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by cronix 5y ago
Considering the state of security in modern computing devices and the various OS's that power them, security updates mean less and less to me over time. Nothing is secure and likely won't ever be. I'd argue we're collect
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by cronix 5y ago
So far in the last year or so, I've heard 0 reasons why I'd even need, want or benefit from Win11 over Win10. Tons of reasons in the negative column though. There isn't even anything to salivate over that might make you think
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by cronix 5y ago
We put term limits on the Presidential branch, I see no reason why we shouldn't limit the terms someone in congress can serve, and for the same reasons. If we have a free market, why did we pass the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which
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by cronix 5y ago
Of course that is possible, but they also released their aerial infrared video of the event to the prosecution, which was not previously known.
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> install it on their children's phones without consent That's a curious phrasing. Are you implying a parent needs consent from their minor child to install something, anything they deem appropriate, on "their" phone?
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by cronix 5y ago
It came out in the recent trial that the FBI couldn't open Kyle Rittenhouse's iPhone, which was the latest generation at that time last year.
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by cronix 5y ago
It will also likely soon become moot as drones get cheaper and cheaper, and you don't own the sky over your land. Here's a company, Brinc, building border security drones which the promo video also says can also easily be used for
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by cronix 5y ago
Here's a recent one. Dumping some of the strategic oil reserve into the supply to artificially lower fuel costs, otherwise known as a subsidy (Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise
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by cronix 5y ago
Everything you listed is someone else's opinion on what happened, but never stated by the company. All the company did publicly was say "this account is banned" with no libelous or defamatory statements attached. IANAL.
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by cronix 5y ago
Facebook chooses what I see while on their platform. If they didn't, I'd just see a chronological feed of my friends posts that I chose to follow as they came through without any external filtering. Going directly to friends walls
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by cronix 5y ago
Meanwhile, other places are experiencing the exact opposite - wells running dry because the water table is continually dropping. https://www.opb.org/article/2021/07/29/southern-oregon-wells... https:&#x
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by cronix 5y ago
It's exactly why I quit using fitbit 4 or 5 years ago when they made a similar change. There should be 0 reason for needing an internet connection to send data from a wristband 2 feet away to my phone using bluetooth in order to tell m
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by cronix 5y ago
Tesla Bot enters the chat. https://youtu.be/HUP6Z5voiS8?t=87
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by cronix 5y ago
Hopefully everyone hesitates and reads legal contracts. Why is "hesitation" a bad thing here? Even if you fully agree with the sentiments of the goal, it's still obligatory to read the legalese in the damn thing and understan
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It affects the price of anyone looking to buy a house in my city. My house is right in the median price for the area. Rent prices have also risen accordingly.
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by cronix 5y ago
My house rose about 23% in value YoY based on almost identical units to mine that sold at the end of summer through current. That's 23% of $480,000, which is a hell of a lot more than 50% of $4 for gas or 30% of a $40,000 car. Percenta
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by cronix 5y ago
It's also driving fertilizer through the roof, which is driving food prices. About 3x higher than a year ago. I just purchased 1/2 a cow for the deep freezer and freeze dryer. Some places are even using human waste now as fertiliz
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by cronix 5y ago
> they have to comply to local laws. Otherwise they are blocked or shutdown completely. I'm for the "we're for human rights above profits even if it means we don't do business at all in your totalitarian country"
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> in recent US history *in recent international history. This goes far beyond the US. The UK's Royal Family and other very high profile people all over the planet are implicated, in addition to US citizens.
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by cronix 5y ago
I signed up and was immediately banned after following 3 different accounts in fairly rapid succession. I had already been "following" these accounts for some time by directly going to their twitter pages on the website and had th
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by cronix 5y ago
Twitter is currently completely down, so hard to read the tweet.
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by cronix 5y ago
Here's a good youtube account run by a lawyer who has physically been at the trial every day and gives pretty good updates and legal takes: https://www.youtube.com/c/GoodLawgic/videos
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by cronix 5y ago
> Facepalm in the form of $100Ms in service credits. It was also greatly affecting Amazon.com itself. I kept getting sporadic 404 pages and one was during a purchase. Purchase history wasn't showing the product as purchased and I di
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by cronix 5y ago
Yellow mustard on wonder bread with a razor thin slice of mass produced prepackaged sandwich meat soaking in salt water.
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The quite large homeless population living all along the streets also contribute, although hard to quantify in stats as I don't think they're kept. The number of people who 1) are stoned out of their minds on x (not just alcohol,
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by cronix 5y ago
I can ignore those digital ads and mostly do as the vast majority of the purchases are for things I know exactly what I want. In the case of physical mail I have to take periodic physical action to empty my mailbox (and physically recycle 9
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> if it weren't for the politicians actively trying to drag it down with arbitrary, arcane rules to protect their donors. Is there a sector/program in the gov't where that isn't the case? Every entity that is created
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by cronix 5y ago
Amazon doesn't send me shit I don't order and don't want. More than 95% of my mail is junk mail and there's nothing I can do about it. Circulating what the vast majority of people would consider as junk is the only thing
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by cronix 5y ago
This reads like a classic abusive relationship.
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by cronix 5y ago
You'll know when the stock trades are released.

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