Liquix

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by Liquix 3y ago
Authors who end up taking their own lives often pen some of the most haunting and poignant passages on death: "It was useless to try to do anything. One could only watch the extraordinary efforts made by those tiny legs against an onco
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by Liquix 3y ago
A height adjustable desk is worth looking into if you don't already have one. Alternating between sitting and standing every 30-60 minutes is great for posture fatigue.
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by Liquix 3y ago
Diet coke has a pH of 3.2-3.6. Something that is "basically just water" shouldn't dissolve enamel.
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by Liquix 3y ago
Chuckled @ the radar chart diligently quantifying "ineffability"
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by Liquix 4y ago
Aside: trapping information in proprietary silos like Discord and TikTok only breaks the web more. Both require phones/phone numbers to participate. Both ostensibly track users' every move. Even just passively accessing these serv
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by Liquix 4y ago
... add a 15cm (6in) layer of potting mix into the cold frame to begin warming up – you will be sowing or planting into this, not the manure. Is another layer between the soil and manure required?
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by Liquix 4y ago
Word to the wise: "debloating" windows 10/11 does not make it stop collecting data on you and sending it to all Jedi Blue II participants. It just hides annoyances. If you are interested in a lean OS which you actually have c
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by Liquix 4y ago
Perhaps also a strong sense of duty and shame - after skipping one lesson they are too embarrassed to show up again. Each successive failure to respond deepens the embarrassment, making facing the instructor again an unthinkably difficult t
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by Liquix 4y ago
where do you notice performance suffering? hosting a 30k+ track navidrome library on a modest server and haven't noticed any slowdowns
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by Liquix 4y ago
On the potential downsides of WFH triggering a drawback from workism: If community means “where you keep showing up,” then, for many people, the office is all that’s left. What happens when it goes the way of bowling leagues and weekly chu
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by Liquix 4y ago
One reliable way to carry on a paid service after your own death is setting up an estate or trust which pays living people to ensure everything stays online.
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by Liquix 4y ago
FWIW there is a GitHub repo [0] which keeps track of currently-working ways to block Twich ads. If you don't need chat, ff2mpv [1] can be used to send streams directly to MPV by right clicking on them in the browser. This bypasses the
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by Liquix 4y ago
I was hoping it would raise the alarm regarding Google and Apple's overreaching, always-on data collection practices. 99% of people don't need to worry about an attacker gaining physical access to their unlocked device and install
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by Liquix 4y ago
As a consequence, probably not that either.
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by Liquix 4y ago
Correct. If you didn't mind having a Mojang account (small, indie, Swedish company; respectable privacy policy) but would prefer not to create a Microsoft account, your money is as good as gone and there is no way to play the game offi
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by Liquix 4y ago
Opinions on Flatpaks/snaps notwithstanding, it's encouraging to see KDE and GNOME collaborating on projects like this. IMO desktop GNU/Linux has benefited greatly from moving away from offering LXDE/LXQT/Mate/E
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by Liquix 4y ago
"Global cabal" might be a stretch, but it is a fact that there are large-scale government projects underway to deceive, mislead, and control the narrative via journalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatio
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by Liquix 4y ago
Bitwarden (and the Rust clone Vaultwarden) are both 100% open source and self-hostable. Vaultwarden runs great on an old raspberry pi or any low power SBC. All of the convenience of Bitwarden clients/extensions/integrations but th
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by Liquix 4y ago
An eye-opening piece on the inadequacy of psychiatric care in developing economies. Why "The Men Cry in the Dark" though? The article seems to be about both men and women and features a profile of a young woman with no discussion
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by Liquix 4y ago
The craziest part is that the IRS verifies this information against their records and will investigate you if things don't match up. If there's a source of truth each citizen's submission must align with, why not just use tha
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by Liquix 4y ago
To be fair, a decade-old SFW blog with 2.2k crawler hits ought to be automatically indexed by any major search engine.
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by Liquix 4y ago
> The same products can had on eBay for less money with no shipping charges added. eBay sellers also tend to ship promptly, which used to be one of the main reasons to use Amazon/Prime. The latter's shipping speeds have increas
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by Liquix 4y ago
Yes, federal vs. state. For example, many early dispensary owners - after wading through mountains of red tape, paying license fees, getting inspected, etc - had to get "creative" with their accounting and investment strategies, a
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by Liquix 4y ago
To cut down on tracking, ads, recommendations, etc while retaining access to the full YT library, check out the Invidious [0], NewPipe [1], and FreeTube [2] frontends. PeerTube and LBRY are perfectly usable YT replacements - there's ju
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by Liquix 4y ago
Purely anecdotal - i3 + picom idles around 350MB while tiling wayland compositors (sway/hyprland) idle closer to 500MB
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Yes, it is open source. Visit the repo linked in the article and follow the setup instructions - no signup required
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It's different because department store fidelity programs weren't generating terabytes of raw data per day, feeding it into ML systems, correlating output against millions of other data points available for purchase, and then usin
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No credit is owed, no thanks are due. This is an unavoidable effect of usuing the MIT license over something like GPL. Andrew Tanenbaum on choosing MIT for the MINIX project, which was used by Intel + the IC as a base for the Intel Manageme
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If you're willing to check out self-hosting, Navidrome is fast, slick, and under active development. It provides a Spotify-like experience from your local collection and is compatible with dozens of clients for different platforms. ht
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by Liquix 4y ago
Not all commercial software is the devil, but money is the root of all evil. Rember Big G's old slogan before they were beholden to shareholders? Given Plex already employs multiple dark patterns in an attempt to obtain your email ad

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