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by berbec 7y ago
"Free (estimated)"
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by berbec 7y ago
For many, you can ressurecg a dead lcd TV with a HDMI to lvds adapter from eBay. You just need the exact panel and some time on AliExpress
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by berbec 7y ago
The one thing I can't understand about btrfs is the unknown answer to the question "How much disk space do I have left?". I don't get that being a "this much, maybe" answer
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by berbec 7y ago
Has the definition of formerly changed? :)
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by berbec 7y ago
Exchange. Imap and friends don't provide the seamless functionality that Exchange does. Contacts, calendar, permission sharing, group message folders. You just can't get close. I love OSS, but I have to recommend Exchange because
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by berbec 7y ago
Strange example - in a hotel, with an open window, on the 45th floor. If paparazzi with a telephoto lens can see you, it is considered fair game.
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by berbec 7y ago
I never understood why Apple and other thin laptop manufacturers didn't do this? I remember X-Jacks fondly, and would love to have a super-thin laptop with ethernet.
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by berbec 7y ago
In an airgapped VM, on someone else's hardware? Probably not even then!
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Tesla's stock just hit a record $420(cnn.com)
137 points by berbec 7y ago|93 comments
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by berbec 7y ago
Heinlein showed us the don't need nukes - just rocks. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
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by berbec 7y ago
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of punch cards.
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by berbec 7y ago
A loaded Mac pro has 2 AMD GPUs, 28 cores, 8TB of nvme disk and 1.5TB of ram for $52K. I went to dell and got 3TB of ram, 56-cores (two of the mac's 28-core cpus), 40TB of SAS HDDs with 8TB of nvme SSDs and triple Nvidia GV100 for $170
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by berbec 7y ago
I can hear the Liquidator cackling in the background: "Wetter Water!" [1] 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwing_Duck
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by berbec 7y ago
"fundamental mistrust of drinking sources" I know a few people like this but I don't understand it. Why is the water coming out of a faucet not safe, here in NYC?
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by berbec 7y ago
One can not forget the genius product that is Fiji Water[1]. Thinking about what happened to get that bottle into the fridge of my bodega makes me shudder. 1: https://www.fijiwater.com/faqs.html "IS FIJI WATER FROM FIJ
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by berbec 7y ago
$20 gets you quad-core headless https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&...
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by berbec 7y ago
A version using vi bindings would be amazing.
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by berbec 7y ago
A lot. There's a really nice client called Slack. </s>
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by berbec 7y ago
Courier HST or death
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by berbec 7y ago
That's the most polite way of saying "botnet delivery mechanism" I've ever heard.
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by berbec 7y ago
Isn't it likely a non-zero percent of those residential IPs are from other NordVPN clients? Or anyone who installed their app on their device?
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by berbec 7y ago
For https, the only thing sent in plaintext (and this is only if you don't use DoH or similar), is your DNS query (google.com). The rest of the page (search.php?=goat+snuff+videos) is encrypted.
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by berbec 7y ago
Not defending PIA, as they've been purchase by satan.net, but remember the HN posts where NordVPN was asked some very unfriendly questions by Private Internet Access? Remember everyone dismissing it as a astroturf marketing ploy? I&#x2
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by berbec 7y ago
Financial planing 101. I know when I graduated from high school I was completely unprepared to make a budget, plan for expenses or save money.
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by berbec 7y ago
I wonder if he really believes this when he was typing it. I find it difficult to understand the rationale of selling ORG to private equity and the justify it as good for the internet. I hope this line of BS turns out to be true, but giving
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by berbec 7y ago
I am in the API example image and I do not like it. [1] 1: https://imgz.org/iJKuc6HA.png
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by berbec 7y ago
rclone endpoint!!!
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by berbec 7y ago
I replaced the trackpad on an x240 and it took me 2 hours and a few broken spudgers. I would have been able to swap everything else out first, as the touchpad was buried under motherboard, keyboard, hard drives etc.
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by berbec 7y ago
The torrent made by r/DataHoarders is under 400GB
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by berbec 7y ago
This brought all my thoughts on the absurdity of the debt system out in a clear and understandable light. Thank you for expressing what I could not put into words. I wish I had sockpuppets to upvote you extra.

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