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by Pxtl 1y ago
> My legal action continued for more than a year after this, as I looked for opportunities to conclude it without incurring unaffordable costs, or revealing to my opponents that I was in financial trouble. The risk of default lingered ov
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Of course. You'd still need ongoing federal government support to handle the lost/stolen ID scenario, of course. The problem is federalist countries suck at centralized databases like this, as exemplified by Musk/DOGE complet
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by Pxtl 1y ago
For me it was installing linux. I don't know if it's my agent or my fresh/blank cookie container or what, but when I switched to linux the captchas became incessant.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Ultimately I come back to needing real actual unique human ID that involves federal governments. Not that services should mandatorily only allow users that use it, but for services that say "no, I only want real humans" allowing
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I have a decent library of ebooks and music albums I (legally!) purchased from myriad sources. This sounds like the perfect solution to get that properly onto my LAN in an accessible form.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
> “why is this broken test here that appears to test a behavior we don’t support” Because somebody complained when that behavior we don't support was broken, so the bug-that-wasn't-really-a-bug was fixed and a test was created
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Follow up on this: from conversation elsewhere, another important safety tip is to get the 14500s with fancy electronics incl a USB port, because without that the battery will be a fire-hazard in this kind use.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Ah, thanks! Good to know I dodged that bullet by blind luck. I had picked up a couple of USB-port charged version of one of those old chubby non-rechargeable lithium batteries that were used in early LED flashlights (CR2 I think) to resurr
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Issue trackers are often politicized. You get projects where they auto-close stale issues. Or where they're resistant to creating issues that they know that realistically nobody is going to work on this in the foreseeable future. TOD
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I have a g302 sitting in a drawer on my to-do list for similar double-clicky switches replacement.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
If it runs on two batteries in series and you're willing to take a risk, you can get a 3.7V 14500 battery and then a dumb fake straight wire battery in there. Gives you 1.85V per-slot instead of the normal 1.5, which might be too much
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by Pxtl 1y ago
A fun trick is that if you're sure the batteries are in series you can sometimes swap out a pair of AA batteries for a 3.7V 14500 Lithium rechargeable and a fake AA battery (just a wire in an AA-sized plastic shell). Drill a hole in t
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Honestly, when shopping no-name slop I'm seeking out products that don't have batteries, or at least don't have powerful ones (non-vibrating game controllers are probably pretty safe). One less risk.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
See, this is why Canada (being a bilingual country) tried really hard to make "use spaces as the thousands separator" a thing. I mean it didn't catch on but they tried.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Do these banks not have insurance companies looking at this liability and saying "no you goddamned idiots, we are not covering you."
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Honestly, I just wanted a decent taskbar, and assumed an opinionated DE would get in my way on that front.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
> Would be nice if there were a database of precise measurements of those discovered so far. I was thinking same. At least if we knew the side-lengths and radii of the circles (particularly the opposing circles) we could see if there ar
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Ah, I had no idea Mint Cinnamon was about "preserving suckage". I remember when Mint launched it was all about "Ubuntu but easier, like non-free stuff included" and my understanding was Cinnamon was their own DE built t
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by Pxtl 1y ago
The things that make it tricky: 1) They're not found with wear-marks, so they couldn't have been done for anything laborious like wire-weaving. 2) They've got no size markings and don't match each other, so they couldn&#
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by Pxtl 1y ago
How do you keep them auto-updated? I've just started on Mint and I'm disappointed how the software installer/updater still needs the admin password.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Personally I'm taking another kick at Linux desktop in advance of Win11, I installed Mint with Cinnamon... and I gotta say, I'm kinda disappointed how many pain points there still are. Type in your admin password every 5 seconds
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by Pxtl 1y ago
On a certain level I'm kind of impressed how long FB has celebrated that kind of hacker ethos, I just wish it wasn't for... y'know, evil.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Move fast and break people, eh?
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Reading this I'm mostly shocked that groups had the power to throw boxes onto their outward-facing infrastructure and she had to handle that reactively. Like, it's not "requisition a public network server" but rather &q
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by Pxtl 1y ago
That's my core complaint about git's history-destroying behavior. Git wants you to make a clean history, but it also has awful behavior when you modify history that you've started collaborating with people upon. It is a funda
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Not only that. Git doesn't appear to have any internal link between the hidden pre-rebase commits and the post-rebase commits, which hurts its ability to copy later commits across that rebase. Yes, you're supposed to avoid moving
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by Pxtl 1y ago
My problem is that so many of git's features feel like they just aren't designed to accommodate history rewriting. Like if I have branch X and branch Y, and X is 1 commit ahead of Y, but I alter the comment of a commit in Y, now X
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Basically, the fact that any kind of tweaking to the history in terms of comments or grouping together related commits into a single commit changes the hashes. This means that git's normally useful ability to check "hey is commit
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by Pxtl 1y ago
The history-destroying problems of rebasing are a rant on their own.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
MS SQL has a similar feature called Extended Properties but the API is quite tedious.

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