acolumb

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by acolumb 7y ago
Unrelated, but do people on HN have a different definition for the word "trivial?" It's used so frequently that I wanted some clarity. Where I come from, trivial means "of little importance," ex: The Kardashians&#x2
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by acolumb 7y ago
Could you elaborate on how you got TTRSS to scrape?
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by acolumb 7y ago
With the advent of database-managed, self-hosted personal clouds (i.e Nextcloud/Droppy,) the difference is even smaller. It's developing into a self-hosted "just works" personal cloud ecosystem.
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by acolumb 7y ago
This honestly just grows the demand for permanent access to media.
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by acolumb 7y ago
Redit live threads on major world events aren't tied to a subreddit. They report developing stories from many sources.
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by acolumb 7y ago
Never forget PRISM.
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by acolumb 7y ago
Yet people blame Obamacare for the prices you just mentioned :).
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by acolumb 7y ago
How'd you make the HD spin down automatically?
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by acolumb 7y ago
Now, iTunes backups (which historically took up gobs of space on the tiny MacBook drives of years past,) only save app data , and restoring will take up the aforementioned bandwidth. That’s why I use an iOS 6 iPhone 5 with iTunes 11 on OS
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by acolumb 7y ago
You CAN run a terminal with a jailbroken iPad. Just sayin'
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by acolumb 7y ago
That analogy is the biggest thing to happen for Linux porting since Valve's Proton SDK - all future MS-funded Xbox One games do come to Windows (albeit as UWPs) and run great.
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by acolumb 7y ago
I've traveled to France a few times. Whenever I walk through the towns, I notice a sense of noncompetition and inclusivity amongst the school-aged children there. This social system eliminates the temporary high that one gets from thei
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by acolumb 7y ago
IIRC Chromium OS doesn't collect the data the way the closed-source Chrome OS does. It's a great OS for getting work done (on Gapps, of course.) Debian (and all other userspace-run operating systems) are in a container.
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by acolumb 7y ago
To be fair, there is a 15-minute mod (mrchromebox.tech) that allows for all Intel Chromebooks =<Kaby Lake to install an open UEFI that supports Windows, Linux and even Clover/MacOS in some cases.