d4rti

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   by d4rti 6y ago

   Your comment neatly alludes to the difference between the Open Source philosophies and the Free Software philosophy, and the biggest point of difference is "freedom for whom?" wherein OSS is about freedom for developers and FSF is
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   by d4rti 6y ago

   It's only reinforced my capslock is escape habit.
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   by d4rti 6y ago

   Yup, I'd certainly agree that the App Store has various consumer utilities, and even in centralizing payment it has value as a consumer; I don't really want to give out my credit card to every app and I certainly want a central pl
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   by d4rti 6y ago

   Boiling more water than you need at that time is a waste of energy.
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   by d4rti 6y ago

   Same here, running a pair of 1440p monitors off my Hades Canyon NUC, running Kubuntu 20.04. Largely now without tweaks, but it needed some when I originally got it to use Kisak-mesa. neofetch output: OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS x86_64 Host: NUC8i
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   by d4rti 6y ago

   To be fair to Nespresso, there are some potential environmental benefits from only boiling the required quantity of water, and reduction of waste coffee (i.e. in the pot and undrunk). It's not easy to determine if these outweigh the wa
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   by d4rti 6y ago

   Dan Hannan and a bunch of the other dishonest brexiteers deliberately misled people into thinking they could be.
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   by d4rti 6y ago

   I took it seriously. In my social group, the bigger problem I saw was delusional Lexiteers. They're due to get literally nothing they said wanted out of Brexit. I hope one day we can rejoin, and it doesn't break the UK into pieces
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   by d4rti 6y ago

   These products will still require maintenance with changes in drivers and suchlike. No software is really finished.
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    by d4rti 6y ago

    There is no reason that these should be seperate rights to buying an ebook, once.
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    by d4rti 6y ago

    I should be able to set a browser preference that I only ever want functional first party cookies, unless I whitelist the site.
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    by d4rti 6y ago

    Thanks, it's the EFRX.
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    by d4rti 6y ago

    Is there a list of known not SMR WD RED drive model numbers? I have 4TB REDs in my Synology but they are a few years old; is there a way I can find out?
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    by d4rti 7y ago

    Or companies could stop using binding arbitration and allow class action lawsuits.
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    by d4rti 7y ago

    Is is patience, or just the difficulty in being an appreciable portion of revenue vs the ads driven businesses (search/ads/gmail)?
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    by d4rti 7y ago

    On the majority of flights I take, at least 15-25% of passengers remove their seatbelts and take their bags (or try) before the light is switched off.
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    by d4rti 7y ago

    I run KDE on my personal desktop and we have the system tray icons. Now if I could figure out Mac style copy and paste it would be just about perfect.
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    by d4rti 7y ago

    A lot of content here is justifying avoiding taxation on the grounds that it's questionably legal and even arguing that it's not necessarily immoral.
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    by d4rti 7y ago

    My gym is not like this at all. It's owned and run by a real person. They charge a day fee or a monthly fee or you can pay for 3, 6 or 12 months. I've never given then any credit card or bank details as I pay cash, but I believe t
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    by d4rti 7y ago

    It’s fun and makes it recognisable easily. Same reason I do it.
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    by d4rti 7y ago

    My currency, run by the Bank of England, is much less scary, and far more useful.
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    by d4rti 8y ago

    And the comments here are no better than the usual, with the classic anti cycling tropes on full display: - Don't pay (road tax) - Illegitimate road user - Riding abreast (in my jurisdiction this is legal and in many places it is and i
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    by d4rti 8y ago

    And if I recall correctly it sent back SCCS-style data
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    by d4rti 8y ago

    This decreases density further, making greater travel distances.
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    by d4rti 8y ago

    Clients don't always help themselves here though with blanket policies against deploying 1.x or x.0 releases.
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    by d4rti 8y ago

    They are also a better target for action than a single restaurant or small service business because of the vastly larger number of workers.
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    by d4rti 8y ago

    I found this PDF: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/documents/pdf/as400.pdf > 1994 >A new generation of AS/400 computers called the AS/400 >Advanced Series is introduced in >May, incl
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    by d4rti 8y ago

    Do you know what they were called or any page with details about them? I had a quick search but nothing useful turned up.
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    by d4rti 8y ago

    And in the same vein, The Sacred Rac : http://www.drabruzzi.com/sacred_rac.html
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    by d4rti 8y ago

    And similar for the MacBook (Pro) range. Without customisation: MacBook Air £1,199.00 Macbook Pro £2,699.00 2.25x multiple With customisation you can easily reach 3x.