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by gargravarr 7y ago
Amen to that. I got to where I am as a sysadmin by knowing how to filter out keywords to make my search specific. Then Google throw all that away and decide for me what I want to search for. No Google, you don't tell me what to do.
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by gargravarr 7y ago
I've just changed my browser default to DDG. Think I'm gonna start detox'ing myself from Google.
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by gargravarr 7y ago
I searched for an error message yesterday and Search removed 18 of the 20 keywords (they are all scratched out as 'missing'). The only remaining keywords were for the platform I had the error on. Thousands of results that were all
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by gargravarr 7y ago
He said 'in Europe' ;)
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Casio have a brand called WaveCeptor that picks up radio time signals transmitted from around the world; GPS is an enormous power-suck (receiver and processing) so using it for time is impractical on a low-power device.
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by gargravarr 7y ago
I think I have the same watch - a Casio WaveCeptor Tough Solar. It was a 21st birthday present. The complete lack of need to replace batteries is amazing. I have the titanium version, which is astonishingly lightweight. And it is indeed tou
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Kodi is definitely more than a player, it's a full media library. If it doesn't do what you want out of the box (and it mostly does, categorising and metadata etc.), then plugins can handle the rest.
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by gargravarr 7y ago
A while back, I was in this exact situation. I got into The Expanse (which, if you like hard sci-fi, you definitely need to check out, it's superbly made). I have a Netflix subscription, obviously. I devoured the first two seasons on t
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by gargravarr 7y ago
And to think I spent all that time attaching my YubiKey to my house keys, when I could have done this instead! How misplaced my efforts were!
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by gargravarr 7y ago
It really is funny just how many people learn this the hard way. Almost anything you have an account for can be suspended at the drop of a hat, usually with little or zero recourse against the company. Just about every T&C (the thing th
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Who'd-a thunk that attaching an internet connection to a heating element could be a bad idea? In all seriousness, my (full-size) oven takes 7 minutes to pre-heat. From the much smaller size of this thing, I can only assume it takes les
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Depleted-uranium rounds have (by definition) extremely low radioactive decay rates and are incapable of nuclear fission on their own (most of the opposition to their use stems from uranium being a toxic metal if ingested by living things).
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Let's not forget this happened: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/02/usps_recovers_lost_... Their initial response? A mere shrug and halfhearted condolences. I've had a package lost through eBay
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by gargravarr 7y ago
The single best advice I can add to this is, if you don't want your device searched at the border, don't take it with you. All your data is generally in the cloud. So last time I went to the US, I took a Nokia 6280 dumbphone with
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Right when I was contemplating actually paying for Dropbox to use it as a proper cloud backup system and get around the 3-device limit, they pull this BS. At least it happened before I handed over my card details... Seriously Dropbox, you u
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Agreed with the comment below, the ball is firmly in your mobile provider's court. The contract will almost certainly state that service can be withdrawn at any time on their sole discretion for any suspected breaches; if you're t
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by gargravarr 7y ago
That's what we're here for, glad I could help!
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Apple?
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Company-provided computers are generally bound by policies that restrict user powers (least-privileged access) and install updates soon after release. I don't know about you, but I often neglect system updates on my personal laptops. W
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by gargravarr 7y ago
My takeaway from this article is that the problems are indeed implementation-specific, but that whilst the cryptographically-secure values represent a small subset of the possible values, it's still too large a selection to provide a g
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Let's not bring gender into this, but idiots who text while driving deserve to have their asses handed to them for dangerous driving.
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by gargravarr 7y ago
>Lane assists and emergency braking assists are going to be mandatory safety features in the EU from 2022. I am never, ever, buying a brand-new car.
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by gargravarr 7y ago
All phones have a 'baseband' firmware which controls the actual radio hardware - it's a binary blob installed by the manufacturer and generally not available to the user to tinker with, although as expected there have been ma
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by gargravarr 7y ago
https://www.scorpia.co.uk/2019/06/28/pi4-not-working-with-so...
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by gargravarr 7y ago
USB-C charging relies on negotiation between both sides. A laptop charger can supply 20+V if it determines there's a high-power device on the other end. I'm not particularly trusting that a cheaply-made power supply won't hit
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by gargravarr 7y ago
- USB-C charger. I don't want yet another charger/adapter This for me is a downside as the USB-C landscape is a disaster of poorly-implemented designs. I'm less inclined to trust a USB-C adapter than a dumb USB adapter, and I
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by gargravarr 7y ago
So by my calculations, this means Apple sold 1 iPhone X last year...
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Touchscreens are ideal for consumer devices because it means not having to commit to a single UI design - you can move buttons around onscreen as needed, overhaul the software to put things in a new place as you like, and not having to worr
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by gargravarr 7y ago
I'm savvy enough with the dev tools and CSS to set `style="visibility: hidden"` on most overlays, but yeah, I can imagine that trick isn't going to work forever either.
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by gargravarr 7y ago
I am not protesting the idea that a site should work without JS - quite the opposite, I accept that active content and user interaction requires JS (as much as I loathe the language). What I am protesting, however, is that graceful degredat

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