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by amatecha 1y ago
Dunno, unless it's like, a bank or government service, no one is getting a copy of my ID or CC just so I can view their fkin website. I guess I'll just use the web even less than I already do. Oh yeah and despite all this BS secu
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, I've heard enough stories of people getting hurt on passenger planes from unexpected turbulence that I always have the seatbelt on during the entirety of any flight. Could make the difference between getting a severe injury or n
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, weird miss, but maybe just because it came out more recently. It can be used for ~anything a 5070 could be used for, no? Maybe slower, but still.
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by amatecha 1y ago
Okay, just to answer the damned question because apparently no one else felt like doing the decent thing and just saying it: the "Moore" mentioned is Alan Moore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore
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by amatecha 1y ago
I got the first intel Mac Mini (Core Solo), and it only survived a year or two before something on the logic board literally burned up. Not a good first impression on the switchover to the new architecture :(
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by amatecha 1y ago
Uhh, these 12VHPWR connectors seem like a serious fire risk. How are they not being recalled? I just got a 5060ti , now I'm wishing I went AMD instead.. what the hell :( Whoa, the stuff covered in the rest of the post is just as egre
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah wait, what happened with EVGA? (guess I can search it up, of course) I was browsing gaming PC hardware recently and noticed none of the GPUs were from EVGA .. I used to buy their cards because they had such a good warranty policy (in
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by amatecha 1y ago
My favorite was dragging a text clipping of "secret about box" to the desktop in System 7.5 and it would spawn a breakout game with the dev team's names as "bricks" :) fun times.
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by amatecha 1y ago
I wish these were legal. I do a lot of hiking in forest/mountain trails and it gets SUPER old having someone going along the trail bumping some loud music on a big Bluetooth speaker in their bag. Like, really? Get some earbuds and c
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by amatecha 1y ago
Right, as in "I literally cannot comply with this"? Makes sense.
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by amatecha 1y ago
Completely agreed. I want to be able to talk to people from any modern reasonably-secure operating system. Specifically, I found that there was no possible way to use Signal on OpenBSD natively. The only [poor] workaround was to create a
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by amatecha 1y ago
I've had a broken Signal account for like a year. I migrated from an older phone and the process didn't work because apparently the version of Signal I had on the old phone was "too old" or something? (why didn't
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by amatecha 1y ago
depends. I have a pretty good stash of compatible devices going back a few years (as I've been tinkering with meshtastic since 2022), and some are on very old firmware versions. If "SHTF" unexpectedly and I needed to deplo
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, it's so bad. Change for the sake of change.. Absolutely zero benefit for people who use this OS
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by amatecha 1y ago
I only ever flash via CLI or via "drag & drop" method. The web flasher is great for first-timers but there are 100%-offline methods for all the devices. The android client .apk can be downloaded directly from github at https
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by amatecha 1y ago
My personal website from those days landed me a job at one of the biggest web firms in my city at that time. Made my own design in Photoshop, laid out the page with tables and of course the trusty spacer.gif! Good times. Unfortunately th
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, for me the big difference is the past year or two people are actually asking me about Linux and wanting my help to try it out because they are sick of Windows and sick of the forced updates. My aunt's external HDD got wiped from
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by amatecha 1y ago
Right, when Doom came out, everyone who was interested in computer games and could get their hands on this game would absolutely do so. Similar for other major games like Diablo, WarCraft, Quake, etc. Even if someone didn't end up li
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by amatecha 1y ago
A couple years ago was "the year of" open source OSes for me. I only have one remaining machine running Windows, and it just sits there doing nothing because I don't actually use it anymore. Same with my one remaining Apple
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by amatecha 1y ago
Adoption is already happening, as it has been for years, but especially now that MS and Apple are producing worse and worse OS/software that treats the people who use it worse and worse. I'm frequently pleasantly surprised by hea
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by amatecha 1y ago
Definitely not the end of the world - no worries! It just feels a bit uh, haphazard in a way. My eye is leading forward for the next words only to find I need to skip to the next line. I usually read very fast so I'll be a bit more
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, that's really a strange choice for formatting and makes it very hard to read. Not the typical practice to insert a <br> after every sentence... (that said, the post itself is a great read!)
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by amatecha 1y ago
Ah wow, this explains so much about the idiot who didn't know how to use a 4-way stop and nearly drove into me the other day. I thought he's giving me a hard time, blaming me, when I had the right of way. Maybe he was just doing
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by amatecha 1y ago
How is writing excessive logs to a destined-to-fail flash chip in a car's electronics system not a poor design choice? Pretend the person wrote "poorly-designed electronics implementations/sytems" or similar, because th
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by amatecha 1y ago
I must be missing something -- what does the Uber Driver settings page have that the other apps don't have, other than the lack of an "Always" option? How does that translate to "can always get my location even when in
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by amatecha 1y ago
https://archive.is/iXnVK
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, the sourdough my wife and I bake now is so fine-tuned that we haven't had better sourdough from anywhere. Indeed the sourdough pizza is insanely good! We make crackers, pancakes and waffles with the discard. Oh and chocolate c
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by amatecha 1y ago
Some people I seriously admired followed me on there (maybe they still do, I don't use it now), like legendary game devs, authors, musicians... and I could have candid conversations/exchanges with them. That was awesome. I'
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, every single forum I ever regularly posted on is long gone. Some moved to Facebook, which, well, I ain't using that shit. Sad times :\
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by amatecha 1y ago
I started using Twitter in 2007 and eventually got up to around 1400 followers. Indeed, it was amazing for a while, and I had many experiences that were only possible due to my connecting with many people on there. Unfortunately it had be

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