blubb-fish

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by blubb-fish 8y ago
yes - and the best solution I found is a long and cryptic series of commands involving "apt-get purge" ... as long as those kind of issues bother users Linux is practically not usable for non-technicians.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
awesome news - first of all public transportation in any town with more than a hundred thousand inhabitants is good enough that nobody needs to use a car except for very specific cases. of course if everybody would switch to ÖPNV then the c
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
Netflix produces superb and important documentaries - it is great already!
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
looks like a really cool - yet expensive - hobby!
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
using gallons as a unit - that's ri-di-cu-lous
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
In my opinion there is humanistic / philosophical difference between somebody risking his life purely for the experience (Honnold does not care for Instagram fame) and somebody for who this is a way to promote him/herself to satis
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
> Whales are intelligent. They should not be killed by humans who mask the activities as scientific research. Okay, so killing intelligent animals is not okay. We need an international agreement that every whale has to undergo a little t
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
I stopped buying from Amazon about a year ago for the following reasons: - too many fake reviews - unclear geographic origin of sellers (twice accidentally had to wait couple weeks for items to arrive from China) - too many counterfeit prod
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
> IMO; you want less visual and audio stimulation under it's influence, not more. What one is going to feel overwhelming on a trip or what is going to synergize is in my experience extremely individual. I find crowds of people or mo
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
I'd second that. The strongest sensation of that kind I had when mixing 4-Aco-DMT (a psilocin prodrug) with LSD. I suddenly saw eyes in random places. Was fun - not creepy at all.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
> I believe there’s a lot of truth to it, from my experience it totally matches a mini psychotic event. From Wikipedia: "Psychosis is an abnormal condition of the mind that involves a loss of contact with reality." If we use th
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/salary/results?l=San+Francisc... According to SO salary estimator the median salary of a 5y experience Java dev with a masters degree is $108k in SF. Same profile in Hamburg yields €
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
I also like OSM a lot but it has serious flaws. For example searching for specific addresses or POIs is cumbersome.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
With traditional investments becoming unattractive during a recession - I'd assume this will be favorable to Bitcoin.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
That was one of the reasons why I decided to completely ditch Amazon. And I don't regret it.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
the parent explicitly refers to nf.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
"N(et)f(lix)"!
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
bingo - stuff like twitch is the reason why people here are afraid. and your full HD transmission is getting more expensive - oh, cry me a river - well, no HD for you. then again why would anybody be interested in making HD video less avail
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
See it the same way - but NN is bad for business - and HN is 50% about business - so you get downvoted for your heresy.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
Well, sorry to break it to you but for most people the internet is FB, Google and Nf ... And if you want to take a look at a blog and you have the video pack - just get the blog pack or ask a friend - or maybe your other friend can just dow
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
> Why are ISPs going to targets people of color? That's not what the term blacklist means.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
I'm not even convinced that an end of net neutrality would be such a bad thing. Less bandwidth? What specific activity would be impaired by that? Wouldn't it maybe even be a motivator to waste less of it to annoying advertisement?
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
Deranking FOX would be an atrocious attack on investigative journalism and drain the brave people of the United States of America of a very valuable news source! just my ¢2.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
but why? if you hold a grudge - why help them?
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
I guess the answer depends on how strong your desire is to work for that company and whether you consider the (annoying) interviewer representative for the place. Who would like to work with a bunch of wise-asses?! and also it depends on yo
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
you forgot the </irony> ... or do you want citation for proving that alcohol is detrimental to your brain? :D
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
possibly alcohol will accelerate neural deterioration - so you will still have your Alzheimer and die sooner.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
ProtonVPN is my first and only VPN - occasionally there are connection issues. Speed is not superb as far as I can tell but sufficient for most use cases. I tend to stick with them. No idea if they are better or worse. I chose them b/c
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
I can't watch Netflix through ProtonVPN.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
would love to do that, too - but if you use the phone responsibly and maturely then its smartphone capabilities are pretty useful. for starters - don't throw away the phone - throw away the crapps - FB, WA, IG, Twitter, SC, ...

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