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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
In this household, we mostly ignore most subscription services, and use public services where applicable. Some services, primarily Spotify, lack public alternatives, but fortunately Spotify does have a family plan.
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
Alas, email forwarding is fairly broken since DKIM/DMARC/SPF/SRS came into the picture. As for not allowing people to save their data before shutting down, I agreee. That's a consumer rights issue though, and not a techn
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
Well, the phenomenon is real enough, but I'd go as far as to say that's just lousy managers, rather than extrovert ones.
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
How would you even solve porting without breaking legacy systems? You can point the MX records to another provider's server (or your own), but porting single email addresses won't really work.
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
The production of silicon is hardly environmentally friendly [0]. There's also plenty of other materials included, and then there's chemicals required to produce the panels themselves. There's been a few incidents where PV pr
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
> Why do people appear to prefer the opposite (massive distance between lines)? Readability. Having text crammed into as little space as possible is efficient, but many people have problem reading it.
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
Firefox' performance and battery life on laptops/mobile is horrendous when compared to Chromium-based alternatives. Especially on slower devices. I've got an older laptop that I use for simpler stuff only. Video playback is h
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
And that is _excellent_ news! We're still in the expansion phase when it comes to Solar, though, and there's no way we'll be able to get rid of fossil fuels using renewables only. Sure, we do have new and exciting tech in the
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
I'd wager their impact will be less than that of climage change if we look a few hundred years into the future. Regardless, both those disasters were more or less man-made. Chernobyl was caused by serious design flaws, and (as far as I
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
We don't want the toxic waste from Solar panel production nor the industrial waste or the noise pollution from windmills either. At some point we'll have to chose the lesser evil, and most of the good rivers have already been damm
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
+1 for ZFS. It's quite easy to shuffle around, but there are some compatibility concerns between different versions.
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
Could be. For the record, my USB drive (and I'm running Debian too), doesn't do that. Part of the desktop environment, perhaps?
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
Or, even better, install uBlock origin, and use one (or more) of the "Annoyances" lists.
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by fdewnijfwg 5y ago
Thank you! It's a shame AmigaOS' volume system never caught on. It would have solved the problems the article describes re. drive letter assumptions: "Assign A: DH0:" - Problem solved! I feel really old now.