SmellyGeekBoy

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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
SOcial MediA... Hmm
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
To be fair the ads tend to be better than the mountain of shit that my elderly relatives share on there. Then again I very, very rarely visit the site in the first place.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
It's not opt-in because opting out is inconvenient?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Seems to have worked out fine for YouTube (Premium subscriber here).
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
To be fair, some of us were sticking case windows and cold cathode lights into our gaming PCs 20 years ago so we could look uber-1337 at LAN parties. (I am now firmly in the "RGB is dumb" camp like the other grumpy old people. Oh
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Besides the security implications, if there's no way to legally stream Disney content in my country and I desperately want to watch it for some reason I'll pirate it. Why should I jump through hoops to give them (and an unconnecte
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Sure there is. It's a mass-produced PCB. Just take the old one out and drop a new one in. Whether Tesla are willing to foot the bill outside of warranty, however, remains to be seen.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Thankfully the majority of people use their TV indoors.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
FWIW - I discovered recently that Hisense is actually owned by the Chinese state government, if that kind of thing matters to you.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
I bought a Panasonic 1080P dumb TV a few years ago. Turns on instantly, no apps, no ads, no updates, no tracking. I have no idea what I'll do when it finally dies. For streaming and playing media from my NAS I use an Nvidia SHIELD TV.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
"Stop liking things I don't like!"
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
But RAM is dirt cheap, so why not?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
The "secret formula" probably looks something like this: Be rich. Be well connected. Invest wisely. Be lucky.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
C#?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Are you actually a customer of theirs?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Needs to be a SPA with autoplaying video, nagging popups and 100MB+ of JS dependencies. Oh, and it needs to show a blank page to anyone who dares have JS disabled.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
The video footage may be inspiring and I agree that it's a huge shame that it was erased but it really is of very little scientific value compared to the other research and data gathered on these missions.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
> just keep a copy of Program Files and most applications will still work fine In some mythical parallel dimension where the Windows system directory, user profile directories and the registry don't exist, sure.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Linux repos can be hosted on a local disk. Or you can order a CD/DVD through the post with mirrors of the repos. Which OS handles this better, in your opinion?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
> How so? They are just Linux boxes, you can just download the source code and compile the binaries you need. Pre-built packages are not necessary for functional OS. What about dependencies? If you have the internet access required to do
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Fighting whataboutism with whataboutism. Nice.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Twitter?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
I doubt this is exclusive to open source. Pretty much every team of developers has drama and conflict. I'd put money on the exact same conversations happening at Apple and Microsoft, but in those cases it's happening behind closed
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Strange, I have this exact setup and my wallpaper displays just fine.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Are you seriously claiming that Gnome hasn't changed at all since 2012?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
It's been a long time coming, Plasma was a massive resource hog and pretty unstable for the longest time. It's brilliant now, though.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
I'm a "hardcore Linux customizer" in many ways, but I'm also a happy Gnome user on my day-to-day development machine. I do love KDE but fiddling with it was distracting from my work. To be fair, this probably says more a
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
No
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
I'd also noticed this behaviour but never really thought about why. I've been using DDG full time for a couple of years now and I've been very happy with it.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
"Reddit Is Fun" is great and has been around for years, the unfounded belief that they may block access one day isn't really a valid reason to not use it.

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