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   by alyandon 5y ago

   Of course, having turned browsers into virtual machines I really wish browsers would take that one extra step and utilize their intimate knowledge of what memory allocations belong to which sites that are actually active and impleme
2. 332.▲
   by alyandon 5y ago

   Is it really that hard to imagine having microcode in the cpu or another separate processor implementing a timer that requires proof of continuing subscription via a new certificate being uploaded to it or else it does something like lock t
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   by alyandon 5y ago

   Why would any sysadmin that maintains a fleet of servers with varying maintenance windows (that may or may not be dependent on the packages installed) want to feed snapd a list of dates and times to basically ask it pretty please not to aut
4. 334.▲
   by alyandon 5y ago

   That certainly works too but with my approach you can run "snap refresh" manually whenever you feel like updating.
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   by alyandon 5y ago

   I got so annoyed with snapd that I finally patched the auto-update functionality to provide control via environment variable. It's ridiculous that this is what I have to personally go through in order to maintain control of when updat
6. 336.▲
   by alyandon 5y ago

   As much as I dislike the Apple walled garden, everything I actually care about has a native iOS application. I can use one of the cheap Android tablets I have lying around for anything else.
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   by alyandon 5y ago

   My Pixel 2 screen (5" diagonal) is actually a bit small for me and a slight step down from the Nexus 5X I had previously. Given that, I'd probably go for an iPhone model has a slightly larger screen.
8. 338.▲
   by alyandon 5y ago

   Sure, but if Chrome sends a header with a bunch of opaque identifiers that I can't reasonably map to an interest category then that doesn't really help me much.
9. 339.▲
   by alyandon 5y ago

   My Pixel 2 will be the last Google phone I own. I really shouldn't continue using it but since I take excellent care of my electronics it works just as well as the day I bought it so I'm reluctant to ditch it until it actually de
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    by alyandon 5y ago

    You know it will though. If I as a user had the ability to select the subset of the lists of interests and ensure that only those interest categories are ever signaled to a site then I'd almost be fine with Google's current propos
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    by alyandon 5y ago

    I had an ancient Google account that I hadn't logged into in forever that put me into a similar recovery loop. I had the correct password for the account and it said I was logging in from a new device and asked for my recovery email.
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    by alyandon 5y ago

    That would be very nice to have. However, in case you are unaware you can sort by most recent reviews although that is not a perfect solution by any means.
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    by alyandon 5y ago

    I rarely downvote good faith comments (even if they are wrong) and instead try to focus more on upvoting good comments. However, I do downvote obvious spam, trolling, etc.
14. 344.▲
    by alyandon 5y ago

    I bought a Tecware Phantom 104-key keyboard with outemu browns for $50. Per-key RGB and came with replacement switches - no regrets here either.
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    by alyandon 5y ago

    Really looking forward to the day I can ditch borg backup and switch over but really can't until https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/21 is addressed. I have to pay for cloud storage and the lack of
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    by alyandon 5y ago

    Slight tangent - but back in the day while I was attending university I started turning in all my engineering assignments using MathCAD. MathCAD occupied this weird space of a living document for math with additional Mathematica like funct
17. 347.▲
    by alyandon 5y ago

    Laws like that would only be a tool of selective enforcement wielded by the politically connected and elite against what they deem to be undesirables.
18. 348.▲
    by alyandon 5y ago

    That or having an algorithm incorrectly decide you are a bad actor and immediately freezing your account with no real recourse other than appealing the decision via webform only to have it denied 7/10ths of a second after you submit it
19. 349.▲
    by alyandon 5y ago

    Generally speaking - GP GUI is just a front end for making changes to the registry for local group policies. You can find the mappings and make the registry setting changes yourself.
20. 350.▲
    by alyandon 5y ago

    That's not a generic mechanism at all though - right? It is only possible if the snap publisher has decided to support multiple release channels.
21. 351.▲
    by alyandon 5y ago

    Don't forget: 1) snapd action logging doesn't go to the system logs and gets purged after 72 hours - makes troubleshooting why something broke REALLY fun 2) "snap" directory polluting your home directory
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    by alyandon 5y ago

    Then that's certainly some progress!
23. 353.▲
    by alyandon 5y ago

    There are features of btrfs that are currently considered experimental/unsafe to use like their raid-5 implementation. I personally use btrfs raid-1 setups and have survived actual device failures without data loss. However, I also pe
24. 354.▲
    by alyandon 5y ago

    I agree - the UX of the extension isn't that great.
25. 355.▲
    by alyandon 5y ago

    Does it still do that if you click the pop-out button so that Bitwarden has it's own window?
26. 356.▲
    by alyandon 5y ago

    I wouldn't say you are in for a world of hurt but you'll have to accept that the package will periodically update and in the process kill your containers/vms. My primary objections to snapd are: 1) updates are pushed/ap
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    by alyandon 5y ago

    If you want a real eye opening experience (or just have a morbid curiosity) - sign up for Democratic/Republican donation lists via a throw away email address and read the material you get sent by PACs begging for donations. It's
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    by alyandon 5y ago

    That gets updated arbitrarily at random intervals (because who doesn't want filesystem modules updated frequently!?!?!) and then purges logs every 72 hours so when you have a problem you'll never even know what was updated! I have
29. 359.▲
    by alyandon 5y ago

    Although I never cared much for the language itself, I continued to write small programs in QB for many years because of its ability to produce an EXE file that ran in DOS and Windows without any dependencies.
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    by alyandon 5y ago

    While Windows 10 Home doesn't have a UI for manipulating the local group policy settings you might have luck just setting the registry key directly.