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by efreak 6y ago
Microsoft has little to do with the hardware you run their software on
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by efreak 6y ago
Speed. Simplicity. All you want to do is update a single value or insert a row into a spreadsheet? You can probably be done using the terminal application before Excel even finishes opening. On my computers, I use Excel so rarely--around on
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by efreak 6y ago
Far less likely to support modem formats and features, though.
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by efreak 6y ago
> Have clocks at home which automatically sync the clock. I'd say not. Your computer has a clock in it, yes, but it's unlikely to be your main method of telling time. Same for any smart devices you have. There's several an
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by efreak 6y ago
It's not mandatory, it's just incredibly common. There's also an untoggleable permission to allow viewing network access by other apps.
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by efreak 6y ago
Anyone who wants to, including the gab maintainers, can create an Fdroid repository containing any apps they want it to, including gab, with or without the permission of the app maintainers. I run a few Fdroid repositories myself for apps t
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by efreak 6y ago
But a link to a pdf (which they can just as easily host themselves) that doesn't link elsewhere isn't going to take you to other websites.
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by efreak 6y ago
I'm not sure about writing directly (vs save as), since I only use it for reading, but you can directly open the contents of zip files from Windows explorer or file open/save dialogs. Just provide a full path. For example, c:\arch
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by efreak 6y ago
Or you just do it the easy way and limit the speed based on the amount of data downloaded so far, with the history being 'lost' after 6 hours. This way you also prevent someone from doing dumb things to get around it, like using m
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by efreak 6y ago
Personally, I wish generic caching proxies were still a thing, and easier to set up. I've tried setting up squid several times in the past, and failed miserably every single time--all I want to do is use it as a gateway (ie, make the
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by efreak 6y ago
> you do have to use a standard paid US mobile number to set it up, but do not need to retain it afterward If someone else registers Google voice with that number, you're going to have a hard time. It'll be removed from your ac
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by efreak 6y ago
The easiest, laziest way to remove google from your life is too simply stop using services as they shut them down. Instead of transferring from play music to YouTube music (play music is shutting down sometime after October, according to an
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by efreak 6y ago
I'm stuck with Gmail. Getting the services I have free would probably be unaffordable with any other service; I've got two legacy free Google apps accounts; one has 500 users available with 4 domaine and several subdomains (about
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by efreak 6y ago
Doesn't rust support cross compiling to/from any supported platform?
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by efreak 6y ago
Unfortunately, it hasn't fixed the problem with running VirtualBox using the hypervisor platform/virtual machine platform (I forget which) while hyper-v is enabled: sha sums (and other hashes like whirlpool, md5, etc) don't w
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by efreak 6y ago
You didn't have to use Windows either. Linux, BSD, etc have been around for quite a while.
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by efreak 6y ago
I've been using Bayden SlickRun on windows for years . It's near-instant, though it doesn't have support for external applications such as sessions. Otoh, I can easily launch putty and Firefox sessions with cli switches; I&#
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by efreak 6y ago
You can probably set your pi up as a gateway itself, and proxy everything though it. I've never seen any device that doesn't trust the default gateway given by the router, nor have I seen any that try other addresses if the defaul
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by efreak 6y ago
Not sure about currently, but I'm the past there were quite a number of options for running Android on a set top box, but very few options for running Android TV on one. You need to make sure the device you're looking at is actual
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by efreak 6y ago
We have a Samsung smart TV. The smart TV features have never been activated. There are no apps, and it has never been connected to the internet. For connectivity, we use a roku, a laptop, and whatever board I feel like playing around with.
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by efreak 6y ago
I can't imagine user-hostile features like silently allowing websites to spam you would drive browser share in a wanted direction. That's like expecting people to use your website because you sell their information.
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by efreak 6y ago
> inodes Can't you deal with this by using a mounted filesystem?
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by efreak 6y ago
> And good luck if your user name (and hence home directory) has a space in it, which it very well might if you're on Windows. I went to great lengths on my recent Windows install to ensure my user profile, which has my real name in
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by efreak 6y ago
Most doors have nothing behind them. They wouldn't be very useful otherwise.
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by efreak 6y ago
I use an app for HN, and it doesn't show me points. I've never cared enough to check and see if I can make it do so. Similarly, I've never bothered to check and see if I have the capability to downvote, which it also isn&#x27
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by efreak 6y ago
`ed` is better than either. `cat>newfile.txt` - teaches you not to make typos.
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by efreak 6y ago
> Simply adding "Shipped by: X, Sold by: X" text on the product page doesn't really help. Amazon doesn't even do this, though. Recently I was helping someone look for memory on Amazon. We couldn't tell the differ
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by efreak 6y ago
Linux code might be backwards compatible, but nothing like windows. I can run pbrush.exe taken from Windows 95 on windows 10, and it works fine. Want to run a 10yo binary on Linux? It's easier to set up a VM with a 10yo Linux release
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by efreak 6y ago
That would be one of the different settings. For running unlisted extensions, iirc it's actually pretty trivial to get one signed; back when they abandoned Shumway it didn't take me more than a few minutes with the command line to
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by efreak 6y ago
Pine is not a major OEM. Even if they build a sustainable business, that won't make them one.

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