NoLsAfterMid

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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
I have a pretty high quality blu-ray, it's not just on legacy media. EDIT: it occurs to me that "legacy media" means "not available through streaming/rental services/stores", my bad.
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
> Quite often laws will issue punishments for some behaviors, but also issue things like funding for programs that work on the roots of why particular crimes occur. That still requires enforcement. The existence of a law does not imply e
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
> Everything else the same, would you rather live in a world where the average person makes $100k/year and the richest person is worth $1T, or a world where you make $1k/year and the richest person $1M? Because if you're f
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
Oh well if there's jail time, surely people will be dissuaded and follow the law.
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
> Because I think those aren't really necessities, yet the average person in the US has them. We're just quite spoiled in the 21st century, and many would argue (including clearly OP) that the reason for this abundance is (at l
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
So—beer was certainly the primary beverage, but people still drank water without boiling it (which is, after all, rather time and energy consuming and requires a ready fire). I have ready links to provide better context, and this is literal
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
That wouldn't have been accessible via disk mode, though, so you can't write to it without first rooting it.
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
> The employment rate in the USA is usually somewhere around ~5% depending on what subset of the workforce you're looking at. Well based on the number of friends I have that work multiple jobs and can't afford anything more tha
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
This pdf[0] shows an iPod can view notes, but says you need to store them as a .txt. This O'Reilly snippet[1] claims the feature wasn't implemented until 2003, and even then explicitly states it could only store plain text. EDIT:
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
No, we have nice things in spite of money.
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
What is the point of this finding? How is swapping out optimistic financing for "cognitive ability" helping anyone?
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
> Saying "[this is yet] another area where Linux Distros are at least 10 years behind Windows" has a certain unpleasant tone that reeks of blame. How do you figure? This just strikes me as insecurity. Regardless of the fact tha
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
Nobody was blaming Linux developers. This doesn't change the fact that Linux doesn't support vast swathes of hardware.
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
Did you ever pause to think "is this comment worth posting"? Maybe you should.
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
Linux does have to run on the hardware if it wants to be used by people. Blaming vendors doesn't fix the problem or get the community anywhere. This just reeks of being blinded by pride.
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
Ok, but none of modern computing was designed around this mentality. Virtually all computers are trivially compromisable if you have physical access to the machine.
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by NoLsAfterMid 3y ago
I don't get the distinction. Linux has to run on the hardware, no?