fps_doug

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by fps_doug 5y ago
Time to check it out again. Last time was 15 years ago, iirc. I also like RTTR[1], a re-implementation of Settlers II, requiring the original game for graphics, sound etc. Which is actually a big plus for me, for purely nostalgic reasons. W
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Compared to Google, where you can't contact anybody at all if you're not on a payed account. Yes, it's free, why do you expect service, but they're still making money off me with ads etc., so locking an account down fore
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Yes, it's funny how everything that was lacking on Mobile is slowly falling into place. However, support for Android apps would have to be stellar I guess, as getting developers on board after the quadrillionth reboot of your mobile pl
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by fps_doug 5y ago
They weren't, not by design. A lot of them just have bootloader exploits, and even back when WP was still supported, they didn't really bother to fix it. They're an ideal target for Windows 11, as all the hardware components
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by fps_doug 5y ago
True, that part was specific to WP8(.1), which is actually my favorite. It just seems so lean and no-nonsense, very unmicrosofty.
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Yes. I really would want a bootloader unlock, and unlimited side-loading for Windows Phone 8-10. One last update that enables this would be so awesome, although you'd also need a Visual Studio version that doesn't require a dev
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Not in Germany. The mobile network has distinct numbers. You can have a land line number mapped to a cellphone, but it's rare these days, don't know anybody who does this. It was popular back when calling cellphones was more expen
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by fps_doug 5y ago
When it still was available they had a license, but only when using Google Maps in China.
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by fps_doug 5y ago
OSM has an extensive article about mapping in China. Generally it's not allowed. Still, in the bigger OSM is quite accurate. :>
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by fps_doug 5y ago
I wouldn't limit this to nation states, seems a general approach by politicians all over the world. A certain one made it much more popular over the past four years.
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by fps_doug 5y ago
I'm using vim with the detectindent script (with ugly hacks and enhancements)[1] for that, it gets this right most of the time if the source file isn't too short, including the number of spaces in case it's space-indented. [1
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by fps_doug 5y ago
This is the first thing that came to my mind: Different languages have different traditions/defaults here, and might correlate stronger with salaries.
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Disagree. As an open chat platform -- ie. not for private/confidential communications, to me, IRC is still superior to Matrix. We use it at work in parallel to IRC, and it still happens today (at least with elements.io) that a messag
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by fps_doug 5y ago
It's kinda sad that you can't just run a web server and host your own homepage anymore. You need to mess with your webserver config to make it spam the client with a dozen HTTP headers to disable FLoC, enable HSTS, set this weird
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by fps_doug 5y ago
> It would be in a register. Of course. Or it would be eliminated by a compiler optimization. Of course. Since you mention relevance for beginners later on in your post I'd argue this isn't relevant either. This concept holds t
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by fps_doug 6y ago
You don't seem very confident, betting only a dollar. ;-) But honestly, just buy a Thinkpad and everything works out of the box. Yes, everything.
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by fps_doug 6y ago
Unset them after right after evaluation.
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by fps_doug 6y ago
> the techies inside unversities are horrendously underfunded. m365 at least will bring consistency and will probably also make your date more secure to third party actors. True, but no reason to dig an even deeper hole. > of course i
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by fps_doug 6y ago
Yes, Universities can simply refuse to participate in this deal, but it puts them in a worse position, as previously, the deal was usually made on state level, which afaik no state does anymore. I'm in BaWü and now the choice is either
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by fps_doug 6y ago
Great. Just great. This is days after I learned about the new Germany-wide deal with Microsoft for licensing their software and services, so it perfectly fuels my fears. Before, it was mostly just a volume license for Windows and Office, bu
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by fps_doug 6y ago
Whoa, do you live in their data center? ;-) Even my ISP's next hop is 2.5ms, 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 are both at 4.7ms.
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by fps_doug 6y ago
I felt a bit stupid; I re-read the important parts several times but failed to visualize what that looks like on the disks, and how blocks are reconstructed on disk failure. A little googling lead me to a paper by Intel[0] which has a simpl
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by fps_doug 6y ago
When is music in shows or movies manipulation, and what counts as genuine use? If one of the characters plays an instrument in the show? I'd say music is always manipulation as it's always triggering emotions in some way. Unle
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by fps_doug 6y ago
Yes yes, sperate content and markup/style. But you can already do this with HTML? The only advantage I see is that you can actually support markdown like you do in your page, since it's less verbose than HTML-tags and doesn't
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by fps_doug 6y ago
:-) It's not like I'm using an old analog camera, or delete the files after printing. It's just nice to a/ have an extra copy just in case and b/ it's more enjoyable/sentimental than looking at photos on a
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by fps_doug 6y ago
Physical photographic album here.
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by fps_doug 6y ago
How prevalent is that? Some nerds doing this is a drop in the ocean. Rather my bet would be on Youtube as the hungry beast that can't get enough storage. There's a loooooooot of videos that have single digit views yet need to be a
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by fps_doug 6y ago
Are people just buying more, or are they moving from buying in stores to buying online? I don't immediately see how the latter would be bad for CO2. Online shopping is like public transport for goods. Instead of having 100 people drive
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by fps_doug 6y ago
Yes, that was sarcasm, sorry if that wasn't clear enough.
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by fps_doug 6y ago
Just the other day I was wondering whether these old games were just so much fun because I was much younger and it was simply something new and exciting to me, or whether there's something else to it. You know, sometimes less is more,

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