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511.
by brink 5y ago
"Saint" in a handful of European languages is Santa. Not sure if that's why though.
512.
by brink 5y ago
I've had a Lenovo x1 carbon (latest gen) earlier this year for work - hardware compatibility for linux is good, didn't really like the typing experience and the touchpad is imo awful. For my personal laptop, I have Arch (Manjaro)
513.
by brink 5y ago
Cancel your prime subscription, you don't need it. I canceled mine 3 years ago - couldn't handle the feeling that I was feeding the beast.
514.
by brink 5y ago
Thank goodness a lot of companies regularly use it for 2FA.
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by brink 5y ago
It's okay, if people can't see us and don't think we're here, maybe real estate prices will go down.
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by brink 5y ago
On top of it tasting bad, it gives me migraines. The only theory I have for why that is is that I'm allergic.
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by brink 5y ago
If it feels like a day of mourning to you, then go ahead and mourn. You seem to believe that we are celebrating what you are mourning; we're not.
518.
by brink 5y ago
> It's only framed as a problem when it is assumed that the values could be other than what they are. Well then your problem would be "What fixed those values to what they are?", which I don't think is the lesser of a
519.
by brink 5y ago
This makes no sense. Firefox adds telemetry, that upsets you, so you go to a browser with even more telemetry?
520.
by brink 5y ago
Battery issues are so common. I ordered an electric unicycle last spring that came with dud batteries, now I have to pay $150 in shipping to get it fixed.
521.
by brink 5y ago
I too am tired of the greed.
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by brink 5y ago
> There were six hospitalizations and no deaths among the 607 patients who received Paxlovid within five days of symptom onset, compared to 41 hospitalizations and 10 deaths in the placebo cohort. How does this work? You sign up for the
523.
by brink 5y ago
I've been on Manjaro with Gnome for the past year on my Dell xps 9310. The experience is near perfect. Wayland and Gnome 40's multi-touch realtime gestures closed the gap for me. I wouldn't use a Mac or Windows laptop if they
524.
by brink 5y ago
Why is the analogy of citizen debt false?
525.
by brink 5y ago
I'm really impressed that with Facebook's poor reputation and age that it's still able to grow by 11% daily active users in a year.
526.
by brink 5y ago
No, I did not.
527.
by brink 5y ago
I was hoping someone would mention this. Shoving everything into a sub-menu made device statuses invisible and involved extra clicks to interact with them. It's user-hostile design.
528.
by brink 5y ago
It's useful for handling data that came from outside Rust. If you have a byte array that you've received over a network connection that represents an array of floats, or you need to convert a 32bit RGBA pixel buffer that you got f
529.
by brink 5y ago
Right, Galileo was sentenced to prison because the consensus about the solar system in the 1600's was geocentric. Just because the mob is with you doesn't make you right.
530.
by brink 5y ago
Right after the polls fell and didn't bounce.
531.
by brink 5y ago
Lake Tahoe's water levels fluctuate a lot.
532.
by brink 5y ago
> ideology versus reality It works until it doesn't. I don't think it's common knowledge today that ideology is a luxury, and doesn't put gas in the tank of a functioning society, now that we've generally taken a
533.
by brink 5y ago
Probably going to make it proton-incompatible, I'm guessing.
534.
by brink 5y ago
From the very beginning, you were always going to be where you're at right now.
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by brink 5y ago
Why do I find so many people willing to take the simulation hypothesis seriously, but are at the same time are not willing to take the idea of "God" seriously; which is a super-dimensional alien that found it in their good pleasur
536.
by brink 5y ago
Whatever your opinion is about the lockdowns, there is one thing everyone should be able to agree on; they destabilize just about everything. I'm worried about people going hungry or not being able to heat their home this winter from t
537.
by brink 5y ago
I hear it was an insane collectathon; colored bananas that you could only pick up with specific characters. People complained that parts of the game were more tedious than fun. I never owned it, but I did play it at my friend's house w
538.
by brink 5y ago
It's why humanity moved away from monarchies and dictatorships to democracies and republics centuries ago; power corrupts. I think the author was hoping that it'd be common knowledge, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be a
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by brink 5y ago
> Offline accounts are now a "pro" feature. > Switching default browsers is now more difficult. > Taskbar is now shoved to the center. Why? No reason other than to be aesthetically differentiable from Windows 10. Remember
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by brink 5y ago
I'll upvote what I want to upvote, thank you.

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