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by axpvms 2y ago
What conditioning? I've always heard it described as the "least bad" form of government. It definitely beats having a communist dictatorship though.
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by axpvms 2y ago
My heart bleeds for the poor Russian military contractors
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by axpvms 2y ago
I've cycled in both places and enjoyed it. The bicycle infrastructure is top-notch. I would note though that both places have a notoriously flat terrain and that helps.
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by axpvms 2y ago
Every now and then I download Firefox and try to gaslight myself that it's actually a good browser now. It usually doesn't take long before I'm using a chromium based browser again.
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by axpvms 2y ago
Australians are not exactly a svelte lot either, ranking 10th in the OECD countries for obesity (US is the third), and on par with the UK.
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by axpvms 2y ago
I remember riding my bicycle over to the local sysop's place to pay $5 cash for my BBS account as a young teen. Looking back this was probably ill advised and risky. Turned out the sysop was only a couple of years older than me.
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by axpvms 2y ago
I found myself reading through textfiles.com just recently,a really good archive of BBS-era text files.
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by axpvms 2y ago
Nostalgia. I had a SparcStation 20 back in 2003 I got for free. I ended up getting NetBSD running on the thing, but for some reason I had to patch the boot floppy with a patch file I got off comp.os.bsd.netbsd for it to actually boot. Of co
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by axpvms 2y ago
speaking of which, try asking ChatGPT how many r's are in strawberry
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by axpvms 2y ago
Hint: GME bagholder
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by axpvms 2y ago
Musk made his opinion regarding advertisers pretty clear: "Go F Yourself"
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by axpvms 2y ago
Linux evangelists usually annoy me, but this would actually make me switch over to Linux fully.
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by axpvms 2y ago
I got really into this sort of thing about ten years ago and set up my wireless router to serve up the initial iPXE image and then load various OS's over the internet. I got about ten or so OS's set up to boot this way then I lost
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by axpvms 2y ago
You're right, "these days" isn't correct, it's something I added without really thinking about it. After all, the earliest sources of "Journalism" were not much more than PR rags for the local lord. "
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by axpvms 2y ago
I think most journalists these days are not much more than poorly informed and poorly paid professional sh*tposters/provocateurs who learned how to write an inverted pyramid in j-school. I can easily find poorly informed and attention-
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by axpvms 2y ago
I got a new job recently and came into the office for the first few weeks for the novelty of it as I hadn't worked in an office for years. There are few people who swear by the office and complain that they can't work without it,
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by axpvms 2y ago
Other search engines at the time (I'm thinking Altavista, Lycos, AskJeeves, Yahoo) were plagued with ads and also their search results were not as good. You might find what you're looking for on the eighth page of results, whereas
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by axpvms 2y ago
There's also Lenny, the voice chatbot for wasting the time of telemarketers, scammers etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEmHTS2UGlc
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by axpvms 2y ago
Russia is bad though, they just bombed a children's cancer hospital yesterday.
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by axpvms 2y ago
PowerShell helped me a lot in my earlier career, bash always felt like banging rocks together in comparison.
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by axpvms 2y ago
It's generally a mix between the so-called "baby ducks" (people who fixate on the first OS they ever used), and Linux evangelists who announce every change to Windows as the surefire catalyst of the year of the Linux desktop.
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by axpvms 2y ago
Interesting thought. Looking around the room I'm in the only think I'm sure was definitely handmade is a musical instrument, because I know the guy who made it for me. And even then it uses parts which were machine made: strings,
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by axpvms 3y ago
>Also, Irix was hilariously insecure due in part to its closed source nature. That was in addition to having three default accounts with well known passwords and a telnet server.
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by axpvms 3y ago
I was also doing dialup internet support around that time. Talking a senior citizen through setting up a dial up networking connection on Windows 95/98 using a winmodem on a line which was obviously noisy with no way to see what was on
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by axpvms 3y ago
I don't see mention of removing news from the widgets bar. I could actually use the widgets bar for things, but it's pointless with more than half the bar dedicated to low-quality clickbait that I can't get rid of.
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by axpvms 3y ago
Yes, I will keep my default credentials just as they came, that'll show the NSA
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by axpvms 3y ago
Airfares are quite a bit cheaper however, and it seems that most passengers are willing to forgo luxuries in order to receive a lower-priced ticket. That's evident by looking at the airline industry in Europe. Those are simple market e
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by axpvms 3y ago
Dutch can also sound exquisitely hilarious to an English speaker, hoor.
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by axpvms 3y ago
The forced tabloid news is honestly horrific. I was begrudgingly willing to turn a blind eye to candy crush adverts on the start menu as I tend to like the OS, but this is just terrible. I have bad enough focus issues as it is without Windo
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by axpvms 4y ago
Just spitballing and I have no particular expertise. I do not have experience with Ayahausca, but I do have experience with Psylocibin, LSD, Ketamine, Salvia Divinorum, and a few other things. Psychedelics disrupt the Default Mode Network (

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