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by brnt 3y ago
Sneakernet and your local friendly CD burner owner with a huge catalog were readily available here in NL. Internet made it a little easier, sure, but not much. At least for software. No, for music Napster was really what showed what the int
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by brnt 3y ago
As I recall, W2K also got very usable on desktops with SP4 (I recall Sound blaster, game support issues in W2K).
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by brnt 3y ago
At last, IoT is good for something.
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by brnt 3y ago
Britons aren't Europeans anymore!
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by brnt 3y ago
There's been enough written about the cultural changes since MD and Boeing, and goes to show that incidents are unlikely just that. Indeed, incidents keep coming.
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by brnt 3y ago
Of course. But that's what were discussing here right, ways people might commit fraud. If people can popup businesses for fake, fraudulent jobs, I wouldn't think this kind of fraud is out for them either. And in some jurisdictions
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by brnt 3y ago
Actually, you can, with a business account. You need to collect proof that you have permission, so that you can produce it when asked, but technically I can deduct money from any (national?) bank account right now with nothing more than the
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by brnt 3y ago
Hydrogenaudio is well known in this area and many new prototype codecs are announced there first. Also, the lack of source control and Windows-only binaries are very much congruent to the style of development there. See it as your confronta
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by brnt 3y ago
The Steam user survey isnt a representative number. An API isn't emulated, it's implemented, it's no more or less native than Windows itself. In various benchmarks Proton is now outperforming Windows. There is no need for it
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by brnt 3y ago
Having a desktop OS was a big thing 30 years ago, but now nobody cares anymore. Who interacts with their OS other than launching browsers or apps based on browsers? Not even most coders these days. OSes are irrelevant these days and having
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by brnt 3y ago
Looking back, that may have been my switching point: when setting up my distro of choice took less time then windows after a fresh install. Life without package managers, even now that there is chocolatey, is just unnecessary pain. And as a
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by brnt 3y ago
It's an ESA spacecraft?
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by brnt 3y ago
What vegans foods are they widely available? And at what price levels?
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by brnt 3y ago
Vegans need to worry about this, because most don't want to eat piles of beans with every meal. I love beans, but I love other foods too!
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by brnt 3y ago
I got my Dreame because it had good Valetudo support. But when it arrived i did a doubletake and saw destructive hardware mods were involved I decided to not mod yet. I never set the thing up with a Chinese account, never told it about my W
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by brnt 3y ago
It isn't difficult to see why. Vienna was an imperial capital, the Netherlands 'capital region' was ruled by (wealthy) capitalists. One group would be focused on courtesy, the other on efficiency, wouldn't they? Naturall
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by brnt 3y ago
A Rotterdammer using the polite form is the Dutch equivalent of angels flying out of ones bumhole: I've never seen it. Joking aside: theres the school version of pioitesse, and the actual version.
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by brnt 3y ago
In the Netherlands, it is very regional whether or not you use the polite form. In the capital region, it is not used, and use is a signifier you are from the countryside, if your accent wasn't enough. There are courses on how to get r
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by brnt 3y ago
Efficiency isn't the uptimate goal, that is: do you get enough power per currency spent? Efficiency may drop, power output won't. It might plateau, but that's OK.
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by brnt 3y ago
Why dont Floridians install panels themselves? Airco use correlates strongly with sunshine, so I imagine they pay themselves back within a year or three.
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by brnt 3y ago
I guess I should just use Termux instead of waiting for Onionshare's Android version to reach parity.
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by brnt 3y ago
Many things and services now 'require' an app, but I never do and in practice that doesn't seem much of an issue. It's just sad to hear it won't be possible to sidestep if I ever do own (or rent) an electric car, wh
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by brnt 3y ago
I really can't believe how the idea of giving random companies access to electronics, which is what installing an app means, ever got normalised, even among techies. I guess people also do give out tons of personal details just because
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by brnt 3y ago
Installing random apps sounds janky as hell. I only install vetted apps from F droid. I wouldn't give a charging station access to my phone.
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by brnt 3y ago
So, I haven't got the money for an electric car... One just can't use the payment card at a bog standard self service payment terminal? I had assumed that, but apparently no? You seriously visit random websites and enter CC detail
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by brnt 3y ago
I wish hosting a Tor website was as easy as Onionshare though. Start an app, point it at a dir with a rendered static site, and hand out the dot-onion to whomever you wish to show it. I'm thinking: ephemeral websites like Opera Unite u
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by brnt 3y ago
I think getting it down to a small minority would already be great progress! Not sure getting it down to zero is the right or primary goal though. It sounds like an excellent way to require ever larger budgets and fund some pork machine. Le
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The seminal answer: an archivist explains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNbhMCB_3g
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It doesn't need to be either or, you know. Or even those answers at all. Or a mix. Question is: where can you start to make positive and effective changes? The answer almost certainly includes education and preventing people from falli
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The situations are so uncomparable, the kind of claims, aims, methods and history so different, that I'll just ask you to examine those facts a bit further. Im not American, perhaps you guessed. What (some/many) Americans dont get

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