OneLeggedCat

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by OneLeggedCat 4y ago
“With so many hostile actors” Like Microsoft? And like government actors compelling Microsoft via things like NSL’s?
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by OneLeggedCat 4y ago
In the case of Mullvad, my experience is that something like 5% of websites get pissy about it, and I have to turn it off, or Tor, or whatever else to get around it.
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by OneLeggedCat 4y ago
About ten years ago, I bought one of those small countertop toaster ovens that is roughly big enough for four pieces of bread to lie flat in it. It became the best $100 I've ever spent. We cook everything small enough to fit in it, i
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by OneLeggedCat 4y ago
This has happened to me MULTIPLE times. Amazon simply will not allow any review that might, in some tangential way, make Amazon itself look bad. Even though you were only complaining about a dishonest seller.
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by OneLeggedCat 4y ago
> Now they're in seemingly random order Oh they aren't random. They're sorted by Amazon profit margin.
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by OneLeggedCat 4y ago
Because often it's like $5 for a CD from Amazon, but like $11 for the mp3's?
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by OneLeggedCat 4y ago
Yes they are.
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by OneLeggedCat 4y ago
God I miss Ebert. It's not that I agreed with him always. It's that I knew where he stood, and I found his writing entertaining. As my familiarity of him grew over the years (decades!), I could accurately guess whether or not I
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by OneLeggedCat 4y ago
I wonder what would happen if you asked them if this means that your funds no longer have FDIC protection? As is required of bank accounts? They've therefore elected to take an extra risk with your money without your knowledge? This
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
Anyone would have lost to Reagan. He was extremely charismatic.
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
It does. I loaded a 14GB file in it once.
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
And when a market is limited to only a few players, that means that the only relief will be whatever is provided by government rule making.
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
This will work great up until oh about the mid 2010's when vehicles started getting cellular connections "for free." This will be the next thing that happens with TV's, and you won't be able to turn it off.
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
Reading the replies to you, it's obvious that some of the perfected alpha libertarians typical of HN have shown up, and as often happens, they don't really know wtf they're talking about. But they do greatly enjoy expressing
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
Retribution is a thing many of us humans practice regularly, regardless of whether it's logical. It feels good.
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
I read this humongous damn thing around 2004. It's not worth it.
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
This is terrible advice for people with addiction. No mental health doctor would agree with you.
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
It honestly would not matter how much I loved this. Facebook is not getting my money. Most harmful institution in America. I'm sad to see Alex attach his name to this.
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
And would you consider that a good thing or a bad thing?
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
Looks like you are getting downvoted, but it's true. Defining exactly what it is to be "conscious" is a nearly impossible problem to solve, even having spent your life studying it. I'm not personally even convinced tha
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
There was a cartridge you could buy and shove in the back that made everything load about 5x. I wish I could remember the name of it. --edit-- ah here it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyx_Fast_Load
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
Yes. And Google. There are so many domains I want to never have show up in my search results. Think of one of the domains you hate, the ones that are never truthful, like oann.com is to me. Or all of the zillions of low-quality content
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
I don't think it's clickbaity. Some distros do enable it by default, since it helps Apple compatibility.
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
> Google (and Apple) maps provide lane specific navigation directions, which are really only possible with assisted GPS. lol wtf. Source?
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
> Can't believe I'm on this side of the debate, but at what point are we asking too much for free? You act like it's consumers moving the line. It's Google. Massively profitable for a long time now, Google. Your ar
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
Too true, unfortunately. Also, sick patients are more profitable than cured ones. Preventative medicine is less profitable than treating a developed disease, etc etc etc. The profit incentives in health care are perverse and misaligned, a
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
Loved this: > So I put my “Magic” mouse on to charge last night; it was at 16%. Got up this morning, and lo and behold, it was still at 16%. Why didn’t I know it wasn’t charging? Because there’s no charging indicator on the mouse. Anothe
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
Not reasonable at all.
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
I have full faith in Google's ability to return the most profitable results.
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by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
I'd have more sympathy if it weren't "A review cannot be requested for this restriction." It's designed to be as brutal and draconian as possible. They chose this. It is guilty until proven innocent, with no reco

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