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by dunnevens 6y ago
>Because when a person is censored, when they can't speak, they resort to violence But that doesn't actually happen in the vast majority of cases. Most people try other outlets. If there are no other outlets available, then the
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There's a way to make a 7 inch laptop with a minimum of both effort and cash. Zagg sells a hinged laptop-style keyboard case for 7 inch tablets. I paired mine with an Amazon Fire. It's a little on the thick side, but still tiny. T
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by dunnevens 6y ago
I think your last assumption is correct. I've had something similar happen to me. I participate in ex-evangelical groups because of my childhood. And other groups highly critical of American conservative Christianity. Facebook floods m
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It's kinda meaningful. Wake words can be sometimes triggered by accident. Or by things like that commercial from a few years ago. A physical button press avoids all that.
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by dunnevens 6y ago
I'd sometimes put my early 90's Mac into grayscale mode. In my case, it was because my Mac only supported 8 bit color, but in grayscale, the shading was much better. 8 bit grayscale was the equivalent of 16 bit color in terms of c
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by dunnevens 6y ago
There's an interesting Ubuntu spin off called Ubuntu Web Remix. That boots to a simplified desktop that revolves around the browser and PWAs. Their browser of choice is Firefox. This Ubuntu variant is designed to be a Chrome OS replace
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by dunnevens 6y ago
This was a nice project. Used the open source variation of Chrome OS: Chromium OS. They have a nice hardware compatibility list. In my brief experiments with them, it worked well. They gave away the OS and charged for support in large deplo
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by dunnevens 6y ago
I made a back story for my dog. My newfie loved to inspect things. I'd come home with groceries. If I let her inspect (look & sniff) each bag, she'd be thrilled. When she'd find an interesting smell, she'd investigat
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by dunnevens 6y ago
There's both more and less news. Yes, I can now access all sorts of news worldwide which would have been difficult or inaccessible in the print era. But the newspapers in smaller markets are either disappearing or have greatly reduced
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by dunnevens 6y ago
Here's a couple of articles on the subject. I've seen a few other links posted by others in this thread that might be of interest. https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/1/21544501/facebook-rules-p...
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I'm going to make the assumption you don't use Facebook very often. Until recently, I did. Mainly because of the ease of local organization for political causes I prefer. I've seen many leftist groups get banned. Many leftist
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It's a safety mechanism mainly intended for children. I think it's been around for a while. The washer Mom bought 10 or 15 years ago had it. I think there's an unlock button on hers, but I can't remember. I do know it&#x
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by dunnevens 6y ago
On the eink kindle, I paid for ad removal just in general principles. I probably could have lived with the lock screen ads, but the home screen ad was unacceptable. Vast majority of my book purchases over the past ten years have been ebooks
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by dunnevens 6y ago
I have very sensitive eyes too. And this is also a problem I've had with Linux on certain systems. My desktop is nothing special. My video card is Nvidia and the main monitor is a Dell running at 75hz. Windows is fine. Every distro I&#
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by dunnevens 6y ago
Today's latest round of Gmail lockout horror stories prompted me to stop being lazy and go through my various business and customer accounts. At least the important ones. And change them all to my email on my personal domain. I have a
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by dunnevens 6y ago
Google isn't doing this out of the goodness of their heart. They're expecting to make money off of every signup in some way. Directly or indirectly. If they want to continue their dominant status, then they should be responsive in
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by dunnevens 6y ago
There's a way to make Chrome OS run on Pi's, but it's insecure. Uses the Fyde version of Chromium OS. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=227281
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by dunnevens 6y ago
Soap operas in the age of pre-internet appointment television dealt with this problem in an interesting way. If you missed an episode or missed the entire week, you could always buy the latest issue of Soap Opera Digest which would have a s
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by dunnevens 6y ago
My teen years were the second half of the 80s. Like a lot of kids my age, I’d sometimes seek out weird stuff outside of the pre-internet mainstream. One of my favorite books from back then was “High Weirdness by Mail”. Which was a very funn
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by dunnevens 6y ago
I never used Wave much, but I'm old enough to have used (the shell program) Talk many, many times to communicate with my friends on the university system. I really hated the live typing feature. In order not to seem rude, you had to fo
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by dunnevens 6y ago
Just wanted to say that's an excellent tutorial. I almost never touch anything on the front end. My web dev skills are, at best, thoroughly out of date. But I could still follow and understand everything presented. If you're readi
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Despite all their faults, that's the main reason I won't subscribe to anything unless I can go through the intermediaries of Apple, Amazon, or Paypal. When I decided to cancel the NY Times, all I had to do is stop payment via Payp
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by dunnevens 6y ago
I'm one of those page-flipping people. I alternate between using Spotlight to launch and just flipping pages. For me, it's a form of spatial navigation. I couldn't tell you the exact number of pages I flip to get to a specifi
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by dunnevens 6y ago
For those looking for a stripped down Civ, take a look at Polytopia (iOS / Android). They've done a mostly brilliant job in creating a very minimalistic Civ-style 4x game. Has two modes: a 30 turn game in which the player with the
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by dunnevens 6y ago
That sounds right. My memory is insisting it was an east-to-west rescue story, but memory is a very fallible thing. I very well may have reversed it from the actual story. Thanks very much for the link.
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There was a woman in East Berlin, who needed rescue. I can't remember if she worked with western intelligence, or if her husband did, but at any rate, she was in trouble. West Germany (or the Americans) decided to help her escape. At o
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by dunnevens 6y ago
Part of the problem is how thick the Pi's are. They're small computers on their own. But in a laptop case, they're chunky. Much thicker than your average off-the-shelf laptop. Plus, there's still rough edges when trying
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by dunnevens 6y ago
I'm still running an 6s plus. My luck might run out with iOS 14, but so far so good. It was expensive when new, but I've gotten 5 years out of it. Might get 6 if the update doesn't hurt it. Still runs quickly. Screen is still
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by dunnevens 6y ago
It depends on how UBI would play out. For example, let's say UBI gives everyone $40,000 a year. In much of the non-coastal US, that's enough to live on. But, pricing might still be based on everyone having a job. So prices now ref
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by dunnevens 6y ago
That's brilliant. Gave me the funny thought that GPT-3 could solve one problem we used to argue about back in the day. What's the right order for loading extensions? I don't remember the details, but I do remember my old offi

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