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by efreak 6y ago
How does the name WhatsApp convey a theme of messaging and communication? Signal and Telegram are obvious. It's worth noting that other services have equally nonsensical names. Skype, Slack. Others, like Line, have only a vague connect
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by efreak 6y ago
I have seen people purchase a single Brussels sprout in order to use a coupon that requires 'any purchase' to get a free item. Getting two of the same item is more common, but having someone go back to find the smallest vegetable
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by efreak 6y ago
The price tags come on a 8.5x11 sheet, just like address labels. A stack arrives (monthly? Weekly? Not sure) from corporate in an envelope. I'm not sure what happens when the tag gets lost; fortunately those are usually the handwritten
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by efreak 6y ago
IIRC they have a minimum payment. You need to put $5 in your account. Not sure what they do if you pay by subscription and only use a few hours, but when I was using DO, you needed to fund your account with $5 even if you were using the $10
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by efreak 6y ago
I don't mind paying for the latest album/ebook/videogame. What I mind is not being able to watch GoT in HD on Linux. I mind paying for the latest album then not being able to play it on my openhome DLNA devices. I mind not be
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by efreak 6y ago
If your client/libtorrent hates you enough, it won't work with local peers regardless of settings, and two instances of the same version number of the same software will fail to communicate with each other despite the embedded tra
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by efreak 6y ago
But ARM doesn't sell chips.
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by efreak 6y ago
These "features" are why I hate Twitter. If Twitter was a personal 90s/2000s shoutbox, I might actually use it.
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by efreak 6y ago
Several years ago I tried to register for a website that refused to accept a change of more than one character at a time, using onkeyup and other events to ensure you couldn't fill it in any way other than one letter at a time (fortuna
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by efreak 6y ago
I live in Los Angeles. If there's bright lights outside, it means the guy down the street is being an asshole again (he keeps rearranging his outdoor sensor light to point out at different parts of the street) or someone kicked a neigh
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by efreak 6y ago
Let's get rid of the Normans while we're at it, and return England to the Anglo-Saxons. Except they took it from the Romans, who took it from the Britons and Picts. The details might be off, but my point stands: land ownership is
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by efreak 6y ago
Not chargeable by the state. This isn't new.
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by efreak 6y ago
Doesn't that only apply to the federal government?
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by efreak 6y ago
To make things worse, your main course might well be a side course; the thing you want might well be sacrificed for something else.
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by efreak 6y ago
A microphone is a passive component, it doesn't need power. If you plug it into your headphones jack, it turns into a speaker. The indicator you want would be controlled by firmware or operating system, or by a physical switch, not by
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by efreak 6y ago
Ashley Appletree is a webcomic that reminded me very much of Calvin & Hobbes.
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by efreak 6y ago
It's definitely a mixed metaphor. It still works, though. Wallpaper is paper used to decorate a wall; in this case the wall is a vertical desk.
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by efreak 6y ago
Any idea what this quote means? > In the Phoenician alphabet the letter stood for a species of breathing, as vowels were not represented in the Semitic alphabets. What exactly is a _species of breathing_?
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by efreak 6y ago
So do cellphones
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by efreak 6y ago
I'm on mobile, and honestly the only problem I found with the carousel here is that it's actually too small; full screen height would be better. (This may be an issue with my use of Materialistic, some css and js don't work w
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by efreak 6y ago
Unfortunately, in the new post-hamburger menu Android, the options that used to be available in the hamburger menu are now even harder to find. When they're still available in the main screen, they're also less useful--you have
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by efreak 6y ago
Copy and paste are application-level interfaces; the operating system holds the data, but has always given it up on demand. I've actually seen some applications that use the clipboard as an IPC mechanism (most recently, a Python applic
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by efreak 6y ago
> Bootloader unlock is under user control by definition - it won't happen unless you're physically interacting with the device. Root exploits more common, but bootloader exploits aren't unknown. String them both together a
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by efreak 6y ago
I don't bother with backups of anything except a clean, freshly installed OS and my laptop immediately after purchase (I only bother with these mainly because Microsoft expired my MSDNAA keys, preventing reactivations when I was still
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by efreak 6y ago
My router doesn't accept a username at all, which actually makes a bit of sense since there's only one 'account' on it. Unfortunately, this means that neither the browser nor LastPass will save the password. My previous
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by efreak 6y ago
Stripe and PayPal aren't charging you on behalf of the credit card companies--they're making money off the transactions themselves. They're not going to charge you less for processing a debit card payment any more than they&#
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by efreak 6y ago
To me personally, 14" is the sweet spot for laptops. I used to want the numpad on a laptop, but more recently I've noticed that my desktop keyboard doesn't actually sit centered in front of my monitor--the right side of the k
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by efreak 6y ago
There are multiple apps on Fdroid that log your location. Most of them are designed as fitness/walk trackers, but there's at least one that reports to a self-hosted server.
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by efreak 6y ago
It's not just bookmarks. I didn't realize for a long time that chrome was silently deleting my browsing history. Now I bookmark anything that seems even vaguely interesting, which in turn makes my address bar suggestions less tha
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by efreak 6y ago
I think we need more levels of Wikipedia. Simple.wikipedia is quite useful for simple explanations, but often it's not really what you're looking for. I know a large number of science-related articles in various disciplines are ov

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