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WinRAR in my experience has a better speed/compression ratio than 7Zip. If you need best compression 7z is probably best but it will cost you some extra time. The GUI and integration of 7Zip also aren't as polished as WinRAR'
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WinRAR's strong point is support for RAR archives, not ZIP which has been natively supported in Windows for years (since XP?). I think Windows 11 got native RAR and 7Z support recently but I'm not sure what libraries it uses for t
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Just to put in perspective, on a 1080p screen with no zooming the line length in a top level HN comment is ~200 characters including spaces. It's bearable because the comments tend to have just a few lines and a tree structure to avoid
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People use "theft" because it's the terminology the companies responsible for the failure insist on using. The word makes it sound like the person failed to protect their identity, and hides that it was the company which fail
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You wouldn't "steal" that identity, you'd just prove that e.g. banks are bad at validating identity.
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I went with Heroic for everything gaming and I have not stumbled on anything better since. I use Bottles for emulating general software.
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> What happened in the early 2010s? I'd say Tesla built a futuristic computer on wheels, with huge screens, always-on internet connectivity, smarter remote features than most other cars, etc. The car itself was exotic enough by bein
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You are moving the goalposts and supporting your generic point only under very narrow assumed conditions. There’s always a “right tool for the job”. Sometimes it’s the cloud. Sometimes it isn’t. The article is for people who found the clo
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Meta doesn’t need to hack your OS. It’s not only cheaper to just ask you to give them all the access that matters to your data, it also poses less legal risk. You accept to install their alternative app and give them all the data they ask f
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Then Apple can just work harder on securing the OS. When desktop OS security is discussed does anyone ever seriously float the idea that maybe we should only allow MS, Apple, or Linus approved apps to run on the OS to avoid hackers having f
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They absolutely are not. No more than alcohol or tobacco addiction are de-facto unavoidable. And the people who are absolutely addicted to those platforms will always have the option of the web page no matter what you do to the app.
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Fair enough, and then your iOS should just report the list of permissions the app demanded, maybe even compare to the AppStore version, and then let people make their choice. It doesn't have to be a "one click" easy way to ma
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> I imagine the jury heard "autopilot" and then assigned blame to the company that called it that. It's only fair. If the name was fine when it was attracting the buyers who were mislead about the real capabilities, it mus
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Talking about flaky updates, Network update just published, already a flood of complaints [0]. And the constant changes in the GUI, with buttons and features constantly shuffled around and moved from one place to another for no apparent rea
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Their software updates are also very flakey. The past few releases for the Console and occasionally the Network were pulled right after being published for having blocking bugs. Again and again they publish the update and then do QA on thei
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I don’t think people who chase money beyond any morals will have a particular taste in music. But it is a bit funny.
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> And then came iPhone X Did the iOS/Android situation actually swap, or was the X an outlier? I have photos from a recent event taken entirely with phones, and the result mirrors my experience for the past many years. iPhone (11-15
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Don't break your back moving those goal posts. If you cared about "nice" you would have said "nice" and let everyone understand what you mean. You said "expensive" because you meant "expensive",
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Nothing supports your "looking nice" argument like finishing it with the "most expensive piece of everyday wear". If you want something nice, you get something nice , not something expensive . That's difficult to
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> an overzealous technocrat than authoritarianism Maybe an easy to manipulate technocrat with an authoritarian figure guiding them from behind. > the goal of the legislation is to ensure adult content is not provided or actively pushe
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For anyone appreciating expensive things, giving diamonds represent the willingness to fulfill that desire. It’s easy to conflate that with love, at least for a while, even when you aren’t a materialistic person. Jewelry is the pinnacle of
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Whether it’s a government controlled or private identity provider which can or has to provide data to the government, in the end it’s still the perfect way to control what people do online. It’s age restricted stuff at first, but can just a
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I’m not sure diamonds are popular because of what they are but what they represent . Every gem out there is “the crystalline form” of something. Diamonds are (were?) the expensive crystalline form. And plenty of people equate “expensive”
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> it may suck if you are forced to give up something you are passionate about Your life. “Genocide/ethnic cleansing sucks but if the people want it, you deserve to get it.” charcircuit, 2025
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Causing severe head trauma or crushing the trachea can be almost instant. A lot of the more serious MRI related injuries are objects flying across the room and hitting someone, especially over the head.
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It would be great if used as an "emergency power source". I see this equivalent to the satellite SOS systems - not useful for daily use but essential in emergencies. You know you can get brief emergency function every x hours. But
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At the end of the day if the phone draws more power than the power source provides, you're limited to bursts of activity until the capacitor is depleted and then the phone is dead while the capacitor recharges. 0.2W is barely enough to
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> and a phone needs 0.2W of energy to function For an arbitrary definition of "function". I don't think a modern phone would achieve a meaningful function at that level. The cellular modem alone blows past that budget many
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It's probably both because you're 15ish in a herd of many other 15ish year olds. Maybe the fun factor is amplified, but so is the suck factor. Even a few traumas can leave a lifetime of scarring.
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The problem is that we don't factor in the externalities adequately in the price of most products. Building and operating an amusement park is also incredibly inefficient just to get a giggle. If every product would be priced in a way

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