VonGuard

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by VonGuard 6y ago
I'm completely unsurprised. I cannot be the only sucker in here who bought something off of a Facebook ad, and got a token piece of China-shipped junk instead. Mine was a video of a steel light saber being disassembled and put together
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by VonGuard 6y ago
I had a Mac SE with an ethernet card in 2001, around when Red Worm was loose. We put an HTTPd server on it, and watched as each RedWorm attempt came in. This ancient super slow machine not only stayed completely safe despite being on Mac OS
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by VonGuard 6y ago
Ignore the haters. I loved this game. Yes, it is very difficult, but every play is totally different, and the environmental effects are truly things you have to think through before just blasting through. The game may be difficult, and in f
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by VonGuard 6y ago
Yes but there's a shipping number associated with it in China, and there is a confirmation that a thing was shipped to the US address. That's what they are after here, and nothing more.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
That stupid little scroll ball was a piece of junk. It was just like an old mouseball: rollers got all gunked up and stopped working very quickly. Even faster than a real mouse ball because yer dirty finger was rubbing on it all the time.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
OMG some guy has signed me up for EVERYTHING from Home Depot to every dating site, to porn sites to cheating sites. It's absurd. I get daily emails from these services still even with unsubscribes and blocks. They're insessant.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
Hey you know that and we know that, but the real estate industry is barely able to handle email, let alone secure it.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
This should be a monster. We have no direct game development tools exposure on the stock market, unless you count Autodesk, but their tools are usable by other industries. That means it's gonna be shouldering a burden for an entire ind
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by VonGuard 6y ago
The reliability is a huge thing. Some of the ancient software these things run are the backbones of major systems: Power grids, water systems, air traffic control systems, flight booking systems, weapons controls, or banking systems. Someti
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Open Kubernetes Distribution 4 (OKD4) is now GA(openshift.com)
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by VonGuard 6y ago
Some landlords are not easy to work with. Our non-profit is paying half rent, as thats the best we could get out of them, but it took months for them to come around. They were very clear that if we did not pay they'd invoke the clauses
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by VonGuard 6y ago
What part of "opt-out" Do you not understand? Contact them, ask them to remove it, they will, on an author by author basis, rather than as a blanket publisher request that everything be removed.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
IA is not a national treasure, it is a world treasure. They can do anything they want in my eyes, because absolutely 0 organizations are doing the work they do publicly. If IA is bankrupted by this, the publishers, lawyers, authors, everyon
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by VonGuard 6y ago
How many views does your book have on IA. Very curious to know if it's actually impacting your sales.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
Again, libraries are closed. Libraries do this every day. People are locked in their homes with nothing to do, so they opened their archives as a gesture of goodwill and generocity to a nation of people who cannot get books from libraries.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
mine was a 2013. You pull the monitor forward and it breaks the cable mount that connects it to the motherboard . The tollerance diference between opening it and breaking it is like 1 millimeter, i swear. It is unopenable without a special
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by VonGuard 6y ago
You're both so right. The only thing that matters is money.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
They did it because the pandemic has closed libraries coast to coast, and it was a nice thing to do for people. Imagine that, making a decision not based on money or liability. I know, fuck them, right? /s
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by VonGuard 6y ago
Publishers: You cannot save our books without our permission. Also Publishers: Oh, damn.... uhm... you want THAT book? Uhm... we don't even have a copy anymore... Sorry.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
I did this 4 years ago, with a move to Linux after well over 20 years of being a diehard Mac Fanboy. What did it for me was the fact that Apple hardware cannot be fixed except by Apple. I used to take apart Powerbook Duos, which were a huge
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by VonGuard 6y ago
Sometimes it is, but you still have to get to that point, and it can take years.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
VMware does it too. It's in the Eula.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
This right here is the way to deal with the problem. Lowering a salary should only happen if someone is a fuckup or reduces the amount of work they have to do. Doing it over time like this is super classy.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
Fine by me. All I'm really saying here is that if Mark Zuckerberg moved to Topika, they wouldn't lower his salary.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
This happens where I work now, and only one person I know has done the Jump-ship thing and moved to a rural area. It's easy to say "move to the bay, get a job with Facebook, move out" but getting a job with Facebook isn'
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by VonGuard 6y ago
This makes sense in the hiring process, but once you've hired someone, it's a super dick move to lower their salary in spite of their performance. Seems like the sort of decision a robot would make.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
I mean, this was kind of an exception case, where there is a big old technical war of words back and forth. Almost a "He said She said" except here, He is an absolute expert, and She is just some marketing dorks at Mongo. I, for o
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by VonGuard 6y ago
I expelled Apple from my life 5 years ago and couldn't be happier. Before that, I'd been using their stuff for longer than you. I was quite close to the company for a time, covering them as a journalist full time. I have 3 Linux b
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by VonGuard 6y ago
Lying about your test results from Jepsen is like going onto a reality show with Chef Ramsey, being thrown off for incompetence, then putting his name on your restautant's ads "Chef Ramsey ate here!" I'd pay to watch Kyl
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by VonGuard 6y ago
Ah, Apple. When you can no longer innovate, just start removing features and call it simplicity...

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