Thin_icE

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by Thin_icE 4mo ago
I don't understand the reasoning, scanning a qt code provides a URL that the user may or may not visit. How is this an issue? I do agree that passkeys are problematic, though.
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by Thin_icE 1y ago
I started putting nohello as my status message, but soon after I found nometa and replaced it with this.
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by Thin_icE 2y ago
Or better yet, can we stop putting money into ai?
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by Thin_icE 3y ago
Same, never found any glitch.
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by Thin_icE 3y ago
A resident that works from home earns a salary that is calculated according to the economy where he resides, whereas a digital nomad, tipically chooses a destination with a lower cost of living, while earning a salary that was calculated fo
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by Thin_icE 3y ago
Tourism provides money to these local economies, true. But what airbnb, and digital nomads, did was to subvert these local economies to depend on the to survive, turning whole cities (some of which are world heritage sites) into amusement r
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by Thin_icE 3y ago
You forget that the people who can afford to have a place to rent, usually are not the majority of the population of the place where the rental is located. I live in a city that was very welcoming to tourists before airbnb, and where locals
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by Thin_icE 3y ago
Baby formula is not expensive because of labor costs. It's expensive because of the same reason we exploit these people for cheap labor: capitalism.
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by Thin_icE 3y ago
I'm paying and I will cancel if this is forced upon me.
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by Thin_icE 3y ago
Is it known how many of those new subscriptions were made only to take advantage of the free trial? For the record, l will be cancelling my account as soon as I'm not allowed to share my password. I pay for it, I can share it with whoe
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Don't just say hello in chat(nohello.net)
2 points by Thin_icE 4y ago|0 comments
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by Thin_icE 4y ago
I see it more of the pain brought by the advent of remote work. I used to be in favor of it, but this turn of events changed my mind.
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by Thin_icE 4y ago
I found a lot of new music in the early 2000s with last.fm, their suggestions algorithm was incredible, and I haven't found anything like it ever since, unfortunately.
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by Thin_icE 4y ago
Google offers support to paying customers https://one.google.com/about/support
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by Thin_icE 4y ago
Having lessons by a professional make a lot of difference. In Europe, not only France, we learn to drive with respect for the rules, and for our fellow drivers.
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by Thin_icE 4y ago
You might be biased, but you're spot on. This can't go on much longer.
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by Thin_icE 4y ago
It's fine if you guys come to visit, but staying here with your income is making Portugal unlivable for the natives. Unaffordable rents are a huge issue, for example. Just beware that Portuguese folk might not be friendly to foreign fo
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by Thin_icE 4y ago
I think the UFOs never were out of discussion. What I feel implied here is the alien factor, which is makes zero sense. If a civilization had the resources to come visit us, we would have been destroyed/enslaved by now. And this not ta
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by Thin_icE 4y ago
Usa, the gift that keeps on giving.
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by Thin_icE 4y ago
You mean besides the pandemic that has been going strong for the last two years and the impending WWIII?
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by Thin_icE 5y ago
This reminds me of this Feynman quote: “The philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”
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by Thin_icE 5y ago
If the US can be an example for anything, it would be precisely why no welfare hurts its population. So, no, decline of the welfare state should never be seen as a good thing.
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by Thin_icE 5y ago
I have went back and forth from Ubuntu to fedora and literally never had an issue. Same for dist upgrades. Right now I only use fedora, and like you, I too am a power user that can't be bothered to deal with os shenanigans.
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by Thin_icE 5y ago
Thank you for posting this. It was really helpful, and it's very comforting to know I'm not crazy, or imagining things in my head.
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by Thin_icE 5y ago
Didn't know about this, very interesting read!
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by Thin_icE 5y ago
Thank you for the heads up!
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Flatpak Is Not the Future(ludocode.com)
384 points by Thin_icE 5y ago|400 comments
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by Thin_icE 6y ago
It's interesting, but if you can't use left+right click to clear cells, it's really not very practical.
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by Thin_icE 6y ago
This is true, I've played and won many minesweeper games and always wondered how this was done.
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by Thin_icE 6y ago
I tried to use it with TBSync, endured some bugs that I managed to work around, until one day that it simply stopped syncing. I switched to Evolution and it works perfectly. I miss thunderbird everyday, though.

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