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by daedalus_j 4y ago
Believe me, I've thought about it. Unfortunately it's a county-owned road. The local power co-op is considering the idea of considering burying the powerlines, so I'm keeping a close eye on that. I wish I could get them int
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
This is it exactly. I've got clients I work with in two federally recognized under-served areas that ISPs have gotten government grants for supporting. And yet, when you try and talk to the ISP about problems with the 2.5-down-.4-up DS
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
Big ones I can think of off the top of my head: Immigration, tax, gun control, abortion, all modern "social justice" issues. But my point isn't that they're "far left", just that they are reliably left of ameri
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
I'm not certain that is always true. I, for one, would like to know a few things about flat earthers. Do they actually exist? How many of them really are out there? What arguments to they use to try and make their points? These are val
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
I actually took some classes from professor Boghossian. His agenda is to make you think, I'd put money on it. He loves the discussion and debate. He's a true philosopher, loves digging into things for the sake of it and to discove
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
Let's make up an example: Fact A) Carrots are healthy. Fact B) Carrots may be carcinogenic. These are both inherently important facts to any story talking about the health, or danger, of carrots. To present a position on if one should
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
I think it's fair to say that they bias leftwards at least. They may not be, you know, outright communists or anything, but that doesn't mean they don't lean towards the left side of the American political spectrum a fair bit
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
While I don't entirely disagree, I think perhaps we need a new word. I'd hate to come out and say "NPR lies" as it gets people's hackles up and immediately starts the us-vs-them dynamic. "Non-Neutral" seem
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
Once again, outside the bay area: absolutely true. In the bay area though, that was just Thursday. No warning, could and did happen any time. The difference was incredibly stark. I wonder if that's true for Starbucks in Seattle.
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
That problem is exacerbated in this case by the difference between "retail", "retail corporate" and "corporate". The fact the that anything coming from the frontline employees not only had to work it's way
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
In the bay area, where "oh god, corporate is in the building" is a way of life and common thing you bet they would. Outside the bay area, eh, 50/50, you're right.
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
Possibly so, but the man was one of the best salespeople I've ever met. Ice-to-eskimos level, all while being completely genuine. He had a genuine interest in and deep understanding of the customer experience and was easily the equal o
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
pricing stuff, metrics stuff, customer flow changes. Real day-to-day stuff. One of the ones I personally witnessed related to the services that salespeople were expected to sell along with the computers. There was some kerfuffle going on ab
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
Ron Johnson used to do this when he headed Apple retail. Would just go into a store totally undercover to the customers (obviously staff would recognize him) and work for a bit. Occasionally fairly major changes, both to the staff side and
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
"Intermittent connection timeouts and errors for all services" is a very mild description. I've got nodes that locked up, nodes that now won't boot after going offline, and pretty substantial connection issues. "We&
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Linode Incident in Dallas Region(status.linode.com)
3 points by daedalus_j 4y ago|1 comments
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
It's even more obvious for (good) 3D movies. I saw the most recent Avatar movie several times, in several different projection formats, and it was extremely clear to me that if you don't see it in Dolby Cinema 3D (high frame rat
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
How has their stability been? Last time I tried a vultr $5 node they had periodic network problems and it would see really high packet loss for 10-20 seconds every couple hours, as well as some unexpected outages.
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
My deck has actually ruined gaming on my desktop for me in a lot of ways. There are some games that are just a LOT better on on the deck due to the controls and having the screen right in hand. The gyro controls on the deck are great, and t
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
The problem is that the ONLY people playing in the DMR space are mega-geeks about it, who care about building a beautiful perfect system and not at all about it's usability by actual people, nor about if it's good for ham radio or
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
Agree, I don't want them storing anything. This is one area where, and I know what you're going to say, but Matrix actually does really well. My data, on my server, in my house, not tied to any specific single device I own but dis
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
KDE is really that great. Used a GNOME desktop on Fedora recently and there were so many simple features missing. Windowing rules for one. Simple example: Firefox picture-in-picture. On KDE I have a windowing rule so that if from any fire
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
Yes, exactly. It's fair, I was not specific enough with my feature request.
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
> I'm confused at what is stopping you from doing this? As far as I know the backup is encrypted. > Are you not able to import these backups into the desktop client? No, the desktop client is not standalone, and ONLY syncs with t
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
If you don't trust the other end then disappearing messages should be used, simple. This is one of the problems with Signal having a bit of confusion about what exactly it's use-case is. There are plenty of cases where locking dow
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
If I set a conversation length limit though it prevents my ability to search back through my history, which is the feature I'd like to preserve. I value that history, it's useful to me. My ideal solution would be to export any mes
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
KDE is such a great example of how to do it right that I didn't even think of it. It just works so well and so transparently that I forget how great it is sometimes. Rock solid and both works and looks great right out of the box. So cu
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
I'd take a decent "export my chats" option. I have chat history that goes back years that it's often convenient to be able to search. I'd love to be able to move it off the device, but instead the Signal backup just
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
Doesn't look good... https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms/issues/1881
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
The theory is good, but when my non-technical schoolteacher neighbor wants to use her iPhone to tell me that my package was delivered to her house incorrectly she's going to pop open her iMessage app and look up my phone number, and th

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