buran77

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by buran77 9mo ago
> Not everything needs to be for everyone I wouldn't dare suggest that. The RPi was never for everyone yet it turned out it was for many. It was small but powerful for the size, it was low power, it was extremely flexible, it had gr
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by buran77 9mo ago
I think Raspberry lost the magic of the older Pis, they lost that sense of purpose. They basically created a niche with the first Pis, now they're just jumping into segments that others created and are already filled to the brim with p
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by buran77 9mo ago
Reclining seats are more expensive and heavier. The target customer for a low cost flight is cost sensitive and more resistant to "punishment". The expense would be hard to recuperate.
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by buran77 9mo ago
I still see ashtrays on older plans, trains, and boats. Sometimes older stuff is left there because it's not financially advantageous to replace it. You can use the recline button to your liking, but it can be inconsiderate to do it. T
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by buran77 9mo ago
> I'd rather expose a Wireguard port and control my keys than introduce a third party like Tailscale. Ideal if you have the resources (time, money, expertise). There are different levels of qualifications, convenience, and trust tha
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by buran77 9mo ago
> I need to install a bunch of drivers from HP with dubious names, like sp1234 This is just how HP names their software deployment packages. Lenovo will have something like "u6chp70us17" or "83wo12ww". You go on your
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by buran77 9mo ago
> They like it given a chance. My daughters for example far prefer Linux to Windows. The two topics are orthogonal. GP talks about "local computing" vs. "black box in the cloud", the difference between running it vs.
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by buran77 9mo ago
> phone with no sim card is sufficient enough It's most certainly not. Phones connect to a cell tower even without a SIM to make emergency calls. The phone can still be tracked and it's not a difficult leap from there to identi
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by buran77 10mo ago
> a reasonable justification Sure Eli, and I'm sure you're not biased at all, but when you find so many "reasonable" reasons to kill thousands and thousands of civilians, women and children included, and you never ask
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by buran77 10mo ago
> said WMD existed. On paper. So they didn't. > a hostage dies when SWAT hits a place, the murder rap lands on the person who took the hostage even if it turns out to be a police bullet in the hostage. The murder wrap doesn'
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by buran77 10mo ago
I was obviously referring to civilians. I'll try to spell things out for you more clearly next time.
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by buran77 10mo ago
> the Gazan government strategically uses humans shields This just means Israel knows they're hitting women and children every time they send a bomb their way. > the majority of Palestinians still support starting this war Pale
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by buran77 10mo ago
The other thing OP presents is very different from any eID scheme in terms of anonymity. You'd show an ID to a human at the counter and even if the seller stores your info somehow, it can't be linked to the token they sold to yo
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by buran77 10mo ago
For people who have no money to spare for games it really doesn't matter if games come with DRM or not. They wouldn't afford them anyway so "for free" is the only option that matters. For people who have money for games
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by buran77 10mo ago
> I think the font looks lovely. Great touches. Looks nice but nothing outstanding or particularly legible, compared to the many fonts developed for this purpose already. I think they wanted their own identity and there's nothing wr
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by buran77 10mo ago
Hell of an opportunity to choose to not think of the children all of a sudden.
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by buran77 10mo ago
The only reason Mozilla matters in the eyes of Google is because it gives the impression there's competition in the browser market. But Firefox's users are the kind who choose the browser, not use whatever is there. And that cho
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by buran77 10mo ago
The law defines what companies can or cannot do around privacy. So Meta can't go around telling users to pay to get the privacy the law affords them anyway or conversely, if users don't pay they don't get the privacy. The roo
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by buran77 10mo ago
> It is weird to me that we got to a point where we are being literal about the law again, instead of the spirit. The "spirit" of any law requiring license plates on vehicles is that the license plate can be read under normal c
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by buran77 11mo ago
> defines a range of possible products, not exactly ratios I'm not sure I follow, varying range necessarily implies varying ratios (e.g. a product missing from the range means its ratio is zero). Even when in theory you can obtain s
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by buran77 11mo ago
Neither do chips, even if they all start as silicon from the ground. What the earlier comment was saying is that the actual composition of crude oil varies by location so you aren't necessarily getting the same ratio of finished produc
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by buran77 11mo ago
> arguably, none of them should Indisputably, once someone has a hammer, especially one that grants them this much extra power, they will go looking for nails. In 2025 those who still defend those "hammers" with the wide-eyed i
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by buran77 11mo ago
> if you turn those into "specialty" coffees and upsize them, and then add ~10% sales tax Right off the bat, it's McDonalds, there are no "specialty" coffees. And the sales tax is irrelevant, what matters is what
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by buran77 11mo ago
> If you ask PRC shills GP must have been asking for the non-PRC shill opinion. > My guess is that it's at least 10 years away, That doesn't sound at all like a lot. China has a uniquely effective industrial espionage... ind
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by buran77 11mo ago
Manufacturers will look to price the OS support into the product. Customers will see an overpriced phone because it has ten years of support or a cheaper one with five years support and will think "I'd rather buy a new one in five
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by buran77 11mo ago
> By suspecting you of a crime first My friend, suspecting you of a crime is the easiest thing to do. Just putting your data outside of UK jurisdiction makes you suspicious. Ever tried going into the US and refusing to unlock your phone
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by buran77 11mo ago
> Yes this is the way policing should work, if they think you have done something they knock on your door [...] Bonus points if a judge needs to grant them the privilege How exactly would they come after you if your data is "outside
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by buran77 11mo ago
> they are a gateway to everybody They are, and most time this allows them to abuse you. But what do you think happens once you that gateway is blown open, isn't your front door next? > There are multitudes of online storage prov
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by buran77 11mo ago
> I can only attribute the angry skepticism in the comments to willful ignorance or lack of in-the-seat experience Next to "the latest version really fixed it, for realsies this time", the "anyone who doesn't like it
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by buran77 11mo ago
FSD never drives alone. It's always supervised by another driver legally responsible to correct. More importantly we have no independently verified data about the self driving incidents. Quite the opposite, Tesla repeatedly obscured da

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