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by brimble 5y ago
Put Linux in a VM on your (windows?) gaming machine. It'll be much smoother than trying to run on real hardware, and if you're not gaming on it Linux anyway then you probably don't need direct hardware access (not for web d
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by brimble 5y ago
> for mac you can say this device doesn't connect to the internet. but as soon as you do it phones home. Yes, but to clarify the specific point, you still do not need an Apple account to use a Mac, even if it's phoning home.
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by brimble 5y ago
I think I had one serial device in my house when that happened. And only because I was a nerd (it was a 3-button mouse, IIRC).
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by brimble 5y ago
> > USB-A devices > Are fairly rare, unless you are talking laptops/desktops (and other hosts), hubs, and wallwarts. A new device is still much more likely to arrive with a USB-A connector than USB-C. Most of the devices on th
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by brimble 5y ago
You don't always know what you'll need to plug in to on a given day, when you leave the house. Old Macs covered a bunch of those cases with built-in ports. Modern ones cover a lot fewer so you have to carry more crap.
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by brimble 5y ago
OK, let me rephrase: - 100% of devices with a hard-wired cable are USB-A - Most of the rest are USB-mini or USB-micro and 100% of the cables that came with them or that I've acquired since have an A connector on the other end. - Nearly
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by brimble 5y ago
> That said, is this really a big deal to people? Do you really still use Ethernet ports and USB-A ports directly on your laptop? Every panel in my house supports HDMI (so, great that they added it back). ONE supports USB-C, and only bec
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by brimble 5y ago
I've seen internal Facebook-alikes a couple places and they've been gross LinkedIn-tone places taken over by HR and managers doing rah-rah-let's-go-we're-so-great stuff and a few workers trying to kiss ass. What about Fa
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by brimble 5y ago
Not just me, all ~8 of us using it. Mac and Windows both. Every single session (2-3 hours, usually) at least one person's client simply crashes. [EDIT] more typically, it's like one crash every 30-45 minutes, but I don't thin
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by brimble 5y ago
Discord's slow and heavy and glitches or crashes constantly. My group of friends landed on it for some activities over the pandemic, because most of the other options were on-balance worse for what we needed, but it's heavy and no
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by brimble 5y ago
Part of the impression that iOS is dominant comes from usage stats. Last I had insight into the stats (maybe three years ago? Four?) iOS users spent way more time using their devices than Android users, it had been that way basically since
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by brimble 5y ago
Do they do a good job at getting clickthroughs on Google ads on their site? :-/ Does the rate of ad-clicking on the results page increase if most of the "natural" results are crap? :-(
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, and those numbers only ever seem to go one way, with no end in sight considering that (last I checked) insurance premiums are still increasing faster than base inflation. Between the savings crisis in every generation past the Boomers
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by brimble 5y ago
- That entire $900 for "everything else" ends up all going to your monthly employee contribution to have a family health insurance plan through your employer. Luckily they're only making you pay about a third of the premium.
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by brimble 5y ago
Not saying it's the main reason, but if you have to pay for your own health insurance, and you have a family, that can eat up a whole lot of even a low-six-figures household income. Then there's the cost if you actually need to u
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by brimble 5y ago
I do for my personal email, because the signal-to-noise ratio is so bad there's no reason to pay much attention to it. I manually check it when I'm expecting something (99% of the time, from a computer). I do use Basic HTML, thoug
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by brimble 5y ago
The "open borders" book was recommended to me by a friend, but I passed after reading in a summary that my uninformed intuition about the bad economic effects of the policy on at least some large-ish fraction of existing citizen
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by brimble 5y ago
That would be my guess for at least part of the reason, too, but it'd only be a guess. I also wouldn't be surprised to find out that tree species plays a role, and that we plant species for harvest that simply produce worse lumb
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by brimble 5y ago
Nah, but they're UI tooltip-type mini-windows attached to the relevant UI element (the Pocket button, usually), IIRC, except not requested by user action. If I install FF fresh or sometimes after updates it'll decide it needs to t
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by brimble 5y ago
> Pocket only appears on the new tab screen. That's not a pop-up. I've seen nag "notification"-type pop-ups advertising Pocket and other things, that I have to dismiss. > I haven't seen the pop in new tab beha
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by brimble 5y ago
My dad, born in toward the end of WWII, has complained for at least the last three decades that it keeps getting harder every year to find usable boards at lumber yards. Tons of them warped, damaged, way too many knots or other problems,
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by brimble 5y ago
Quality lumber is incredibly expensive now compared with 1914. I owned a 1910s-construction house for a while, and they used huge, thick wooden boards around the foundation where the structure met the stone-and-mortar basement walls, and
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by brimble 5y ago
I mean from inside a car. The sound is very noticeable, stopped or within 2-3 car lengths while driving.
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by brimble 5y ago
Huh. Motorcycles are on a pretty short list of types of vehicles that startle or distract me with noise fairly often, along with emergency vehicles (popping on their sirens) and semi trucks (if they happen to rev to go up a hill or pass whi
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by brimble 5y ago
Right, I haven't found that to be true at all. Some are louder than others (I assume they've been modded so?) but they're ~always quite loud and do not fade into the general background noise of the road.
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by brimble 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa#Military_use... Also, Germany did something very similar near the end of the war, as they got desperate for manpower and fighting moved into their own territory. [EDIT] O
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by brimble 5y ago
They use pop-up ads for Pocket, or their recent "color ways" thing, or whatever, pretty often. They also like to pop in new tabs and move focus to them, which is at least as bad. The evidence is using Firefox for any length of tim
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by brimble 5y ago
Is that how that reads to you?
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by brimble 5y ago
> Next time you are in a car driving next to a Harley, listen to it. It will be quiet even at a stoplight and inaudible at speed. Do they make Harleys totally different where you're from? Serious question, maybe your country has noi
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by brimble 5y ago
> If they shot into someone's house or even yard, they would be in jail. Maybe over the weekend, if they got caught and if the cops could be convinced to care about it. Without some serious priors, I'd expect probation and

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