faust201

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by faust201 9mo ago
The people with power and money (incl. most in HN) don't care. Most of the rest are in state of apathy if they have enough time to think about earth. Others are barely surviving.
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by faust201 9mo ago
Today's news https://www.ft.com/content/c266f78d-1b53-4aa5-99ff-1726a5126... Even if you are MAGA listen to him.
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by faust201 9mo ago
Some want to use their brain. Do you market Copilot?
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by faust201 9mo ago
I am not supporting tariffs. Just that it is sad the majority of MNC and SV is totally in the hands of US admin,
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by faust201 9mo ago
India is not as dependent on exports as the UK. The connections are stronger to the UK.
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by faust201 9mo ago
DJT: do you want 100% tariffs?
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by faust201 9mo ago
> Vietnam mandating banks only use unrooted mobile phones Other way around. They are used to using money. Even India tried to make everything electronic. A bit successful but not totally. Yes Playstore is important. But unless US mandate
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by faust201 9mo ago
I am curious. Does the flatpak Firefox allows access to all folders?
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by faust201 9mo ago
This is only for people that know choices. We at out Uni provide default Ubuntu installs on laptops. Most people just live with whatever UI. I have a feeling that many have stopped configuring, themeing etc. those only from 80s to 2000 were
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by faust201 9mo ago
May be in the US (as Apple products are cheaper and people are dependent on iMessge) Rest will remain on pirated windows or linu.many often don't even use computer.
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by faust201 9mo ago
And that would also apply to everything. What else? Banks.
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by faust201 9mo ago
> travel - consulting That's why pity
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by faust201 9mo ago
Yes hardware is great. Price per performance watt is also great. But UI sucks. Look at all then posts even macOS fans about new macOS release like the glass ones. I prefer ssh and running jobs in macOS.
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by faust201 9mo ago
> You browse profiles of real people who are interested in the same topics In face to face ... Most people want to conform to common and uncontroversial interests or they blow up. Ideally what you say can be easily done by Reddit or FB o
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by faust201 9mo ago
It is the news media report calling it work. For some people it is just a passion. My boss at a Uni works literally 20 hours per day (he is rich and has a lifetime job). But science is his passion. He would not call it work. Maybe Brin has
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by faust201 9mo ago
One good thing is choice. You are free to use macOS or even windows. But this battery argument is bull shit 15 years ago it was so difficult to find charging points. Not now. I have never ever been in a situation the I needed to be away fr
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by faust201 9mo ago
With all respect libre office startup times are awful in Linux. UI still needs work over. Lots of resources. Libre office works poorly if one has 4 or 8 GB RAM. If there was a minimal footprint libre office (like online with collaboration
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by faust201 9mo ago
This is because of legacy. And even now lots of people assemble and build PC. My worry is one fine day Microsoft, Samsung Apple, and Google (rest of SV Media companies like Netflix etc) will join hands in bringing security and force a Chrom
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by faust201 9mo ago
> 80 GB of SSD storage. .. could have purchased a few 512GB microSD cards (assuming it is not iPhone, iPad). I have all my data offline. I can also use a uPnP on android to share it across all of my WiFi network be it TV or another perso
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by faust201 9mo ago
> Cloud tools like google docs can handl This.. but whenever this is mentioned people will start the other point. Google is not for privacy. I have become a silent spectator.
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by faust201 9mo ago
My guess is that they are focused only on to cashcow -> enterprise, office, (and all Copilot BS). Sadly very few of IT people I know of move to Linux or macOS for this specific reason. Just like XP users tolerated the tons of systray, to
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by faust201 9mo ago
Total BS. Lots of people use Thunderbird IMAP for Gmail.
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by faust201 9mo ago
By that logic no company cares about anything but profits.
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by faust201 9mo ago
It is possible to have another analytics that connects to Trello or Calendar to tell me "Project is finished"?
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by faust201 9mo ago
> And don't get me started on the ticketing machines not accepting Visa, Mastercard, or Amex at the central station in Munchen Wow. You travel to a different part of the world without doing basic research. Hope you did not try stuff
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by faust201 10mo ago
> One of the differentiators between iOS and Google was a lack of ads I always wonder how apple's marketing team pulled this off. - If you use any decent browser like Firefox* (or its different clones) one get enhanced privacy, no
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by faust201 11mo ago
Your top question is like... I have no idea what is security. What is good? Such questions cannot be answered easily. Read https://ssd.eff.org/module/your-security-plan - Trying to protect all your data from everythi
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by faust201 11mo ago
> That's irrelevant on Android because system apps can be updated without touching the /system partition, if the .apk is signed with the same key. The system will store the updated .apk file in /data/app, but otherwis
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by faust201 11mo ago
> Isn't that how a system app proves to the system that it is, in fact, a system app? No. In a way it does not matter if the app is system or not. Even user apps (signed with some other key) can be powerful to do damage. System par
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by faust201 11mo ago
IMHO that means your job advertisement was broad. If you are more specific it would not have been that bad. Assuming you had no say in that... pretty much everyone will say AI - though your ad may have told - Don't use AI.

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