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by drnick1 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
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by drnick1 5mo ago
I am more interested in the XPS13 at a similar price point mentioned in the article. My intention is to run Linux, and that probably won't happen for a long time on modern Apple hardware.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Enough idiots buy $1000 phones, so $599 is cheap.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
It is shocking that the XPS14 now starts at $2,000.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Apple and the NSA must know a lot about you.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
> Success of Linux on the desktop is fundamentally incompatible with diversity, but unfortunately not everyone gets that. The vast majority of "server" distributions now use systemd as well.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Perhaps, then, Hamas will finally disarm?
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Walk around a university campus at peek at students' laptops and you will find 90%+ of them in the middle of a conversation with a chatbot.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
They are still too high. You can't buy any desirable GPU like a 5090 at MSRP.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Presumably, this is at 1080p, which looks terrible after you experienced 4K. It's better than nothing, and I probably wouldn't build a 4K rig in this market, but let's not pretend you can get a modern gaming experience out of
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by drnick1 5mo ago
It is American ingenuity that turned academic curiosities like neural nets into usable products. The missing ingredient in places like Europe or Asia is not intelligence, it is a business friendly environment and the right incentives for en
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Sadly, recent GNOME versions introduced a hard dependency on systemd and can no longer be used on systemd-free distros. This is the kind of problem that the anti-systemd people had in mind back then when debates about systemd raged.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Without American capitalism you wouldn't have computers, the Internet, smartphones, AI, electric cars and countless other things. That, and the Costco hot dogs mentioned in another reply.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
> It's a question of whether it's integrated in such a way that it works for you, or against you. Google, Apple, and Microsoft won't give you such control. It's going to be AI on terms terms and for their own benefit
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Thunderbird works well for my needs. I just want to see my emails categorized in reverse chronological order. I don't expect or want any kind of filtering; I would just Sieve filters for that (running on my own server). Perhaps I am ju
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by drnick1 5mo ago
My goat herding skills are rusty. How do I make a living in the countryside?
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Apple is not the answer. If you want to escape AI, you need a modular Linux distro like Arch or Debian on your computer, and GrapheneOS on your phone.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
As someone who hosts their own email, I dislike Gmail as much as anyone. But your issue is this: > I go to check my email in Gmail’s web UI.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
> Amazon Go has shut down Good riddance.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Where do you suggest we move to then, China?
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by drnick1 5mo ago
You must be treating your hardware extremely poorly because all the Windows laptops that have used have lasted many years and were retired before they stopped working due to a hardware defect. In every case however, Linux replaced Windows a
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by drnick1 5mo ago
That's not Linux, that's a VM running Linux on Windows. Not very satisfying if you want the real thing, or want a real Linux DE.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
I always use a VPN (to my own home server) for this reason (and other reasons) when connecting to public WiFi.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
But what is the point of WSL if you can get run the real thing, without performance penalty, bloatware and spyware? WinBoat makes more sense if there is the odd program that does not have a substitute.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Back when I last used FB you could create an account tied to an email address. I don't know if things have changed since, but throwaway phone numbers are also a thing.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
I don't think it would be difficult to explain, especially in a professional capacity, that you don't use Whatsapp or Facebook because it does not meet your privacy requirements of your business.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
> want to check if the small neighborhood grocery has something in stock? No phone, only Instagram DMs. You can use a throwaway account for that or other things such as FB Marketplace. It's not ideal because it generates traffic on
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by drnick1 5mo ago
> Timezones in scheduling websites being messed up nearly made me miss a couple of appointments. The reason for spoofing the time zone (to UTC) is that it is one of the many things used to fingerprint users. There is an unintended side e
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Just stop using Meta products. It's really not as hard as it seems. Nobody needs FB to communicate with friends and family. Send texts or emails or use your phone.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
> In Europe the quality of life you get for cheap is by default excellent. I am been to Europe on many occasions and homes (actual homes, not cramped apartments) are not cheap at all relative to incomes. I am sure the peace of mind provi

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