Walf

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by Walf 6d ago
Except "ye olde" was always "the olde", but for a time printing machines were produced outside of England and lacked the thorn "þ" character, so the y was used as a substitute.
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by Walf 8d ago
Quite the non-sequitur. It does, and I already wrote about western countries being just as guilty of invading, if not more so. None of what you wrote contradicts my point that China is actively expanding and using mainly economic tactics to
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by Walf 8d ago
You don't have to drop bombs to invade. If you think China's not invading with its economic policies and activity alone, you're not paying attention. I'm in no way saying western nations are not guilty of the same and wo
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by Walf 8d ago
Not so wild when you realise that it's not the 1930s, and Japan isn't being led by an imperialist & expansionist regime. I'm not denying any past aggression from Japan, my grandparents fought them, but the situation is qu
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by Walf 8d ago
Any protest from China is just painting themselves as being in a defensive position, whilst they make claims over the oceans and territories that the international community disagrees with. Very much not defensive acts.
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by Walf 8d ago
Japan is never going to voluntarily attack China. Even if there was a desire to, they know they could not win. Any military build up by the former is due to fear of the latter.
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by Walf 10d ago
Beef or cow?
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by Walf 14d ago
It wouldn't be a bad option to have. The calls app has only two display settings.
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by Walf 14d ago
Multiple calls can't all have the same time and duration.
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by Walf 15d ago
>not knowing what it even looks like Clearly. >There's only a handful of critical details in a call history And they're all there: profile pic, contact name, indicators that show incoming/outgoing + missed/connecte
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by Walf 19d ago
The comment and username in isolation probably wouldn't have elicited that response from me. In combination, I took you for a delusional ultra-fan. I think anyone who genuinely thinks AI is a wonderful thing for everyone probably enjoy
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by Walf 19d ago
I hope so.
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by Walf 19d ago
Freedom is slavery! AI owned by a few companies is more likely to put the majority right back to serfdom. You're a privileged fool to believe that freedom is the likely outcome of the current stampede. With a username that appears to c
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by Walf 19d ago
Unless one wants interoperability with other people who use Apple and "Samsung" (because they don't know the word Android refers to an OS). It's a de facto standard now, whether you like it or not.
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by Walf 19d ago
Indeed. I don't use most of the stock AOSP apps on Graphene because the UI is so awful, but there are decent alternatives so it hasn't been a bother. I'm looking forward to seeing their work.
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by Walf 20d ago
'Murrican flagged.
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by Walf 20d ago
I'd rather see AI being used to generate new games for old platforms (console emulators) than these faux-retro things with mixels, inconsistent graphics styles (some blocky bits, some curves), and rotation of squares. Constraining the
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by Walf 23d ago
I'm on Linux, too. Perhaps because I use Mozilla's deb repo?
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by Walf 23d ago
Above the "safe paws" screen I get a "Welcome to Firefox" dialogue (in-browser not a system window) where it asks to agree to terms, the bottom of that allows disabling telemetry before continuing. Those screens you list
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by Walf 23d ago
I'm always baffled by vitriol like this. The alternatives you mention wouldn't even exist without Firefox, and what bloody swamp? What forced extensions? I just started a two fresh profiles to test your claim (one in Firefox, one
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by Walf 24d ago
That's not ever how it should be done, and the average person certainly won't work around that. However, I'm fine with telling Mozilla once per install that I'm not interested in using the generative AI, or summaries, et
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by Walf 24d ago
Your response sure looks AI-generated.
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by Walf 25d ago
I already did ;)
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by Walf 25d ago
Tried Tidal? The one gripe I have with it is no remote control, as in using phone to change what's currently playing on the device connected to my sound system, without it thinking I want to start playing on my phone. Apple Music pays
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by Walf 25d ago
Fuck Spotify. Even if you don't care about the ethics of Daniel Ek's investments, the platform itself is crap. One of the lowest paying to artists, not paying at all unless they hit a threshold, and the catalogue is filling up wit
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by Walf 25d ago
The main reason uBlock on Firefox works better is because of CNAME de-cloaking. All the tracking shit that appears to load as first-party, but isn't, can be correctly detected and blocked on Firefox. On Chrome it cannot, and with Googl
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by Walf 26d ago
Have you seen what people are doing with hoverboards + wheelchairs? Carer- & user-operated variations. Not professional solutions, but certainly fill a need.
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by Walf 28d ago
I hope you also tell her it's a liar. Sure it's useful for some things, but when it doesn't know, it'll just make shit up. It also peppers its answers with references now, but checking those refs will frequently show the
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by Walf 29d ago
Satori for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8fL9lhcIC8
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by Walf 1mo ago
>Alphanumeric mode can encode URLs, but it only supports uppercase characters, so no one uses it. I found that they are still pretty useful because they're noticeably smaller grids. They can be enlarged to use up the same space on s

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