abenga

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by abenga 9d ago
Why does everyone assume that we're the ones keeping money under the mattress, not the ones who would have been paid by money otherwise not spent? All transactions have two sides, no?
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by abenga 13d ago
If said copy paste behavior allows any app to snoop on any other apps' clipboard content without control, then it's been broken for decades.
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by abenga 13d ago
It isn't though. For example, the very article we are discussing.
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by abenga 13d ago
I.e. spend more money to do things the TV can perfectly well do. We should make the spying illegal so we can use the devices we buy to their full potential without being sold to advertisers. "Give money to this other company that may o
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by abenga 13d ago
This probably includes little silly games like Candy Crush, and (maybe) others that seem more like "paper" games like Sudoku, Wordle, Connections, etc. Many play those, especially the second bucket.
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by abenga 15d ago
50K without a proper CPU, mind.
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by abenga 18d ago
My only beef with Jellyfind when I used it some time back was inability to resize subtitles, which were huge on a large TV. Could have been lack of knowledge on my part though.
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by abenga 20d ago
You talk about it as if it's little cliques of students talking about each other in a cafeteria. It's not. It's a giant economy with a giant military that affects everyone's wellbeing.
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by abenga 21d ago
Get a surrogate maybe? Should tick many of the boxes you have listed.
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by abenga 22d ago
Those others have far fewer externalities than burning diesel to move heavy trucks.
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by abenga 29d ago
The hope is in a few more years, we'll not have a cult hell bent on accelerating the apocalypse in charge of the largest economy in the world, or are you guys planning something different?
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by abenga 1mo ago
Even xfce will one day move to Wayland.
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by abenga 1mo ago
A team of outsiders got carte blanche to find and kill waste in your government. How much did they find?
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by abenga 2mo ago
What's stopping the native companies from making EVs?
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by abenga 2mo ago
You are probably never starting from zero on workdays, are you?
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by abenga 2mo ago
What brands would you think younger people consider a luxury brand? They do make smaller and sportier cars, but 5-series and up, X5 and up, those seem firmly in the luxury car category to me.
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by abenga 2mo ago
People usually say "this tv show wouldn't be made today", and it is usually wrong. But this, this would never be assented to by many countries in today's global political climate.
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by abenga 3mo ago
I really don't understand what everyone does that gets in their way on Linux desktop. I install Debian and the packages I use, I open Gnome, I open the software I'm using, I do my work.
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by abenga 3mo ago
What should you read instead?
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by abenga 3mo ago
That's just the label that changed. Same people, same values.
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by abenga 3mo ago
You are describing empathy, a human experience.
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by abenga 3mo ago
How is solar any of those things?
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by abenga 3mo ago
You shouldn't give them more tools to terrorize the populace though.
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by abenga 3mo ago
It is a legal fiction invented by corporations to pass the blame onto you when criminals convinces the companies to give them money in your name.
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by abenga 3mo ago
No it's like saying scissors poke so don't use them to hold up an inflated balloon.
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by abenga 3mo ago
that's the point.
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by abenga 3mo ago
> they just offer them products and ecosystem and most people are dumb enough to ruin their life with it. Also an argument for El Chapo and friends (if we didn't criminalize their products and add the violence around the trade, see
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by abenga 4mo ago
> quite taxing on the environment during manufacturing What power source isn't?
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by abenga 4mo ago
I installed the drivers according https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers . Yet every time a new kernel is released (note that this is new, new kernels, e.g. at the moment I am using 7.0.10, just one point release off
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by abenga 4mo ago
After I switched from Nvidia to AMD GPUs on my main rig, I can now run Sid without issue and upgrade my Kernel whenever I want to without getting a black screen with a blinking cursor on the next boot.

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