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by flkiwi 4y ago
Touché.
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Historians in 500 years will stare in wonder at the stunning evidence we did not, in fact, build ALL the infrastructure, physical and otherwise, during the last ~25 years of absurdly cheap money.
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by flkiwi 4y ago
Conversely, I'm on a Gen 8 X1, and on Silverblue with tlp replacing power-profiles-daemon, I routinely get 8-9 hours. Anecdata and whatnot, but I'm pretty happy with modern linux + modern hardware. That's not to say I wouldn&
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by flkiwi 4y ago
I was a Medium subscriber for a pretty long time. I'd seen some interesting, incisive stuff, so I subscribed. I'm happy to pay for quality. But shortly after I subscribed, the content I found was almost exclusively vapid self-pr
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It's such an interesting dilemma. I've been photographing things since I was 8 (which, for the record, was the early 80s). I know what certain Fuji and Kodak and, more recently, Ilford films look like, how to shoot with them, and
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(I promise this is going to pay off to your point, because at first it won't sound like it.) I started fiddling with self-hosting around the time the pandemic started. I didn't try email, but I tried everything else, from cloud fi
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I appreciate that response. I was just sitting here wondering if this was at least partly motivated by (a) specific legal requirements in more restrictive jurisdictions and (b) anticipating anti-Big-Tech attacks from populist elements of po
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This was my immediate response as well. My explicit content consumption is effectively nonexistent (an entirely neutral statement; I don't judge anyone else's, and it's just where I am in life), but it would not even occur to
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I might be misreading what you're saying (and if so, apologies), but I just went to nitter.net and pulled up a couple of accounts and they worked fine.
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Much of the history of the Internet has been exactly like that. New services (or new-you-you) constantly going down with an influx of new users, services (like email) that allow anyone to set up their own machine ... this mild and temporary
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by flkiwi 4y ago
It's an exceptional growth period for the servers. Twitter used to have failwhales, and gmail used to require invitations. It will stabilize. (And, if you happen to be interested and have the skillset, you could deploy your own instanc
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You can unless an admin specifically blocks another instance. It doesn't seem to be that common in practice (other than blocking the content that you'd expect to be blocked or, IIRC, a handful of servers that effectively de-federa
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Then signing up for a general instance (mastodon.social, mas.to, etc.) makes sense. It's like (as in exactly like) signing up for gmail vs. having a custom domain.
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I could probably have phrased it differently and said having the OPTION to pay by phone is great. If I can avoid having to flag down someone who is working 5 extra tables because someone didn't show, just so she can hand me a paper sli
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by flkiwi 4y ago
I do it as often as I can, which is sadly not often because I rarely carry cash. We do, for a variety of reasons, tend to frequent places that are ethically run though, and often know everyone involved fairly well. But, yes, as long as we h
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There are certainly bad QR Code menus, but good ones are just menus. They're fine. Everything in Conor's piece points to an almost incredible lack of self control--he is incapable of not being distracted by his phone--which to me
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Lots and lots and lots and lots of people confusing copyright (an inherent property right granted and protected by the government) and license (a privately granted privilege to use). Butterick—who is no IP fundamentalist, just go look at th
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by flkiwi 4y ago
Most of my day to day work is on a Thinkpad running Fedora. I also have a work laptop running Windows, and a personal macbook pro. Two quick points: 1. The emphasis in this website of "you can change what you want" targets a prett
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by flkiwi 4y ago
Well, that was an easy decision: I just deleted both Spark and Calendars. These are just not products that fit a subscription model. Back to default apps I go, apps that provide 99.5% of the functionality I need, even if they are missing so
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I laughed (affectionately) when I saw image maps. That was a real 1997 moment.
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I have a protonmail app on my iPhone. Works great.
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I had a rental MB a few months ago and while the build quality and ride were excellent, it remains by a very wide margin the absolute worst car I have ever driven. There were dozens of buttons and knobs and touchpads (so many touchpads!) in
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The hackintosh world is fascinating, and a really useful analogy. It makes the Linux experience (which, in the last half decade, has been largely good) look utterly seamless and polished, at least with the bigger distros. I own a MBP and wi
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Conversely, I have a ThinkPad X1 running Fedora 36 (and, previously, 35), and it has never given me a problem ... well, other than because I messed with one too many things. The only thing I did was to disable the so-called "modern sus
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I'm am American, but with a substantial Commonwealth connection. I am vigorously, vocally, unapologetically antiroyal. (I'm going to take this to an absurd extreme to make point, not to be incendiary.) I despise the whole cosplay,
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That is among the plausible definitions of "half-sized paper". LOL. But the A-series innovation makes it easier to imagine scaling content/resources because you don't have to "retypeset" in your brain. But, m
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That was an excellent "drag the topic back to the topic" play. Well done.
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By which you mean “addiction” if my desk is anything to go by.
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There's an important US Supreme Court case from 1964 (NYT v. Sullivan) that indirectly addresses this, noting that defamation claims by public figures against a news publication are subject to a heightened standard (and, conversely, th
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I was weirdly disappointed in this because I thought it was going to be about applets—grey background, weird typography, no antialiasing fonts applets—in 2022, and I was super excited someone was going rogue. Like, it ended up interesting b

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