover the entire body, though it shoul
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by Krssst 2y ago
> Because every word and every combination of hexadecimal characters is "potentially offensive" No they are not. There are plenty of harmless combinations, like 0x1235679a or other with English words like 0xcafebad0. Offensive
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by Krssst 2y ago
Just don't take the risk. Why is there a need to put potentially offensive words in the code when there are billions of alternatives? Some people may find it funny, but it mostly gives an image of immaturity.
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by Krssst 2y ago
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... > but sometimes considered offensive if used by a man to a woman he does not know There are billions of other magic numbers to choose from anyway.
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by Krssst 2y ago
They won't because they'll vanish if they do.
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by Krssst 2y ago
Maemo was also too early I think. I guess the main problem was that the N800/N770 were not a smartphone, not mass-marketed and still too clunky for the general public (plus lack of unlimited mobile internet). Though the upgrade over Pa
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by Krssst 2y ago
I go to F-Droid for no-nonsense apps. You can never be too sure what apps will do behind your back if they are not open source. Also, almost all of F-Droid is no-nonsense, so I don't have to spend time trying to choose the least sleazl
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by Krssst 2y ago
It tends to search on Bing and open Edge on you rather than do what you want. Software should do what the user wants.
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by Krssst 2y ago
Start menu search will launch Edge+Bing rather than what you want if you make a typo. Also, not sure if fixed but in some older Win10 setup, search is non-deterministic (typing the same letter leads to different result. Though it's the
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by Krssst 2y ago
There's the one with some bugs and the one that actively steps on your consent.
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by Krssst 2y ago
On another hand, no upper management to push ads and dark patterns. The more old school or even ugly a project looks like, the more I end up trusting it.
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by Krssst 2y ago
Light mode is easier to read thanks to black-on-white text I think (I need to use bigger fonts in dark mode for the same readability). But to avoid issues with brightness I set monitor brightness to the minimum and set the background to lig
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by Krssst 2y ago
> All you need is a clear-cut agreement between the patient and the doctor, Then you are not part of the group of persons I was pointing out. Is was thinking of people against it regardless of the conditions. Some form of consent is need
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by Krssst 2y ago
> I guess prolonging treatment is in the interest of for-profit hospitals as found in other countries France does the same but has nationalized healthcare, so it does not seem motivated by profits. It puts pressure on the healthcare syst
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by Krssst 2y ago
Didn't 10 introduce dark patterns to make users create an online account, forced telemetry, forced updates that can lead to unexpected reboots? (though unexpected reboot only happened once to me many years ago, they seem to have fixed
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by Krssst 2y ago
> The mandates early on were to curb the hospitalizations / deaths that was occurring. The first vaccine was very efficient against infection by the original variants. So it was not useful only for people with co-morbidities. Then w
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by Krssst 2y ago
On another hand, Android respects the user choice of browser. I have not seen it forcefully start Chrome on me once I set Firefox as default. I cannot say the same for Windows and Edge. Teams open links by default in Edge regardless of OS s
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by Krssst 2y ago
At some point they had a 6 month trial for Server editions. It was a bit clunky to setup (audio support is not installed by default and I had to dig the old Xbox controller driver for W7 I think) but is otherwise a pretty good experience. A
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by Krssst 2y ago
The problem is that we shut down a working reactor few years ago for political reasons and that we didn't build more for several decades. When NREs fail to provide enough electricity we don't get a news article, because otherwise
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by Krssst 2y ago
> two system settings screens I dread the time when they remove the old one. Small settings that I like to tinker with are hidden here and I doubt program managers will care about them at all. Example: customizing the mouse theme. Seems
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by Krssst 2y ago
Compatibility with hardware and software means I have to use it even if I don't want to.
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by Krssst 2y ago
In countries using only intermittent renewable, we get news articles in the exceptional event that the grid did not need much fossil fuel generation for a day. In France, we get those in the exceptional event that we need more than a little
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by Krssst 2y ago
"Fox emoji: zip all Firefox profiles" I knew that attacking browser profiles is highly valuable, but it's interesting to actually see it in the wild.
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by Krssst 2y ago
On Android there is AdGuard which runs a VPN locally to block ads. It can also parse SSL traffic if one installs an SSL certificate but I don't like the idea very much. In the end I just use it as a light adblock for unencrypted traffi
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by Krssst 2y ago
> right wing politicians and press? Is nuclear right-wing now? I thought the right wing were all for coal; nuclear is an ideal replacement for coal. Non-dispatchable renewables play nice with fossil fuels since the plants have to stay on
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by Krssst 2y ago
As a result, France's electricity grid is almost fully decarbonized (and we'd be in a better state if we didn't shut down one reactor for political reasons) while industrialized countries betting only on NREs are still counti
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by Krssst 2y ago
Isn't that just most desktop OSes with non-sandboxed processes?
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by Krssst 2y ago
It's expensive but also the only technology that can provide large amount of electricity on demand regardless of the natural resources available (hydro is limited by the need for mountains; should still build as much as possible but it
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by Krssst 2y ago
UI inefficiencies give time for the mind to relax? On my side I'd much rather have the efficient UI but I can imagine people getting tired if their mind is working 100% all the time.

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