Normille

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   by Normille 4y ago

   >The AOSP ecosystem has a healthy range of ROMs to choose from on many devices. But it's not true choice is it? It's just the same old same old with a different skin on top. Much the same as the similarly claimed &#x27
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   by Normille 4y ago

   One of the few areas where I think the US has got it right. No-one should need more than 3 chances to stop being a dick.
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   by Normille 4y ago

   Cool. The EU does have its [many!] faults. But they have a pretty good track record when it comes to consumer rights and consumer choice. Next up I'd like to see them do the same for the plethora of incompatible cordless power-tool sys
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   by Normille 4y ago

   Jeebus! --just bring back text-reflow and allow us to install our own extensions if you want to offer something that's going to make any Android user think of switching. At the moment what Firefox offers is like a much slower version o
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   by Normille 4y ago

   He wishes he was a little bit taller He wishes he was a baller
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   by Normille 4y ago

   I'd be depressed too, if I woke up one morning and realised I was American.
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   by Normille 4y ago

   Being better than DDG wouldn't be difficult. I don't know why DDG gets such uncritical recommendations whenever privacy is the topic at issue. I've always found its search results pretty useless. I've just had a quick tw
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   by Normille 4y ago

   Sounds interesting. But I got scared off by the horrifically shite drawing on the homepage.
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   by Normille 4y ago

   Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32873924
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Thanks for that. It would be useful if the original submitters would use those sites first, instead of making us jump through the hoops for them.
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Well, assuming your question is genuine: a cursive F looks nothing like a printed F, a cursive S looks nothing like a printed S [and quite like a cursive R, which, in turn looks not much like a printed R]. Add in various loops etc, which si
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Well, I learned cursive and I can't even read most cursive text.. Ditto. Anyone who's ever dabbled in genealogy will have come across this fundamental flaw with cursive handwriting. It can be lovely to look at. But also ve
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    by Normille 4y ago

    >Well, my penmanship (ie, cursive) sucked back then so as soon as I was able to I switched to printing Same here [if by 'printing' you're referring to handwriting in a non-cursive way]. My English teacher took me t
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Jeebus! --when will people learn to stop posting paywalled articles!
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    by Normille 4y ago

    To make such an unwarranted accusation, serves only to reveal, Sir, that you, Sir, are no gentleman!
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    by Normille 4y ago

    >Subscriptions for the Reboot Your Age app cost $34.95 per month or $299.95 annually... Your money back if you die before you reach 100!
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Good to see the UK turning into North Korea, since the queen died. Also here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/king-charles... Similar stories here: https://www.standard.co.uk/n
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    Man with blank sheet of paper threatened with arrest if he wrote ‘not my King’(standard.co.uk)

    3 points by Normille 4y ago|2 comments
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    by Normille 4y ago

    But wait. India by has refused to jump on the 'sanction Russia' bandwagon. And their economy recently overtook the UK's. So, how long til India becomes the next strategic threat and everyone has to stop manufacturing there an
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Sigh! --paywall
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Anyone interested in this kind of thing, I recommend the YouTube channel "Les Routes de l'Impossible" [0]. Their videos are in French and the auto-generated subtitles can be a bit er... random... But it's amazing to se
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    by Normille 4y ago

    >Elementary OS – Why we write elementary apps in Vala (2014) Fixed the title for you.
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Fuck them cunts. Endless tales of them suddenly locking people's accounts, for no apparent reason. Sometimes leaving people completely stranded far from home or overseas. I closed my account straight away, when I read some of the horro
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    by Normille 4y ago

    >the Sex Pistols GSTQ is a great song (also Anti-Nowhere Leagues 's "So F*king What!".. Don't forget New Model Army's '51st State'
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    by Normille 4y ago

    >Her death might, maybe will, be responsible for a number of commonwealth states changing their structure of government. Should boost Scotland's chances of voting for independence too. As I don't think Charlie boy is an
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    by Normille 4y ago

    >I'd not heard of Kiwi Farms before this whole censorship attempt... Me neither. When I started seeing the name on HN, I honestly thought it was literally a kiwi farming website [Do they even farm kiwis in NZ]. Like you, I a
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    by Normille 4y ago

    >I wish someone could make a cheap and easy shell to quickly make "hacker news" like clones that people could run for given interests, to create communities like this one geared towards other interests... It's alr
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    by Normille 4y ago

    >No, that was Russia's choice. They chose to invade Ukraine with the full and inexcusable intent of occupying territory... And what has that got to do with our energy supplies? Did we thumb our noses at Saudi Arabia and stop
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    by Normille 4y ago

    My god. I think he's got it!
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    by Normille 4y ago

    >No, the fundamental reason Europe doesn't enjoy friendly relations with Russia is because Europe is liberal and Russia is not... Are you for real? Europe [and its puppet-master the USA] enjoys cordial relations with some of